📋 Tender Overview
The international research network SuperGate under the leadership of the University of Konstanz creates an interface between superconductors and semiconductors for future supercomputers. The research project is funded with an FET Open Grant FET Future and Emerging Technologies from the European Union amounting to around three million euros.The next generation of supercomputers - including quantum computers - is facing decisive challenges the high-performance computers of tomorrow will reach the limits of physics when it comes to miniaturizing components they must also be designed to be more energy-efficient and should become more and more powerful.The international research association SuperGate under the leadership of the University of Konstanz is developing a new basis for this The researchers are developing a technology that combines superconductors with the existing semiconductor technology - using a methodical approach that was considered physically impossible until a few years ago.A groundbreaking discovery took place in 2018 physicists from the Istituto Nanoscienze CNR at the Laboratorio NEST - Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa Italy demonstrated that it is possible to control the actually current-based superconductors with voltage. This fundamental discovery opens the door to technology that links superconductors with semiconductors.In addition to the University of Konstanz and the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche CNR with locations in Pisa and Salerno the Technical and Economic University of Budapest the Technical University of Delft the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg and industrial partners in Italy are involved in this project.
