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Titre :
Vacuum polyradical deposition (VPRD) techniques for specialty nanoelectronics
Numéro de l’entente :
STPGP
Valeur d'entente :
619 500,00 $
Date d'entente :
18 oct. 2017 -
Organisation :
Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada
Location :
Ontario, Autre, CA
Numéro de référence :
GC-2017-Q3-00846
Type d'entente :
subvention
Type de rapport :
Subventions et des contributions
Informations supplémentaires :

Subvention ou bourse octroyée s'appliquant à plus d'un exercice financier (2017-2018 à 2020-2021).

Nom légal du bénéficiaire :
Fanchini, Giovanni (The University of Western Ontario)
Programme :
Projets stratégiques - groupe
But du programme :

The Canadian plastics and polymer manufacturing sector is in need of a rejuvenation, while Canada'sx000D
information and communication technology (ICT) manufacturing is booming. Our 'big' data society and thex000D
progress of ICT generate a continuous demand for new manufacturing solutions that, at the required levels ofx000D
thinness, simplicity, and costs, are not currently available from silicon electronics, and 'plastic' electronicsx000D
based on organic polymers have often been suggested as promising alternative. This has created a pressingx000D
need for the development of advanced, environmentally-friendly manufacturing methods for the production ofx000D
electronic-grade 'plastic' materials. Polyradicals, polymers in which each repeated unit supports an unpairedx000D
electron, are at the forefront of research in 'flash' memories, data storage units capable to retain informationx000D
without any external power source, but are writable an unlimited number of times. This proposal capitalizes onx000D
the recent record achievement of the Fanchini-Gilroy team that has demonstrated and patented ultrathin flashx000D
memory devices from a newly designed polyradical, poly[1,5-diisopropyl-3-(cis-5-norbornenex000D
-exo-2,3-dicarboxiimide)-6-oxo-verdazyl] (P6OV), with the thinnest active layer (10 nm) ever obtained, muchx000D
thinner than their commercial silicon counterparts. To capitalize on this startling discovery, an industriallyx000D
scalable system with the potential to lead to integrated electronics from organic polyradicals must bex000D
implemented. In partnership with Plasmionique, Canada's largest producer of vacuum polymer depositionx000D
systems for electronics , the Fanchini-Gilroy team will develop the prototype of a new vacuum polyradicalx000D
deposition (VPRD) reactor that will be commercialized by our industrial partner, enabling solvent-free andx000D
environmentally-friendly mass production of polyradicals, with strong benefits to Canada. A prototype of ax000D
flash memory integrating a large number of memory components onto a single chip will also be demonstratedx000D
with the new VPRD fabrication system, which will feature device patterning technology developed at thex000D
Western University Nanofabrication Facility.x000D
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