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Does this help with compute, or just MEMS and radio?

• osnium123 2y ago
  I think it’s more for MEMS and RF applications. These techniques don’t have enough conformality for modern fin and nanosheet based transistor logic.
• mensetmanusman 2y ago
  PLD is currently required for deposited materials that have, for example, high Faraday rotation (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_effect https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_effect) These are types of important material properties for the future of compute if we are to use light based computation. E.g. how can one make a medium for light to only propagate one direction.
• ak217 2y ago
  Not sure about compute. But > Achieving higher scandium concentrations in aluminum nitride films can help increase RF filter performance. Pulsed laser deposition can take the scandium concentration in the film to at least 40%, up from the previous 30% limit The first thing that came to mind when reading this was RF synthetic aperture performance for jamming-resistant directional antennas in military applications. These seemingly incremental improvements can have huge real world consequences. Imagine the Starlink antenna but with 10x the performance, or a radar that can withstand 10x the jamming or hide completely because it needs 10% the power. I wonder if that's what's possible here.
  • ak217 2y ago
    (correction: phased array, not synthetic aperture)