CHTM Funding

CHTMs' Funding History

CHTM was created by the State of New Mexico in 1983 and received substantial state funding during its first 5 years. By 1991 external research funding had grown to nearly $6M and state funding was phased out. CHTM's annual budget is now in excess of $7M. More than 80% of this funding comes from external research contracts from government agencies such as AFOSR, DARPA and from US industry. Approximately $800K is provided by the University of New Mexico.

Research Awards

The major part of CHTM's external research funding comes from government agencies. Some of the major (multi-institution, multi-investigator) awards received since 1986 are listed below. More information on recent research contracts can be found under Contracts.  

• 1986 - AFOSR Optoelectronics Research Center
• 1988 - Sematech Center of Excellence Metrology and On-Line Analysis for Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 1990 - DARPA Optoelectronic Materials Center, with Stanford U, CalTech, SNL and MIT-LL.
• 1993 - ARPA Optoelectronic Materials Center, with Stanford U, U of Arizona, SNL and MIT-LL
• 1997 - DARPA Optoelectronic Materials Center with Stanford U, USC, U-Tx at Austin

Industry Research Support

Industry research contracts and equipment donations form a significant part of CHTM's external research funding. During the 1997 to 1999 period these totalled $3.48M.

The following comapnies have supported research at CHTM

Equipment Donations have been given by the following companies

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