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Nanoarchitectronics (NTX)

Carla Moris

5 April 2016 - updated 4 years ago
128 comments
Total votes: 90

Contribution received to the FET Flagships consultation on: Nanoarchitectronics (NTX)

Stefano Maci, University of Siena

European society’s grand challenge in Communications, Environment Sensing Systems, Safety and Security, Bio-Sensing Systems and Imaging Nanosystems, brings today to a large variety of platforms, systems and functionalities. Trying to address this broad variety of entities in a unitary frame implies operation and communications in an extremely broad range of frequencies with high level of functionalities and component integration. This requires an unprecedented level of technological convergence into a revolutionary framework, which has the final vision to unify the interaction between humans or systems with the surrounding environment by means of adaptive, cognitive, sensorial and scalable “skins” (i.e. “smart interfaces”, some of them “wearable”, well beyond the capabilities of nowadays “connectors”, “antennas” and “sensors”) connected with the environment. The game-changer, convergent, enabling technology envisaged to develop such new kind of systems and components is called NANOARCHITECTRONICS (NTX)

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Fabrizio Robol,

02/05/2016 14:13

Very interesting proposal and multi-disciplinary effort also involving top-level partners and skills. I fully support this initiative!

Paola Garofalo,

02/05/2016 14:11

The proposal on Nanoarchitectronics is extremely interesting and its vision shows a high potential impact. I wish that this initiative will be successful within the European framework.

Nasim Ebrahimi,

02/05/2016 14:09

The NTX flagship addresses a very important challenge that is arising in the last few years in the design, fabrication, and exploitation of artificially-engineered materials operating across different scales. Its approach and vision make it a very promising proposal for the future of this cross-disciplinary area.

Lorenza Tenuti,

02/05/2016 13:59

The challenges and ambitions of the Nanoarchitectronics flagship make it one of the most interesting proposals appeared recently for several different and multidisciplinary research areas. I think this flagship has all the potentialities to be able to address these challenges properly.

Angelo Gelmini,

02/05/2016 13:58

The NTX ambitious objectives represent a potential breakthrough for several scientific areas. I fully support the proposal!

Shamim Ahmed,

02/05/2016 13:55

I believe the Nanoarchitectronics proposal has a very high potential in terms of scientific impact and innovation, and that it comprises the proper blend of academic and industrial skills and experience.

Enrico Giarola,

02/05/2016 13:53

The NTX vision is extremely interesting, and I look forward to seeing its outcomes and results from the research and industrial viewpoint.

Nicola Anselmi,

02/05/2016 13:51

The Nanoarchitectronics Flagship proposal is a very interesting cross-disciplinary effort towards the development of a new design paradigm with a potentially high academic and industrial impact.

Bart Smolders,

02/05/2016 13:50

This project is of great importance to the leading position of several European high-tech industries, for example in the semiconductor equipment. I fully support this program.

Marco Salucci,

02/05/2016 13:46

I think the NTX proposal represent a very interesting opportunity for the development of a unique framework for next generation complex system design with several interesting applications.

Chen Qiaoyu,

02/05/2016 13:39

Very interesting proposal. Support it.

Paolo Rocca,

02/05/2016 13:30

Nanoarchitectronics (NTX) is an excellent, visionary, and multidisciplinary proposal aimed at addressing interesting and future challenges towards the development of next generation communications and sensing systems for improving the quality of life of future generations. I strongly support this proposal!

Sahar ben yaala,

02/05/2016 12:50

I find this is the most interesting proposal

Sonia BEN AISSA,

02/05/2016 12:48

interesting proposal and a topic of actuality

Hanen Ahmadi,

02/05/2016 12:25

Very Interesting and highly innovative proposal

Marko Bosiljevac,

02/05/2016 11:09

The ideas contained in this proposal point the way towards a new way of thinking in the field of communications and sensing. NTX by truly converging multiple disciplines on different scales offers the possibility to make a huge leap forward in a technological sense and open a new field of functionalities that have only been partially anticipated through emerging 5G and IoT technologies.

Remi CARMINATI,

02/05/2016 10:44

This is a highly innovative proposal. Linking research communities from electromagnetism to nanosciences through a coordinated action is relevant and timely, and many outcomes in both fundamental research and innovation can be expected.

