Dr. J Provine
CEO and Co-Founder

Aligned Carbon

Date and time

Thursday, October 19 · 11:30am – 1pm PDT

Location

EAG Laboratories810 Kifer Road ==> Use corner entrance: Kifer Rd. / San Lucar Ct.=> Do use main entrance on Kifer Rd. Sunnyvale, CA 94086

In-Person Meeting

Thursday, October 19, 2023

11:30 AM: Networking, Pizza & Drinks 

Noon — 1 pm: Seminar 

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Walk-In attendance is welcomed but discouraged 

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Abstract
The computation demands for future abundant data applications will far exceed the capabilities of today’s systems because silicon CMOS scaling has hit fundamental limits in power as well as architectural limits in memory access time.
Heterogenous integration of various types are becoming commercially available, but the industry’s roadmap for future computing targets monolithic 3D integration to achieve ultimate performance in data intensive computation.
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have interest as the semiconducting material for transistor channels which can be integrated monolithically on existing silicon circuitry. They do not have the same thermal budget limitations of silicon or III-V semiconductor fabrication processes. Key to this development is high volume compatible manufacturing of CNTs that are both aligned and purified to select only the semiconducting CNTs. This combination has proved elusive to date.
Aligned Carbon will report on their development of a scalable purification process which can preserve the alignment of CNT arrays through the selective removal of metallic CNTs. Purity is validated from the performance of large suites of CNT field effect transistors (CNFETs) each containing several aligned CNTs. Additionally, aligned CNT synthesis and CNT integration into wafer fabrication processes will be discussed.

Biosketch
J Provine, PhD, is the co-founder and CEO at Aligned Carbon.
Dr. Provine has over 20 years of experience in nanofabrication, beginning with his PhD studies at Cornell University. Continuing through the decade-plus time he spent as a senior research scientist and adjunct professor at Stanford University, Dr. Provine consulted widely with established companies (Veeco, Bosch) and start-ups (Quantumscape, Spark Thermionics). He continues to be deeply involved in activities with the NSF and mentors other startup founders.