News
2025 In Review: View our Newsletter Here
As 2025 is coming to a close, we want to highlight all we have accomplished together this year. Your hard work and contributions are critical to the continued success of our research group and we look forward to seeing what 2026 has in store for us. You can check...
Muhaimin Mareum Khan receives Best Poster Award at the CNF Annual Meeting
Muhaimin Mareum Khan receives the "Best User Poster Award" for her poster "BEOL Compatible P-type Oxide TFT based on Crystalline SnO" at the 2025 CNF Annual Meeting. Read More Here
Cornell upgrades lab with MOCVD system for next-gen nitride materials
"A laboratory upgrade at Cornell University will help to forge new directions for nitride semiconductors by expanding their capabilities to support technologies such as quantum computers and next-generation radio-frequency and power devices. The upgrade includes the...
Aluminum nitride transistor advances next-gen RF electronics
"Cornell researchers have developed a new transistor architecture that could reshape how high-power wireless electronics are engineered, while also addressing supply chain vulnerabilities for a critical semiconductor material. The device, called an XHEMT, includes an...
Professor Xing honored by SIA/SRC for excellence in semiconductor research
"For excellence in semiconductor research, Huili Grace Xing, the William L. Quackenbush Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell, is the recipient of the 2025 University Research Award in Technology from...
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...
2025 J.A. Woollam Company Scholarship awarded to Sean Griffin
"Congratulations to Sean Griffin – recipient of a 2025 J.A. Woollam Company Scholarship from the SVC Foundation. Sean is pursuing a Bachelor’s in Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University. Sean recently joined Professor Xing and Professor Jena’s...
Another Successful Year: View our 2024 Newsletter Here
View our 2024 Newsletter Here: https://conta.cc/3Pbteeo
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