ADVANCE Fellows Award: Materials Integration Concepts for Electronic and Photonic Devices

高级研究员奖：电子和光子器件材料集成概念

• 批准号: 0339535
• 负责人: Elena Semouchkina
• 金额: $ 38.75万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-05-01 至 2008-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0339535&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ADVANCE; Fellows; Award; Materials; Integration

It is anticipated that the ADVANCE Fellows award will not only advance the PI's career in academia, but also allow her to serve as a role model and mentor to women students who are pursuing careers in engineering and materials science.This research will integrate fundamental study of electromagnetic wave interaction with non-uniform media, approbation of new ideas in engineering hybrid ceramic materials, and development of innovative devices vital for advanced wireless communication systems. The goal of the research is to find new ways to enhance functionality and reduce size of microwave and mm-wave devices by affecting wave propagation processes in their circuitry through integration diverse dielectric and magnetic materials in the device design. Recent achievements in low-temperature co-fired ceramics technology open up the opportunities to co-process diverse ceramics, which makes the approaches feasible. The research will be based on full-wave electromagnetic analysis and include prototype fabrication and measurements.Significant advances in several related areas are expected, where the integration of diverse ceramics in the device design will be used, in particular, for: 1) local reactive loading in filters and antennas to reduce device size and optimize characteristics; 2) electromagnetic field redistribution in antenna chips to improve efficiency and directivity; 3) phase shifting in power supplying transmission lines in electro-optical modulators; 4) formation of ceramic meta-materials with exotic electromagnetic properties, including negative refractive index, in mm-wave range. The knowledge gained from the research activities will be incorporated into a new interdisciplinary course, in which materials science, solid-state physics, and electrical engineering concepts will be combined to tackle future problems in wireless communications.The results of this work are expected to motivate device designers to apply engineered substrates, to stimulate the development of integrated materials-based technology and to promote a wide variety of innovative compact microwave and mm-wave components. This ADVANCE Fellows award will be managed by two divisions, ECS and DMII.

预计ADVANCE研究员奖不仅将推动PI在学术界的职业生涯，而且还将使她成为追求工程和材料科学职业的女学生的榜样和导师。这项研究将整合电磁波与非均匀介质相互作用的基础研究，工程混合陶瓷材料的新想法的批准，以及对先进无线通信系统至关重要的创新设备的开发。该研究的目标是通过在器件设计中集成不同的介电和磁性材料来影响微波和毫米波器件电路中的波传播过程，从而找到增强功能和减小尺寸的新方法。近年来在低温共烧陶瓷技术方面取得的成就为多种陶瓷的共加工提供了机会，使这些方法变得可行。这项研究将基于全波电磁分析，包括原型制造和测量。预计在几个相关领域将取得重大进展，其中将使用多种陶瓷在器件设计中的集成，特别是：1)滤波器和天线中的局部无功负载，以减小器件尺寸并优化特性；2)在天线芯片中重新分配电磁场，提高效率和指向性；3)电光调制器供电传输线相移；4)在毫米波范围内形成具有负折射率等奇异电磁特性的陶瓷超材料。从研究活动中获得的知识将被纳入一个新的跨学科课程，在该课程中，材料科学，固态物理和电气工程概念将结合起来解决未来无线通信中的问题。这项工作的结果有望激励器件设计者应用工程基板，刺激基于集成材料的技术的发展，并促进各种创新的紧凑型微波和毫米波组件。这个ADVANCE研究员奖将由ECS和DMII两个部门管理。