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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...

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...

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....

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 has been elevated to IEEE Fellow for his contributions on distributed polarization doping in the III-V semiconductor family.

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...

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

Prof. Jena delivers a plenary at ICNS on Controlling electronic polarization in polar and ferroelectric nitride semiconductor heterostructures for electronic and photonic devices. Chandu Savant's talk has been promoted to an invited talk and he presents "First...

The Device Research Conference (DRC) is the oldest conference on electronics, established in 1942 in the pre-transistor era. Each year DRC selects one student oral presentation for the Best Paper award and one student poster for the Best Poster award....

Each year, two exemplary faculty from each rank in the College of Engineering at Cornell are honored with the Research Excellence Award.  In Fall 2022, Prof. Xing received this honor.  In Fall 2019, Prof. Jena received this honor....

Cornell is leading a new $34 million research center that will accelerate the creation of energy-efficient semiconductor materials and technologies, and develop revolutionary new approaches for microelectronics systems....

Jon presented his study on Si doping in MBE grown Ga2O3 at IWGO 2022 at Nagano, Japan. https://iwgo2022.org/

Congrats to Takuya for having won his first research grant! https://sites.google.com/view/takuya-maeda/home  

Excited for Joe!  He has officially announced the next step in his career to start his own independent research group at MIT. https://dmse.mit.edu/news/2022/dmses-research-diversity-draws-new-faculty-member  

Justin (AEP, senior UG) won a Best Poster Award at the 45th Anniversary Symposium of CNF, congrats! Wenwen Zhao won the annual Nellie Whetten Award from CNF, congrats! Len van Deurzen won a Best Poster Award at the International Workshop on Nitride semiconductors...

Check out their article in Science Advances and the news release. https://phys.org/news/2022-10-technique-boosts-electronic-photonic-prospects.html  

Available to order! Adopts a flexible pedagogical approach, as the 4 main chapters can be taught as stand-alone modules Covers the historical development of the subject, as well as its current status Features end-of-chapter problems to solidify understanding and...

In this project, the Cornell team will study phase-engineered Josephson junctions and cryogenic memories that are highly scalable and compatible with JJ-based computing platforms. The team website can be found: https://discoverexpedition.usc.edu Expeditions: DISCoVER:...

Joe presented his ground breaking study on ScAlN at CSW2022.  He was also selected as one of the New Faces in Compound Semiconductors and debuted at CSW2022!

Austin is among the 39 Activate Fellows this year announced in June 2022. "These 39 founders are turning their breakthroughs into businesses that could help industries, including manufacturing, energy, chemicals, computing, and defense, meet decarbonization and...