Electrical and Computer Engineering Fast/RF flexible electronics, high-speed thin film transistors, MMIC circuits transferrable to flexible or other foreign substrates for radar and communications, hybrid integration of organic and inorganic flexible electronics -- SiGe HBT and RF CMOS device physics and applications in high frequency/mm-wave power amplification -- Single-crystal and polycrystalline semiconductor nanomembrane physics and applications, including displays, flexible solar cells, energy conversion, environment protection, imaging, information storage, lighting, sensing, health care and bio devices -- Si nanophotonics, high-speed multispectral imaging -- CMOS-compatible optoelectronic devices and OEIC -- 3-D integration, heterogeneous integration, MEMS/NEMS integration with CMOS -- III-V heterostructure device and application -- Nanoscale SiGe bipolar transistors and quantum effect devices
Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Materials Science Program, Wisconsin Center for Applied Microelectronics
Chemistry Syntheses of new classes of amphiphilic block copolymer surfactants and attendant characterization of their bulk and solution phase behavior for applications as rheological modifiers and novel biomedical materials -- Development of new catalysts for the mild synthesis of polyolefins containing polar functionalities possessing unknown monomer sequence distributions and new properties -- Explorations of new organometallic strategies for rational syntheses of semiconducting and metallic nanoparticles with well-defined shapes and catalytic activities
Materials Science Program
Chemical and Biological Engineering Production Planning and Scheduling -- Supply Chain Management -- New Product Development -- Mixed-integer Programming -- Systems Biology
materials analysis with X-ray diffraction -- structural defects in semiconductor materials -- growth-related defects in protein crystals studied by high resolution X-ray diffraction methods -- photo-assisted materials growth using X-ray standing waves -- materials modification by plasma-source ion implantation
Wisconsin Center for Applied Microelectronics
Physics Condensed Matter: Quantum coherence and entanglement of superconducting integrated circuits, quantum-limited amplifiers, application of SQUIDs to magnetic resonance detection.
Materials Science Program
Electrical and Computer Engineering Networked Embedded Systems -- Wireless Sensor Networks -- Smart Spaces and Environment Control -- Automated Design Space Exploration -- Application Specific Compilation -- Watermarking and Computational Security
Civil and Environmental Engineering spatial control network adjustments -- satellite geopositioning -- engineering and geodetic control surveying -- geospatial information engineering -- land information systems.
Industrial and Systems Engineering Mathematical programming--especially integer programming, mixed integer programming, and combinatorial optimization. -- Stochastic integer programming. -- Application of the above to problems in logistics, production planning, supply chain design and planning, and health care delivery.
Engineering Physics, Materials Science and Engineering Computational materials science for materials design -- Ab initio electronic structure methods and multiscale techniques for large time / length scales and thermokinetics -- Statistical and data mining techniques for materials property prediction -- Physics of nanoscale phenomena in ceramic and biochemical systems -- Application areas: Nuclear materials, Battery and fuel cell electrodes, Earth mantle materials, Spin transition ceramics, Sorption at water mineral interfaces
Materials Science Program
Mechanical Engineering engine/powertrain/vehicle dynamic system modeling and parameter identification -- multivariable and nonlinear robust controller and observer design -- powertrain system diagnostics and real-time simulation -- transient hardware-in-the-loop engine test systems -- powertrain and vehicle system design and dynamics
Powertrain Control Research Laboratory
