Collaborative Research: IRES Track I: US/France Multidisciplinary Collaboration in Nanoelectronics, Quantum Materials and Next-Generation Computing

该IRES项目涉及美国加州大学圣地亚哥分校（UCSD）和纽约大学（NYU）与法国洛林大学和巴黎萨克雷大学国际合作机构之间的研究和教育合作。该项目将通过培训美国学生应对这些挑战，解决下一代计算和数据存储的社会需求和关键技术障碍。目标是广泛教育多样化，全球参与，有才华的年轻科学家和工程师在现代材料和先进计算设备。这将通过让他们在法国研究实习期间学习和研究纳米系统和量子材料的前沿领域来实现，这些领域可以实现新一代计算机。这些主题是我们当前以数据为中心的社会对新的低功耗计算需求的研究的核心。在该项目中，学生研究人员将接触到广泛的科学和工程挑战，并接受培训，以有效地跨学科工作。这个IRES项目将每年吸引9名学生参加研究实习，通常为期8周。拟议的学生人数将是3个本科生和2个研究生研究人员每年从加州大学圣地亚哥分校和2个本科生和2个研究生研究人员每年从纽约大学。这种以材料为中心的多学科研究的智力价值是基于利用量子材料的独特性质来解决与创建新型非易失性存储器和推进下一代计算相关的基本问题。具体的研究和教育活动将侧重于新量子材料的制造和先进表征，将这些材料集成到原型设备中，设备测试和先进建模。研究结果将成为扩大基于记忆的大脑启发计算机架构的理论和建模的输入。研究目标将是对新材料的理解和控制，这将产生广泛的影响，从了解当前设备的性能，到评估下一代节能，超快和超小型存储设备的潜力。因此，这项工作将为mem-computing网络和架构的建模和设计提供输入。 研究和教育的整合将通过几种机制来实现，包括在世界一流的国际实验室开展研究活动，学生参加暑期学校，在国际和大学会议上介绍他们的研究，以及在他们的家乡机构继续研究的机会。这些努力的目的是加强管道的学生，包括少数民族和妇女的学生，到干，重点是纳米技术。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过评估使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准的支持。

This IRES project involves a research and educational collaboration between University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and New York University (NYU) in the US with International Partner Institutions Université de Lorraine and Université Paris-Saclay in France. The project will address societal needs and key technological barriers to next generation computation and data storage by training US students to address these challenges. A goal is to broadly educate diverse, globally engaged, and talented young scientists and engineers in modern materials and devices for advanced computing. This will be accomplished by having them study and conduct research in forefront areas of nano-systems and quantum materials that can enable a new generation of computers during research internships in France. The topics are at the heart of research on new low-power computing needs for our current data-centered society. In the project, the student researchers will be exposed to a wide range of scientific and engineering challenges and be trained to work effectively across disciplines.This IRES project will engage 9 students per year in research internships, which are typically 8 weeks-long. The proposed student population will be 3 undergraduate and 2 graduate researchers per year from UCSD and 2 undergraduate and 2 graduate researchers per year from NYU. The intellectual merit of this materials-centered multidisciplinary research is based on exploiting the unique properties of quantum materials to address fundamental problems associated with creating new types of non-volatile memories and advancing next generation computing. Specific research and education activities will focus on the fabrication and advanced characterization of new quantum materials, integration of these materials into prototype devices, device testing, and advanced modeling. The results will be the input to theory and modeling of scaling up memory-based brain-inspired computer architectures. The research goals will be on understanding and control of novel materials, which will have broad ranging impact from understanding the performance of current devices, to assessing the potential of next generation energy efficient, ultrafast, and ultra-small memory devices. Thus the work will provide input to the modeling and design of mem-computing networks and architectures. The integration of research and education will be achieved via several mechanisms including research activities at world-class international laboratories, participation of students in summer schools, presentation of their research at international and university conferences, and continued research opportunities at their home institutions. These efforts are aimed at strengthening the pipeline of students, including minority and women students, into STEM with a focus on nanotechnologies.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.