{"id":644,"date":"2019-10-01T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graphene.ac\/?p=644"},"modified":"2019-10-01T11:13:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T09:13:04","slug":"amo-launches-three-new-fet-open-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graphene.ac\/index.php\/2019\/10\/01\/amo-launches-three-new-fet-open-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"AMO launches three new FET Open Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A big success for AMO and the\nAachen Graphene & 2D Materials Center<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FET\nOpen is a very competitive funding program within the Horizon 2020 Research and\nInnovation program. It supports joint international projects aimed at radically\nnew technologies, favoring ideas that go well beyond the state of the art. The\ncompetition is fierce, as the program is open to all sciences and disciplines.\nAt each call the number of submissions greatly exceeds the available budget.\nYet AMO has been extremely successful in the call of January 2019, winning\nthree granted projects.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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To put numbers into\nperspective, out of the 400 FET Open proposals submitted in January 2019, only\n53 have received funding, 45 of which involve German research institutions and\ncompanies. Among the funded projects, only five will be coordinated in Germany\nand two of these by AMO, which is also partner in a third project together with\nRWTH Aachen University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the two\nprojects coordinated by AMO is POSEIDON. This project will tackle a major\nchallenge faced today by silicon nanophotonics, that is the realization of a\n(cost)-efficient light source integrated into a silicon microchip. Such a\ndevice will have a huge impact in terms of faster and energy-efficient data\ntransmission, allowing to drastically reduce power dissipation in data centers.\nTo reach this ambitious goal, AMO has teamed up with an international and very\ninterdisciplinary consortium of six research groups from Germany, Spain and UK,\nand one SME from Czech Republic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Together, they\u2019ll\ndevelop a new technological platform for integrating active colloidal\ncomponents into photonic and electronic devices. \u201cSuch a new technology will\nopen up game-changing possibilities not only for optical data transmission, but\nalso for cheap and energy efficient sensors for industrial and bio-medical applications\u201d,\nsays Anna Lena Giesecke, group leader of Nanophotonics at AMO and project\ncoordinator of POSEIDON.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second project\ncoordinated by AMO is ORIGENAL, which proposes a radically new approach to keep\nincreasing the number of transistors on a chip. \u201cThe idea per se is relatively\nsimple\u201d, says Daniel Neumaier, group leader of the Graphene and 2D Materials\ngroup at AMO and project coordinator of ORIGENAL. \u201cWhat we want to do is to\nexploit the properties of certain two-dimensional materials to realize extremely\nthin integrated circuits on a thin-foil substrate, and then fold the substrate\nas an origami to stack up to thousands of circuits on top of each other.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the idea is\nsimple, its implementation is not. ORIGENAL relies on the expertise of four different\nresearch groups in Germany, Austria, Italy and Finland, and on a highly\ninterdisciplinary approach, including contributions from material science,\nelectrical and mechanical engineering, physics and chemistry. The pay-off of\nthis effort can be huge. More transistors on a chip means more complex and\npowerful devices, especially for applications like neuromorphic computing that\nrely on densely interconnected architectures as the ones targeted in ORIGENAL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The third project\nis WiPLASH and aims at exploiting the unique conducting properties of graphene\nto demonstrate the feasibility and the potential of on-chip wireless\ncommunication. This might be a real breakthrough for increasing parallelism and\nenergy efficiency in hardware architectures. The strategy today is to tightly\nco-integrate multiple, specialized computing and memory units into a single\narchitecture. This approach suffers however from the inherent lack of\nflexibility of the current methods to connect the different units. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

WiPLASH will pioneer on-chip wireless communication as a way to bypass this bottleneck and to provide architectural plasticity.  “Our first objective is the development of graphene-based circuit-blocks for miniaturized, tunable, and ultrahigh speed wireless communications\u201d, says Renato Negra, professor for High Frequency Electronics at RWTH Aachen University and partner of WiPLASH. \u201cWe then want to demonstrate reconfigurable chip-scale front-ends based on these circuits, and prove the power of this approach in at least one key application. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cORIGENAL and WiPLASH are two examples of how research on two-dimensional materials can open up radically new lines of technology that contribute to reinforce the technological leadership of Europe\u201d, says Max Lemme, scientific director of AMO. \u201cThese two projects are also perfectly in line with the vision of the Aachen Graphene and 2D Materials Center, which acts as a kind of incubator for such novel ideas, at least for what concerns the Aachen part\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A big success for AMO and the Aachen Graphene & 2D Materials Center FET Open is a very competitive funding program within the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program. It supports joint international projects aimed at radically new technologies, favoring ideas that go well beyond the state of the art. The competition is fierce, as the … <\/p>\n

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