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Electrical Engineers Receive NSF Grants through NIRT Program
Patrick Fay, associate professor of electrical
engineering, and Alan C. Seabaugh, professor of electrical
engineering, received a $1.3 million
grant from the National Science Foundation’s
Nanoscience Interdisciplinary Research Team (NIRT) program. Their project,
entitled “Extremely - 
mismatched
Materials for Advanced Nano-devices,” features
the collaborative efforts of researchers from Duke University and theUniversity
of Wisconsin.
The team will investigate two approaches for achieving high-quality
heterostructures. They will study the devices, nanoscale transistors, with
two different architectures for logic functions as well as for millimeter-wave
and THz sensing. The project includes training of undergraduate and graduate
students in materials science, surface science and chemistry, process and
materials integration, and semiconductor device physics.
Craig
S. Lent, the
Frank M. Freimann Professor of Electrical Engineering, is leading another
team that also received a substantial NIRT grant in 2005. This research explores
molecular quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA), making circuits smaller,
faster, and more efficient. The multidisciplinary team includes Professor
Gregory Snider from electrical engineering and Professors Marya Lieberman,
Thomas Fehlner, and Alex Kandel, from chemistry and biochemistry. Part of
a series of projects focused on QCA, the goal of this project is to make
synthetic molecules, encourage them to “switch,” or transfer
information, and measure the process. Future projects will focus on positioning
the individual molecules and creating devices and circuits with them.
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