{"id":2028,"date":"2025-05-14T10:35:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T08:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graphene.ac\/?p=2028"},"modified":"2025-05-14T10:35:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T08:35:18","slug":"theres-plenty-of-room-at-the-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graphene.ac\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/theres-plenty-of-room-at-the-top\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s Plenty of Room at the Top!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In his famous 1959 lecture \u201cThere\u2019s Plenty of Room at the Bottom,\u201d<\/em> physicist Richard Feynman explored the vast, untapped potential of manipulating matter at the nanoscale. Fast forward to today, and researchers are turning their gaze upward \u2014 not downward \u2014 to explore a new frontier in electronics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Collaborative Research Center\/Transregio TRR404 \u2013 \u201cNext Generation Electronics with Active Devices in Three Dimensions (Active-3D)\u201d<\/em> \u2013 is pioneering research into the underutilized space above the silicon chip. Inspired by the idea that \u201cthere\u2019s plenty of room at the top,\u201d<\/em> the initiative aims to unlock new possibilities by integrating active devices directly into the chip\u2019s Back-End of Line (BEOL). This approach could revolutionize how we design electronic systems, enabling new functionalities such as embedded logic, memory, and even active interconnects \u2014 all vertically integrated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Artistic representation of the integration concept pursued by Active-3D. \u00a9TU Dresden\/cfaed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Active-3D is an ambitious, interdisciplinary initiative uniting top researchers from several leading institutions: TU Dresden, RWTH Aachen University, AMO GmbH, Forschungszentrum J\u00fclich, the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics (MPI-MSP) in Halle, the Nanoelectronic Materials Laboratory (NaMLab) in Dresden, and Ruhr University Bochum (RUB). The project is led by Prof. Thomas Mikolajick (spokesperson), from TU Dresden, and Prof. Max Lemme (vice-spokesperson), from RWTH Aachen University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Aachen Graphene & 2D Materials Center is a key contributor to this effort, with principal investigators Sven Ingebrandt<\/a>, Joachim Knoch<\/a>, Zhenxing Wang<\/a>, Renato Negra<\/a>, and Max Lemme<\/a> actively involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To learn more about TRR404 Active-3D and its mission to shape the future of electronics, visit the project homepage<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Collaborative Research Center\/Transregio TRR404 \u2013 \u201cNext Generation Electronics with Active Devices in Three Dimensions (Active-3D)\u201d \u2013 is pioneering research into the underutilized space above the silicon chip. The Aachen Graphene & 2D Materials Center is a key contributor to this effort, with principal investigators Sven Ingebrandt, Joachim Knoch, Zhenxing Wang, Renato Negra, and Max Lemme actively involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[60,59],"class_list":["post-2028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","tag-active-3d","tag-trr404"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphene.ac\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphene.ac\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphene.ac\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphene.ac\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphene.ac\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphene.ac\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2030,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphene.ac\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions\/2030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphene.ac\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphene.ac\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphene.ac\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}