Northeast Regional Defense Technology Hub (NORDTECH)

NORDTECH is a regional coalition of public and private sector experts in the Microelectronics Commons region in and around New York State. NORDTECH’s five founding members who compose the leadership team and governance committee of the hub include: the New York Center for Research, Economic Advancement, Technology, Engineering, and Science (NY CREATES), the University at Albany College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering (CNSE), Cornell University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), and IBM. NORDTECH’s board is advised by diverse participating member organizations, including small and medium semiconductor manufacturing companies, universities and community colleges, and major corporations that are service providers and leaders in semiconductor device design, fabrication, and production.

Northeast Regional Defense Technology Hub (NORDTECH)

Nicholas Fahrenkopf

Technical Director

NORDTECH

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Technology Areas Supported by the Hub

Artificial Intelligence Hardware
Quantum Technology
Secure Edge Computing/Internet of Things
Commercial Leap-Ahead Technologies

Hub Project Awards

  • Quantum ($8.9M) 
    • Improved Materials for Superconducting Qubits with Scalable Fabrication
      • NY CREATES and partners in academia, industry, and government will co-develop technologies necessary to demonstrate scalable quantum error correction, using new materials, innovative quantum circuits and qubit control schemes.
  • Quantum ($8.5M) 
    • Quantum Ultra-broadband Photonic Integrated Circuits and Systems (QUPICS)
      • The QUPICS team, led by the American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics (AIM Photonics) and Cornell University, will develop a novel 300mm foundry fabrication platform for quantum technologies which will span the ultraviolet to the infrared.
  • Quantum ($3.9M) 
    • Heterogeneous Quantum Networking
      • The Rochester Institute of Technology, AFRL, and partners plan to realize a heterogeneous quantum network (HQN) that connects ion-based qubits with superconducting and photonic-based qubits using high speed photonics chips.
  • Commercial Leap Ahead ($8.4M) 
    • Nitride RF Next-Generation Technology (NITRIDER)
      • High-speed gallium nitride (GaN) high-electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) have revolutionized defense radar and communication systems, despite delivering only 1/10th of the radio frequency (RF) output power for which this semiconductor family is capable. In this project, Cornell University and its team will unleash the dormant 90% output using novel and patented nitride HEMTs and aluminum nitride (AIN) substrates.

NORDTECH Hub Member List