Nanostrain
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Nanostrain is an EU-funded project (EMRP IND54) to characterise piezoelectric materials for future fast digital switch designs.[1][2][3]
The switching may only need a much lower voltage and be faster with lower power consumption than CMOS.[4]
Calculations suggest that small PiezoElectronic Transistors (combining piezoelectric and piezoresistive materials) could need much less energy to switch and allow clock speeds of 30 GHz (10 times current CMOS), with a hundred times less power than today’s devices.[5]
Nanostrain consortium
The consortium includes many European national institutes and industrial partners, including IBM.[6][7]
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Progress and results
Nanostrain was initially funded for 3 years, and included 6 work packages. Some results were reported in 2014.[6]
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A final report was published in July 2017, work continues in the EMPIR ADVENT project.[8]
See also
- Piezotronics
- Beyond CMOS – Possible future digital logic technologies
References
- ^ Nanostrain project plans to characterise piezoelectric materials. Nov 2013
- ^ New global research effort to measure nanoscale strain. Nov 2013
- ^ EMRP project IND54 Nanostrain featured in New Scientist and The Telegraph Aug 2015
- ^ EMRP Nanostrain Project - XMaS
- ^ EMRP Nanostrain project at XMaS
- ^ a b Nanostrain.npl
- ^ An introduction to the Nanostrain project
- ^ Novel electronic devices based on control of strain at the nanoscale
External links
- EMRP Nanostrain project at XMaS - for PiezoElectronic Transistor, includes video presentation and interview
- EMRP project IND54 Nanostrain featured in New Scientist and The Telegraph Aug 2015 - links to traditional news coverage
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