Zia Laser obtains $8 Million in venture funding

Zia Laser's technology is based on quantum dots - tiny "bumps" patterned on a substrate.  When quantum dots are stacked on top of each other and electricity is applied in a particular way, a laser is generated.  The company's plans are to use this technology to build a new type of microprocessor with some of the signals carried optically (vs. electronically) which would, according to the report, "[carry] data more efficiently than conventional methods."