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Akhansha Arvind, Chuan Chang, Mareum Khan won Best Lightning Talks at the 2025 SUPREME Annual Review
Congratulations for their wonderful contributions! More details can be found at the SUPREME website. https://supreme.cornell.edu/2025-annual-review/
Wenwen Zhao joins RPI as a tenure-track Assistant Professor
Wenwen Zhao, who completed her Ph.D. in 2025 in the Jena-Xing lab at Cornell University, has joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering. Her research at Cornell...
Naomi Pieczulewski and Kathleen T. Smith report achieving consistently low contact resistance in non-alloyed Ti/Au ohmics to β-Ga2O3 – Editor’s pick
"Achieving 0.05 Ω-mm contact resistance in non-alloyed Ti/Au ohmics to β-Ga2O3 by removing surface carbon," authored by Naomi Pieczulewski and Kathleen T. Smith et al., was selected as the Editor's pick in APL Materials. Through detailed characterization of interface...
Chuan Chang receives award from EMC
PhD student Chuan Chang won the 2025 EMC Best Student Presentation Award for his presentation titled "Quantum oscillations of holes in GaN: a direct metrology of GaN’s valence bands and hole transport". https://2025.emc-conference.org/emc-student-awards
Eungkyun Kim receives 2025 KIC Graduate Fellowship
EK Kim, currently a PhD student in ECE, has been awarded the 2025 Kavli Institute for Nanoscience at Cornell (KIC) Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations on all your hard work! https://www.kicnano.cornell.edu/people?role_tid_depth=4
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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.