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EK Kim and Kathleeen Smith receive awards from CNF
EK Kim was selected as the Best User Presentation at the annual CNF Symposium 2024 for his presentation "Aluminum Nitride Based High-Electron-Mobility Transistors for RF Power Amplification" Kathleen Smith received the 2024 Nellie Yeh-Poh Lin Whetten Memorial Award....
Jon McCandless and Gallox Semiconductors were awarded a Breakthrough Energy Fellowship
Jon and Gallox Semiconductors were awarded a Breakthrough Energy Fellowship. Breakthrough Energy was founded in 2015 by Bill Gates and is the leading supporter of early-stage climate tech startups. Gallox is working to solve the most significant challenges hindering...
Len van Deurzen and EK Kim present in Nature (magazine): There’s two sides to this semiconductor, and many simultaneous functions
Gallium nitride-based semiconductors have been a boon for high-frequency and power electronics. They’ve also revolutionized energy-efficient LED lighting. But no semiconductor wafer has been able to do both at the same time efficiently. Now Cornell researchers, in...
Chandu Savant’s paper on AlBN Featured on the Cover of Applied Physics Letters August 2024
"Ferroelectric AlBN films by molecular beam epitaxy" authored by Chandrashekhar Savant et al. has been chosen as the Editor’s pick and featured on the Cover of the August 2024 Applied Physics Letters journal issue. In this article, we demonstrate ferroelectric AlBN...
Wenwen Zhao receives 2024 KIC Graduate Fellowship
Wenwen Zhao, currently a PhD student in Applied and Engineering Physics, has been awarded the 2024 KIC Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations on all your hard work! https://www.kicnano.cornell.edu/people/wenwen-zhao
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The central research theme in our group is to develop electronic grade semiconductors and understand the fundamental limits of these materials and their applications. The essential scientific tools our group uses include epitaxy, basic material characterizations, transport theory and experiments, device theory and experiments.