2002

SRC celebrates 20 years of collaboration, innovation and vision—and of being integral to advancing the U.S. silicon microelectronics industry.

Member companies assign Industrial Liaisons to work with researchers on a record percentage of tasks, a strong indicator of the ongoing efforts to derive value from the technology and to mentor the students toward a rewarding career in the industry.
SRC successfully launches an e-meeting initiative to better enable remote-attendance at meetings by utilizing state-of-the-art teleconferencing and web-based solutions.
The SRC website sees a 22% increase in logins and a 48% increase in page hits over 2001 usage data. The number of individuals within the SRC community that logged into the site in 2002 increased to over 3,100 in 2002 — an increase of nearly 20% over 2001.
A new Center for Advanced Interconnect Science and Technology is formed to develop innovative approaches to ameliorate the increasing impact of interconnects on integrated circuit performance.
Over 1,100 students participate in SRC-funded research in 2002. Of the graduates, about 70% went to work for SRC member organizations or are undergraduate or master's students continuing to higher degrees, further strengthening the links within the SRC community.
The first Simon Karecki Award was made from the Simon Karecki Endowment. This award recognizes outstanding student performance through the SRC/NSF Center for Environmentally Benign Semiconductor Manufacturing, centered at the University of Arizona.

For specific research areas and results, please see this year's annual report. »