From Smaller Transistors to Cleaner Qubits: The Continuous Quest for Higher Performance in Computing

Wednesday, October 20, 2021 | 12:00pm ET
Speaker: Iuliana Radu, IMEC

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Si transistor scaling has enabled enormous increase in productivity and ubiquitous connectivity. However, continued increase of computing power is not trivial. We will discuss several tracks which could enable further increase and highlight work done at imec to design, fabricating and test devices to further enable “compute”. We will discuss transistors with 2D semiconductors and qubits, all devices fabricated in imec’s 300mm fab.

Speaker Bio: Iuliana Radu is Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at imec, where she is leading the Beyond CMOS activities. Prior to joining the Logic Program at imec in 2013, she was a Marie Curie and FWO fellow at KU Leuven and imec. Her work at imec and KU Leuven includes devices using the metal to insulator transition, ionic and electronic transport in functional oxides and devices with graphene and other 2D materials. Iuliana has received a PhD in Physics from MIT in 2009 where she worked on the Fractional Quantum Hall effect and searched for non-abelian quasiparticles. She has received a MSc and a BSc in Physics from University of Bucharest.

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