The Center for Solid State Electronics Research (CSSER) is an Arizona Board of Regents Center at ASU within the Fulton School of Engineering. It was established in 1981 during the first phase of the Engineering Excellence Program at Arizona State University. The vision was to achieve nothing less than national leadership in the crucial area of solid state electronics. High technology now directly or indirectly supports one out of every five jobs in Arizona. The Center has exhibited strong and steady growth since those days and currently provides resources and infrastructure support for research and education in the form of 30 laboratories and support areas covering more than 30,000 square feet, including a class-100/1000 cleanroom administered and maintained by a complement of 10 staff.

Today, CSSER supports the research programs of more than 50 faculty members, 10 post-doctoral researchers and 75 students drawn from various disciplines, including electrical engineering, chemical engineering, bioengineering, materials science, mechanical engineering, physics, chemistry and industrial engineering. The microelectronics research is focused in five main cross-disciplinary efforts: Bio & Molecular Electronics, Low Power Electronics, Materials & Process Fundamentals, Molecular Beam Epitaxy & Optoelectronics, Nanostructures and Quantum Structures. Other research activities supported by CSSER include MEMS and Nanofluidics, Wide Band Gap Semiconductors, High-k Dielectrics and Nanomagnetics.