Design of digital integrated circuits and systems. Energy efficient implementation of signal processing, communication and medical systems. Circuit design with emerging technologies.
Nano-engineered composites; nanocomposites; nanostructure synthesis and characterization, MEMS Power Devices and Energy Harvesting; Advanced Composite Materials and Systems; Structural Health Monitoring (SHM); fracture, fatigue and damage mechanics; durability modeling/testing; finite-element modeling; structural response and testing; buckling mechanics.
Processing and property optimization of thin films and nanostructures for applications in electronic and electromechanical devices and systems. Interconnect and device reliability. Nanomaterials for batteries and capacitors.
MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS). Design and fabrication of high power microsystems, including pumps and MEMS components for lasers. Energy storage in carbon nanotube springs. Assembly of MEMS devices. Self-assembly techniques for nano- and micro-scale manufacturing.
Fabrication, properties and applications of magnetic and magnetooptical films, nanostructures and devices; self assembly, block copolymer lithography.
Electronics and integrated circuit design and technology. More specifically, technology intensive integrated circuit and system design, with application toward medical electronic systems and wireless communication emphasizing analog and RF integrated circuits.
Compound semiconductor heterostructure devices and physics. Optoelectronics: laser diodes, photodiodes, quantum effect devices, and OEICs. Monolithic heterogeneous integration. Microscale thermophotovoltaics.
Development of hybrid MEMS-CMOS devices for low-power wireless communication, microprocessor clocking, and sensing applications.
Power electronics and energy conversion, Electronic circuit design, control. Applications to industrial, commercial, scientific, transportation, and biomedical systems.
Fabrication, measurements and modeling of silicon- and germanium-based devices for high-speed and low-power integrated circuits.
Design for manufacturability (DFM) of processes, devices, and integrated circuits. Characterization and modeling of variation in semiconductor and MEMS manufacturing, with emphasis on chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP), electroplating, plasma etch, and embossing processes.
Materials and devices: lattice-mismatched materials, III-V’s, IV’s, dielectrics; deposition including MOCVD; innovation and commercialization
Micro- and nanoscale heat transfer and energy conversion with applications in thermoelectrics, photonics, and microelectronics; nano-mechanical devices and micro-electro-mechanical systems; radiation and electromagnetic metamaterials.
Analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, with a particular emphasis in data conversion circuits in scaled CMOS.
Energy related materials, micro-fuel cells, solar cells, resonant and chemoresistive sensors, high K dielectrics, electro-optic and piezoelectric thin films, solid state ionics, thin film transistors, MEMS structures and devices.
VLSI architecture. Emphasis on interrelationship among applications, systems, algorithms, and chip architectures. Major application fields include intelligent transportation systems, video, and multimedia.
Analysis, design and control of electromechanical systems with application to traditional electromagnetic actuators, micron-scale actuators and sensors (MEMS), and flexible structures.
Microelectronics device technologies for gigahertz and gigabit-per-second communication systems: physics, modeling, technology and design. InGaAs as a post-CMOS semiconductor logic technology. Reliability of GaN transistors. Technology and pedagogy of online laboratories for engineering education.
Synthesis, characterization and applications of carbon-based nanomaterials (nanotubes and graphene) and inorganic nanowires.
Design of RF and mixed-signal CMOS ICs for communications systems and medical applications.
Microtechnology for basic and applied cell biology; Microsystems for stem cell biology; Electrostatics at the microscale, especially dielectrophoresis.
Nanofluidic / Microfluidic technologies for advanced biomolecule analysis and sample preparation: cell and molecular sorting, novel nanofluidic phenomena, nanofluidic biomolecule separation and pre-concentration, Molecular transport in nano-confined space, seawater desalination and water purification.
Fabrication and device physics of silicon-based heterostructures and nanostructures. High mobility Si and Ge-channel MOSFETs, nanowire FETs, novel transistor structures, and silicon-germanium photodetectors for electronic/photonic integrated circuits.
Superconductive nanodevice physics and applications; nanofabrication methods, processes, and tool-development for application to quantum computing and single-photon detection.
Interconnection networks, more specifically low-power on-chip networks; Parallel architectures and networking in general.
Parameterized model order reduction of linear and nonlinear dynamical systems; mixed-signal, RF and mm-wave circuit simulation and modeling for optimization; parasitic extraction and accelerated integral equation solvers; simulation and modeling of the human cardiovascular circulatory system.
Micro- and nano-enabled multiplexed scaled-down systems for space, energy, healthcare, manufacturing, and analytical applications. Electrospray, carbon nanotubes, silicon carbide, field emission, field-enabled ionization, high-voltage 3D MEMS packaging.
Molecular electronics, integration of biological materials and conventional electronics, electrical and exciton transport in organic materials, energy transfer, metal-organic contacts, nanomechanical transistors.
Advanced lithography, including x-ray, electron-beam, ion-beam, and optical. Nanotechnology and nanofabrication. Precision engineering and nano-accuracy dimensional metrology. Advanced interference lithography technology for high-accuracy patterning of general grating and grid patterns. Micro and nanometer fabrication technology applied to advanced astronomical and laboratory instrumentation. Silicon micromachined structures applied to high-precision optical assembly. X-ray optics and instrumentation.
Bioelectronics, analog and mixed-signal VLSI, biomedical systems, ultra low power circuits and systems, biologically inspired circuits and systems, molecular biology, neuroscience, control theory.
Photonic devices for applications in communications, computing, and biological sensing with special emphasis on fiber-to-the-home, InP photonic integration, Silicon photonics and high speed interconnects, microscale bioreactors, and biomanufacturing.
Microfluidic systems for cell culture with applications to cancer diagnostics and drug screening, angiogenesis, studies of cell-cell interactions, cell migration, axon guidance and stem cell differentiation.
Nanomanufacturing, carbon nanotube assembly, nanowire-based energy devices, energy harvesting, PZT MEMS, MEMS by ink jet printing.
Micro- and nano-technologies for tissue repair and regeneration. Applications in liver tissue engineering, cell-based BioMEMS, and nanobiotechnology.
Microdevices for biomolecular and single cell analysis.
Design, fabrication and characterization of novel electronic devices in wide bandgap semiconductors; polarization and bandgap engineering; transistors for sub-mm wave power and digital applications; new ideas for power conversion and generation; interaction of biological systems with semiconductor materials and devices; nanowires and graphene –based transistors.
Sensing, display, user interface, and computation for consumer electronics applications, particularly self-organizing ecosystems of devices. Advanced data representations for multimedia.
Physical properties of organic and organic/inorganic nanocrystal composite thin films and structures, and development of nanostructured electronic and optoelectronic devices.
On-chip interconnects and high-speed off-chip interfaces (electrical, photonic). Circuit and interconnect design with novel devices (CNTs, NEM relays, Si-photonics). Modeling and analysis of noise and dynamics in circuits and systems. Application of optimization techniques to digital communications, analog and digital circuits. Digital communications and signal-processing architectures, clock generation and distribution, high-speed digital circuit design, VLSI and mixed-signal IC design.