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Dec.
9, 2002 |
CAIST Showcased in Project Review
Faculty from more than a dozen universities and
representatives from twice that many industries came to campus
Nov. 18-21 for a full-blown review of Rensselaer's Center for
Advanced Interconnect Systems Technologies (CAIST).
A major force in exploring the development
of future chips, CAIST has already led to the birth of start-up
ventures such as Crystal IS and Z-omega. It has transferred
technology to such New York companies as GE and Polyset, and
helped to create more than 30 new patents for participating
partners.
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The review featured three days of scholarly presentations
on research in the center's five areas of study: metallization,
dialectrics and barriers, surfaces and interfaces, reliability
and optical interconnects, and novel exploratory projects.
"Many exciting and innovative ideas were
presented for the fabrication of future integrated circuits that
will allow ultra-high-performance computer chips to operate at
10 to 100 times faster that the state of the art," said CAIST
Director Toh-Ming Lu, the Ray Palmer Baker Distinguished Professor
in Physics at Rensselaer.
CAIST was founded in 1996 and is dedicated to
developing new, fundamental scientific and engineering capabilities
to serve the needs of the semiconductor/electronics industry.
With an annual budget of more than $3 million, CAIST is supported
by the Semiconductor Research Corporation, New York State, and
IBM.
In addition to Rensselaer, university participants
include the University at Albany, the University of California
at Berkeley, Columbia, Cornell, Georgia Tech, MIT, the University
of Rochester, the University of Texas at Austin, and others.
A major force in exploring the development of
future chips, CAIST has already led to the birth of start-up ventures
such as Crystal IS and Z-omega. It has transferred technology
to such New York companies as GE and Polyset, and helped to create
more than 30 new patents for participating partners.
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