{"id":19330,"date":"2022-03-11T15:46:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T15:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=19330"},"modified":"2022-03-11T15:46:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T15:46:41","slug":"new-groundbreaking-nano-electro-opto-mechanical-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/new-groundbreaking-nano-electro-opto-mechanical-system\/19330\/","title":{"rendered":"New groundbreaking nano-electro-opto-mechanical system"},"content":{"rendered":"
Researchers use phonons \u2013 i .e. mechanical vibrations \u2013 as information carriers, together with electrons<\/a> and photons, in a novel nano-electro-opto-mechanical system (NEOMS) platform, which can operate at room temperature and frequencies up to a few GHz to create multi-signal systems.<\/p>\n Based on nanocrystalline-silicon, it is fully compatible with CMOS technologies, facilitating integration with current silicon electronics. This work, recently published in ACS Photonics<\/em>, has been carried out within the EU-H2020-FET Open project PHENOMEN.<\/p>\n The key components of this NEOMS platform were developed by a team of researchers from the Catalan Institute on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona<\/a> (UAB), CNR-Nano (Pisa, Italy), the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain) and the VTT Technical Research Centre (Espoo, Finland).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Current computer and telecommunication technologies use electrical charges (electrons) and light (photons) to transport information. However,\u00a0<\/strong>a breakthrough in this field could be brought about by the introduction of mechanical vibrations \u2013 phonons \u2013 as a means of transferring data, in combination with the electrons and photons.<\/p>\n In order to establish the basis for this new information technology, the researchers involved in the\u00a0PHENOMEN project<\/a>\u00a0worked for almost four years on the development of a phonon-based signal processing system that could be incorporated in standard electronic chips.<\/p>\nPhonon-based signal processing system<\/h3>\n