Phase II IUCRC at University of Florida: Center for Multi-functional Integrated System Technology (MIST)

多功能集成系统技术（MIST）中心的更广泛影响是开发推动下一代智能系统所需的硬件技术。该中心专注于通过与行业和政府合作伙伴的合作，将新材料，设备和制造工艺转化为多功能集成系统。MIST中心的目标是沿着整个堆栈进行竞争前研究，从新兴材料，电子，磁性，声学，光子，微机电和光子器件，到电路和架构，以应对开发物联网（IoT）底层硬件所需的复杂挑战。该中心培养精通该中心竞争前研究的下一代研究生，积极招募和指导来自科学和工程领域代表性不足的群体的参与者，并促进跨多个学术，工业和政府组织的公私研究网络。 UF网站将扩大其干-和多样性增强本科外展工作，称为“MIST制造商”，由MIST中心教师指导，使用现成的硬件开发物联网原型。用友还将继续通过举办产业/大学研讨会，促进智能系统物联网硬件技术趋势的传播和讨论，并围绕传感，计算，无线，电源和集成五个技术重点领域构建拟议的MIST产业大学合作研究中心，以推动可穿戴设备，物联网系统，传感器网络，和“雾计算”，将计算硬件带到传感器节点，是物联网生态系统超越云计算和雾计算的逻辑进展。MIST中心将解决特定的技术挑战，如高速通信;自供电，节点边缘传感;节能，低功耗计算;先进的网络和系统集成。 UF的研究将集中在跨学科的微系统，包括声学，设备，磁学，超材料，微流体，微机电系统，射频天线和电路，与研究的主题，如：集成在灵活的平台上，零功率磁场传感器，剪切应力传感器，用于自主应用的微型激光雷达，以及低损耗，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader impacts of the Multi-functional Integrated System Technology (MIST) Center are to develop the hardware technologies necessary to propel the next generation of smart systems. The center focuses on translating novel materials, devices, and manufacturing processes into multi-functional integrated systems via collaboration with industry and government partners. The MIST Center targets pre-competitive research along the entire stack from emerging materials, electron, magnetic, acoustic, photonic, microelectromechanical, and photonic devices, to circuits and architecture needed to tackle complex challenges in developing the hardware underlying the Internet of Things (IoT). The Center trains the next generation of graduate students versed in the center's precompetitive research, actively recruits and mentors participants from underrepresented groups in science and engineering, and fosters public-private research networks across multiple academic, industrial, and government organizations. The UF Site will expand its STEM- and diversity-enhancing undergraduate outreach effort, called the “MIST Makers,” mentored by MIST Center faculty that develops IoT prototypes using off-the-shelf hardware. UF will also continue outreach to industry by organizing an industry/university symposium to promote dissemination and discussion of technology trends in smart system IoT hardware.The proposed MIST Industry University Cooperative Research Center will be structured around five technology thrust areas – sensing, computing, wireless, power, and integration – to drive system technologies such as wearable devices, IoT systems, sensor networks, and "mist computing", bringing computing hardware to the sensor node and is the logical progression of the IoT ecosystem beyond cloud computing and fog computing. The MIST center will address specific technology challenges such as high-speed communication; self-powered, edge-of-the-node sensing; energy-efficient, low-power computing; advanced networking; and system integration. The UF research will focus on interdisciplinary microsystems, including acoustics, devices, magnetics, metamaterials, microfluidics, microelectromechanical systems, radio frequency antennas, and circuits, with research on topics such as: integration on flexible platforms, zero- power magnetic field sensors, shear-stress sensors, miniature LiDAR for autonomous applications, and low-loss, high-gain 5G antenna.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.