CSL laboratories and centers support more than 425 research and administrative staff in interdisciplinary research efforts that often would be unavailable to individual faculty members operating solely within their respective departments.
Within CSL there are two more formalized organizations: the Decision and Control Laboratory and the Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing. CSL maintains unique facilities in materials processing including photochemical etching, electron-beam welding, inert gas brazing, chemical plating, computer-aided design, electronic circuit characterization, molecular beam epitaxy, and glass blowing. A cooperative facility, called the EpiCenter, is operated in the Engineering Sciences Building by the Materials Research Laboratory, the Microelectronics Laboratory, and CSL for the molecular beam epitaxial growth of new semiconductor materials.
The single largest research program in CSL is the Joint Services Electronics Program, which supports a broad program of electronics. Two large, block-funded programs in CSL are the NASA Illinois Computing Laboratory Aerospace Systems Software project and the Semiconductor Research Corporation program, which supports research in silicon integrated circuits. The remaining support comes from a vast assortment of government agencies, industrial sponsors, and private gifts. Many faculty members in CSL participate in interdisciplinary research programs in the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, the Microelectronics Laboratory, and the National Computational Science Alliance.
CSL has a nationally recognized research and teaching reputation for excellence as exemplified by its faculty awards and honors, including numerous fellows named by national societies and several winners of the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, as well as outstanding teaching awards by the UIUC campus.
Faculty associated with CSL are listed below. Research projects conducted in the College of Engineering are described in the respective departmental sections.