Project description
A sustainable shift to spin-based electronics
The EU’s heavy reliance on microelectronics components from outside its borders poses risks, exposing manufacturers to supply chain disruptions and compromising industrial sovereignty. With this in mind, the EU-funded OBELIX project aims to revolutionise high-tech development through technologies like spin-based electronics. Specifically, OBELIX will transform the landscape by leveraging the orbital degree of freedom, leading to breakthroughs that minimise power consumption and eliminate the need for environmentally harmful heavy metals sourced from outside the EU. By harnessing both electrical and optical control over the orbital moment, OBELIX will create novel information carriers, offering superior performance compared to conventional spin-based devices while ensuring resilience and sustainability for the future.
Objective
It has become increasingly clear that the European Unions manufacturers largely rely on microelectronics components from outside the EU that make them vulnerable to materials supply bottlenecks. To support EUs high-tech development and enhance its industrial sovereignty, novel technologies engaging radically new concepts are required such as, but not limited to, spin-based electronics. Crucially, these novel technologies must also demonstrate sustainability and resilience to material supply chain interruptions, while at the same time reducing the environmental footprint of this growing sector. OBELIX will contribute to this strategic effort by a twofold paradigm shift: (i) harnessing the orbital degree of freedom shall bring disruptive solutions to existing spin-based technologies, reducing power consumption and (ii) opening entirely new avenues for devices that do not require any heavy metals that are sourced outside EU and are often detrimental to the environment. OBELIX will demonstrate how the orbital moment can be engineered and controlled using electrical as well as optical means, enabling thus a novel information carrier that can be transmitted and used to write and read information thus outperforming conventional spin-based devices.
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.3.1 - The European Innovation Council (EIC) Main Programme
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-EIC - HORIZON EIC GrantsCoordinator
75794 Paris
France