UNM Collaborates on NSF Nanoscale Manufacturing Research ...

Steve Brueck

The Uni?ver?sity of New Mex?ico will par?tic?i?pate along with the Uni?ver?sity of Texas at Austin, the lead insti?tu?tion, and the Uni?ver?sity of Cal?i?for?nia Berke?ley on an $18.5 mil?lion, multi-year National Sci?ence Foun?da?tion grant to develop nanoscale man?u?fac?tur?ing sys?tems for mobile computing.

The Nanoman?u?fac?tur?ing Sys?tems for Mobile Com?put?ing and Mobile Energy Tech?nolo?gies (NASCENT) Cen?ter will develop inno?v?a?tive nanoman?u?fac?tur?ing, nanosculpt?ing and nanometrol?ogy sys?tems that could lead to ver?sa?tile mobile com?put?ing devices such as wear?able sen?sors, fold?able lap?tops and rol?lable batteries.

The UNM activ?i?ties will be led by UNM Dis?tin?guished Pro?fes?sor of Elec?tri?cal and Com?puter Engi?neer?ing, and direc?tor of the Cen?ter for High Tech?nol?ogy Mate?ri?als Steven R.J. Brueck.? A test?bed for nanoman?u?fac?tur?ing metrol?ogy will be built at CHTM on UNM?s south cam?pus.? Brueck?s role in the cen?ter will be to estab?lish the metrol?ogy or ways to mon?i?tor in near real time the prod?ucts of nanoman?u?fac?tur?ing?tools.

?UNM is excited to be part of this Nanoscale Engi?neer?ing Research Cen?ter, ?said Brueck.? ?CHTM has a long his?tory of con?tri?bu?tions to mea?sure?ment tech?nolo?gies for the semi?con?duc?tor indus?try and oth?ers.? This is the fourth active ERC that UNM is par?tic?i?pat?ing in, and the third at CHTM.? There are only twenty active cen?ters nation?wide.? Very few other schools have achieved this level of par?tic?i?pa?tion in these pres?ti?gious, highly com?pet?i?tive awards.?

P. Ran?dall Schunk, a National Lab?o?ra?tory Pro?fes?sor from the Depart?ment of Chem?i?cal and Nuclear Engi?neer?ing at UNM will coor?di?nate and inte?grate mod?els at all scales of the nanoman?u?fac?tur?ing test beds.? Mod?els include mechan?ics of roll to roll pro?cess?ing of nanoim?print lith?o?g?ra?phy, graphene trans?fer and related tasks.? He will work with Pro?fes?sor J. Murthy at UT Austin.

In addi?tion, Asst. Pro?fes?sor of Elec?tri?cal and Com?puter Engi?neer?ing Olga Lavrova will pro?vide nanoscale device mod?el?ing and simulation.

These new tech?nolo?gies will pro?vide break?through per?for?mance in energy effi?ciency, com?put?ing, com?mu?ni?ca?tions and data/energy stor?age capac?ity.? Today, 40 per?cent of the energy used in cell?phones and the bat?tery life is for read?ing and writ?ing data to the phone?s mem?ory.? Researchers work?ing with the cen?ter will develop emerg?ing man?u?fac?tur?ing tech?nolo?gies to reduce energy needed for cell?phone mem?ory stor?age by up to three-quarters, while increas?ing data stor?age den?sity by more than five times its cur?rent capacity.

The cen?ter will also work toward devel?op?ing sil?i?con nanowires for improved anodes in lithium ion bat?ter?ies.? The nanowires are pro?jected to lead to a four?fold increase in the stor?age capac?ity of batteries.

?This grant is tes?ti?mony to the research accom?plish?ments and national com?pet?i?tive?ness of our fac?ulty,? says UNM Pres?i?dent Robert Frank.??Mobile devices play such a big role in all of our lives now and our stu?dents will have an oppor?tu?nity to par?tic?i?pate in cut?ting edge research that will impact their future development.?

A recent report from the World Bank says there will soon be more mobile sub?scrip?tions than there are peo?ple in the world.?Several indus?try part?ners par?tic?i?pat?ing in NASCENT include Texas Instru?ments, 3M, Lock?heed Mar?tin, Applied Mate?ri?als and Corn?ing Inc. among others.?The award will also pro?vide oppor?tu?ni?ties for out?reach into K-12 edu?ca?tion and research expe?ri?ences for UNM under?grad?u?ate students.

Media con?tact: Karen Went?worth (505) 277?5627; email: kwent2@unm.edu

Source: http://news.unm.edu/2012/09/unm-collaborates-on-nsf-nanoscale-manufacturing-research-center/

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