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.
Microtechnology for basic and applied cell biology; Microsystems for stem cell biology; Electrostatics at the microscale, especially dielectrophoresis.
Development of hybrid MEMS-CMOS devices for low-power wireless communication, microprocessor clocking, and sensing applications.
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.
Microdevices for biomolecular and single cell analysis.
Power electronics and energy conversion, Electronic circuit design, control. Applications to industrial, commercial, scientific, transportation, and biomedical systems.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Analysis, design and control of electromechanical systems with application to traditional electromagnetic actuators, micron-scale actuators and sensors (MEMS), and flexible structures.
VLSI architecture. Emphasis on interrelationship among applications, systems, algorithms, and chip architectures. Major application fields include intelligent transportation systems, video, and multimedia.
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.
Interconnection networks, more specifically low-power on-chip networks; Parallel architectures and networking in general.
Compound semiconductor heterostructure devices and physics. Optoelectronics: laser diodes, photodiodes, quantum effect devices, and OEICs. Monolithic heterogeneous integration. Microscale thermophotovoltaics.
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.
Nanomanufacturing, carbon nanotube assembly, nanowire-based energy devices, energy harvesting, PZT MEMS, MEMS by ink jet printing.
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.
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.
Physical properties of organic and organic/inorganic nanocrystal composite thin films and structures, and development of nanostructured electronic and optoelectronic devices.
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.
Superconductive nanodevice physics and applications; nanofabrication methods, processes, and tool-development for application to quantum computing and single-photon detection.
Molecular electronics, integration of biological materials and conventional electronics, electrical and exciton transport in organic materials, energy transfer, metal-organic contacts, nanomechanical transistors.
Fabrication, measurements and modeling of silicon- and germanium-based devices for high-speed and low-power integrated circuits.
Analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, with a particular emphasis in data conversion circuits in scaled CMOS.
Design of digital integrated circuits and systems. Energy efficient implementation of signal processing, communication and medical systems. Circuit design with emerging technologies.