Nanoelectronics Research on European level

Nanoelectronics Research at European level

Project Classification

 

TECHNOLOGIES

 

The purpose of ATHENIS is to provide proof of concept for the industry’s first SoC technology platform that can surmount these integration barriers. The ATHENIS SoC technology platform is intended to be the first in meeting the combination of all of the harshest requirements including full reverse polarity capability at the low cost of CMOS, application voltages up to 120V, currents up to 10A, temperatures up to 200°C, embedded non-volatile memory, chip-level ESD up to =8kV HBM, and high logic gate densities. The concept of this project is to unlock the potential of epitaxial graphene on silicon carbide (SiC) for development of scalable electronics with the view to develop graphene-based devices & circuits with a non-conventional functionality. The strategy is to explore two promising directions of graphene-based technology: (i) the development of large-scale graphene wafers for manufacturing high-density of devices on a single SiC wafer, and (ii) the development of hybrid circuits for applications of graphene in spintronics and metrology by exploiting the flexibility for design offered by the large area of graphene on SiC. To demonstrate the realization of SiGe Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors (HBTs) operating at a maximum frequency close to 0.5 THz (500 GHz) at room temperature, and evaluate the achievable performance of integrated mmWave circuits using those HBTs. The aim of the project is to develop a dual-channel CMOS technology comprising high channel mobility (high-μ) Ge pMOS and III-V compound semiconductor nMOS transistors co-integrated on the same complex engineered substrate on Si. This offers a high performance booster as an option for the 22 nm technology. ELITE aims at miniaturization and density increase beyond Moore by means of exhaustive die stacking. It takes as development vehicle an advanced solid-state drive which will widely substitute traditional hard disk drives for purpose of mobile and hand-held applications and which is considered as the enabler of the up-coming era of mobile data.