Penn State researchers part of $194 million national semiconductor effort

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. A group of Penn State researchers are part of a five-year, $194 million research effort recently announced by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) to support continued growth and leadership in the U.S. semiconductor industry. Penn State faculty members will be collaborating with researchers at the LEAST and C-SPIN. The research work at Penn State will total approximately almost $5 million over five years. Suman Datta, professor of electrical engineering, is the principal investigator (PI) of the University's effort with the LEAST. Theresa Mayer, distinguished professor of electrical engineering; Vijay Narayanan, professor of computer science and engineering and electrical engineering; and Joshua Robinson, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, are co-PIs. The LEAST work centers on low power electronics, specifically nonconventional materials and quantum-engineered devices and their implementation in novel integrated circuits and computing architectures.