Preeminent scientist Yves Chabal first to hold Texas Instruments Distinguished University Chair in Nanoelectronics at UT Dallas
Dr. Yves Chabel, the first holder of the Texas Instruments Distinguished University Chair in Nanoelectronics. |
Dr. Yves Chabal, one of the world's foremost authorities on semiconductor surfaces and materials — areas that are central to developing future generations of microchips — is joining The University of Texas at Dallas, where he will be the first to hold the Texas Instruments Distinguished University Chair in Nanoelectronics.
The $2M chair was made possible by the Texas Nanoelectronics Research Superiority Initiative, which is a joint venture between the State of Texas Emerging Technology Fund, The University of Texas System, UT Dallas, UT Austin, UT Arlington and private industry, to make Texas a leader in nanoelectronics research.
The new chair is a permanent endowment for the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, where Chabal will lead the materials science and engineering faculty. It is the first chair to be established at UT Dallas in nanoelectronics, a field of science, whose goal is to control individual atoms and molecules to create computer chips and other devices that are much smaller than current technologies permit.
The Texas Nanoelectronics Research Superiority Initiative was founded to help attract the Nanoelectronics Research Initiative-sponsored Southwest Academy of Nanoelectronics (SWAN) to the state. SWAN is a nanoelectronics initiative involving the UT System, the State of Texas, TI and other industry partners. With more than $30M in funding spread across 3 years, universities participating in the initiative collaborate as one research center to develop and exploit nanoelectronic technology. TI is the lead corporate investor in the effort, with a $5M contribution.
“To be a leader in the competitive technology field, we must attract and retain the brightest minds in the world to educate our future workforce and to create and contribute to the companies that will drive our economy into the future,” said Dr. Hans Stork, CTO and senior vice president of silicon technology development at Texas Instruments. “TI strongly supports the Texas nanoelectronics initiative because of the role it will play in recruiting and supporting leading scholars in nanotechnology like Dr. Chabal.”
Dr. Chabal was previously director of the Laboratory for Surface Modification at Rutgers University, where he had appointments in the departments of chemistry and chemical biology, biomedical engineering, and physics and astronomy. Prior to that, he spent two decades at Bell Labs.
Dr. Chabal's work in materials science is key to developing ever smaller, more powerful and energy-efficient semiconductors. He will have significant lab space in UT Dallas' new 192,000-square-foot Natural Science and Engineering Research Laboratory, which was designed to both encourage multi-faceted studies and to attract world-class researchers to the University.
Dr. Chabal formally starts work at UT Dallas in January 2008.
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