Swarm Intelligence-Inspired Spontaneous Fabrication of Optimal Interconnect at the Micro/Nanoscale

Meng Su; Zhandong Huang; Yong Huang; Shuoran Chen; Xin Qian; Wenbo Li; Yifan Li; Weihua Pei; Hongda Chen; Fengyu Li; Yanlin Song

doi:10.1002/adma.201605223

Swarm Intelligence-Inspired Spontaneous Fabrication of Optimal Interconnect at the Micro/Nanoscale

Adv Mater. 2017 Feb;29(7). doi: 10.1002/adma.201605223. Epub 2016 Dec 7.

Authors

Meng Su^{1

2}, Zhandong Huang^{1

2}, Yong Huang^{2

3}, Shuoran Chen^{1

2}, Xin Qian^{1

2}, Wenbo Li^{1

2}, Yifan Li^{1

2}, Weihua Pei³, Hongda Chen³, Fengyu Li¹, Yanlin Song¹

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Green Printing, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS), Beijing Engineering Research Center of Nanomaterials for Green Printing Technology, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Beijing, 100190, P. R. China.
² University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China.
³ State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS), Beijing, 100083, P. R. China.

PMID: 27925297
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201605223

Abstract

A spontaneous process is demonstrated to assemble nanoparticles into an optimal interconnect, as natural systems spontaneously figure out the shortest path. The optimal interconnect leads to a 65.9% decrease in electromagnetic interference, a 17.1% decrease in delay, and a 24.5% decrease in energy-delay. It will be of great significance for interconnect fabrication of versatile electronic circuits.

Keywords: droplet manipulation; optimal interconnect; spontaneous assembly; swarm intelligence.