The NanoFab Research Project aims to demonstrate a new sustainable and relatively inexpensive manufacturing process for nanofabrication.
Semiconductors or “chips” are the core component of all electronic devices. Over a trillion semiconductors are manufactured globally each year. The most advanced are incredibly technically complex: chips the size of a postage stamp can have 60 billion transistors. Once designed, chips need to be manufactured, or ‘fabricated’. This involves the etching and depositing of a design onto a semiconductor ‘wafer’. Often defined by ‘node size’; relating to the distance at which each tiny transistor can be etched between each other onto a chip. Fabrication is reliant on specialist materials and equipment including high purity wafers and powerful short wavelength lithography lasers, as well as vacuum sealed clean rooms.
If we could directly write structures at the nanoscale, we would use less precursor, produce less waste and reduce energy consumption and potentially make the process sustainable as well as accessible for smaller manufacturers.
The research team is based at The University of Manchester and includes:
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
- Professor David Lewis, Head of the Department of Materials
CO-INVESTIGATORS
- Professor Richard Winpenny, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry
- Dr Jessica Boland, Senior Lecturer of Functional Materials and Devices, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS
- Dr Grigore Timco, Department of Materials
- Dr Milad Nonahal, Department of Chemistry
DOCTORAL STUDENT
- Jacob Young, Department of Materials
PROJECT MANAGER
- Gaynor Spink, School of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering
The University of Manchester has received a UKRI, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council grant to implement the three-year project. It started on 1 May 2023.
Company Details
- Address
- Oxford Road, Manchester,england M13 9pl,united Kingdom
- Industry
- Nanotechnology Research
- NAICS
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Research and Development in Nanotechnology
- HQ
- Manchester, England
- Competitors
- Chemosensors MDPI, Royce at the University of Sheffield, Terahertz and millimetre wave laboratory, Transistor, Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements ‐ EPFL, Terahertz Engineering Laboratory, Terahertz Characterisation Group @ Manchester, IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, Terahertz Photonics, Menlo Systems.
Nanofab Research Project Questions
Nanofab Research Project's website is https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/projects/direct-writing-of-nanodevices-a-sustainable-route-to-nanofabricat
Nanofab Research Project's LinkedIn profile is https://uk.linkedin.com/company/nanofabresearch-uom
Nanofab Research Project's industry is
Nanotechnology Research
Nanofab Research Project's top competitors are
Chemosensors Mdpi,
Royce At The University Of Sheffield,
Terahertz And Millimetre Wave Laboratory,
Transistor,
Laboratory Of Photonics And Quantum Measurements ‐ Epfl,
Terahertz Engineering Laboratory,
Terahertz Characterisation Group @ Manchester,
Ieee Transactions On Terahertz Science And Technology,
Terahertz Photonics,
Menlo Systems.
Nanofab Research Project's categories are Nanotechnology Research
