IGERT: Research and Innovation in Nanoscale Device Development

IGERT：纳米器件开发的研究与创新

• 批准号: 0504485
• 负责人: James Watkins
• 金额: $ 314.44万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-07-01 至 2012-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0504485&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IGERT; Research; Innovation; Nanoscale; Device

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award supports interdisciplinary doctoral training in nanotechnology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The research and education activities span six science and engineering departments using a structure that ties advances in fundamental science to complementary coursework and practical experience in innovation and technology development. The program's intellectual merit and research emphasis is on the design, prototyping and market-oriented development of nanoscale devices through seamless integration of novel bottom-up processing schemes, including self-assembly, with conventional top-down approaches. Doctoral training is centered around three related research thrusts: nanoscale materials and processes; electronic applications; and biomedical and environmental applications. Specifically, IGERT students conduct research on the directed self-assembly of block copolymers, advanced lithography, novel deposition and metallization techniques, and their implementation in nanoelectronic devices, high-density data storage, biosensors and therapeutics. In addition to multidisciplinary technical, professional and product development training, the students team-train on annual Technical Challenge Projects that develop their ability to design and prototype technically and commercially feasible devices using nanotechnology. These projects include external research experiences at R&D facilities and fabrication centers located in the U.S. and abroad. Collaborators and advisors for the projects include TIAX and Lucent Technologies' Bell Laboratories. Additional activities focus on ethics, leadership and communication. The program's broader impacts include developing scientists and engineers that are comfortable working at disciplinary boundaries, possess a well-rounded mastery of nanoscience and engineering and have the ability to transform advances in basic science to functional materials and devices that can be commercialized to meet emerging technological and societal needs. IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary background, deep knowledge in a chosen discipline, and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.

该综合研究生教育和研究培训 (IGERT) 奖项支持马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校纳米技术的跨学科博士培训。 研究和教育活动跨越六个科学和​​工程系，采用的结构将基础科学的进步与创新和技术开发方面的补充课程和实践经验联系起来。 该项目的智力优势和研究重点是通过新颖的自下而上处理方案（包括自组装）与传统自上而下方法的无缝集成来设计、原型制作和以市场为导向的纳米级器件开发。 博士培训围绕三个相关的研究重点：纳米材料和工艺；电子应用；以及生物医学和环境应用。具体来说，IGERT 学生对嵌段共聚物的定向自组装、先进光刻、新型沉积和金属化技术及其在纳米电子器件、高密度数据存储、生物传感器和治疗学中的实施进行研究。 除了多学科技术、专业和产品开发培训之外，学生们还参加年度技术挑战项目的团队培训，培养他们使用纳米技术设计和制作技术上和商业上可行的设备原型的能力。这些项目包括位于美国和国外的研发设施和制造中心的外部研究经验。这些项目的合作者和顾问包括 TIAX 和朗讯科技公司的贝尔实验室。 其他活动侧重于道德、领导力和沟通。 该计划的更广泛影响包括培养能够在学科边界工作的科学家和工程师，全面掌握纳米科学和工程学，并有能力将基础科学的进步转化为可商业化的功能材料和设备，以满足新兴的技术和社会需求。 IGERT 是一项 NSF 范围内的计划，旨在应对美国博士生教育的挑战。具有跨学科背景的科学家和工程师，对所选学科有深厚的知识，以及未来职业需求所需的技术、专业和个人技能。该计划旨在通过在超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中建立创新的研究生教育和培训新模式，促进研究生教育的文化变革。