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A research team has developed a new nanocomposite magnetic garnet film that can be deposited directly onto silicon substrates, delivering a magneto-optical figure of merit four times higher than conventional polycrystalline films.
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Tohoku University and Kyocera Corp. research team (Associate Professor Taichi Goto)
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A research team has developed a new nanocomposite magnetic garnet film that can be deposited directly onto silicon substrates, delivering a magneto-optical figure of merit four times higher than conventional polycrystalline films.
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Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:00:01 GMT · 3h 33m ago
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This material enables a simpler path toward large-scale deployment of silicon photonics in AI-era data centers, overcoming a 30-year integration obstacle for on-chip optical isolators.
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This breakthrough creates a new path for integrating high-performance optical isolators directly onto silicon chips, which is crucial for the efficient and widespread use of silicon photonics in next-generation data centers, especially those supporting AI infrastructure.
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3 events in this thread- Health & Science3h 33m agoA research team from Tohoku University and Kyocera Corp. has developed a new magneto-optical material—a nanocomposite magnetic garnet film—that can be deposited directly onto silicon substrates while delivering a magneto-optical figure of merit four times higher than conventional polycrystalline films.Open article
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