Facilities

The ECE department has extensive facilities to conduct research in the major areas of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In addition to academic instructional laboratories (11,000 square feet), the department houses several research laboratories (10,000 square feet) outfitted with the latest equipment:

• Dreams to Reality Incubator
• Embedded Systems Lab
• Quantum Device Laboratory

ECE Faculty and students also have access to the C. Kenneth and Dianne Harris Wright Virginia Microelectronics Center (including two Class-1000 cleanrooms with a total of 6000 sq.ft. space) and the Nanomaterials Core Characterization Facility located in the College of Engineering. These centers offer access to state-of-the-art equipment unique to the mid-Atlantic region for development of electronic materials and the fabrication and testing of a wide array of micro- and nano-electronic devices. Device fabrication includes high-speed solid-state electronic devices, optical devices, silicon MOS transistors, micro-electro-mechanical systems, solar cells, microfluidic components, surface acoustic wave devices, biochips, and other microsensors and systems. Devices are fabricated on materials ranging from MOCVD- and MBE-grown wide bandgap semiconductors and III-V semiconductors to conventional silicon and dielectric materials.