A New Approach of Electronics and Photonics Convergence on Si CMOS Platform: How to Reduce Device Diversity of Photonics for Integration

Table 1

Device and material diversity of electronics and photonics.

	Devices	Materials
Electronics	Transistor	Si, SiO2
	Interconnect	Al, Cu
Photonics	Light emitter	III-V material
	Modulator	LiNbO3
	Interconnect	SiO2
	Filter	SiO2
	Detector	III-V material
	Amplifier	III-V material
	Isolator	YIG
	⋯	⋯