Research Expertise and Interest
integrated-circuit devices and technology
Research Description
Research activities are presently in energy-efficient electronic devices and technology, as well as materials, processes, and devices for integrated microsystems.
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Leadership Philanthropy Funds New Engineering Student Center
Powered by a $30 million challenge match grant from an anonymous alum, UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering has raised more than $74 million in gifts to transform the engineering student center into a vibrant hub of learning and discovery, cross-disciplinary collaboration, innovation and entrepreneurship.
Three innovators elected to National Academy of Inventors
Three faculty members – Tsu-Jae King Liu and Eli Yablonovitch of electrical engineering and computer sciences and Daniel Portnoy of molecular and cell biology and public health – have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors.
Three faculty elected to National Academy of Engineering
Three UC Berkeley professors are among 11 University of California researchers elected to the National Academy of Engineering, among the highest honors in the profession.
Pilot program to bolster biophysical sciences’ innovation pipeline
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Radical new Intel transistor based on UC Berkeley’s FinFET
In early May, Intel announced a radical new transistor design: a 3D device that will enable the production of integrated-circuit chips that operate faster with less power. The breakthrough has its roots in research begun in 1997 by a team led by Berkeley electrical engineers Chenming Hu, Jeff Bokor and Tsu-Jae King Liu.
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February 25, 2020
At the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) in San Francisco last December, researchers discussed their efforts to find ways of increasing the capacity of quantum computers, a tricky challenge because any solution needs to work at near absolute zero temperatures. Berkeley research led by engineering professor Tsu-Jae King Liu was presented by her graduate student Xiaoer Hu. They developed micrometer-scale electromechanical relays as ultralow-power alternatives to transistors, and made the happy discovery that the relays worked better at 4 K than at room temperature. That's because oxygen can interfere with conductivity at room temperature, while oxygen gets frozen out at cryogenic temperatures. "We didn't suspect ahead of time that these devices would operate so well at cryogenic temperatures," Professor Liu says. "In retrospect, we should have."
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