Nanostrain

Former EU-funded scientific project

Nanostrain was 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]

Progress and results

Nanostrain was initially funded for 3 years, and included 6 work packages. Some results were reported in 2014.[6]

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

  1. ^ Nanostrain project plans to characterise piezoelectric materials. Nov 2013
  2. ^ New global research effort to measure nanoscale strain. Nov 2013
  3. ^ EMRP project IND54 Nanostrain featured in New Scientist and The Telegraph Aug 2015
  4. ^ EMRP Nanostrain Project - XMaS
  5. ^ EMRP Nanostrain project at XMaS
  6. ^ a b Nanostrain.npl
  7. ^ An introduction to the Nanostrain project
  8. ^ Novel electronic devices based on control of strain at the nanoscale
  • 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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