Exploring hybrid nanowire transistors; A route to discoveries and new technological opportunities

我之前的NSERC发现资助在以下方面取得了非凡的进展：（a）制造所谓的半导体纳米线（NW）异质结构（NWHs），其长度/宽度约为人类头发厚度的1/10和1/1,000（即，其中NW材料沿着其长度改变为另一个半导体，或者其中它包覆在另一个半导体的壳中）。（B）从半导体实现纳米线，所述半导体也显示出远高于室温的磁性-这是所谓的自旋电子学的重要前体，其中电子电荷和自旋都用于信息处理（IP）;以及（c）将高温超导体（HTSC）与薄膜半导体配合的混合装置的第一演示，示出了，第一次在高温下，所谓的库珀对如何有效地注入到薄膜半导体中，并有望成为未来的量子计算机。

My previous NSERC Discovery Grant yielded exceptional progress in: (a) Making so-called semiconductor nanowire (NW) heterostructures (NWHs), with lengths/widths ~1/10th and ~1/1,000th of the thickness of a human hair (i.e., where the NW material changes along its length to another semiconductor, or where it is clad in a shell of another semiconductor). Such NWHs enable unprecedented control over where electrons reside; (b) Realising NWs from semiconductors which also showed magnetic properties, well above room temperature - an important precursor for so-called spintronics, where both electron charge and spin are used for information processing (IP); and (c) A first demonstration of a hybrid device mating a high temperature superconductor (HTSC) to a thin film semiconductor, showing, for the first time at elevated temperature, how so-called Cooper pairs could be efficiently injected into a thin film semiconductor, with promise for a future quantum computer.