The Microelectronics Research Center concentrates research in the following major areas:

• New device and integrated circuit structures, including advanced component development and process modeling
• Studies of hot electron transport in small geometry devices and the physics of scaled devices
• Device processing including diffusion, lithography, rapid thermal processing, plasma etching, remote plasma, and thermal chemical vapor deposition of silicon and related film
• Advanced crystal growth of compound semiconductor materials, including III-V multiple heterojunction structures, employing MBE and MOCVD
• New device structures for optoelectronic and photonic applications, and for microwave and millimeter-wave devices
• New approaches to device packaging and interconnects, including optical interconnects.