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

该项目涉及弗吉尼亚大学（UVA）多功能集成系统技术（MIST）产学研合作研究中心（IUCRC）的一个站点。半导体行业正在努力应对摩尔定律的终结，以及传统数字逻辑的电子缩放速度放缓。然而，有证据表明，在非传统计算和嵌入式应用等新领域，并行扩展。特别是物联网（IoT）承诺到2020年将连接多达300亿个嵌入软件、传感器和电子设备的智能设备、建筑、车辆和城市，这些设备可以实时交换数据并做出反应。虽然物联网应用在软件层面上付出了很多努力，但该中心的重点是开发物联网的硬件基础。这包括五个研究重点？计算、无线、电力、传感和集成。UVA网站建议在功能材料，固态器件，光子学，太赫兹传感，热表征，多尺度建模和异构集成方面增加新的专业知识。这一领域的竞争前研究将通过展示低功耗传感器和设备的概念验证来满足行业利益，促进尖端科学和技术研究，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针对少数民族学生。除了IUCRC多功能集成系统技术（MIST）中心外，UVA一期站点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。这包括五个研究重点：计算、无线、电力、传感和集成。针对物联网的整体硬件基础。这将需要具有小尺寸重量和功耗（SWaP）的可扩展和嵌入式应用，通常涉及材料的异构集成，以及从太赫兹和射频光子检测到千兆赫电子处理器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，固态器件，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低功耗传感器和设备的概念验证来服务于行业利益，实现尖端的科学和技术研究，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针对少数民族学生。

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.