REU Site: Nanomanufacturing of Emerging 2D Materials and Devices

由宾夕法尼亚州立大学-大学园区主办的REU网站名为纳米制造新兴2D材料和器件，为学生提供为期十周的暑期研究体验，以解决与半导体行业相关的问题，该行业对美国训练有素的员工的需求预计将大幅增长。每年将有10名本科生加入包括教师顾问和研究生导师在内的小型研究团队，所有这些人都将朝着与技术相关的发展目标共同努力。团队中的每个本科生都有责任，这对团队的总体目标是不可或缺的。该计划将为被辅导者和导师提供培训和指导，以鼓励发展超出暑期体验结束的指导关系。REU的学生将接受负责任的研究和实验室安全方面的培训。他们还将参与专业发展机会，并会见半导体行业的工程师。培训最终将为半导体芯片的研究和制造基础设施做出贡献。这些努力将通过指导相当一部分传统上在科学和工程领域代表性不足的学生来促进人力资源开发。由宾夕法尼亚州立大学-大学园区主办的REU网站名为纳米制造新兴2D材料和器件，为学生提供为期十周的暑期研究体验，以解决与半导体行业相关的问题，该行业对美国训练有素的员工的需求预计将大幅增长。该网站每年将培训10名本科生，让他们有机会进行二维半导体的研究，这是一种层状范德华固体，为新兴设备技术提供了独特的性能优势，并具有与硅集成电路集成以实现新功能的潜力。令人特别感兴趣的二维半导体包括过渡金属二卤化物，如二硫化钼和二硒化钨，它们在单层限制内具有直接带隙，并且在大规模器件中显示出比硅更好的传输特性。该网站还将探索拓扑半金属，它可能用于芯片上的电子互连，或用于太赫兹制度下的光学。研究人员将进一步评估在夏季本科生研究站点中使用小型跨学科团队的影响，并将其与更常见的每个学生拥有独立项目的模式进行比较。本科生从暑期实习中获得的知识和经验将激励和准备他们在涉及纳米制造的领域继续研究生学习。他们的培训最终将有助于半导体芯片以及新兴电子和光子设备的研究和制造基础设施。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The REU Site entitled Nanomanufacturing of Emerging 2D Materials and Devices hosted by Pennsylvania State University-University Park provides students with a ten-week summer research experience to address problems relevant to the semiconductor industry, a sector in which demand for trained employees in the United States is expected to grow dramatically. Each year ten undergraduate students will be part of small research teams that include faculty advisors and graduate student mentors, all of whom will work together toward a technologically relevant development goal. Each undergraduate on a team will have a responsibility that is integral to the team’s overall objectives. The program will provide training and coaching for mentees and mentors to encourage the development of mentoring relationships that extend beyond the conclusion of the summer experience. REU students will receive training in the responsible conduct of research and laboratory safety. They will also take part in professional development opportunities and meet engineers in the semiconductor industry. The training will ultimately contribute to research and manufacturing infrastructure for semiconductor chips. These efforts will contribute to human resource development through mentorship of a significant fraction of students who are traditionally underrepresented in science and engineering.The REU Site entitled Nanomanufacturing of Emerging 2D Materials and Devices hosted by Pennsylvania State University-University Park provides students with a ten-week summer research experience to address problems relevant to the semiconductor industry, a sector in which demand for trained employees in the United States is expected to grow dramatically. Each year this site will train ten undergraduates by giving them the opportunity to conduct research on two-dimensional semiconductors, a class of layered van der Waals solids that offer unique performance benefits for emerging device technologies and the potential to be integrated with silicon integrated circuits to realize new functionalities. Two-dimensional semiconductors of special interest include the transition metal dichalcogenides, such as molybdenum disulfide and tungsten diselenide, which have a direct band gap in the monolayer limit and exhibit superior transport properties compared to silicon for aggressively scaled devices. The site will also explore topological semimetals, which may be used in electrical interconnects on chips or for optics in the terahertz regime. Researchers will furthermore evaluate the impact of the use of small interdisciplinary teams in a summer undergraduate research site compared to the more common model of each student having a standalone project. The knowledge and experiences that the undergraduate students gain from their summer internships will motivate and prepare them to pursue graduate studies in fields involving nanofabrication. Their training will ultimately contribute to research and manufacturing infrastructure for semiconductor chips and emerging electronic and photonic devices.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.