Project PLATON

PLATON is the first European research project to turn plasmonic interconnects into reality! It aims to use plasmonics for on-chip routing applications and bring them into a Tb/s silicon-plasmonic router for optical interconnects!

Project partners

  • Centre for Research and Technology Hellas / Informatics and Telematics Institute – CERTH/ITI (Greece)
  • Syddansk Universitet - SDU (Denmark)
  • Université de Bourgogne - UB (France)
  • Institute of Communication and Computer Systems/National Technical University of Athens – ICCS/NTUA (Greece)
  • Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mikro- und Optoelektronik mit beschränkter Haftung - AMO GmbH (Germany)

Supported by

  • European Commission
  • Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)
  • ICT - Information and Communication Technologies
  • Grant agreement no: 249135