Graphene Electronics

The 2D-Experimental Pilot Line (2D-EPL) is a first-of-its-kind manufacturing facility for graphene and 2D materials, where key European companies and research centres join forces to produce electronics, optoelectronics and sensors based on  graphene and other 2D materials on a pilot scale.

Funded by the European Commission, this Graphene Flagship initiative aims to secure a major role for Europe in the ongoing technological revolution, helping to bring 2D materials into commercial applications.

AMO is responsible for the first and third multi-project wafer (MPW) runs offered by the 2D-EPL project. In each multi-project wafer run, universities, research institutes and companies can have their devices custom-processed on the dies on joint wafers.

The first MPW run is based on the baseline process developed by AMO for graphene field-effect transistors (GFET) and it is mainly intended for graphene-based sensors. More information on MWP #1 can be found here.

The 2D-EPL project is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under grant agreement Nr. 952792.

Read the press release of the 2D-EPL.

2Exciting – Developing optoelectronics in two-dimensional semiconductors

2Exciting is a European Training Network under the umbrella of the Marie Curie-Sklodowska Actions. The scope of the project is to sustain the European leadership in the field of optoelectronics based on two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors by training the next generation of highly qualified researchers in the field. Within this process, 2Exciting will also substantially advance the state of the art by shedding light on the fundamental physics of light-matter interaction in 2D materials and by developing innovative optoelectronic devices such as strain-actuated optoelectronics– a topic which will be specifically pursued at AMO.

Read the project press release

Start date: 01.01.2021
End date: 31.12.2024

Coordinator: TU Dresden (DE)

More information on the project website

2Exciting is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under grant agreement Nr. 956813.

In the project GLECS II (Graphen-basierte flexible Hochfrequenzelektronik) flexible radio frequency integrated circuits for wireless communication are developed.

GLECS II is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) , under grant agreement Nr. NE1633/3-2.

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This EU-project GrapheneCore3 (Graphene-Based Revolutions in ICT And Beyond) is the largest research activity on graphene in the world, having the goal to bring graphene and related 2D materials from the lab to applications.

The Flagship Graphene will run for 10 years with a total budget of 1 billion Euro and is currently involving 142 partners from 23 countries.

In this highly visible flagship AMO has a central role in the development of the research program and is responsible for the workpackage on high-frequency electronics. The enabling of new functionalities in Si-CMOS technology using graphene based devices is one of the major near term goals.

This project is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under grant agreement Nr. 881603

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GreEnergy: Wideband optical antennae for use in energy harvesting applications

GreEnergy is an extremely ambitious project in the field of renewable energies: it aims at establishing a new paradigm for harvesting solar energy based on wideband optical antennae – an approach that can achieve much higher efficiency that conventional photovoltaic solar cells. The goal of GreEnergy is to realize demonstrators with an overall efficiency of 20-40% – roughly an order of magnitude improvement with respect to current technologies. AMO plays a major role in the project, contributing both to the development and integration of the antennas and at the level of system engineering.  For this second task, AMO has joined forces with Dr. Avi Ginzburg, an experienced system engineer and senior lecturer at Technion, who has moved to AMO for the duration of the project. Dr. Ginzburg is also one of the initiators of the project.

Start date: 01.01.2021
End date: 31.12.2024

Coordinator: Chalmers University of Technology (SE)

GreEnergy is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under grant agreement Nr. 101006963.

MISEL: Multispectral intelligent vision system with embedded low-power neural computing

The goal of MISEL is to develop a bio-inspired vision system with much smaller size, weight and power consumption than off-the-shelf components, and yet able to implement advanced recognition tasks such as distinguishing drones from birds.  One of the key ingredients of the system are intensity-adaptive photodetectors, which will be developed by AMO’s Graphene Electronic group in collaboration with the group of Prof. Daniel Neumeier at the University of Wuppertal – an excellent opportunity of consolidating a long-term partnership.

Start date: 01.01.2021
End date: 31.12.2024

Coordinator: VTT Oy (FI)

MISEL is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under grant agreement Nr. 101016734

Read the project press-release.

In the project MOSTFLEX (Scalable MoS2 based flexible devices and circuits for wireless communications), the 2D material MoS2 will be investigated to realize high-speed devices and circuits targeting for wireless communications.

MOSTFLEX is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) , under grant agreement Nr. WA 4139/3-1.

NEUROTEC II: Neuro-inspired Artificial Intelligence Technologies

The project NEUROTEC II aims at developing innovative technologies and concepts for memristive neuromorphic-circuits, to overcome the limitations of current computer architectures for AI applications. To this end, various memristive materials and circuits are being researched, as well as integration concepts for synaptic networks, simulation models and new characterisation methods. Demonstrators with different degrees of technology maturity will be produced and validated in order to assess the energy efficiency, the performance, the range of applications and the economic and social relevance of the technology developed within the project.

In NEUROTEC II, AMO is responsible in particular of the investigation of novel memristive devices based on 2D materials.

Start date: 11/2021
End date: 11/2026

Project website: https://www.neurotec.org/en

Coordinator: Forschungszentrum Jülich

NEUROTEC II is funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), under grant agreement Nr. 16ME0400.

 

The FET-Open project ORIGENAL (Origami electronics for three dimensional integration of computational devices) is coordinated by AMO and will advance the ultra-desnse 3D integration of logic circuits by topological folding.

ORIGENAL is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under grant agreement Nr. 863258.

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The FET-Open project QUEFORMAL (Quantum Engineering for Machine Learning) will lay the foundation for advanced machine learning, by combining a memory cell and a logic switch into one building block.

QUEFORMAL is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under grant agreement Nr. 829035.

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Within the European Collaborative Project Ulisses (Ultra low-power integrated optical sensor systems for networked environmental multichannel gas Sensing), chip-integrated optical sensors for different gases like CO2 will be developed.

ULISSES is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under grant agreement Nr. 825272.

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ULTRAPHO – Ultra-fast Graphene Photodetectors

ULTRAPHO is a Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) Project funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme. The goal of ULTRAPHO is to create a novel ultrafast photodetector based on graphene, to increases the data transmission capacity of optical fibers. The project will not only prototype the new device, but also validate it for industrial acceptance. Furthermore, it will develop and commercialize the fabrication technology and tools for automated assembly and characterization of the photodetectors.

Start date: 01.05.2021
End date: 30.04.2023

Coordinator: Graphenea Semiconductor SL (ES)

Cosortium Partners: Graphenea Semiconductor SL (ES), AMO GmbH, Black Semiconductor GmbH (DE), Tegema Eindhoven BV

ULTRAPHO is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under grant agreement Nr. 971398.

In the EU FET-OPEN project WiPLASH (Architecting More Than Moore – Wireless Plasticity for Heterogeneous Massive Computer Architectures), graphene will be explored to realize the wireless communication between chips in a network-on-chip, whose architecture will also be a main topic of investigation.

WiPLASH is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under grant agreement Nr. 863337

The goal of ZeroAMP (Nanomechanical Switch-Based Logic and Non-Volatile Memory for Robust Ultra-Low Power Circuits) is to develop a computing platform based on nanomechanical switches that will enable computing components with high energy efficiency in harsh environmental conditions (e.g. very high or low temperatures).

ZeroAMP is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under grant agreement Nr. 871740.

More information about the project on: www.zeroamp.eu

Read the project press-release.