REU Site: Scalable Nanomanufacturing of Complex Materials

这一面向本科生的研究体验(REU)网站，由宾夕法尼亚州立大学大学园区主办，为不同的本科生提供了从事下一代材料和器件工作的机会，这些材料和器件将为微电子研究的未来奠定基础，并参与有重点的专业发展和指导计划。随着业界预计摩尔定律在设备尺寸方面的终结，利用新材料实现新功能的“比摩尔更多”的方法将变得越来越关键。这个REU网站每年将使10名学生能够在最先进的用户设施中从事先进的纳米制造领域的工作。重点将放在开发新材料的沉积和图案化的过程和模型上，这些材料具有复杂的化学成分，可以改变半导体、传感器和致动器的现有功能。该计划建立在宾夕法尼亚州立大学在用于下一代电子以及集成压电和热释电的二维硫化物领域的专业知识的基础上。虽然上述材料本身很有趣，但这两类材料的组合：基于复合氧化物的2D硫化物和高应变压电材料应该能够实现可穿戴设备和物联网的低功耗计算，用于微型医用超声换能器的与CMOS兼容的驱动电压，可调节光学器件、自供电传感器、整合电子学和射频电子学。这个REU项目由宾夕法尼亚州立大学纳米制造设施和2D晶体联盟-材料创新平台设施共同主办，其教职员工、学生和工作人员将与每年从全国各地的机构中挑选的10名本科生一起在纳米制造环境中开展复杂材料异质集成领域的研究。传授的长期技能将包括科学假设的开发和检验，口头和书面科学交流的实践，以及科学数据的管理。通过与行业合作伙伴的接触，REU参与者将获得对学术以外的研究职业道路的看法，并接触到工业研发、制造和管理方面的工业研究设施的组织和运营基础设施。学生将与教师和训练有素的研究生导师配对，在这个环境中，该团队在招聘和激励不同的本科生群体方面有着长期的成功记录。将采取特别招聘措施，鼓励来自研究项目有限的学术机构的申请者、女性学生、残疾学生、美国武装部队退伍军人学生和代表性较低的少数族裔学生。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。

This Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site, Scalable Nanomanufacturing of Complex Materials, hosted by Penn State University, University Park, provides a diverse cohort of undergraduate students with an opportunity to work on next generation materials and devices that will underpin the future of microelectronics research and also participate in a focused professional development and mentoring program. As industry projects the end of Moore's law in terms of device scaling, "More than Moore" approaches which utilize new materials to enable new functionalities will become increasingly critical. This REU site will enable ten students annually to work in the field of advanced nanomanufacturing in state-of-the-art user facilities. Emphasis will be placed on developing processes and models for deposition and patterning of emerging materials with complex chemistries that change the available palette of functions for semiconductors, sensors, and actuators. The program builds on Penn State expertise in the areas of two-dimensional chalcogenides for applications in next generation electronics as well as integrated piezoelectrics and pyroelectrics. While the materials described above are interesting in and of themselves, combinations of these two classes of materials: the 2D chalcogenides and high strain piezoelectrics based on complex oxides should enable low power computation for wearable devices and the Internet of Things, CMOS-compatible actuation voltages for miniaturized medical ultrasound transducers, adjustable optics, self-powered sensors, conformable electronics, and RF electronics. This REU program is hosted by the co-located Penn State Nanofabrication facility and the 2D Crystal Consortium- Materials Innovation Platform facility, whose faculty, students, and staff will work with a diverse cohort of ten undergraduate students annually selected from institutions across the nation to conduct research in the field of heterogeneous integration of complex materials in a nanomanufacturing environment. Long-term skills imparted will include the development and testing of a scientific hypothesis, practice in oral and written scientific communication, and management of scientific data. Through engagement with industry partners, the REU participants will gain perspective on research career pathways beyond academia and be exposed to the organization and operational infrastructure of an industrial research facility in industrial R&D, manufacturing and management. Students will be paired with faculty and trained graduate student mentors in an environment for which the team has a long track record of success in recruiting and inspiring diverse undergraduate populations. Special recruitment efforts will be made to encourage applicants from academic institutions where research programs are limited, female students, students with disabilities, students who are veterans of the U.S. Armed Services and underrepresented minority students.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.