BOISE STATE AWARDED $2.7 MILLION TO ESTABLISH RAVEN CENTER FOR EXTREME-ENVIRONMENT MICROELECTRONICS

BOISE, Idaho, Oct. 13 -- Boise State University issued the following news release:

Boise State received a $2.7 million award through NextFlex, the U.S. Department of Defense's flexible hybrid electronics manufacturing institute, to establish the Center for Reconfigurable Analog van der Waals Engines for Non-von-Neumann Sensing (RAVEN). The 15-month project is conducted in partnership with the Air Force Research Laboratory and begins in Oct. 2026.

RAVEN will build the personnel, governance and instrumentation needed to take advanced two-dimensional materials from initial design through growth, device integration and qualification for use in extreme environments - the heat, radiation, vibration and particulate exposure that Air Force sensor...