Microelectronics, Sensing, and Information Technology

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ERC for Power Optimization for Electro-Thermal Systems

Award No. 1449548

The aim of the POETS ERC is to improve the electric power density available in tightly constrained mobile environments by integrating novel 3-D cooling circuitry, power converters, and algorithms for smart power management.

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Nanosystems ERC for Translational Applications of Nanoscale Multiferroic Systems

Award No. 1160504

TANMS works to engineer a revolution in miniature electromagnetic electronics through development of a new class of nanoscale multiferroic materials.

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Lighting Enabled Systems & Applications

Lighting Enabled Systems & Applications ERC develops fully controllable and tunable solid-state light sources that will enable energy savings through higher efficiency lighting sources and improved communication systems.

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Center for Integrated Access Networks

CIAN strives to overcome the access aggregation bottlenecks of today's optoelectronic networks by integrating optoelectronic subsystems into an advanced optical network that will provide high data rates at low cost while supporting a wide range of end-user needs and applications.

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ERC on Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment

MIRTHE develops knowledge, technologies, and engineered systems based on mid-infrared (mid-IR) trace-gas spectroscopy that will provide unprecedented optical and chemical sensing capabilities for environmental monitoring, homeland security and medical diagnostics.

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ERC for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere

CASA strives to Revolutionize our ability to observe, understand, and predict hazardous weather by creating distributed collaborative adaptive sensing (DCAS) networks that sample the atmosphere where and when end-user needs are greatest.

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ERC for Extreme Ultraviolet Science and Technology

ERC EUV explores the development and application of compact coherent EUV sources with the objective of making EUV technology widely available to solve challenging scientific and industrial problems.

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Center for Wireless Integrated MicroSensing and Systems

Advance the design, fabrication, and breadth of the applications for sensor-driven microsensors and systems through research, education, and interactions with industry

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The Bernard M. Gordon Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems

Revolutionize existing technology for detecting and imaging biomedical and environmental-civil objects or conditions that are underground, underwater, or embedded in the human body to solve important real-world problems such as non-invasive breast cancer detection, underground pollution assessment, and explosives threat detection

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Center for Power Electronics Systems

Provide leadership through global collaborative research and education for creating electric processing systems of the highest value to society

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Integrated Media Systems Center

The mission of IMSC is to realize "Geo-Immersion," a new computing paradigm that enables humans to capture, model, and integrate real-world BIG data into a geo-realistic virtual replica of the world for immersive data access, querying, and analysis

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3D Systems Packaging Research Center

Exploratory research by faculty and graduate students with particular focus on: 1) leading-edge electronic and bio-electronic systems research, 2) cross-discipline education of students, and 3) industry collaborations with global companies focusing on a transformative systems technology called System-On-Package, pioneered by the Center

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High Performance Computing Collaboratory

Advancing the state-of-the-art in computational science and engineering using high performance computing; a common approach to research that embraces a multi-disciplinary, team-oriented concept; and a commitment to a full partnership between education, research, and service

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Data Storage Systems Center

The Data Storage Systems Center at Carnegie Mellon University is a world-leading academic research institution in data storage technology. Our research program focuses on magnetic data storage technology for hard disk drive application as well as emerging solid-state memory technologies.

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Center for Neuromorphic Systems Engineering

At CNSE, we envision a future where machines sense, interact with, learn from, and adapt to their environment with the same ease as living creatures. Smarter machines will greatly improve consumer products, human/computer interaction, healthcare, manufacturing, and telecommunications.

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Micro and Nanotechnology Lab

Provide advanced equipment to create, support, and sustain an environment that facilitates advanced research in nanophotonics, micro and nanoelectronics, MEMS and NEMS, and biomedical applications of nanotechnology

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Center for Telecommunications Research

One milestone of the modern era was the creation of the Center for Telecommunications Research (1985-97), funded by the National Science Foundation and industrial partners to conduct fundamental and applied research in high-speed communication systems.