The NEEDS Initiative: Devices, Circuits, and Systems
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This presentation is part of the 8th IEEE/ACM Workshop on Variability Modeling and Characterization (VMC) 2015.
This presentation provides an overview of the NEEDS initiative, which is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and by the Semiconductor Research Corporation. The overarching goal is advance the science of nanodevices and enable new applications. The focus is on physics-based compact models for emerging devices. Such models link fundamental work on materials and devices to applications. NEEDS also has an infrastructure mission to develop tools and resources that facilitate the creation and dissemination of compact models. NEEDS has an educational mission too, which emphasizes the nanoscience behind the novel materials and devices being explored. This talk provides an overview of NEEDS and introduces a new set of open source Uncertainty Quantification tools that were developed by the material science community but which have applications in electronics.
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Mark Lundstrom is the Don and Carol Scifres Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He received Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1980 and BEE and MSEE degrees from the University of Minnesota in 1973 and 1974. Between his MSEE and Ph.D. degrees. he worked at Hewlett-Packard Corporation on integrated circuit process development and manufacturing. At Purdue, his research has explored a wide range of semiconductor devices, the physics of carrier transport, and the modeling and numerical simulation of devices. His current focus is on energy conversion devices such as solar cells and thermoelectric devices and on the ultimate transistor. Lundstrom was the founding director of the Network for Computational Nanotechnology and nanoHUB.org, a science gateway that now serves a worldwide nanotechnology community of more that 300,000 individuals. He currently leads NEEDS, an NSF and industry-funded, multi-university initiative focused on newera electronics, and he leads the nanoHUB-U initiative for on-line education. Dr. Lundstrom is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the American Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He has received several awards for his teaching and research, is a Thompson-Reuters Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering and is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.
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