By Joseph F. Krause, co-founder and CEO, Radical AI
The next great semiconductor breakthrough will come down to new materials, not just engineering.
The field is running into multiple walls of physics: the minimum wavelength of visible light, carrying current with less than an electron, electrical insulators with high thermal transport.
As linewidths shrink below 2 nanometers, engineers are hitting quantum tunneling limits, atomic-scale interface effects, and thermal budgets that the classical semiconductor materials can’t handle. [Read more…] about How AI and self-driving labs could accelerate semiconductor materials discovery