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Visit MCL Visit Nanofab Visit 2DCC Penn State’s Role in Setting a Course for America’s Semiconductor Future Featured articles about Penn State’s strengths in semiconductor research and discovery View the articles The Materials Characterization Lab (MCL) MCL is a fully-staffed, open access, analytical research facility charged with enabling research and educating the next generation of highly qualified researchers. Learn more about MCL The Nanofabrication Lab (Nanofab) The Nanofab saves companies the expense of maintaining their own state-of-the-art equipment and provides a highly skilled technical staff dedicated to working with companies in Pennsylvania and world wide. Learn more about the Nanofab 2D Crystal Consortium Materials Innovation Platform (2DCC-MIP) Focused on the development of two dimensional (2D) chalcogenides for applications in next generation electronics beyond silicon for digital circuits and flexible electronics. Learn more about the 2DCC Featured Research Stories Q&A: How can advanced chip packaging help redesign the future of semiconductors? by Penn State May 07, 2024 MRI Director Clive Randall named Evan Pugh University Professor by Penn State May 03, 2024 ‘Better than graphene’ material development may improve implantable technology by Penn State May 03, 2024 Cold sintering may rescue plastic, ceramics, battery components from landfills by Penn State May 02, 2024 Making light ‘feel’ a magnetic field like an electron would by Penn State April 23, 2024 GPS nanoparticle platform precisely delivers therapeutic payload to cancer cells by Penn State April 11, 2024 ‘Surprising’ hidden activity of semiconductor material spotted by researchers by Penn State April 08, 2024 Silicon Carbide Innovation Alliance to drive industrial-scale semiconductor work by Penn State April 03, 2024 Butterfly-inspired AI technology takes flight by Penn State April 01, 2024 Scientists develop new method to create stable, efficient next-gen solar cells by Penn State October 13, 2023 Current Events & Opportunities at MRI Register to attend 2DCC Webinars Details & Apply IPDR Seed Grant Event Details Lecture Series Details/Register Pitch Competition Café details Millennium Café Welcome to Our 360° Virtual Tours Tour the Lab X-Ray Diffraction Lab Tour the Lab Nanofab Lithography Lab Tour the Lab Scanning Electron Microscopy Upcoming Café Pandora’s Box: Legislation, Regulation, and Neurotech Apr. 30, 2024 We will engage researchers from different disciplines to consider the ethical, social, legal, and cultural implications of innovative biomedical research for patients, people, animals, and populations. Panel experts and audience participants will specifically discuss the opportunities and challenges of governing neuroscientific advances and novel neurotechnologies. Neuroscience has reached a pivotal point in its study of the human brain, including the creation of novel neurotechnologies with unique capabilities for both understanding the brain’s intricate functions and manipulating neural activity with high precision. While both neuroscience and neurotechnology are critical to improving societal and individual well-being, both can also be applied in a variety of domains such as law, context of legal systems, employment, and entertainment, impacting our daily lives and society in unprecedented ways: some positive and some negative. This poses unique ethical, social, and legal questions, including: How can we best regulate development and use? What can be learned from other technologies regarding how best to govern emerging technologies? Is new regulation needed to address neurotechnologies? Panelist: Jennifer Wagner | Law, Policy, and Engineering Laura Cabrera | Engineering Science & Mechanics / Rock Ethics Institute Michele Mekel | Bioethics, law, and Medical Humanities Moderator: Laura Weyrich | Anthropology and Bioethics What Makes a Successful MRSEC Seed Proposal? Apr. 23, 2024 Penn State’s NSF-supported Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) will soon invite proposals for a Seed competition that seeks to nucleate interdisciplinary teams in areas of transformative materials research that would be competitive as Interdisciplinary Research Groups (IRGs) in the upcoming 2025–26 national MRSEC competition. During the Cafe I will describe the qualities of a successful Seed-IRG. Immediately after the Café (starting at 11a) will be a round table opportunity for anyone interested in further discussion & brainstorming. Vin Crespi | Penn State MRSEC More Posts Core Facilities and Centers at MRI MASH: Mid-Atlantic Semiconductor Hub Center COMMS The Center for COmputational Mesoscale Materials Science advances the basic mesoscale science of quantum and functional materials and develops open-source software for simulating the formation and responses of mesostructures in these materials to external stimuli towards accelerating their insertion into devices. Center Materials Characterization Lab MCL has an established history of successful collaborations with industry partners of all sizes - from start-up to multinational Fortune 500 companies. Core Facility Nanofabrication Lab From a wide variety of available processes, academic and industrial researchers have the ability to develop and fabricate a wide array of novel devices. Core Facility 2D Crystal Consortium - Materials Innovation Platform (2DCC-MIP) The 2DCC-MIP is focused on advancing the synthesis of 2D materials within the context of a national user facility. Core Facility Materials Computation Center Experimentalists are working with theorists to improve existing systems and develop the next generation of materials to meet societal needs. Core Center Welcome to the Center for 2D Layered Materials The Center For 2D Layered Materials offers a unique, vertically integrated research education to graduate and undergraduate students Center 3DFeM 3DFeM will enable technologies exploiting the 3rd dimension in microelectronics for functions beyond interconnects for low power, non volatile 3D memory above CMOS logic Center AREC-USA Goal is to promote collaborations between industry and universities with the goal to provide a platform that is easy to access policy makers in order to meet the challenges of sustainability across supply chains Center ASSIST To create self-powered sensing, computing, and communication systems to enable data-driven insights for a smart and healthy world. Center Welcome to Atomic Center for Atomically Thin Multifunctional Coatings: Expanding the innovation and development of novel coating technologies and functionalities enabled by two-dimensional materials Center BEST Bringing together the campus-wide expertise in energy storage, foster collaboration, and provide a focal point for research and education activities. Center Center for Dielectrics and Piezoelectrics Providing international leadership and train next-generation scientists in the fundamental science and engineering that underpin dielectric and piezoelectric materials. Center CEHMS Developing interdisciplinary strengths in science and technology issues related to the sustainable development of energy solutions (NSF I/UCRC). Center CIMP-3D Providing...