Ioan Lager,

02/05/2016 10:30

Nanoarchitectronics (NTX) ventures into uncharted territory by having a proper understanding of WHAT is needed and HOW that should be done for reaching the most far-reaching practical WHYs of (Europe’s) next generation. It is truly interdisciplinary, joining together efforts in a range of fundamental and applicative sciences that are yet to find a common language. It opens the gate for fascinating products and services, many of them transcending present expectations. But all the time being deeply rooted in an uncompromising, exhaustive understanding of the underlying physical phenomena. A truly visionary exploit that is bound to be the game changer that we need.

massimiliano di...,

02/05/2016 10:23

Nanoarchitectronics is largely innovative as it takes the challenging goal of bridging quite distant domains, Optics and Electronics , Engineering and Chemistry ... envisaging huge impact on both basic and applied/industrial research.

Nuria LLombart,

02/05/2016 09:55

The topic proposed in this flag-ship is very innovative and high potential to impact the society. Developing smart skins showing unique physical properties that will enable the next generation of engineering applications in the whole electromagnetic spectrum is a perfect fit for a flag ship since the effort will require the interaction of many researchers working on different areas (Chemistry, Material Science, Physics, Optics and Terahertz and Microwave Engineering).

Giovanni Spagnoletti,

02/05/2016 09:33

This is a very interesting project that can be very useful both for research application and in daily life aspects.

Giorgio Carluccio,

02/05/2016 09:21

Nanoarchitectronics (NTX) is an interesting and challenging proposal. I really appreciate its multidisciplinary. Thanks to the interaction among different physics disciplines, a deep understanding and insight in physics phenomena will be possible. This will lead to numerous technological innovations useful both in scientific researches and in day life pratical aspects.

Silvio Hrabar,

02/05/2016 09:16

This is indeed a very exciting proposal. We have been witnessing that everything ‘goes nano’. However, the physics and engineering communities are still rather separated that prevents fast developing towards real applications. Thus, bringing the experts from electromagnetics, optics, quantum physics etc. together is surely an excellent idea. I hope that this idea will be brought to reality and I am looking forward to seeing the first outcomes of Nanoarchitectronics efforts.

Erio Gandini,

02/05/2016 09:10

The proposal is of great interest for several scientific societies. It is a challenging idea that can push the technological development in Europe from several points of view. It is very exciting to think how components considered separated nowadays could converge to a unique concept simplifying integration and usability. It includes a new scientific vision that is in line with the development of the modern society towards a simplified device scheme which is able to provide the highest performance.
The proposal has my total support.

Antonio Ferraro,

02/05/2016 08:50

Nanoarchitectronics (NXTX) is an innovative proposal covering multidisciplinary research field which fit well wiht the FET scope.
The idea represents a great challenge to European researchers and I fully support it.

Jorge Teniente,

02/05/2016 00:24

Visionary proposal with great potential to revolutionize information and transmission processes through the convergence of different disciplines.

Ozan Yurduseven,

01/05/2016 23:32

This is very exciting. It is a multidisciplinary project and the multi-functionality of the proposal is one of the key aspects that separates it from the others. It targets a huge potential application area and the vision of the proposal requires a strong collaboration between the academia and the industry. With the challenges and the scientific objectives it has, in my opinion, this proposal has an enormous potential to revolutionise the state-of-the-art technologies from microwave and terahertz sensing to chemistry and biomedical applications.

David González ...,

01/05/2016 21:23

The portfolio of solutions foreseen by Nanoarchitectronics will surely contribute to widen the number of feasible science objectives for future space mission. Indeed, key objectives of NTX, like reconfigurability and large-scale integration, will ease the accommodation of multi-purpose or complex payloads in small spacecrafts and/or CubeSats, which have recently emerged as strategic line to be developed in the short to medium-term. Personally, I look forward to seeing the first results of Nanoarchitectronics and interacting with the people involved in this consortium.

Luis Jofre,

01/05/2016 21:17

The concept of a "total connecting interface to ensure communications and sensing of humans and systems with its environment" is a really powerful concept that leads towards an intermediate “skin” where biological parameters and electronic devices encounter and have to match each other, establishing cooperative synergies. In the same way that “textile” clothes allowed the human and material goods to incorporate to its environment matching some basic parameters like temperature or light, these new “nanoarchitectronic” clothes or skins may represent a really disruptive step ahead on the way to interact with the environment.

