FAME aims to revolutionise semiconductor technologies
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A multidisciplinary research centre established at the University of California, Los Angeles, aims to revolutionise semiconductor technologies by developing nanoscale materials and structures that take advantage of properties unavailable at larger scales.
The Center for Function Accelerated nanoMaterial Engineering (FAME), supported by funding from the Semiconductor Research Corporation and DARPA, will address the needs of the advanced semiconductor research industry. The centre will bring together 35 researchers from 16 of the top universities in the US.
"FAME will explore materials and structures beyond traditional silicon," said Kosmas Galatsis, FAME's executive director. "These materials could enable much more energy efficient computers, mobile phones and other electronic devices and components, such as computer memory or display screens."
FAME's work will be directed by Professor Jane Chang, associate dean of research and physical resources at UCLA Engineering.
"This is truly an interdisciplinary research centre where science and engineering are integrated to enable innovation in solid state devices," she said. "The unique and fascinating functionalities that we can tailor by manipulating matter at the atomic scale will open up enormous opportunities to design devices that achieve what was considered impossible just a decade ago."
