The SLAC ESTEEM center aims to develop new methods, materials and devices guided by atoms-to-algorithms co-design for energy-efficient microelectronics
Thrust 1 focuses on discovering new pathways towards merging memory and logic functionalities of novel materials and devices into dense 3D integrated circuits for energy efficiency gains and to implement a new paradigm called algorithm-flow computing.
In Thrust 2 Vuckovic, Brongersma, McIntyre, Hwang and Baniecki will work together to develop conceptually new nanophotonic approaches for the generation and arbitrary linear/nonlinear processing of light signals with extremely compact and energy efficient nanophotonic devices.
The Co-Design crosscut thrust focuses on the development, testing, and refinement of a framework of methods to jointly co-optimize applications, algorithms, architectures, and technologies.
Utilizing advanced, multimodal characterization workflows, the PIs in this thrust will pursue a campaign effort to map chemical and structural heterogeneity over widely varying length and time scales and determine their effects on device-relevant properties, variability, and process-performance relationships.
