Carbon-based nanoelectronic networks

在过去的50年里，电子学的非凡进步导致了越来越强大和复杂的硅集成电路，其特征现在具有小于100 nm的尺寸;这一区域被称为纳米级。随着这些特征尺寸进一步减小，计算机、消费电子和电信的持续发展变得越来越具有挑战性。行业预测预测，到本世纪末，当特征尺寸达到20 nm以下时，性能和制造挑战将使得有必要通过将新材料和器件引入集成电路来增加硅。 特别是碳基纳米结构已被确定为应对这些挑战的突出候选者。 该研究计划旨在创建基于碳纳米结构的材料和设备，以实现未来的电子产品。其目标是实现碳纳米材料的可控组装，并将这些纳米级组装件开发成具有可靠性能和高性能的可行电子器件。定向自组装将与高分辨率显微镜和精确的电子测量结合使用，以与当前电子制造兼容的方式开发碳基纳米电子网络器件。 这项工作的预期成果是基于碳纳米结构的新材料，方法和设备，可以满足电子工业的未来需求。 通过将碳纳米材料组装成纳米级网络，可以利用其优异的性能，并为电子产品的性能提供巨大的改进。这种材料和设备的新方法将使创新的电子和信息技术为加拿大带来社会和经济效益。在拟议的研究中，高素质人员的广泛培训将由广泛的纳米级研究环境提供。

The extraordinary advances in electronics over the past 50 years have led to increasingly powerful and complex silicon integrated circuits whose features now have dimensions less than 100 nm; a regime referred to as the nanoscale. As these feature sizes are reduced further, continued progress in computers, consumer electronics and telecommunications becomes increasingly challenging. Industry forecasts predict that by the end of this decade performance and manufacturing challenges when features sizes reach below 20 nm will make it necessary to augment silicon by introducing new materials and devices into integrated circuits. Carbon-based nanostructures in particular have been identified as prominent candidates to meet these challenges. This research program seeks to create materials and devices based on carbon nanostructures to enable future electronics. Its objectives are to achieve the controlled assembly of carbon nanomaterials and develop these nanoscale assemblies into viable electronic devices with reliable properties and capable of high performance. Directed self-assembly will be used in conjunction with high-resolution microscopy and precise electronic measurements to develop carbon-based nanoelectronic network devices in a manner that is compatible with current electronics manufacturing. The anticipated outcomes of this work are new materials, methods and devices based on carbon nanostructures that can meet the future requirements of the electronics industry. By assembling carbon nanomaterials into nanoscale networks their excellent properties can be harnessed and provide tremendous improvements to the performance of electronics. This new approach to materials and devices will enable innovative electronic and information technologies that bring social and economic benefits to Canada. Extensive training of highly qualified personnel in the proposed research will be provided by a broad nanoscale research environment.