Semiconductor Research Corporation and National Science Foundation Fund Search for New Transistors

New Grants Seek to Power the Future of Global Electronics with Nanoelectronics. Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world's leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, today teamed with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to announce funding of $2 million in new supplemental grants for nanoelectronics research.

Semiconductor Research Corporation
July 15, 2009
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New Grants Seek to Power the Future of Global Electronics with Nanoelectronics

SEMICON WEST 2009, SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world's leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, today teamed with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to announce funding of $2 million in new supplemental grants for nanoelectronics research. <./p>

Researchers at six major NSF centers inside leading U.S. universities will contribute to the goal of finding a replacement for the transistor - the foundational building block of computing technology for decades - and discovering a new digital switching mechanism using nanoelectronics innovation.

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