On-chip waste recovery in quantum and nanoscale devices guided by novel performance quantifiers (NanoRecycle)

Research Project, 2024 – 2028

Whether in computing, communication or sensing, device operations generate some form of heat. Funded by the European Research Council, the NanoRecycle project will explore opportunities to recover the waste left behind standard device operations directly on the chip. In classical devices, this waste is often dissipated heat. However, in nanoscale and quantum devices, the waste has characteristic nonthermal, fluctuating, and quantum properties. The goal will be to research and propose conversion schemes for such waste into electrical power or other resources useful for on-chip tasks. Although the power obtained from waste recovery may be small, it could be readily available on the chip for further use, helping circumvent high-loss attenuation that typically occurs when transferring large classical electromagnetic fields down to the chip.