NSF Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanomanufacturing Systems for Mobile Computing and Energy Technologies (NASCENT)

移动计算和能源技术的纳米制造系统（NASCENT）ERC主任：S.V. Sreenivasan领导大学：德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校国内大学：新墨西哥大学，加州大学伯克利分校国外大学：首尔国立大学，印度科学研究所移动计算革命是一个颠覆性的范例，它已经颠覆了计算世界，并承诺改变发达国家和发展中国家。全球范围内无处不在的移动计算将需要低成本、低功耗的计算设备，提供高数据速率和高密度数据存储、外形因素的多功能性，以及访问持久的便携式能源。新生中心的愿景是建立一个研究、创新和教育生态系统，创造高通量、可持续、可靠和通用的纳米制造系统，以彻底改变未来几代移动计算和能源设备。该中心的总体目标是：发明纳米制造系统，用于纳米雕刻和集成丰富的可用纳米材料，如剥离硅，石墨烯，碳纳米管和有机半导体。-概念化和设计这些纳米制造系统，以满足未来一代移动计算和能源设备的实际需求。-培育一种创新文化，通过工业合作伙伴和初创公司寻求将中心技术商业化。-培养具有创新者DNA的高技能和多元化的领导者。该中心将重点关注五大变革性高速纳米制造系统和工艺：1)纳米雕刻；2)可持续半导体材料加工；3)移动设备外形尺寸的通用制造；4)喷墨纳米材料沉积；5)用于过程诊断和控制的内联纳米计量学。该中心将克服的障碍包括：(i)缺乏用于高速、大面积、低缺陷纳米制造和纳米计量的机器和可加工材料；（ii）缺乏量身定制的设备架构，以利用有前途的纳米制造工艺的优势；（iii）缺乏具有量化不确定性的验证模型来将原型系统性能外推到商业规模，以及用于实时诊断和纳米制造系统控制的减少订单模型。该中心将把先进的纳米科学研究与新颖的纳米制造系统结合起来，克服这些障碍，加速设计、开发和部署通用的创新移动计算设备。所提出的研究的智力优势在于创造革命性的制造，器件，材料和建模，包括：1)基于纳米精密力学，动力学和控制，在线光学计量的机器系统架构，以及用于高通量，晶圆规模和卷对卷纳米制造的新型纳米材料的集成；2)多比特STT-RAM、太赫兹收发器、非平面相机和混合先进显示器的设计与演示；3)各种新型纳米材料和工艺的合成和集成，从用于自对准存储器的嵌段共聚物到用于柔性和高功率密度电池的硅纳米线剥离膜；4)创建具有量化不确定性的预测多尺度计算工具，用于大面积、高速纳米制造过程的过程建模、放大和实时控制。该中心更广泛的影响是为移动计算技术开发关键的纳米制造基础设施，这将在全球范围内影响医疗保健、教育、商业、通信、计算和生活方式的各个方面。这些纳米制造的进步将有助于在美国创造可持续的高薪工作，并将得到创新人力资源开发和创业活动的支持。该中心将通过强调创新者DNA的发展、强大的指导、专注的技术和创业课程以及跨学科研究的教育计划，为进入STEM领域的不同学生创造一条渠道，成为具有创造力的全球纳米制造领导者。

Nanomanufacturing Systems for Mobile Computing and Energy Technologies (NASCENT)ERC Director: S.V. Sreenivasan Lead University: The University of Texas at AustinDomestic Universities: University of New Mexico, University of California at Berkeley Foreign Universities: Seoul National University, Indian Institute of ScienceThe mobile computing revolution is a disruptive paradigm that has up-ended the computing universe and promises to transform both the developed and developing worlds. Ubiquitous mobile computing on a global scale will demand low-cost, low-power computing devices delivering high data rates and high density data storage, form factor versatility, and access to long-lasting portable energy sources. The vision of the NASCENT Center is to establish a research, innovation and education ecosystem that will create the high-throughput, sustainable, reliable and versatile nanomanufacturing systems to revolutionize future generations of mobile computing and energy devices. The overall goals of the Center are to:- Invent nanomanufacturing systems for nanosculpting and for integrating abundantly available nanomaterials, such as exfoliated silicon, graphene, carbon nanotubes and organic semiconductors.- Conceptualize and design these nanomanufacturing systems to address the practical requirements of future generation mobile computing and energy devices.- Foster a culture of innovation that seeks to commercially deploy Center technologies through industrial practitioner partners and start-up companies.- Educate highly skilled and diverse leaders imbued with the Innovator's DNA.The Center will focus on five transformative high-speed nanomanufacturing systems and processes: 1) Nanosculpting; 2) Sustainable Semiconducting Material Processing; 3) Versatile Manufacturing for Mobile Device Form Factors; 4) Ink Jet Nanomaterial Deposition; and 5) Inline Nanometrology for Process Diagnostics and Control.The barriers the Center will overcome include: (i) lack of machines and processable materials for high-speed, large-area, low-defectivity nanomanufacturing and for nanometrology; (ii) absence of device architectures that are tailored to exploit strengths of promising nanomanufacturing processes; (iii) lack of validated models with quantified uncertainty to extrapolate prototype system performance to commercial scale, and reduced order models for real-time diagnostics, and control of nanomanufacturing systems. The Center will marry advanced nanoscience research with novel nanomanufacturing systems to overcome these barriers and accelerate the design, development, and deployment of versatile and innovative mobile computing devices.The intellectual merits of the proposed research are the creation of revolutionary manufacturing, devices, materials and modeling, including: 1) machine system architectures based on nano-precision mechanics, dynamics and control, in-line optical metrology, and integration of novel nanomaterials for high-throughput, wafer-scale and roll-to-roll nanomanufacturing; 2) design and demonstration of multi-bit STT-RAM, THz transceivers, non-planar cameras and hybrid advanced displays; 3) synthesis and integration of a wide array of novel nanomaterials and processes, from block co-polymers for self-aligned memory to exfoliated films of Si nanowires for flexible and high power density batteries; and 4) creation of predictive multi-scale computational tools with quantified uncertainty for process modeling, scale-up and real-time control of large area, high-speed nanomanufacturing processes.The broader impact of the Center is the development of critical nanomanufacturing infrastructure for mobile computing technologies which will impact, on a world-wide scale, all aspects of healthcare, education, commerce, communications, computing, and lifestyle. These nanomanufacturing advances will help create sustainable high-paying jobs in the US and will be supported by innovative human resource development and entrepreneurship activities. The Center will create a pipeline of diverse students to enter STEM fields and become creative global nanomanufacturing leaders through an educational program that emphasizes development of the Innovator's DNA, strong mentorship, focused technical and entrepreneurial coursework, interdisciplinary research.