PSI researchers, together with researchers from Cornell University in New York State, have identified a composite material that could integrate quantum devices into semiconductor technology, making electronic components significantly more powerful. Among the most important challenges currently facing semiconductor electronics are improvements that would increase data transmission bandwidth, energy efficiency and information security. The incorporation of quantum effects could provide a new breakthrough and could be trend-setting for the semiconductur-industry:
https://www.psi.ch/en/media/our-research/semiconductors-reach-the-quantum-world
https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start/documentation/media-releases.msg-id-86615.html
Tianlun Yu (left) and Vladimir Strocov at the ADRESS beamline of the Synchrotron Light Source, where they measured the layered structure made of the semiconductor gallium nitride and the superconductor niobium nitride.
(Photo: Paul Scherrer Institute/Mahir Dzambegovic)
(Photo: Paul Scherrer Institute/Mahir Dzambegovic)