SRC Workshop on Biological pathways for electronic nanofabrication and materials
Abstract
This workshop is a part of the 2016 series of workshops organized to support development of the SemiSynBio Roadmap, a joint initiative of Semiconductor Research Corporation and National Institute of Standards and Technology. Participants and contributors to these workshops will include academic and industrial domain experts. The outputs of these workshops will guide and input preparation of the 1st Edition of the SemiSynBio Roadmap, scheduled for 2017. This grant will be used to pay partial travel expenses for presenters, requesting travel assistance. This Workshop seeks to establish a 10-year vision and identify future research directions for biologically based manufacturing, broadly defined, with sub-20nm resolution, low-cost and energy utilization, and low-defect rates for existing, as well as alternative, electronics. According to the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS), scalable challenges for the semiconductor industry include implementing nanoscale architectures, limits of photolithography, and a lack of scalable metrology with nanometer resolution. Although engineering innovations will likely maintain scaling in the near future, a drastic change in device architecture is imminent. The Semiconductor Industry has developed unique tools and experience in subtractive nanofabrication of complex structures, with feature sizes 14 nm currently in production and even 7nm in sight. However, the capital cost of a semiconductor fab facility has also increased reaching $14 B in 2015. In addition, conventional chip fabrication is very energy and resource intensive. Thus, discovery of new manufacturing approaches that reduce these expenditures would be highly beneficial to the industry. In comparison, living systems fabricate complex nanometer-scale structures with high yield and low energy utilization. For example, biological self-assembly occurs at a rate of ~1018 molecules per second (at biological growth rates a 1Gb chip could be built in about 5 s), and energy utilization of ~10-17 J/molecule, which is 100x less than that of conventional subtractive manufacturing. Combining these capabilities of living systems with synthetic DNA-/protein-based self-assembly offers transformative potential for revolutionizing the synthesis of complex sub-10 nm semiconductor architectures. Discovery of new application areas of biologically based semiconductors in biology, agriculture, and medicine, offer additional potential areas of major growth for the semi-conductor industry.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Jan 04, 2017
- Source ID
- N000141712018
Entities
People
- Victor Zhirnov
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- Semiconductor Research Corporation
- United States Navy