{"id":557286,"date":"2026-07-19T10:16:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T10:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/557286\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T10:16:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T10:16:18","slug":"china-team-cuts-3d-optical-chip-production-time-from-hours-to-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/557286\/","title":{"rendered":"China team cuts 3D optical chip production time from hours to seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/artificial-intelligence?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Artificial intelligence<\/a> (AI) is driving unprecedented demand for computing, placing photonic chips at the centre of the race to develop next-generation AI hardware.By transmitting data with light rather than electricity, <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3360328\/chinas-optical-chip-breakthrough-boosts-ai-speed-100-fold-using-fraction-compute-power?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">photonic technologies<\/a> are widely seen as a way to overcome bandwidth and power constraints.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">However, translating that potential into mass-producible hardware can be bottlenecked by slow, complex manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A Chinese research team says it has overcome one of the field\u2019s biggest manufacturing hurdles, unveiling a fabrication method that cuts production time for complex three-dimensional optical structures from hours to seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Published in a peer-reviewed top journal Advanced Materials on July 4, the study was led by scientists from the Institute of Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), together with collaborators from the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/university-hong-kong?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">University of Hong Kong<\/a> and several other Chinese institutions.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cOur work establishes a versatile platform that bridges the gap between design complexity and scalable manufacturing for next-generation 3D integrated photonics,\u201d wrote the research team led by PhD student Wang Yi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence (AI) is driving unprecedented demand for computing, placing photonic chips at the centre of the race&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[191058,220,218,219,235656,114,1384,1647,61,136172,13321,60,582,235655,32876,44802,80,26693,7135],"class_list":["post-557286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-advanced-materials","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ayar-labs","tag-china","tag-chinese-academy-of-sciences","tag-huawei","tag-ie","tag-imec","tag-intel","tag-ireland","tag-japan","tag-lightmatter","tag-ntt","tag-photonic-chips","tag-technology","tag-tsmc","tag-university-of-hong-kong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}