Obiettivo It is the long‐term objective of NOLIMITS to develop a unique technology, that will provide combined electronic and photonic functionality in a single chip and that will overcome the scale and speed limits in today’s photonic integration technology. Our dream is a technology that will be in every laptop and that will contain photonic interconnects and small but ultrafast and ultra low power photonic processors on top of an electronic IC, that contains the large scale but lower speed memory and control functions. While this is a very ambitious and long‐term objective, it is the aim of NOLIMITS to demonstrate the potential of InP Membranes on Silicon (IMOS) for realising this goal up to a level that large companies can be interested in the large‐scale development of the technology. We believe that this can be done by 5 PhD students and postdocs that will be funded from this project, in close cooperation with three PhD students that are presently working on IMOS‐related technology. NOLIMITS will address the following challenges in two subprojects:• Providing proof of concept for integration of a full set of basic photonic components in IMOS technology on top of a CMOS chip which contains advanced electronic functionality.• Developing and demonstrating the technology for an application where the combination of photonics and electronics brings additional functionality.• Integration of plasmonic lasers in IMOS technology and demonstrating THz switching speeds with very low switching powers, that allow for application in ultrafast digital photonic signal processors with up to 1 million lasers.If successful, NOLIMITS will provide a powerful technology for integrating photonics and electronics at a complexity level that exceeds today’s photonic technology by more than three orders. Such a technology will create a whole field of new application and will become a game‐changer in the world of photonic integrated circuits. Campo scientifico natural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistrymetalloidsnatural sciencesphysical sciencesopticslaser physics Programma(i) FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Argomento(i) ERC-AG-PE7 - ERC Advanced Grant - Systems and communication engineering Invito a presentare proposte ERC-2011-ADG_20110209 Vedi altri progetti per questo bando Meccanismo di finanziamento ERC-AG - ERC Advanced Grant Istituzione ospitante TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN Contributo UE € 2 419 002,00 Indirizzo GROENE LOPER 3 5612 AE Eindhoven Paesi Bassi Mostra sulla mappa Regione Zuid-Nederland Noord-Brabant Zuidoost-Noord-Brabant Tipo di attività Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Ricercatore principale Meint Koert Smit (Prof.) Contatto amministrativo J.C. Van Wevelingen (Dr.) Collegamenti Contatta l’organizzazione Opens in new window Sito web Opens in new window Costo totale Nessun dato Beneficiari (1) Classifica in ordine alfabetico Classifica per Contributo UE Espandi tutto Riduci tutto TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN Paesi Bassi Contributo UE € 2 419 002,00 Indirizzo GROENE LOPER 3 5612 AE Eindhoven Mostra sulla mappa Regione Zuid-Nederland Noord-Brabant Zuidoost-Noord-Brabant Tipo di attività Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Ricercatore principale Meint Koert Smit (Prof.) Contatto amministrativo J.C. Van Wevelingen (Dr.) Collegamenti Contatta l’organizzazione Opens in new window Sito web Opens in new window Costo totale Nessun dato