Berkeley Engineering is the recipient of top-of-the-line semiconductor processing equipment, installation and service contracts worth more than $5 million, thanks to a gift made in August by Applied Materials. The 200mm Centura Epi and 200mm Centura Gate Stack systems will be housed in the new CITRIS Nanofabrication Laboratory, according to Dean Shankar Sastry.

“These advanced systems will be used by our engineering students to accelerate groundbreaking research in semiconductor and related nanofabrication technology that will fuel an array of new discoveries,” Sastry says. UC Berkeley will dedicate a collaborative laboratory, or “collaboratory,” for energy research at CITRIS to Applied Materials, which previously donated equipment to the college in 2002. Founded in 1967, the company manufactures semiconductor chips, flat panel displays, solar photovoltaic cells, flexible electronics and energy efficient glass.