Overview

The Western Institute of Nanoelectronics (WIN), a National Institute of Excellence, has been organized to build on the best interdisciplinary talents in the field of nanoelectronics in the world. WIN’s mission is to explore and develop advanced research devices, circuits and nanosystems with performance beyond conventional scaled CMOS. For the first phase, our proposed research will focus initially on nano spintronics and nano plasmonics extending from material, devices, and device-device interaction all the way to circuits and architectures. Our objective of establishing this Institute is to allow for the future expansion and addition of new projects and programs in the later phases. Only such an ambitious establishment is capable of tackling the most difficult inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research challenges in nanoelectronics.

WIN offers the enormous leverage of the present and future infrastructure and resources that the participating universities will bring to benefit the sponsors by providing maximum return on research funding. WIN will initially be made up of exceptional scientists and engineers from four leading academic institutions with equal emphasis:

UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSB and Stanford.

We anticipate future expansions and faculty additions to WIN from a broad variety of UC campuses and other universities in the nation that will participate in new projects that will leverage WIN investment, facilities and equipment.

Organization

Our management plan aims to provide conducive atmosphere which fosters creative research consistent with our projects vision, goals and objectives. This is particularly important so that utilization of infrastructures and resources are maximized. UCLA will be the lead institution with Prof Kang Wang serving as the WIN Director.