This $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program, supports research into cybermanufacturing of wide-bandgap semiconductor devices through simulation augmented machine learning. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University is the primary awardee and will conduct this research from September 2021 to August 2023. San Jose State University Research Foundation...
This Project Grant award of $612,712 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research and development towards heterogeneous 3D integration of energy-efficient electronics with low-dimensional device layers. The primary awardee, Stanford University, will collaborate with Carnegie Mellon University on this effort. The key focus areas of the project include: Integrating atomically thin materials like carbon nanotubes and MoS2 into...
This Project Grant award of $600,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to address challenges in optimizing voltage drop and electromigration in power distribution networks (PDNs) for advanced integrated circuits. The primary goals are to develop new design techniques to ensure robust voltage levels and reliability for chips powering artificial intelligence, infrastructure, communications, and electronics....
This National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $616,702 to develop a novel system-in-package technology with a heterogeneous multi-functional in-package photonic platform/interposer. The goal is to enable ultra-high bandwidth, energy-efficient data transmission between computing nodes for artificial intelligence (AI) clusters. Key innovations include: Integrating processing units, high-bandwidth memory, and accelerator chips with...
This $400,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University to develop novel bidirectional high-power DC-DC onboard electric vehicle battery chargers with ultra-high power density and scalability operating over 1 megahertz. The research aims to address key gaps including designing and demonstrating 1.2 kilovolt gallium nitride field-effect transistors for high-frequency power converters operating over 800 volts and 1...
The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University a $368,711 Project Grant to develop high-temperature ultra-wide bandgap gallium oxide power modules. With a completion date of April 30, 2024, this award will support research under the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to foster innovation in engineering research. Specifically, Virginia Tech will work to improve the quality of power...
This five-year $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) funds research at the University of California, San Diego to develop next-generation integrated hybrid DC-DC converters. The university will conduct engineering research from February 2021 through January 2026 to foster innovation in converter design for future power systems relying more heavily on direct current transmission. As the NSF Engineering program seeks to improve quality of...
This Project Grant award for $206,568, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), is focused on optimizing chiplet-based designs for advanced artificial intelligence (AI) hardware and systems. The key products and services to be delivered through this 5-year project include: 1) developing AI/machine learning-assisted methodologies for system and package-level co-design to optimize power, performance, chip...
This Project Grant award, valued at $134,992 and provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), supports research by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) to develop energy-efficient and scalable artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The key objectives are to leverage dynamic connectivity to reduce redundancy in AI models, provide architectural support for elastic processing through heterogeneous computing,...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $249,969 to the University of Delaware to enhance the performance of gallium nitride (GaN)-on-silicon high electron mobility transistor technology for high frequency and high power electronics applications. The key research activities aim to develop a novel self-aligned T-shaped gate fabrication process to improve the radio frequency and power performance of GaN-on-silicon devices,...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $1,103,042 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University to conduct research on heterogeneous integration of wide-bandgap microelectronics and power electronics for efficient power delivery to AI processors in data centers. The project aims to address fundamental knowledge gaps in semiconductor materials, devices, magnetics, circuitry, and packaging to enable the development of ultra-high-frequency, miniaturized power delivery converters. Key research activities include probing optimal doping schemes and transport properties of multi-channel wide-bandgap materials, integrating novel device architectures, developing machine learning-aided co-design models, and identifying optimal package and cooling approaches. The project involves sub-awards to San Jose State University Research Foundation to support this collaborative research effort. The award has an ultimate completion date of September 30, 2027.