{"id":903,"date":"2013-10-07T20:10:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T20:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/?p=903"},"modified":"2013-11-04T21:20:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T21:20:28","slug":"collaborating-on-nanoelectronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/collaborating-on-nanoelectronics\/","title":{"rendered":"<h2>Collaborating on<\/h2> <h1>Nanoelectronics<\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Transforming university nanoscience discoveries into smaller, faster electronics is the aim of a new multi-institutional collaboration.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A UNL physics team leads the Center for NanoFerroic Devices, a $7.125 million research collaboration involving six universities and an industry consortium. Funded by the Semiconductor Research Corp. and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, it\u2019s one of three new multi-university research centers that are part of the second phase of the Nanoelectronics Research Initiative.<\/p>\n<div class=\"imageBlockStatic\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-post-feature wp-image-904\" alt=\"20130501nano\" src=\"http:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20130501nano-900x600.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20130501nano-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20130501nano-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">From left: Alexei Gruverman, Peter Dowben, Kirill Belashchenko, Xia Hong and Evgeny Tsymbal (not pictured, Christian Binek)<\/div>\n<p>The center builds on advances that UNL and its Materials Research Science and Engineering Center have made in exploring nanomaterials to surpass current technological limitations, said physicist Evgeny Tsymbal, George Holmes Professor of Physics who co-directs the new center with UNL colleague Peter Dowben, Charles Bessey Professor of Physics. Tsymbal also directs UNL\u2019s MRSEC, which the National Science Foundation funds. \u201cThe new center is a natural continuation of the research that we\u2019ve been doing. Now we\u2019re rising to a new level,\u201d Tsymbal said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"imageBlock\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tEkrNMncclE?rel=0\" height=\"600\" width=\"900\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Today\u2019s electronics use an electric charge to store and process information, which limits the number of transistors that can occupy a chip. The new center is pursuing three alternatives to take advantage of nanoscale properties that require less energy, which could enable more compact and powerful devices.<\/p>\n<p>UNL physicist Alexei Gruverman leads a team focused on nano-thin ferroelectric oxide, a material with both positive and negative polarization directions that can be read like a binary code to store information. A second initiative relies on UNL physicist Christian Binek\u2019s work with spintronics, which manipulates electron spin to store information. The third initiative, led by Ilya Krivorotov at the University of California, Irvine, focuses on how electrons carry information by generating spin waves. UNL physicists Kirill Belashchenko and Xia Hong also work with the center.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe new center is a natural continuation of the research that we\u2019ve been doing. Now we\u2019re rising to a new level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Evgeny Tsymbal<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tsymbal said collaboration among researchers and industry is critical to moving fundamental principles from the laboratory to specific devices.<\/p>\n<p>UNL\u2019s university partners are University of California, Irvine; University of Wisconsin-Madison; University at Buffalo, SUNY; University of Delaware; and Oakland University. Industry partners include IBM, Intel, Micron Technology, Texas Instruments and GLOBALFOUNDRIES. Semiconductor Research Corp. is the world\u2019s leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transforming university nanoscience discoveries into smaller, faster electronics is the aim of a new multi-institutional collaboration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,674,678,267,11,679,31,8,676,677,675,44],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alexei-gruverman","tag-center-for-nanoferroic-devices","tag-christian-binek","tag-collaboration","tag-evgeny-tsymbal","tag-kirill-belashchenko","tag-materials-research-science-and-engineering-center","tag-nanoscience","tag-national-institute-of-standards-and-technology","tag-peter-dowben","tag-semiconductor-research-corp","tag-xia-hong"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1455,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions\/1455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}