UT Austin Engineers and SEMATECH Present Initial Research Results Stemming From $40 Million Partnership Forged by Governor Perry

Market Wire, September, 2004

EVENT:

Kick-off review of the Texas Advanced Materials Research Center (AMRC)

WHEN:

8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 23.

WHERE:

Pickle Research Campus Commons Building and the Microelectronics Research Building (Maps of The University of Texas at Austin can be obtained at: www.utexas.edu/maps/main).

BACKGROUND:

This review will offer the technology community an opportunity to hear and discuss AMRC's initial university research results and plans for future research. Throughout the morning and afternoon, University of Texas at Austin engineering faculty will present research on the hottest topics in materials research, including nanotechnology and organic devices and semiconductor construction. Students will join faculty to answer individual questions about the research during a lunch and poster session from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. in the Microelectronics Research Building which also houses the clean rooms where much of the research is being conducted.

Phil Wilson, Gov. Rick Perry's deputy chief of staff, will deliver the keynote address at 11:45 a.m. He will discuss the relationship between the State of Texas, SEMATECH and Texas universities.

AMRC is a partnership between Texas universities, including The University of Texas at Austin, and SEMATECH to "foster joint projects and accelerate the commercialization of research on new materials and nanostructures for future transistors and their interconnection, as well as the advanced patterning and measurement of future materials and structures." AMRC is the research component of the Texas Technology Initiative, a partnership formed among industry, academia and government to provide a technology-based economic development platform.

UT Contact: Becky Rische 512-471-7272 SEMATECH Contact: Dan McGowan 512-356-3440