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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...
Expanding Your Horizons (EYH, for 7th-10th graders) takes place at Cornell on April 6, 2024
Kathleen Smith, currently a PhD student in the Jena-Xing group, has been involved with EYH for many years. This year she serves as one of the Facilities Chairs for EYH. Prof. Xing was an EYH workshop presenter for years during her tenure at the University of Notre...
Prof. Hiroshi AMANO visiting Cornell
The Jena-Xing group hosted Prof. Amano's visit on January 28 to January 30, 2024 in Ithaca. Amano Poster 202401 We discussed in depth various scientific topics to collaborate on in the next 5 years under the support of the AdCORP and ASPIRE projects sponsored by JST....
Prof. Jena named one of the World’s Influential Researchers of 2023 again, congrats!
Clarivate Plc revealed its 2023 list of Highly Cited Researchers™ – influential researchers at universities, research institutes and commercial organizations around the world who have demonstrated significant and broad influence in their field(s) of research....
Prof. Jena elevated IEEE Fellow. Congrats!
Prof. Jena has been elevated to IEEE Fellow for his contributions on distributed polarization doping in the III-V semiconductor family.
EK Kim reports record speed in AlGaN HEMTs – featured by Semiconductor Today
The roadmap of ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor development has seen an official climb with various research programs started in the past few years: the DOE EFRC ULTAR program, the ARO UWBG RF Center, the most recent DARPA UWBGS program etc. This is an excellent...
Jon McCandless named IGNITE Fellow
Dr. Jon McCandless, who graduated with PhD in ECE at Cornell in summer 2023, has been named an IGNITE Fellow with an official start in August 2023. Jon will explore ways to commercialize Ga2O3 and related materials. Congrats! Learn more about IGNITE from...
Chandu, Cindy and Len received Best Student Paper Awards at ICNS. Congrats!
3 students, Chandu Savant (MSE), Cindy Chen (MSE) and Len van Deurzen (AEP), have been acknowledged with a Best Student Award at the International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors. https://icns14.jp/abstracts.html