Amir Boag,

01/05/2016 23:46

The proposed NANOARCHITECTRONICS topic for a flagship FET project encompasses a number of novel technological field which are expected to be essential for the development and implementation f a variety of systems that will bring great benefits to the future society in Europe and in large. In particular future nanotechnology will be based on the combination of nanotechnologies and classical electromagnetics including antenna theory. This fusion of the two disciplines is necessary for properly describing electrodynamics on the nanoscale with special emphasis on light-matter interactions. Currently this topic didn’t reach scientific maturity that allows it’s practical engineering application. Therefore a combined effort of physicists and engineers in the framework of the proposed Nanoarchitectronics project is needed to develop this field.

Lorenzo Minatti,

01/05/2016 20:08

A true revolution in everyday life could only come from a multidisciplinary project like this one.

Gabriele Minatti,

01/05/2016 19:48

Nanoarchitectronics is definitely a visionary project that is both ambitious and realistic. A multidisciplinary research proposal that can make a true revolution in the information technology.

Christophe Craeye,

01/05/2016 19:41

Wireless communications changed our lives 15-20 years ago. Recent advances showed that waves can be controlled in totally unexpected ways. As described by the nanoarchitectonics proposal, waves will now be at the basis of a much wider transformation of the way in which humans interact with other humans and with machines. The multi-disciplinary and highly technological aspects of this research orientation is what makes it truly promising. The scope of applications is extremely wide.

Nader Engheta,

01/05/2016 14:26

This is a visionary and transformative program with innovative, fascinating and groundbreaking ideas and goals, leading to exciting reconfigurable, adaptable and multiscale platforms for sensing and actuating signals of electromagnetic nature within the whole range of electomagnetic spectrum. The team consists of internationally renowned experts and pioneers in various fields of science and technology all central to this proposed program. The merging of the three themes of (1) “nano”science with all its exciting world-changing advances, (2) innovative “architecture” of sensing motifs with important mutilscale features, and (3) impactful “electronics” as the heart of many exciting developments in recent years leads to the unique paradigm of “nanoarchiterctronics” proposed by this team of influential scientists and pioneering technologists headed by Professor Stefano Maci. This is a highly exciting and fascinating program with a great potential for huge success.

Yiannis Vardaxoglou,

01/05/2016 10:51

As a leader of a newly awarded UK/EPSRC's Grand Challenge program os Synthesizing Metamaterials for RF, Microwave and THz application (SYMETA) I fully support this initiative to research into a truly ground braking architectures using nanostructures. Nanoarchtectronics is a transformative way of producing the future generation of reconfigurable matamaterials and matesurfaces. By 2020 there will be over 20 billion wireless communication devices and NTX will serve a large majority of the wireless systems' architectures. Professor Maci has assembled a large and highly suitable group of experts which compliment each other well. SYMETA endorses this research proposal and if successful it will allocate a cohort of their researchers to collaborate with NTX researchers.

Andrea Neto,

01/05/2016 09:06

I love this proposal. The differentiatir between this proposal and others is that it is truly multidisciplary. The topics targeted span the regimes of optics and electrical engineering, and the proposal gives the right emphasis to the necessity of contributions from different disciplines. The nanoworld has been for decades in the hands of technologists (there is great barrier for entrance in the nano world of solid theoretical scientists) with conservative attitudes as to the reasons why small phyisical features should be addressed. On the semiconductorelectronics side there are instead very clear drivers to small size features of Elecronic component: the need of new sources and detectors in the THz regime is probably the most apparent, but the next collapse of Moore's law is also an important one. A flagship needed by engineers and supported by physicists has, in my view, much more chances to be a success than one needed by physicists and supported (reluctanly) by engineers.

Enrica Martini,

30/04/2016 23:43

Nanoarchitectronics (NTX) is a visionary proposal that has the potential to revolutionize
information gathering and transmission processes through the convergence of different disciplines,
including Electronics, Material Science, Chemistry and Quantum Physics.
It could have tremendous impacts in communication, sensing, medicine and security!

