DARPA/SRC STARnet
Avram Bar-Cohen
Program Manager
MTO
US-EU Workshop on 2D Layered Materials and Devices
April 23, 2015
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STARnet Funded Universities
University of Minnesota
Carnegie Mellon
Colorado State
Johns Hopkins
MIT
Ohio State
Penn State
Purdue
U. Wisconsin
U. Alabama
U. Nebraska
U. Arizona
U. North Texas
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UC/Santa Barbara
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University of Michigan
Columbia
Duke
GA Tech
Harvard
MIT
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Stanford
UC/Berkeley
UCLA
UC/San Diego
UIUC
UVA
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UC/Berkeley
CALTECH
Carnegie Mellon
UC/San Diego
UIUC
U. Michigan
UT/Dallas
U. Washington
U of PA
Notre Dame
UCLA
CALTECH
Columbia
Cornell
MIT
NC State
Purdue
Rice
Stanford
42 Universities in 24 States
UC/Berkeley
UC/Irvine
UC/Riverside
UC/Santa Barbara
U of PA
WVA
Yale
UIUC
Carnegie Mellon
Princeton
Stanford
U. Michigan
UC/Santa Barbara
UC/San Diego
UC/Berkeley
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Carnegie Mellon UT/Dallas
GA Tech
Illinois Institute
Penn State
of Technology
Purdue
UC/Berkeley
UC/San Diego
UC/Santa Barbara
UT/Austin
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STARnet Centers
Materials/Devices Centers
Systems Centers
Function Accelerated nanoMaterial Engineering
Jane P-C Chang, UCLA
Center Focus:
• Quantum nanostructures
for enabling analog, logic
and memory devices and
for beyond Boolean
computation
Center for Spintronic Materials, Interfaces and
Novel Architectures, J-P Wang, UMn
TerraSwarm (TSRC-Internet of
Things), Edward A. Lee, UC Berkeley
Center Focus:
• Pervasive integration of
smart, networked sensors
and actuators into our
connected world through
an open and universal
systems architecture
The Center for Future
Architectures Research
Todd Austin, UMi
Center Focus:
Center Focus:
• Spin-based memory and
computation with
magnetic materials, spin
transport, novel spintransport materials,
spintronic devices, and
circuits
2D Material Research across
Materials/Devices Centers
Center for Low Energy
Systems Technology
Alan Seabuagh, Notre Dame
Center Focus:
• Exploration of solid state
phenomena to extend
device performance to
achieve fundamental
limits of ultra low
voltage and power
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• Application driven
architectures leveraging
emerging circuit fabrics,
such as 3D interconnect,
novel memories and
programmable logic
Systems on Nanoscale
Information fabriCs
Naresh Shanbhag, UIUC
Center Focus:
• Design of intelligent
embedded systems on
nanoscale CMOS and beyond
CMOS device fabrics.
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Materials/Devices Centers - FAME
Function Accelerated nanoMaterial
Engineering Jane P-C Chang, UCLA
Center Focus:
• Quantum nanostructures for enabling
analog, logic and memory devices and for
beyond Boolean computation
Associate Dean, Research and Physical
Resources, Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering, UCLA
William F. Seyer Chair in Materials
Electrochemistry
FAME Jane Pei-Chen Chang, Director
The mission of FAME is to create and
investigate new nonconventional atomic scale
engineered materials and structures of multifunction oxides, metals and semiconductors to
accelerate innovations in analog, logic and
memory devices for revolutionary impact on
the semiconductor and defense industries.
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Materials/Devices Centers – C-SPIN
Center for Spintronic Materials,
Interfaces and Novel Architectures, JP Wang, U. Minnesota
Center Focus:
• Spin-based memory and computation with
magnetic materials, spin transport, novel
spin-transport materials, spintronic devices,
and circuits
Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, University of Minnesota
C-SPIN Jian-Ping Wang, Director
The Center for Spintronic Materials, Interfaces
and Novel Architectures (C-SPIN) seeks to
overcome barriers to realizing practical spinbased memory and logic technology by
assembling experts in magnetic materials, spin
transport, novel spin-transport materials,
spintronic devices, circuits, and novel
architectures.
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Materials/Devices Centers - LEAST
Center for Low Energy Systems
Technology
Alan Seabuagh, U. Notre Dame
Center Focus:
• Exploration of solid state phenomena to
extend device performance to achieve
fundamental limits of ultra low voltage and
power
Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering, University
of Notre Dame
LEAST Alan Seabaugh, Director
The Center for Low Energy Systems
Technology (LEAST) explores the physics of
new materials and devices to enable more
energy-efficient integrated circuits and
systems.
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DARPA MTO invested in graphene in 2007…
High-frequency, scaled graphene transistors on diamond-like carbon
YQ Wu et al. Nature 472, 74-78 (2011)
Graphene Review: An Emerging RF Technology
Moon, J.S.; Antcliffe, M.; Seo, H.C.; Lin, S.C.;
Schmitz, A.; Milosavljevic, I.; McCalla, K.; Wong,
D.; Gaskill, D.K.; Campbell, P.M.; Lee, K.-M.;
Asbeck, P., "Graphene review: An emerging RF
technology," Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits
in RF Systems (SiRF), 2012 IEEE 12th Topical
Meeting on , vol., no., pp.199,202, 16-18 Jan.
2012
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