About MRC

 

The Micron Research Center (MRC) was established in the fall of 2007 at Utah State University by a grant from the Micron Technology Foundation Inc. The goal of the MRC is to engage faculty and students from multiple disciplines in cutting edge research in the area of 3D Integrated Circuits. The motivation to research this area stems from two trends: (1) Transistors continue to shrink at a steady pace driving semiconductors well into the nano-scale era. This is expected to lead to formidable challenges in reliability, containment of soft and hard errors etc. (2) Vertical integration of multiple chips using through silicon vias (TSV) are expected to increase inter-chip bandwidth by orders of magnitude enabling extreme high performance computing at very low powers. But challenges that need to be overcome to enable this include TSV reliability analysis, thermal management, micro-networking etc. To address some of these fundamental challenges, MRC has inter-disciplinary research projects involving faculty and students from Electrical and Computer engineering, Mechanical engineering and Physics.