Science and Engineering Research Center (SERC) for Durable Miniaturized Systems

MalsheEPS-9977830该项目将为“耐用小型化系统”建立一个分布式卓越中心。纳米和微系统工程的研究正在导致汽车、航天飞行器、生物医学、信息学、高性能计算等需要微型化系统的各种应用领域的根本性变化。微型化系统影响着效率、便携性、成本效益、耐用性以及可配置性、进化和智能决策能力以及实时交互等重要领域。由于表面体积比在小型化系统中显著增加，这些系统的性能在很大程度上取决于表面和界面的集成。因此，对这种纳米和微系统的“耐久性”的研究对于下个世纪耐用小型化产品的开发至关重要。分布式活动的性质将涉及这些系统中与制造工艺、系统处理、颗粒表面物质、摩擦和磨损、封装和老化有关的各种物理、化学和工程领域。将设计测试结构，以及与表面和界面的摩擦和磨损有关的新原型和制造方法。拟议的分布式研究中心是阿肯色大学、费耶特维尔大学、内布拉斯加大学林肯分校和位于斯蒂尔沃特的俄克拉荷马州立大学在研究和教育方面的合作努力，将有助于扩大学生和研究人员在实验室度过时间和共享设备的机会。除了建立特定的研究和教育计划外，该项目还寻求建立一个成功的跨校园管理方案，并建立一支足够多的调查人员来建立该中心。该计划还将包括与桑迪亚实验室和行业成员的合作。

MalsheEPS-9977830This project will establish a distributed Center of Excellence for "Durable Miniaturized Systems." Research on nano and micro systems engineering is leading to fundamental changes in various applications that require miniaturized systems such as automobiles, aerospace vehicles, bio-medicine, informatics, high performance computing, etc. Miniaturized systems affect important areas such as efficiency, portability, cost efficiency, durability, as well as configurability, evolutionary and intelligent decision-making abilities, and real-time interacting. Since surface-to-volume ratio increases significantly in miniaturized systems, performance of these systems depends in large part, on the integration of surfaces and interfaces. Therefore, the research associated with the "durability" of such nano and micro systems is critical insofar as the development of durable miniaturized products is concerned in the coming century. The nature of the distributed activity will be to address various areas of physics, chemistry and engineering in these systems having to do with fabrication processes, systems handling, particulate surface matter, friction and wear, encapsulation and aging. Test structures will be designed, as will novel prototyping and manufacturing methods related to friction and wear of surfaces and interfaces. The proposed distributed research Center is a collaborative effort in research and education between the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, which will serve to broaden opportunities for students and researchers to spend time in laboratories and share equipment. Together with establishing a particular research and education program, the project also seeks to establish a successful cross campus management scheme, and build a critical mass of investigators to establish the Center. The program will also include collaborations with Sandia Labs and members of industry.