Committee Chairperson: Ido Rahat

Research areas:

• Materials and structures for nano, including advanced materials analysis methods
• Modeling and characterization of ultra-thin layers & structures, copper and dielectrics
• Interface biological and chemical to silicon electrical devices at deep sub micron scale
• Factory Operations
• Lean Manufacturing
• Equipment maintenance Productivity
• Process Control Systems
• Environmental: water saving, waste recycling, green energy, LEED (leading energy efficient design), solar energy
• Advanced filtering techniques
• MEMS technologies

Process of proposal submission:

• Researchers will fill in an Abstract Form by April 10th, 2008.
• Intel will notify the researchers within 4 weeks if the abstract is relevant.
• Researchers whose abstract is relevant will be matched to Intel's mentor for working on full proposal. The proposal will be sent by June 15, 2008.

Decisions will be forwarded to the researchers by July 6th, 2008.