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AlN semiconductor electronics to advance with DARPA grant
A team of Cornell researchers from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering will use a DARPA grant to advance aluminum nitride as an ultrawide-bandgap semiconductor material, including Leo Schowalter, CTO of Lit Thinking and a visiting professor;...
Prof. Jena receives the Art Gossard MBE Innovator Award
At the 2024 NAMBE Prof. Jena was honored with the Art Gossard MBE Innovator Award. Prof. Jena learned MBE from Art Gossard at UCSB during his PhD study. https://nambe2024.avs.org/awards/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Gossard
Jena Xing students attend the 2nd Annual Review meeting of the SUPREME Center at MIT
June 10-12 Jena Xing students traveled together to Cambridge to attend the 2nd Annual Review meeting of the SUPREME Center at MIT. Professor H. Grace Xing is the director of the SUPREME Center, a microelectronics research center funded through the JUMP 2.0 consortium...
EK Kim and Saumya Vashishtha (AEP’25) won awards at 2024 DRC and EMC
PhD student EK won a Best Oral Student Presentation Award at DRC 2024, congrats! He presented AlN/GaN/AlN HEMTs for RF amplifiers with 3 different designs: quantum well with both 2DEG and 2DHG, quantum well with 2DEG only and thick GaN channel. The study clearly...
Ambrose Yang (Cornell CS/ECE’24) – selected as a Merrill Scholar – honors Prof. Jena
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/05/merrill-scholars-honor-mentors-who-inspired-them Ambrose was among the 42 Merrill Scholars who celebrated the high school teacher or mentor with the greatest influence on their early education and the Cornell faculty or staff...
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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.