Following increasing noise about the fear of U.S. semiconductor research falling behind, nanoelectronics research at U.S. universities is getting a boost thanks to the first research grants under the Semiconductor Industry Association’s (SIA) new Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI), meant to benefit the long term needs of the semiconductor industry.

The grants are funding the creation of new university-based nanoelectronics research centers in California and New York, as well as supporting additional research at five National Science Foundation (NSF) nanoscience centers and at a research group in Texas.

The first of the new research centers the Western Institute of Nanoelectronics (WIN), based at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science in Calif. WIN participants will come from University of California campuses in Los Angeles, Berkeley, and Santa Barbara as well as from Stanford University.

WIN will focus on novel spintronics and plasmonic devices and will also receive additional direct support from Intel and the UC Discovery program.

The other new research center is the Institute for Nanoelectronics Discovery and Exploration (INDEX), headquartered at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the State University of New York-Albany in Albany, N.Y.  INDEX also includes the Georgia Institute of Technology, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Purdue University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Yale University to focus on the development of nanomaterial systems; atomic-scale fabrication technologies; predictive modeling protocols for devices, subsystems and systems; power dissipation management designs, and realistic architectural integration schemes for realizing novel magnetic and molecular quantum devices. 

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