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Electrical programmable multilevel nonvolatile photonic random-access memory

Photonic tensor cores for machine learning

Strain-engineered high-responsivity MoTe2 photodetector for silicon photonic integrated circuits

Volker J. Sorger is the Rhines Endowed Professor for Semiconductor Photonics in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the director for business development in the Florida Semiconductor Institute. Volker coordinates semiconductor activities for the state of Florida, nationwide and transatlantic partnerships. Technical thrusts include AI/ML photonic accelerators, advanced packaging, optoelectronics, digital twins and aerospace flight test. He holds 28 U.S. patents and disclosures.

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