Phase I Site Addition: I/UCRC for Multi-Functional Integrated System Technology (MIST) Center

该项目涉及将弗吉尼亚大学(UVA)的多功能集成系统技术(MIST)添加到产学合作研究中心(IUCRC)。半导体行业正在努力应对摩尔定律的终结和传统数字逻辑电子标度的放缓。然而，有证据表明，它也在向非传统计算和嵌入式应用等新领域扩张。特别是，物联网(IoT)承诺到2020年连接多达300亿台智能设备、建筑物、车辆和嵌入了软件、传感器和电子设备的城市，这些设备可以交换数据并做出实时反应。虽然在软件层面的物联网应用方面有很多努力，但该中心的重点是为物联网发展硬件基础。这包括五项研究推力？计算、无线、电力、传感和集成。UVA网站建议增加功能材料、固态设备、光子学、太赫兹传感、热表征、多尺度建模和异质集成方面的新专业知识。这一领域的赛前研究将通过展示概念验证低功耗传感器和设备来服务于行业利益，使尖端科学和技术研究成为可能，为学生提供展示研究和促进招聘的平台，并通过面向行业实习的研讨会面向少数族裔学生。在IUCRC多功能集成系统技术中心(MIST)增建的UVA一期场地将专注于物联网时代智能系统创新的竞争前行业相关研究。这包括计算、无线、电力、传感和集成的五个研究推动力？全面瞄准物联网的硬件基础。这将需要具有小尺寸、小重量和小功率(SWAP)的可扩展和嵌入式应用，通常涉及材料的异质集成，以及从太赫兹和射频光子检测到电子处理器的千兆赫的大信号带宽的集成。UVA网站建议增加集成探测器-处理器阵列的关键专业知识，包括功能材料、固态设备、光子学、太赫兹传感、热表征、多尺度建模和材料集成。这一领域的研究将通过展示概念验证低功耗传感器和设备来服务于行业利益，使尖端科学和技术研究成为可能，为学生提供一个展示研究和促进招聘的平台，并通过面向行业实习的研讨会面向少数族裔学生。

This project involves a site addition of University of Virginia (UVA) to the Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) for Multifunctional Integrated Systems Technology (MIST). The semiconductor industry is grappling with the end of Moore's Law and a slow-down in electronic scaling for conventional digital logic. However, there is evidence of a parallel expansion into new domains such as unconventional computing and embedded applications. In particular the Internet of Things (IoT) promises by 2020 to connect up to 30 billion smart devices, buildings, vehicles and cities embedded with software, sensors and electronics that can exchange data and react in real time. While there is a lot of effort in IoT applications at the software level, the focus of this center is to develop the hardware base for the IoT. This includes five research thrusts ? computing, wireless, power, sensing and integration. The UVA site proposes to add new expertise in functional materials, solid-state devices, photonics, Terahertz sensing, thermal characterization, multiscale modeling and heterogeneous integration. Pre-competitive research in this area will serve industry interests by demonstrating proof-of-concept low power sensors and devices, enable cutting edge scientific and technological research, provide a platform for students to present research and facilitate recruitment, and target minority students through workshops geared towards industry internship. The UVA Phase I site addition to the IUCRC center for Multifunctional Integrated Systems Technology (MIST) will focus on pre-competitive industry relevant research for smart systems innovations in the IoT era. This includes five research thrusts computing, wireless, power, sensing and integration ? targeting overall the hardware base for the IoT. This will need scalable and embedded applications with small Size-Weight and Power (SWaP), typically involving heterogeneous integration of materials, and integration of a large signal bandwidth from Terahertz and RF-photonic detection to Gigahertz for electronic processors. The UVA site proposes to add critical expertise towards integrated detector-processor arrays, including functional materials, solid-state devices, photonics, Terahertz sensing, thermal characterization, multiscale modeling and material integration. Research in this area will serve industry interests by demonstrating proof-of-concept low power sensors and devices, enable cutting edge scientific and technological research, provide a platform for students to present research and facilitate recruitment, and target minority students through workshops geared towards industry internship.