Overview
The Technology Thrust integrates research in sustainable manufacturing, advanced device technologies, nanomaterials and processes, and innovative packaging solutions to enable the next generation of semiconductor systems. This combined effort addresses critical challenges in scaling, performance, reliability, and sustainability across the entire semiconductor value chain—from materials and devices to integration and packaging.
Together, these focus areas aim to deliver sustainable, scalable, and high-performance semiconductor technologies for future computing ecosystems.
Key Focus Areas
- Environment, Safety, and Health (ESH): Green chemistries, sustainable materials, and advanced methods for managing effluents and emissions to ensure environmentally benign semiconductor manufacturing.
- Logic and Memory Devices (LMD): Extending CMOS beyond the 5-nm node and exploring revolutionary concepts such as spintronics, photonics, and 3D heterogeneous integration for high-density, multifunctional platforms.
- Nanomanufacturing Materials and Processes (NMP): Innovations in patterning, front-end and back-end processes, novel materials, and metrology to enable functional diversification and reliability in advanced nodes.
- Packaging: Advanced heterogeneous integration, thermal and power management, global interconnects, and solutions for extreme environments to support high-performance computing, IoT, and emerging applications.
Pillar Science Links
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