Center on Materials and Devices for Information Technology Research

西雅图华盛顿大学信息技术研究材料和设备科学技术中心是一个多学科、多机构的活动，旨在支持目标导向的、持续的努力，广泛推进材料、设备和系统的科学技术，以推进信息技术。中心的活动涉及六所大学，包括华盛顿大学（UW：牵头机构）、亚利桑那大学（UA）、加州理工学院（Caltech）、南加州大学（USC）、加州大学圣巴巴拉分校（UCSB）和伯克利大学（UCB）。STC强调知识和应用的垂直整合，这些知识和应用跨越了基础光电材料和工程研究的知识范围，从分子到集成设备和系统，用于改进信号产生和检测，以及改进信息传输、处理和存储。研究分为四个战略重点领域：1)电光和全光材料与器件；2)红外有机发光二极管、放大器和激光器；3)集成光学的先进装配与图像化方法；4)理论。教育活动计划围绕三个主要要素：1)STC中代表性不足的群体和机构，包括少数民族和HBCU的合作伙伴关系，强调本科生参与研究，以及积极的外展工作；2)光学科学、材料与器件教育垂直整合方案；3)科学、工程和商业教育的整合。该中心包括评估其教育活动中新方法有效性的评估策略，这些策略具有强大的基于网络的组成部分。该中心的目标是创建一个垂直整合的、基于网络的、模块化的资源，强调光学科学、材料和器件，提供1)课程开发和学生自主学习的资源，2)基于网络的课程，3)STC-“IT”新闻页面（链接到行业网站），描述新的技术进展、工作机会、会议、专业课程和学术课程。中心有一个强大的合作计划，以促进与非中心研究人员的接触和参与研究活动。与工业界和联邦实验室的互动将在几个层面上实施。具有早期社会影响的项目将与长期项目相结合。例如，3D集成电路的开发，光子带隙器件结构的开发以及对微谐振器的控制耦合的开发将成为短期（例如，电光信息处理）和长期（例如，全光信息处理）影响项目的主题，以促进信息技术方面的知识，理解和技术性能。该中心预计将成为美国电信和信息处理领域劳动力教育的中心。光子学;与光电。

The Science and Technology Center on Materials and Devices for Information Technology Research, University of Washington, Seattle is a multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional activity designed to support a goal-directed, sustained effort to broadly advance the science and technology of materials, devices and systems for advancing information technology. Center activities involve six universities, University of Washington (UW: lead institution), plus the U. of Arizona (UA), California Institute of Technology (Caltech), U. of Southern California (USC), U. of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Berkeley (UCB). The STC emphasizes vertical integration of knowledge and applications that span the intellectual range in fundamental optoelectronic materials and engineering research from molecules to integrated devices and systems for improved signal generation and detection and for improved information transport, processing, and storage. Research is divided among four strategic thrust areas: 1) Electro-Optic and All-Optical Materials and Devices; 2) Infrared Organic Light-Emitting Diodes, Amplifiers, and Lasers; 3) Advanced Assembly and Patterning Approaches to Integrated Optics; 4) Theory.The educational activity is planned around three primary elements: 1) Under-represented groups and institutions in the STC including Minority and HBCU partnerships, emphasis on undergraduate participation in research, and an aggressive outreach effort; 2) A vertically integrated program on education in optical science, materials, and devices; 3) Integration of science, engineering, and business education. The Center includes assessment strategies for evaluation of the effectiveness of new approaches in their educational activities which have a strong web based component. The Center aims to create a vertically integrated, web-based, modular resource emphasizing optical science, materials and devices, offering 1) resources for developing courses and for students' independent studies, 2) web-based courses, and 3) an STC-"IT" news-page (with links to industrial websites) describing new technical advances, job opportunities, conferences, professional courses, and academic curricula. The Center has a strong, collaborative program for fostering outreach to and participation by non-center researchers in research activities. Interaction with industry and Federal Laboratories will be implemented at several levels. Projects with early societal impact will be integrated with longer-term projects. For example, development of 3D integrated circuitry, the exploitation of photonic bandgap device structures, and the exploitation of controlled coupling to microresonators will be a theme of both short-term (e.g., electro-optic information processing) and longer-range (e.g., all-optical information processing) impact projects to advance knowledge, understanding, and technology performance in information technology. This center is projected to become a focal point in the U.S. for education of the workforce in the fields of telecommunication and information processing; photonics; and opto-electronics.