Descripción del proyecto
Desarrollar una nueva generación de circuitos fotónicos
Los circuitos integrados fotónicos (CIF) son microchips que utilizan la luz para realizar el procesamiento en lugar de los electrones convencionales. El equipo del proyecto PHOENIX, financiado con fondos europeos, pretende crear la próxima generación de CIF trabajando con nuevas plataformas de materiales, como el titanato de bario sobre nitruro de silicio. Dichas plataformas se optimizarán con materiales de transición de aislador metálico y ferroeléctricos epitaxiales, como los óxidos de vanadio, lo cual ofrece un control más eficaz de las señales ópticas. Los investigadores también buscarán formas de mejorar la fabricación de películas finas de óxido con epitaxia de haces moleculares. El equipo del proyecto demostrará los nuevos chips en cuatro casos de uso: cifrado totalmente homomórfico, infraestructura 5G, inferencia de redes neuronales profundas y entrenamiento de redes neuronales profundas.
Objetivo
In PHOENIX, we create the next generation of compact photonic integrated circuits (PIC) offering a continuous and efficient control over optical signals. A barium titanate (BTO) on silicon nitride (SiN) platform will be optimized to enable novel functionalities and produce enhanced PICs. The novel functionalities stem from a combination of materials having a metal-insulator transition with epitaxial ferroelectrics. Vanadium oxides (VOx) deliver a maximum contrast in absorption while Barium Titanate (BTO) offers an efficient and programmable control of the phase of an optical signal through Pockels and photorefractive effects.
The developed technologies will be demonstrated in four uses cases in high-impact emerging applications: 1) fully homomorphic encryption, 2) 5G infrastructure, 3) inference of deep neural networks and 4) training of deep neural networks.
The project has four main objectives: a) to provide novel photonic technologies with enhanced functionalities thanks to the integration of VOx and BTO, b) to provide a BTO/SiN waveguide platform for subsequent manufacturing of PICs and an upgraded version of such a platform integrating VOx with the potential to improve their performance and scalability, c) to build up the demonstrators, and d) to advance in the understanding, realization and upscaling of high-quality oxide thin-films by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) on large area.
The validation of the developed technology will be completed with an extrapolation to benchmark against representative existing systems and a roadmap for photonic-electronic integration. The project will perform a market analysis and a techno-economic evaluation in order to define business models and exploitation plans that ensure the sustainability of the PHOENIX platform to reduce innovation-to market-time and R&I costs for disruptive high-tech SMEs and maximize the impact of the 4 user cases demonstrators
Ámbito científico
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationstelecommunications networksmobile network5G
- natural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistrytransition metals
- natural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistryalkaline earth metals
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer securitycryptography
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness models
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Convocatoria de propuestas
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01
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