Objective The importance of controlling and understanding energy and heat flow, non-equilibrium processes and fluctuations at small length scales is rapidly gaining attention. This emerging field of nanoscale energy management, starts to play a crucial role in many solid-state device applications and its solution is a condition sine qua non for the adoption of future nanoelectronic devices. The need for energy management arises from new challenges brought by the quest of continuous performance improvements of nanoelectronic devices. The enhancement of the integration density of these devices increases the electronic performance but as the commercial field-effect-transistor approach the 10 nm regime, the thermal management becomes a serious issue.The HeatProNano project aims to establish a comprehensive understanding and description of heat transport and local thermal conductivity at the nanoscale. Size-property relations will be studied considering the effects of surfaces and interfaces in order to elucidate the issues affecting power dissipation and allow a better design of future devices. To reach this goal, HeatProNano aims to measure, model, and exploit the transition from thermal equilibrium to local non-equilibrium and its impact for nanoscale energy management. The project will investigate the consequences of local non-equilibrium in structures with dimensions well below the mean free path of thermal phonons. The heat propagation and thermal conductivity on the nanoscale will be studied by a variety of experimental techniques considering long range transport over hundreds of micrometers down to beyond-state-of-the art resolution in the 10 nm-regime. Methods to achieve a controlled tailoring of the thermal conductivity on the nanoscale will be explored. The project therefore encompasses different materials (silicon, germanium, Si/Ge alloys, metal-oxides, and graphene) with strong relevance for existing ICT devices or high potential for future thermal management. Fields of science engineering and technologynanotechnologynano-materialstwo-dimensional nanostructuresgraphenenatural sciencesphysical sciencesatomic physicsnatural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistrymetalloidsengineering and technologynanotechnologynanoelectronics Programme(s) FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Topic(s) FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF - Marie-Curie Action: "Intra-European fellowships for career development" Call for proposal FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF See other projects for this call Funding Scheme MC-IEF - Intra-European Fellowships (IEF) Coordinator FUNDACIO INSTITUT CATALA DE NANOCIENCIA I NANOTECNOLOGIA EU contribution € 166 336,20 Address CAMPUS DE LA UAB EDIFICI Q ICN2 08193 Cerdanyola Del Valles Spain See on map Region Este Cataluña Barcelona Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Erwan Guillotel (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data
