Columbia University has been awarded $18 million for a new Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) for Advanced Electronic Materials (AEM).
The NSF MRSEC program supports pioneering materials science and engineering research across the United States. Over the next six years, researchers involved with the new AEM center will focus on developing advanced electronic materials needed to improve semiconductors, quantum hardware, and other emerging electronic technologies.
The new AEM center follows two prior MRSECs over the last 12 years, both of which Prof. Krusin was also a member. In 2014, Columbia received a MRSEC grant to study precision assembly of superstratic and superatomic solids; that center was succeeded in 2020 by Columbia’s MRSEC for Precision Assembled Quantum Materials (PAQM).
The center’s ultimate goal is to understand how to control the quantum properties of materials to develop more powerful computers, faster and more efficient forms of communication, and other novel quantum devices.
Congratulations to Prof. Krusin and all involved researchers!