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Chandrashekhar Savant wins TECHCON 2025 Top 10 Best Student Presenter Award
Join us in congratulating Chandu! More information can be found on the SRC LinkedIn page:...
Professor Xing receives the Michael Tien ’72 teaching award
"Cornell Engineering honored the transformative impact of its faculty at the 2025 Fall Faculty Reception, held Sept. 24 in the Statler Ballroom, recognizing this year’s Teaching and Advising Award winners for their outstanding commitment to student success. “The...
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 & SRC LinkedIn page. 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 & in Cornell Chronicle
"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
Prof. Amano returns to Cornell as a Mary Upson Visiting Professor
Prof. Amano has enjoyed himself interacting with faculty and students, learning more about Cornell and the neighborhood. He delivered a MSE Seminar and IEEE EDS Seminar. Also, he enjoyed the sakura on campus (mid to late April in Ithaca), the award-winning dining...
Another Successful Year: View our 2024 Newsletter Here
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Kathryn Zhang (SUPREME UG Microelectronics Fellow; ECE BS’24, MEng’24) joining TSMC, Kathleen Smith (AEP, PhD’24) joining ASM
Two SUPREME researchers in Prof. Xing's group are heading to Arizona in January 2025. As a SUPREME UG Microelectronics Fellow, Kathryn Z. worked on electron-beam lithography and airbridge fabrication for RF devices. She recently presented her MEng project and won the...
Kathleen Tyrie Smith Reports < 0.1 Ω-mm Ohmic Contacts on β-Ga2O3 & weak Fermi level pinning - Editor's Pick
Kathleen Tyrie Smith's PhD research with the Jena-Xing group has focused on understanding and improving metal contact processes and interfaces on oxide semiconductors. Her article - demonstrating both low resistance (< 0.1 Ω-mm) non-alloyed ohmic contacts and weak...
Professor Jena receives the Michael Tien ’72 teaching award
"Cornell Engineering celebrated excellence in education at its 2024 Fall Faculty Reception, honoring outstanding faculty members and recognizing their contributions by presenting the college’s annual awards for teaching and advising. “This year's award recipients...
Chandu Savant’s Paper Selected as the Journal Cover for Physica Status Solidi (RRL)
“Epitaxial AIBN/ β-Nb2N Ferroelectric/ Superconductor Heterostructures,” authored by Chandrashekhar Savant et al., has been featured on the Cover of the November 2024 special issue of Wiley’s Physica Status Solidi (RRL). We report the first demonstration of...
Chandu Savant’s surprising find: Sc can break the triple bond in N2 at room temperature
Chandrashekhar P. Savant, et al. “Self-activated epitaxial growth of ScN films from molecular nitrogen at low temperatures” APL Materials 12, 111108 (2024) DOI: 10.1063/5.0222995. Unlike naturally occurring oxide crystals such as ruby and gemstones, there are...
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
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...
Bennett Cromer reports record >6 MV/cm Ga2O3 Schottky Diodes – JVST-A Editor’s Pick
Bennett Cromer, a 5th year PhD candidate in the Jena-Xing group, has dedicated his degree to the study of the wide bandgap material Ga2O3. Following in the footsteps of Dr. Wenshen Li and Mr. Devansh Saraswat who demonstrated a record 4.3 MV/cm Ga2O3 Schottky diode in...