The CHIME Center aims to drive transformative advancements in extreme-environment electronics through co-design and heterogeneous integration: the process of combining different types of electronic components, built with various manufacturing methods, into a single system to improve performance, add more functions and reduce power consumption. Ultimately, the center aims to achieve the seamless fusion of diverse materials, processes and technologies to enable next-generation microelectronics.
The center will create robust, high-performance solutions capable of excelling in the most challenging conditions, including extreme thermal and radiation environments. It will also harness interdisciplinary expertise to optimize technologies from the atomic scale to fully integrated instrumentation using a co-design process spanning materials, devices, circuits and systems. In this process, parts are developed together to ensure they work seamlessly to achieve peak performance. The center’s efforts will advance rapid prototyping methods to accelerate the innovation cycle, enabling swift iteration and validation of novel concepts. By bridging the gap from lab to fab, the center will translate groundbreaking research into scalable, manufacturable solutions that address critical societal and industrial needs.
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Sandia National Laboratories
University of Pennsylvania
Columbia University
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Duke University
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Arizona State University
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Argonne National Laboratory
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Princeton University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Ohio State University
University of California, Los Angeles
International FemtoScience
Tom Gibbs, NVIDIA
Afusat Dirisu, Cadence Design Systems
Baher Haroun, Texas Instruments
Thong Ngo, EMD Electronics
Nigel Cave, Global Foundries
Robert Freeman, Synopsys
Anand Kulkarni, Siemens
CINT is a US DOE Nanoscale Science Research Center & User Facility operated by Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories. The User Facility provides open access to highly specialized instrumentation and expertise, including nanomaterials synthesis, precision integration, state-of-the-art fabrication facilities, advanced optical and quantum characterization, and novel metasurfaces, to a global community of researchers from universities, national laboratories and industry.
A high-energy beam facility devoted to detector R&D. The primary beam consists of high-energy protons (120 GeV) at moderate intensities (∼1-300 kHz), with maximum rate of 2.5 GHz/cm2. This beam can also be targeted to create secondary particle beams of energies down to about 1 GeV, consisting of pions, muons and/or electrons. It is instrumented with a tracking telescope with position resolution <5 μm and time resolution of 3.125 ns. Also, the Fermilab Irradiation Test Area (ITA) operates a 400 MeV proton beam that can deliver fluences of 1E16 protons in a little under 4 h to study the effect of radiation on experiments and components.
3 MV NEC tandem ion accelerator and two 200 kV ion implanters dedicated for materials modification, characterization, and radiation effects through the use of energetic ion beams, capable of producing virtually any ion species in the periodic table. Irradiation particle flux can be easily tuned and target temperature varied from LN2 to 1200 C. In particular, the Danfysik ion implanter has a large target chamber with multiple vacuum ports/ feedthroughs for in situ optical/electrical characterizations.
CHIME is happy to discuss our work and consider broadening our collaborative efforts. If you would like to collaborate with CHIME or get more details about our work, please email the center at chime@pppl.gov.