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Research Centers

Center on Interfacial Engineering in Microelectromechanical Systems (CIEMS)

The Center on Interfacial Engineering in Microelectromechanical Systems (CIEMS) is advancing the surface-science and engineering of microstructural materials, coatings, and processes to enhance the capabilities and performance of micro and nanoelectromechanical systems, through funding interdisciplinary, collaborative research projects at Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Iowa State University. Faculty researchers in CIEMS at Stanford are Prof. Roger T. Howe, Principal Investigator, (Electrical Engineering) Prof. Thomas W. Kenny (Mechanical Engineering), and Prof. Olav Solgaard (Electrical Engienering). Prof. Roya Maboudian (Chemical Engineering) and Prof. Tsu-Jae King Liu (Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences) at Berkeley and Prof. Krishna Rajan (Materials Science and Engineering) at Iowa State are supported by CIEMS and in several projects are collaborating with Stanford research groups. In September 2008, Prof. Karl Bohringer and Prof. Babak Parviz at the University of Washington (Electrical Engineering) will become affiliated with CIEMS.

CIEMS is a N/MEMS Fundamental Science and Technology Center, funded by the DARPA Microsystems Technology Office, Dr. Dennis L. Polla, Program Manager, and several leading companies in microsystems technologies, including Agilent, Boeing, Bosch, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Qualcomm, and Seiko Epson.

Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems (COINS)

The Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems (COINS) is an interdisciplinary home for research and education in nanomechanical systems established by the National Science Foundation in 2004. It includes a researchers in science and engineering from four institutions: University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, the California Institute of Technology, and the University of California, Merced, who interact closely with partners from national laboratories (Sandia and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories) and from industry (Hewlett Packard, Nanosys, IBM, General Electric, Intel, Honeywell, and ChevronTexaco). COINS is administered by Dr. Jeffrey Grossman (Executive Director), Prof. Alex Zettl (Principal Investigator, Physics, Berkeley), Prof. Tsu-Jae King Liu (Electrical Engineering, Berkeley), Prof. Roya Maboudian (Chemical Engineering, Berkeley), Prof. Arun Majumdar (Mechanical Engineering, Berkeley), and Prof. Peidong Yang (Chemistry, Berkeley). Our multifaceted research program ranges from molecular to nanoscale "hard and soft" structural synthesis and patterning, as well as device and system design using the new capabilities of nanoscale components.

Center for Integrated Systems (CIS)

The Center for Integrated Systems is a partnership between Stanford University and member industrial firms for pursuing applied research in the broad area of integrated systems. "Integrated systems" refers to complex interactions across hardware and software at several levels of abstraction. CIS research ranges from semiconductor and MEMS devices and technologies, to integrated circuit design, to embedded computer architectures. As this effective research consortium enters its third decade, CIS is broadening its research scope to include "beyond the roadmap" nanoscale information processing devices, organic photovoltaics and circuit architectures, and new approaches to low-power analog-to-digital conversion.