NEB: Scalable Sensing, Storage and Computation with a Rewritable Oxide Nanoelectronics Platform

NEB：使用可重写氧化物纳米电子平台进行可扩展传感、存储和计算

• 批准号: 1124131
• 负责人: Jeremy Levy
• 金额: $ 170万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-15 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1124131&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NEB; Scalable; Sensing; Storage; Computation

This project is awarded under the Nanoelectronics for 2020 and Beyond competition, with support by multiple Directorates and Divisions at the National Science Foundation as well as by the Nanoelectronics Research Initiative of the Semiconductor Research Corporation.TECHNICAL: The research project explicitly addresses key scientific and technological challenges that, if overcome, could lead to a possible replacement for conventional electronics made from silicon. The novel nanoelectronics platform is based upon remarkable properties of materials composed of lanthanum aluminate and strontium titanate. The interface between these two oxide materials can be switched between an insulating and a metallic state using a sharp conducting probe. Electronic circuits can be "written" and "erased" at scales approaching the distance between atoms (two nanometers). To develop useful electronics, it is imperative to develop a scheme capable of creating and manipulating large numbers of devices. This scaling is achieved through the use of large probe arrays. Each probe must be capable of addressing multiple sites, enabling complex circuits to be fabricated on a single chip, by the device itself. The oxide heterostructures need to be grown on large manufacturable substrates: this has been demonstrated with both silicon and one other material. The research project addresses many of the core requirements for a reconfigurable storage, computing, and optical sensing platform that can scale beyond what is currently possible for silicon. The interdisciplinary research team directly addresses these scientific and technological challenges with the variety of perspectives essential for the development of breakthrough technologies.NON-TECHNICAL: This project seeks to transform exciting scientific achievements into cutting-edge information technologies. The research directly addresses the need for scaling beyond Moore's law and has the potential to create new high-tech industries, thus creating new jobs in the US that require advanced skill sets. To help address the need for highly trained workers and researchers, a new OnRamp education program is designed that specifically targets difficulties that students have in their sub-discipline while beginning their careers. OnRamp tutorials are developed by beginning graduate students as they learn the ropes of doing research. Graduate students help develop research-based learning modules, which are shared with a broader research community. Both University of Wisconsin and University of Pittsburgh continue and expand their high school outreach programs aimed at increasing the numbers of students in underrepresented groups in science and engineering disciplines.

该项目是在美国国家科学基金会多个部门和部门以及半导体研究公司纳米电子研究计划的支持下，在2020年及以后的纳米电子学竞赛中获奖的。技术：该研究项目明确解决了关键的科学和技术挑战，如果克服，可能会导致传统的硅电子产品的替代。新型纳米电子平台是基于由铝酸镧和钛酸锶组成的材料的显着性能。这两种氧化物材料之间的界面可以使用尖锐的导电探针在绝缘状态和金属状态之间切换。电子电路可以在接近原子之间距离（两纳米）的尺度上被“写入”和“擦除”。为了开发有用的电子产品，必须开发一种能够创建和操纵大量设备的方案。这种缩放是通过使用大型探针阵列来实现的。每个探针必须能够寻址多个位置，使复杂的电路能够通过设备本身在单个芯片上制造。氧化物异质结构需要在大的可制造衬底上生长：这已经用硅和另一种材料证明了。该研究项目解决了可重新配置的存储，计算和光学传感平台的许多核心要求，这些平台可以扩展到目前硅的范围之外。跨学科的研究团队直接解决这些科学和技术的挑战与突破性技术的发展必不可少的各种观点。非技术：本项目旨在将令人兴奋的科学成果转化为尖端的信息技术。这项研究直接解决了超越摩尔定律的需求，并有可能创造新的高科技产业，从而在美国创造需要先进技能的新就业机会。为了帮助解决对训练有素的工人和研究人员的需求，一个新的OnRamp教育计划的设计，专门针对学生在他们的子学科，而开始他们的职业生涯的困难。OnRamp教程是由刚开始研究生在学习做研究的诀窍时开发的。研究生帮助开发基于研究的学习模块，这些模块与更广泛的研究社区共享。威斯康星州和匹兹堡大学都继续并扩大他们的高中外展计划，旨在增加科学和工程学科代表性不足群体的学生人数。