by Kim Horner
To make computer chips — and the devices they power — even smaller and more efficient, engineers need new materials.
Three University of Texas at Dallas faculty members and collaborators from other universities and two industry partners have teamed up to design and test indium-based materials to enable the manufacture of the next generation of computer chips.
The researchers have received a $1.9 million, three-year grant to support their work through the National Science Foundation Future of Semiconductors (FuSe2) program.
The UTD funding is part of $42.4 million in FuSe2 grants announced in September to support the goals of the federal CHIPS (Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors) and Science Act of 2022 to make microchips more energy efficient and to facilitate the domestic production of integrated circuits.
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