Most of the computers in nowadays, are incredibly slow, if it compares with the super-fast computers, which are using light to process large amounts of data!

For your information, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is supplying the fund to two universities to establish a world-leading research programme on the fundamental science, which is known as “nanoplasmonic devices”.

Believe it or not, this research is considered as one of the costly research, as it is a £6 million research programme located at Queen’s University Belfast and Imperial College London. The project has been dated to launch on September 1, 2009.

Talking about nanoplasmonic devices, they’re a very tiny nanoscale metal structures. Honestly, it’s 100 times smaller than the width of a human hair and has the ability to guide or direct light!

The main objective of the project is to develop the super-computers that using light signals, instead of the electric currents used by today’s computers. For making it becomes a reality, the researchers are now building a raft of new metallic devices, including tiny nanoscale sources of light, nanoscale ‘waveguides’ to guide light along a desired route, and nanoscale detectors to pick up the light signals!

With the above advanced technology, the era of “Super-computers” is going to be arrived very soon… http://www.qub.ac.uk

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