Electronics out of thin air: MAGIC - Metal–Air Gated Integrated Circuits

凭空产生的电子产品：MAGIC - 金属-空气门控集成电路

• 批准号: DP200100126
• 负责人: Prof Sharath Sriram
• 金额: $ 27.38万
• 依托单位: RMIT University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2023-07-07
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP200100126
• 关键词: Electronics; out; thin; air; MAGIC

We constantly seek faster, lighter, and energy-efficient devices. This project will create a new class of electronic devices, re-inventing vacuum tubes that enabled electronics almost a century ago, and scaling them down to the nanoscale realm. The devices are termed vacuum channel transistors, and transistors are the critical functional element of all electronics. At the extremely small size scales for nanoelectronics, the charge carriers travel very short distances. This avoids collisions enabling extremely high-speed transport. Such a virtual vacuum environment can potentially enable electronics thousands of times faster than the current silicon-based technology, providing a solution to the challenges faced by the semiconductor industry.

我们不断寻求更快、更轻、更节能的设备。该项目将创造一种新的电子设备，重新发明几乎世纪前使电子产品成为可能的真空管，并将其缩小到纳米级。这些器件被称为真空沟道晶体管，晶体管是所有电子器件的关键功能元件。在纳米电子学的极小尺寸尺度上，电荷载流子的传播距离非常短。这避免了碰撞，从而实现了极高速的运输。这种虚拟真空环境可能使电子产品的速度比目前的硅基技术快数千倍，为半导体行业面临的挑战提供解决方案。