Moore’s Law enabled smaller, cheaper, faster electronic devices for five decades, but it will take a new paradigm like quantum materials to make the next technological leap, Materials Processing Center Director Carl V. Thompson told the annual Materials Day Symposium at MIT.
A new family of quantum materials, including graphene, hexagonal boron nitride and molybdenum disulfide, and nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond, are at the forefront of recent scientific research. They are being explored for their unusual electronic, optical and magnetic properties with special interest in their potential uses for sensing, information processing and memory.
While such materials “may not necessarily be the basis for a replacement technology, (they) will certainly be the basis for a complementary technology to conventional integrated circuit technology,” Thompson said. In addition to serving as MPC Director, Thompson is the Stavros Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT.
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