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.

该项目由2020年的纳米电子学和竞争之外的纳米电子学授予，并得到了国家科学基金会的多个局和部门的支持，以及半导体研究公司的纳米电子研究计划。技术项目：研究项目明确地涉及克服的关键科学和技术挑战，即使克服了可能的替补，因此可能会导致insteal insteal insteal insteal silon silon silon。新型的纳米电子平台基于由灯笼铝酸盐和钛酸标组组成的材料的显着特性。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进行切换。电子电路可以在接近原子之间的距离（两个纳米）之间“写入”和“擦除”。为了开发有用的电子产品，必须制定能够创建和操纵大量设备的方案。通过使用大型探针阵列来实现此缩放。每个探针必须能够解决多个站点，从而使设备本身在单个芯片上制造复合电路。氧化物异质结构需要在可大型制造的底物上生长：硅和另一种材料都证明了这一点。该研究项目解决了可重新配置存储，计算和光学传感平台的许多核心要求，这些要求可以扩展到硅当前可能的范围之外。跨学科研究团队直接解决了这些科学和技术挑战，其观点对于发展突破性技术所必需的各种观点。Non-Technical：该项目旨在将令人兴奋的科学成就转变为最先进的信息技术。该研究直接解决了超越摩尔定律的规模的需求，并有可能创建新的高科技行业，从而在美国创造了需要高级技能的新工作。为了帮助满足训练有素的工人和研究人员的需求，设计了一项新的OnRamp教育计划，该计划专门针对学生在开始职业时遇到的困难。 Onramp教程是通过初学者学习研究的绳索来开发的。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。威斯康星大学和匹兹堡大学都继续并扩大其高中外展计划，旨在增加科学和工程学科中代表性不足的群体中的学生人数。