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Plastic LEDs Break Telecommunications Barrier

Posted by timothy on from the get-more-fiber dept.

5arah writes: "Science Daily has a mirror of an article about the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa and Hebrew University in Jerusalem discovering a way to get polymers to emit near-IR radiation. Once commercialized, such polymers could potentially cut the costs of the hundreds of millions of telecommunications terminals needed to bring fiber optic communications to individual homes, opening the family doors to global networks."

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  1. Read before commenting... by linuxator · · Score: 2, Informative

    They talk about LED's, not fibre. Talk is about IR-emiting plastics.. Fibre cable will still be same glassfibre...

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