Georgia Institute of Technology

Mark Allen Exec. Director IEN

Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology:

IEN provides advanced Nano, Micro, and Bio Laboratories valued in excess of $400M of dedicated process tools and support expertise. These open-user, fee based laboratories are available to global academic, industry, and government clientele, offering a unique and comprehensive laboratory and teaming environment.
IEN is comprised of multiple Electronics and Nanotechnology Research Centers, each offering a unique intellectual focus ranging from basic discovery and innovation to systems realization. Faculty leadership within IEN centers includes global experts, several of whom are Eminent Scholars and National Academy of Engineer members. This strategic research compilation conducts more than $100M of research annually, and is capable of providing a broad spectrum of research and development activities ranging from basic discovery to systems prototypes for academic, industry and government sponsors.

Farrokh Ayazi
Director CMMT

Center for MEMS and Microsystems Technologies:

The Center for MEMS and Microsystems Technologies (CMMT) serves as a central entity for MEMS research and educational activities across various disciplines of engineering at the Georgia Tech.  CMMT offers research programs, prototyping, consulting, short courses and research-related training activities.

Russell Dupuis
Director CCS

The Center for Compound Semiconductors:

The Center for Compound Semiconductors (CCS) is a focal point for research and educational collaborations in the Georgia Tech community related to compound semiconductors, including conventional and nanotechnology materials and devices.

Stephen E. Ralph Director GEDC

The Georgia Electronic Design Center:

The Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC) fosters growth in the broadband telecommunications industry and aims to establish Georgia as a world leader in the design of broadband communication systems, devices, and chips. GEDC is specifically focused on enabling the mobile Internet via innovative research on mixed-signal (analog and digital) systems that operate at the boundaries between telecommunications, microelectronics, analog/RF, and sensing technologies.

Richard Slusher
Director GTQI

Georgia Tech Quantum Institute:

The Georgia Tech Quantum Institute (GTQI) is a multi-disciplinary effort to explore and develop quantum information science and technology. The GTQI mission is to combine the strengths in engineering and technology at Georgia Tech with the emerging field of quantum information science in order to advance both fundamental science and emerging quantum information technologies.

Mike Harris
Lab Director GTRI

GTRI Microelectronics and Nanotechnology:

The GTRI Microelectronics and Nanotechnologies group performs applied research in the growth and application of carbon nanotubes, multifunctional materials, RFID and optical tagging, chem-bio sensors. They conduct research in broad areas in electro-optical systems, including:  Remote Sensing, Modeling and analysis, Integrated sensing systems, Optical device technology, LIDAR system design and measurement, Microelectronics, Nanotechnology, Solid state lighting, Performance support systems. Sensor data collection, Analysis

Paul Kohl
Director IFC

Interconnect Focus Center:

The Interconnect Focus Center (IFC) conducts research to discover and invent new electrical, optical and thermal interconnect solutions that will meet or exceed ITRS projections and enable hyper-integration of heterogeneous components for future terascale systems.

Madhavan Swaminathan
Director IPC

Interconnect and Packaging Center:

The Interconnect and Packaging Centeris an SRC Center of Excellence focusing on the next generation of 3D technologies for micro and nano miniaturization of systems. It is a multi-university center with Georgia Tech as the lead university.

Dennis Hess
Director MRSBC

Materials Research Science and Engineering Center:

The Georgia Tech MRSEC is an interdisciplinary team of university, industrial and national laboratory scientists and engineers working together to address the need for new electronic materials and associated processes for applications in microelectronics, optics and sensors. This program includes a single Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) on Graphene Science and Technology. Its focus is to investigate fabrication and characterization approaches for the implementation of epitaxial graphene as an electronic material.

James Meindl
Director NRC

Nanotechnology Research Center:

The Nanotechnology Research Center (NRC) is a member of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN), supported by the National Science Foundation.
The manipulation and study of matter at the nanoscale is increasingly playing an important role in every scientific and engineering discipline. This research and its eventual commercialization have the ability to fundamentally change the way products as diverse as electronics, paints, medical devices, solar cells, and cancer therapeutics are designed and manufactured.
The NRC/NNIN Education and Outreach Office provides programs for students, teachers, professionals, and the general public to ensure a nano-literate public and to encourage students to pursue STEM education and careers.

Rao Tummala
Director PRC

3D Systems Packaging Research Center:

The 3D Systems Packaging Research Center (PRC) is pioneering System-on-Package (SOP) in contrast to system-on-a board (SOB) that is currently in practice and system-on-chip (SOC) that seems unlikely. The SOP concept will ultra-miniaturized consumer electronics and ultra-high performance computing systems. As these systems are explored, developed and designed with nanoscale components, electronic systems are expected to trend towards mega-functional systems at lowest cost in smallest size, enabled by SOP.

Ajeet Rohatgi
Director UCEP

University Center of Excellence for Photovoltaics Research and Education:

University Center of Excellence for Photovoltaics Research and Education (UCEP) is a U.S. Department of Energy-supported center engaged in research and development in advanced photovoltaic materials. The mission of the Center is to improve the fundamental understanding of the science and technology of advanced PV devices, to fabricate record high efficiency solar cells, to provide training and enrich the educational experience of students in this field, and to give the U.S. a competitive edge by providing guidelines to industry and DOE for achieving cost-effective and high-efficiency PV devices.