Current Research Projects
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
Graphene-based electrically reconfigurable THz aperture arrays for imaging applications
- National Science Fundation (NSF)
2D crystal semiconductors: electron transport and device applications
- Office of Naval Research (ONR)
III-N devices and architectures for terahertz electronics (DATE)
- Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC)
LEAST: Center for low energy systems technology
- National Science Fundation (NSF)
MRI: Development of an apertureless near-field scanning optical and magneto-optical Kerr effect microscope for nano-science applications.
- Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC)
Chemically functionalized graphene as high performance heat spreader
- Advanced Research Program Agency – Energy (ARPA-E)
Program: Strategies for wide-bandgap inexpensive transistors for controlling high efficiency systems (SWITCHES)
Title: GaN epi-wafers for vertical high-power devices grown by vapor phase epitaxy on lowcost, high-quality ammonothermal GaN substrates
- Advanced Research Program Agency – Energy (ARPA-E)
Program: SWITCHES
Title: PolarJFET: a novel vertical GaN power transistor concept
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
EFRI-2DARE: Monolayer Heterostructures: Epitaxy to Beyond-CMOS Devices
Past Research Projects
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
MRI: Acquisition of Ultrafast Spectroscopy Instrumentation for Material Research and Education
- Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Polarization-doped GaN HBTs
- Office of Naval Research/Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ONR/ DARPA)
Ideal channel field effect transistors
- Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Nitride/Oxide multifunction materials: bridging the gap between materials and devices
- University of Notre Dame (Faculty Research Program)
Graphene nanoribbon-based FETs and gated RTTs for integrated high-speed RF devices and circuits
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
DURIP: Transport characterization system for electronic, optical & multifunctional materials and devices
- Office of Naval Research/Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ONR/ DARPA)
Ultrascaled AlN/GaN HEMT technology for mm-wave applications
- Office of Naval Research (ONR)
AlGaAs/GaAs/GaN HBTs by wafer fusions
- Nanoelectronic Research Initiative (NRI)
MIND: Midwest Institute of Nanoelectronics Discovery (Phase 1.0)
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
Evaluation of nanoribbons for lateral bandgap engineering
- Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Engineering of oxide/nitride semiconductors (EONS)
- Inlustra Technologies, Inc.
Characterization of non-polar bulk GaN substrates (DoD STTR)
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Stacked quantum wire AlN/GaN HEMTs
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
YIP: Quantum limits of AlN/GaN RF HEMTs
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
The Compact Mid-Ultraviolet Technology (CMUVT) program
AlGaN MQW Mid UV LEDs over sapphire and bulk AlN
- Office of Naval Research (ONR)
THz power sources based on negative differential resistance in GaN
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
Nanoscale optoelectronics with polarization and bandgap engineered nitride nanowire/silicon heterostructures
- Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI)
MIND: Midwest Institute of Nanoelectronics Discovery (Phase 1.5)
- University of Notre Dame (Faculty Research Program)
A microfluidic approach of terahertz chemical and biological sensing
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
DURIP: Complex oxide heterostructure physics by chemical beam epitaxy
- National Institute Standard & Technology (NIST)
Internal Photoemission Spectroscopy
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
A room temperature portable terahertz camera using zero bias Sb-based heterostructure backward diodes for imaging applications
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
The Microscale Power Conversion (MPC) Program
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
The Nitride Electronic NeXt-Generation Technology (NEXT) program
Ultrafast RF and mixed-signal electronics with ultra-scaled binary AlN/GaN HEMTs
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
CAREER: Graphene and graphene nanoribbon optoelectronic properties and devices
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
2D crystal semiconductors: new materials for GHz-THz devices
- Agnitron Technology, Inc.
Radiation hard multi-channel AlN/GaN HEMT for high efficiency X- and Ka-band power