Cristian Della ...,

30/04/2016 23:11

Finally a visionary, yet solid project that connects the most promising and cutting edge technologies. Several fields will benefit from the development of tools and devices coming from an unprecedented joint research on these technologies under a unique paradigm.

Mario Jr. Mencagli,

30/04/2016 22:43

NTX is a very innovative project from which we could all take advantage.

Jérôme Lesueur,

30/04/2016 22:13

This proposal points towards the frontier between classical electromagnetism and quantum behavior to provide new high frequency devices. Engineering matter at the nanoscale is the key issue to bridge between classical and quantum. The possibility of adjust and tune the electromagnetic response of the devices at high speed appears as an essential feature for the new generation of sensors, antennas and circuits to come. The project is ambitious and exciting.
I would like to stress that superconductivity may have an important role here. Being quantum by nature, the superconducting state can provide new possibilities to design advanced devices for the project. For example, reconfigurable meta-materials in the THz or near IR range using Josephson effect are disruptive elements in this context.

Zvonimir Sipus,

30/04/2016 20:47

I really appreciate Nanoarchitectronics (NTX) proposal since it represents a new and challenging vision. It is a multidisciplinary proposal that include both nano-scale and macro-scale systems, and it will lead to numerous innovations in a wide range of application domains.

Jerome Tignon,

30/04/2016 01:21

Nanoarchitectronics is an important research area with a vision for the future, aiming at building a new bridge between the fields of microwaves and optics, at the nanoscale. It offers a very large field of applications, including sensing, security, communications and much more.

Filiberto Bilotti,

30/04/2016 00:32

This proposal is extremely interesting and opens the door to dramatic breakthroughs in many fields of science and technology, having a straightforward remarkable impact on the main societal challenges that EU is currently facing with. The proposal is focused on Electromagnetics at the nano-scale and in multi-scale system. This is a truly interdisciplinary approach that, for the first time, may lead to breaking the current boundaries of knowledge in many disciplines. The proposal gather together many different communities, including the one on metamaterials, which I represent in EU, being the president of the Virtual Institute on Artificial EM materials and metamaterials - METAMORPHOSE VI, the leading international association in this research field.

Flavio Renga,

30/04/2016 00:12

NTX is a new and challenging vision, based on a multidisciplinary approach that starts from the nano-scale, grows up towards interdisciplinary system integration and will lead to a deep revolution and innovation in a wide range of application domains.

Valentina Sozio,

29/04/2016 18:25

I really appreciate the unitary vision and multidisciplinary approach of this proposal.
I have no doubt about the high impact and future benefits resulting from this boosting research.

Marco Righero,

29/04/2016 18:00

In many areas, from security to medicine, we use electromagnetic fields to exchange information. This proposal covers then a crucial direction in emerging scientific and industrial innovation and really has the potential to set new rules for the game in these areas. Europe can play a leadership role if this visionary approach gets through.

Charlotte Tripo...,

29/04/2016 16:45

NTX give the unprecedented opportunity to gather broad scientific expertise communities targeting similar sets of applications in the framework of Electromagnetics (EM).
It explores furthermore new disruptive approaches taking advantage of EM waves interactions with matter at subwavelength scales allowing drasting miniaturization of existing industrial architectures from microwaves to optics.
From material up to system engineering, exceptional functional, scalable and dynamically-reconfigurable functionalities are expected to be studied, model and demonstrated, ensuring ultrafast and discrete versatile reconfiguration never achieved.
The most exciting challenges for fundamental research actors in this field.

marco faenzi,

29/04/2016 16:12

in my opinon a visionary project whose results could really enable a big change in everyday life.
i 'd fully support it

pietro ruiu,

29/04/2016 15:23

Smart and wearable interfaces is a really challenging and innovative topic naturally-driven by a transformation of current science and technology that will conduct to ground-breaking applications with really huge impact on our life. Nanoarchitectronics (NTX) tackles this challenges, building a strong cooperation among a vast range of disciplines, communities and programmes, including both academia and industry. It must be included in next Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) programme!

Giuseppe Caragnano,

29/04/2016 14:39

Nice idea! Unify the interaction between humans or systems with the surrounding environment by means of adaptive, cognitive, sensorial and scalable “skins” connected with the environment is an important challange. Supporting this research could generate impacts on society and Industries.

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