September 24, 2020
1:00-2:00 p.m.
John Randall
Zyvex Labs
Seminar Recording Part 1
Seminar Recording Part 2
ABSTRACT: My 10 years of building quantum resonant tunneling devices at Texas Instruments made it very clear that much higher resolution processing technology than was available then (and now) are required to make complex quantum integrated circuits. I will discuss our efforts, in collaboration with UT Dallas, NIST, Sandia, and 3DET, to develop atomically precise Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) based fabrication to create solid state quantum integrated devices. I will cover what we believe is a very exciting opportunity to scale this technology to much higher throughput via arrays of MEMS based STM scanners. I will also present what I think is an outstanding opportunity to create a 2nd digital revolution which I call Digital Atomic-Scale Fabrication. This I believe is an enabling strategy for scaling atomic precision fabrication which will lead to an exponential manufacturing trend, which can be considered an “Inverse Moore’s Law”.
BIOGRAPHY: John N. Randall, CEO of Zyvex Labs, CSO of Rapid Molecular Diagnostics, Executive VP at NanoRetina, Executive VP of Teliatry, Adjunct Professor at UT Dallas, and Fellow of the AVS, IEEE, and Micro Nano Engineering Society, has 38 years of experience in Micro- and Nano- Fabrication. He has attracted over $42M in research contracts to Zyvex and resulting products have grossed over $80M. He joined Zyvex in March of 2001 after 15 years at Texas Instruments where he worked in high resolution processing for integrated circuits, MEMS, and quantum effect devices. Prior to working at TI, John worked at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory on ion beam and x-ray lithography. He has 115 articles published in refereed journals, more than 50 conference proceedings and other publications with > 4300 citations and 32 issued US Patents with > 900 citations.