Nanotechnology from Lund makes 5g energy efficient – New Technology

       

5g use higher frequencies than previous mobile standards. Partly to the lower right full of today’s mobile traffic. Partly because higher frequencies allow for higher bandwidth and thus higher data rates in the network.

The downside is that the energy consumption increases.

By combining an expensive semiconductor material with a cheap, scientists hope to make power-efficient components in the future. Components that can be used in everything from faster 5g networks of radars with significantly higher image resolution.

There is a so-called III-V semiconductor materials, which have high performance but are expensive, and a standard, inexpensive silicon substrate, which is already used for inexpensive mass production.

A research group in Lund, headed by Lars-Einar Wernersson, professor of nanoelectronics, combining the two materials by integrating nanowires of III-V materials on traditional silicon platforms. The way to combine the two materials is considered one of the most innovative ideas of the moment.

Already in December could Lund scientists show a good performance of their attempts at the prestigious conference IEDM conference in the United States.

Now, Lars-Erik Wernersson been appointed coordinator of the new EU project Insight, which aims to combine the advantages of the two materials.

Insight, which is an abbreviation of “Integration of III-V Nanowire Semiconductor for Next Generation High Performance CMOS SOC Technologies “, gets about 40 million from the EU research program Horizon, and will run until 2018th

– Materials integration provides the opportunity to lower the manufacturing cost in high-performance radar systems but also 5G, says Lars-Erik Wernersson.

in the Insight project included the University of Lund, but also the University of Glasgow in the UK, the Tyndall National Institute in Ireland, IBM Switzerland, Fraunhofer IAF Germany and Leti in France.

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