Multifunctional Materials Integration Research News

Kyusang Lee Earns Prestigious National Science Foundation Grant to Build the Equivalent of a Human Eye and Its Visual Cortex

Device promises to be 1,000 times more efficient in computing than current technology.

Funding Supports Modeling and Measurement of Digital Alloys Used to Fabricate Avalanche Photon Detectors

A $500,000 NSF research grant adds to the team’s modeling and measurement work over the next three years.

Endowments Will Support Faculty Recruitment and Retention, Ph.D. Fellowships and Strategic Initiatives

Alumnus Greg Olsen credits his materials science and engineering faculty mentor, William A. Jesser, for launching his career and inspiring his historic contribution.

Patrick Hopkins, a mechanical and aerospace engineering professor, has been selected for the U.S. Defense Science Study Group, a program bringing together top American scientists and engineers to address national security challenges.

Breakthroughs in Low Light and Long Wavelength Detection Bring Quantum Technology Closer to Reality

Research group pushes boundaries in quantum information and quantum computing.

Ultra-Low-Power System-on-Chip Eases Continuous Monitoring of Personal Health and Wellness

UVA researchers combine sensing, computation, RF communication, energy harvesting and power management into a single system-on-chip.

On-Chip Neuromorphic Hardware Will Optimize Size, Power and Speed of Computing Devices

Team develops state-of-the-art computational models and collaborates with experimentalists to understand the limits of various low-power electronic computing paradigms.

Nikhil Shukla has earned a grant from the National Science Foundation to improve computing applications through the design of new devices and circuits made with new materials.

Thermal Conductivity Easily and Efficiently Drains Device Heat Sinks

Zebarjadi Applied Her Knowledge of Electric Circuits and Materials to Design an All-solid-state Active Cooler.

Bowers will concentrate on maximizing the efficiency of the systems used to transmit and receive data in wireless sensor networks.

Making the trillions of devices expected to be deployed on the Internet of Things over the next 20 years self-charging is a complex research task, and UVA is helping to lead the...