Center for Functional Engineered Nano Architectonics
The Center for Functional Engineered Nano Architectonics is a research institute founded in 2003 and headquartered at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science in Los Angeles. The FENA Center networks multiple universities with Industry (members of the Semiconductor Industry Association consortium FCRP) and government based sponsors including the Department of Defense in pursuit of new nano engineered functional materials and devices, and novel structural and computational architectures. FENA's research is focused on developing new information processing systems beyond the limits of conventional CMOS technology. Sponsors include:
•Focus Centers Research Program website
Semiconductor Industry Association Companies
•Advanced Micro Devices
•IBM
•Intel Corporation
•LSI Corporation
•Micron Technology
•Freescale Semiconductor
•Texas Instruments
•Xilinx
Semiconductor Suppliers
•Applied Materials
•Cadence Design Systems
•Novellus Systems
Government Participants
•DARPA
•DUSD for Science & Technology
•SPAWAR Systems Center
FENA is one of five research centers within the Focus Center Research Program (FCRP). Dr. Kang L. Wang serves as Director of the Center. Current FENA university participants include four University of California campuses (Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Riverside, Davis) and University of Southern California, California Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota, New York University, North Carolina State University, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stanford University, University of Massachusetts, Columbia University, Portland State University, University of Wisconsin, Carnegie Mellon University, and Northwestern University.
FCRP's goal is to expand pre-competitive, cooperative, long-range applied microelectronics research at US universities, and develop a radical, yet practical, new device that continues scaling of semiconductors beyond the predominantly silicon content found in chips that power today's computers and electronics. FCRP is a subsidiary of the Semiconductor Research Corporation.
External links
•Functional Engineered Nano Architectonics website
•Focus Center Research Program website
•Nanotechnology Research is Wave of the Future article