Our on a regular basis lives have been reworked by the Web of Issues (IoT). Units related domestically or over the Web not solely make our every day lives simpler and extra handy, but additionally extra environment friendly. Applied sciences based mostly on the 5G or 6G cellular community additionally supply a promising future with thrilling improvements akin to autonomous driving, real-time professional medical intervention and sensible cities.
To grasp the potential of IoT and 5G/6G purposes, high-performance computing with low energy consumption is required. Dependable safety options will even be important to fight the rising variety of cyber-attacks. Present options can not meet these new necessities, as they have an inclination to lag behind when it comes to efficiency, latency and operational prices. That is the place the European Union-funded GATEPOST undertaking steps in, revolutionising computing and safety with a ground-breaking graphene-based method. Graphene is a skinny, two-dimensional layer of carbon atoms organized in a hexagonal lattice. It’s a very skinny materials that can be utilized, for instance, as a versatile conductor in electronics.
“Graphene and 2D supplies maintain nice potential and open up unprecedented prospects for environment friendly non-linear gentle interplay with ultra-fast response instances,” stated Dr Mindaugas Lukosius, who welcomed all eight undertaking companions in addition to Emilie Klecha, chargeable for GATEPOST on the EU Fee, and Jackie Brown from the Graphene Flagship Initiative to the kick-off assembly on behalf of the lead associate, the IHP – Leibniz Institute for Revolutionary Microelectronics in Frankfurt (Oder). “Our undertaking has set itself the purpose of integrating these supplies into complementary metal-oxide semiconductors (CMOS) product of silicon nitride. If we achieve combining graphene with customary CMOS processes, we might be on the verge of a breakthrough in information processing and reminiscence,” stated Lukosius.
To realize this bold purpose, eight European companions have joined forces, all of them specialists of their subject: IHP – Leibniz Institute for Excessive Efficiency Microelectronics from Germany (chief within the integration of graphene-based applied sciences), Akhetonics GmbH from Germany (pioneer within the growth of all-optical basic objective processors), Hewlett Packard Enterprise Belgium (chief in optical reminiscence), Aristotle College of Thessaloniki from Greece (with a analysis focus in optical reminiscence), Enlightra Sàl from Switzerland (pioneer in excessive bandwidth information transmission enabled by gentle), Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung from Germany (with a give attention to amplification media and amplifiers based mostly on III-V semiconductors), EurA AG from Germany (innovation consultancy) and the Interuniversitair Micro-Electronica Centrum from Belgium (internationally recognised for the complete semiconductor provide chain).
The primary objective of the kick-off assembly was to get to know one another personally and to debate the working plan. The kick-off assembly was adopted by a tour of the IHP premises. The 2D experimental pilot plant, which is able to produce the progressive parts designed as a part of GATEPOST, was additionally visited and the undertaking companions have been visibly impressed. Stefan Durm, Head of Worldwide Initiatives at Ellwangen-based EurA AG, and Christina Tanosova, Undertaking Supervisor, attended the occasion. “We’re delighted to be a part of this glorious consortium and to handle the undertaking along with IHP,” stated Durm. GATEPOST is an acronym for “Graphene-based All-Optical Thechnology Platform for Secure Web of Things” and strengthens the European provide chain within the subject of high-performance computing, Lukosius summarised.
The GATEPOST undertaking is funded by the European analysis and growth programme Horizon Europe and is a part of the Graphene Flagship Initiative. Additional data might be discovered underneath the grant settlement quantity 101120938 and on LinkedIn underneath the key phrase gatepost-eu.
