Natanael Lanz - Chiral

Next generation transistors: “With our technology we enable the industrial production of high quality nanotransistors.”

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Natanael Lanz - Chiral
Drawing of an ultra-clean nanotransistor. The bridging carbon nanotube has a length of 10 um and a diameter of only 1 nm, which is scaled by a factor of 1000 for visualization. (Natanael Lanz)

Transistors are key components in quantum processors (qubits), IoT sensors and computer chips of today. We believe that the integration of nanomaterials into transistors will be crucial to overcome the limits of todays technology. The superior performance of these so called nanotransistors, could be demonstrated already, but the major bottleneck was a scalable and reliable production process. To solve this problem 4 groups within the ETH domain, coming from EMPA, EPFL, and ETH, gathered 4 years ago within a collaboration project. The result of the project was a technology that allows to grow, select and fully automatically integrate nanomaterials such as carbon nanotubes of graphene into transistors at high speed, high quality and with full process control. By this we were able to speed up the nanotransistor fabrication rate by over 250 times, compared to the current slow and painful manual process. So, we are happy to supply our current and future customers with the ability to integrate nanotechnology into their electronic devices.

 

Natanael Lanz

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