NSF Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanomanufacturing Systems for Mobile Computing and Energy Technologies (NASCENT)

纳米制造系统的移动的计算和能源技术（NASCENT）ERC主任：S.V. Sreenivasan牵头大学：德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校国内大学：新墨西哥州大学，加州大学伯克利分校国外大学：首尔国立大学，印度科学研究所移动的计算革命是一个颠覆性的范式，已经-结束了计算机世界，并承诺改变发达国家和发展中国家。全球范围内的无处不在的移动的计算将需要低成本、低功率的计算设备，其提供高数据速率和高密度数据存储、形状因子多功能性以及对持久的便携式能源的访问。NASCENT中心的愿景是建立一个研究，创新和教育生态系统，将创建高通量，可持续，可靠和多功能的纳米制造系统，以彻底改变未来几代移动的计算和能源设备。该中心的总体目标是：-发明纳米制造系统，用于纳米雕刻和整合大量可用的纳米材料，如剥离硅，石墨烯，碳纳米管和有机半导体。概念化和设计这些纳米制造系统，以满足未来一代移动的计算和能源设备的实际需求。培育创新文化，寻求通过工业从业者合作伙伴和初创公司商业化部署中心技术。该中心将专注于五个变革性的高速纳米制造系统和工艺：1）纳米雕刻; 2）可持续的半导体材料加工; 3）移动终端形状因子的多功能制造; 4）喷墨纳米材料沉积;和5）用于过程诊断和控制的在线纳米测量。该中心将克服的障碍包括：（i）缺乏用于高速、大面积、低缺陷率纳米制造和纳米计量学的机器和可加工材料;（ii）缺乏被定制以利用有前景的纳米制造工艺的优势的器件架构;（iii）缺乏具有量化不确定性的经验证的模型来将原型系统性能外推到商业规模，以及用于实时诊断的降阶模型，和纳米制造系统的控制。该中心将把先进的纳米科学研究与新型纳米制造系统结合起来，以克服这些障碍，加速多功能和创新的移动的计算设备的设计、开发和部署。拟议研究的智力价值是创造革命性的制造、设备、材料和建模，包括：1）基于纳米精密机械、动力学和控制、在线光学计量学的机器系统架构，以及用于高通量、晶圆级和卷对卷纳米制造的新型纳米材料的集成; 2）多位STT-RAM、THz收发器、非平面相机和混合先进显示器的设计和演示; 3）从用于自对准存储器的嵌段共聚物到用于柔性和高功率密度电池的Si纳米线的剥离膜的广泛新颖纳米材料和工艺的合成和集成;以及4）创建具有量化的不确定性的预测性多尺度计算工具，用于大面积的过程建模、放大和实时控制，表示"高"之义该中心的更广泛的影响是为移动的计算开发关键的纳米制造基础设施这些技术将在全球范围内影响医疗保健、教育、商业、通信、计算和生活方式的各个方面。这些纳米制造的进步将有助于在美国创造可持续的高薪工作，并将得到创新的人力资源开发和创业活动的支持。该中心将创建一个多元化的学生进入干领域的管道，并通过强调创新者的DNA，强大的导师，重点技术和创业课程，跨学科研究的发展教育计划成为创造性的全球纳米制造领导者。

Nanomanufacturing Systems for Mobile Computing and Energy Technologies (NASCENT)ERC Director: S.V. Sreenivasan Lead University: The University of Texas at AustinDomestic Universities: University of New Mexico, University of California at Berkeley Foreign Universities: Seoul National University, Indian Institute of ScienceThe mobile computing revolution is a disruptive paradigm that has up-ended the computing universe and promises to transform both the developed and developing worlds. Ubiquitous mobile computing on a global scale will demand low-cost, low-power computing devices delivering high data rates and high density data storage, form factor versatility, and access to long-lasting portable energy sources. The vision of the NASCENT Center is to establish a research, innovation and education ecosystem that will create the high-throughput, sustainable, reliable and versatile nanomanufacturing systems to revolutionize future generations of mobile computing and energy devices. The overall goals of the Center are to:- Invent nanomanufacturing systems for nanosculpting and for integrating abundantly available nanomaterials, such as exfoliated silicon, graphene, carbon nanotubes and organic semiconductors.- Conceptualize and design these nanomanufacturing systems to address the practical requirements of future generation mobile computing and energy devices.- Foster a culture of innovation that seeks to commercially deploy Center technologies through industrial practitioner partners and start-up companies.- Educate highly skilled and diverse leaders imbued with the Innovator's DNA.The Center will focus on five transformative high-speed nanomanufacturing systems and processes: 1) Nanosculpting; 2) Sustainable Semiconducting Material Processing; 3) Versatile Manufacturing for Mobile Device Form Factors; 4) Ink Jet Nanomaterial Deposition; and 5) Inline Nanometrology for Process Diagnostics and Control.The barriers the Center will overcome include: (i) lack of machines and processable materials for high-speed, large-area, low-defectivity nanomanufacturing and for nanometrology; (ii) absence of device architectures that are tailored to exploit strengths of promising nanomanufacturing processes; (iii) lack of validated models with quantified uncertainty to extrapolate prototype system performance to commercial scale, and reduced order models for real-time diagnostics, and control of nanomanufacturing systems. The Center will marry advanced nanoscience research with novel nanomanufacturing systems to overcome these barriers and accelerate the design, development, and deployment of versatile and innovative mobile computing devices.The intellectual merits of the proposed research are the creation of revolutionary manufacturing, devices, materials and modeling, including: 1) machine system architectures based on nano-precision mechanics, dynamics and control, in-line optical metrology, and integration of novel nanomaterials for high-throughput, wafer-scale and roll-to-roll nanomanufacturing; 2) design and demonstration of multi-bit STT-RAM, THz transceivers, non-planar cameras and hybrid advanced displays; 3) synthesis and integration of a wide array of novel nanomaterials and processes, from block co-polymers for self-aligned memory to exfoliated films of Si nanowires for flexible and high power density batteries; and 4) creation of predictive multi-scale computational tools with quantified uncertainty for process modeling, scale-up and real-time control of large area, high-speed nanomanufacturing processes.The broader impact of the Center is the development of critical nanomanufacturing infrastructure for mobile computing technologies which will impact, on a world-wide scale, all aspects of healthcare, education, commerce, communications, computing, and lifestyle. These nanomanufacturing advances will help create sustainable high-paying jobs in the US and will be supported by innovative human resource development and entrepreneurship activities. The Center will create a pipeline of diverse students to enter STEM fields and become creative global nanomanufacturing leaders through an educational program that emphasizes development of the Innovator's DNA, strong mentorship, focused technical and entrepreneurial coursework, interdisciplinary research.