Coupled nanoscale antennas pave the way for lightwave electronics

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(Funded in part by the U.S. Department of Defense)

A research team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), DESY (German Electron Synchrotron, in Hamburg), and the University of Hamburg has, for the first time, succeeded in building nanoscale integrated electronic circuits that can capture light with the help of tiny antennas and determine the absolute phase of the light wave.