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Announcing Prof. Jena’s textbook: Quantum Physics of Semiconductor Materials and Devices
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...
NSF Expeditions project awarded to advance superconductor electronics for post-CMOS computing technologies
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. Expeditions: DISCoVER: Design and Integration of Superconducting Computation for...
Congrats to Joe Casamento for winning the CSW2022 Best Student Paper Award!
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!
Congrats to Austin Hickman for being named an Activate Fellow!
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...
Congrats to Reet Chaudhuri for winning the Springer Thesis Award!
Reet's thesis "Integrated Electronics on Aluminum Nitride: Materials and Devices" has received a Springer Thesis Award, and will appear soon under Springer Thesis.
Congrats to Naomi Pieczulewski for being named a NSF GRFP fellow!
Naomi is a 1st year PhD student in MSE@Cornell, co-advised by Prof. David Muller and Prof. Debdeep Jena. https://www.mse.cornell.edu/spotlights/mse-students-win-nsf-graduate-research-fellowships
Len van Deurzen reports the first DUV laser (sub-300 nm) grown by MBE
Cornell engineers have created a deep-ultraviolet laser using semiconductor materials that show great promise for improving the use of ultraviolet light for sterilizing medical tools, purifying water, sensing hazardous gases and enabling precision photolithography,...
Apply for the IGNITE postdoc to join us in commercializing Cornell technologies by April 1!
Want to join a startup company? Want to follow your interests to try entrepreneurship in a well-curated training environment? Definitely check out theCornell Ignite Postdoc for Ventures program funds and trains postdocs with entrepreneurial outlooks to start...
Congrats to Reet Chaudhuri – the 2022 Cornell ECE Outstanding PhD Thesis Winner!
Check out Reet's website to see what he has been working on at Cornell. "I use careful heterostructure design and crystal growths to make high-performance electron- and hole-channel transistors on AlN. A major highlight has been my discovery of the long-missing...
Congrats to Prof. Xing being elected fellow of AAAS
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/01/seven-faculty-members-elected-aaas-fellows
John Wright helps to reveal electronic properties of NbN-GaN junction in his recent Science Adv. paper
A crystal structure that combines a semiconductor and superconductor is a tantalizing prospect to create energy-efficient computers, or quantum computers, which leverage the unique quantum mechanical properties of superconductors. Superconductors carry current with...
Congrats to Jon McCandless for winning a Best Student Presentation Award at EMC 2021
https://www.mrs.org/63rd-emc/awards/student-award-winners Jon is a 5th year PhD candidate in ECE, studying MBE growth and transport of Ga2O3 and related alloys. He is a 2019 recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP) and a 2021 recipient of the German...
Congrats to Prof. Xing being elected Fellow of IEEE
For contributions to GaN high-electron-mobility transistors. https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/fellows/2022-ieee-fellows-class.pdf
Congrats to Prof. Jena for being recognized a highly cited researcher
Each year, Clarivate™ identifies the world’s most influential researchers ─ the select few who have been most frequently cited by their peers over the last decade. In 2021, fewer than 6,700, or about 0.1%, of the world's researchers, in 21 research fields and across...
Congrats to Phillip Dang for winning a Best Oral Presentation Award at the MRS Spring 2021
Phillip is graduating with a PhD in Applied Engineering Physics (AEP) at Cornell in December 2021, and joining Lam Research. The previous accolades of Phillip's at Cornell include NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2017-2021), the Japan Society for the Promotion of...
Congrats to Sophia Handley (AEP’22) for winning “Best Presentation” for 2021 GCURS
The Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium (GCURS) is hosted annually by Rice University. GCURS provides current undergraduates the opportunity to present their original research discoveries to scholars from around the world. https://gcurs.rice.edu
Fun fact: the current members in the Jena-Xing group were born in 12 different countries and regions around the globe.
America, China, India, Iran, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Peru, Russia, South Africa, Taiwan, Vietnam.
Joe Casamento selected to join the 2021-2022 cohort of NextGen Professors
NextGen Professors is a career-development program focused on preparing Cornell graduate students and postdocs for faculty careers across institutional types.
Austin Hickman wins Domer Dozen Award, NSF STTR grant for startup
Austin Hickman was recognized as a Domer Dozen recipient, an award given by the University of Notre Dame Alumni Association to 12 young alumni who have made significant contributions in the areas of faith, learning, service, or work. Austin was recognized on Notre...
2 Editor’s Picks by Jon and Celesta on Ga2O3 and AlGaO
Jon shows how to achieve thermally stable alpha-phase Ga2O3 and AlGaO. Celesta shows gamma phase is nearly ubiquitously present in beta-Ga2O3 in the presence of high level of dopants or nucleation layers - a tricky phase that can be easily confused with certain...
Austin Hickman and Devansh Saraswat – banner bearers in 2021 Commencement!
Congrats to both Austin Hickman and Devansh Saraswat! They were selected as the banner bearers of the Graduate School and marshaled in the 2021 Cornell Commencement event. Austin appears at 1:10 and Devansh appears at 1:50.
Profs. Jena and Xing recognized as 2020 Intel Outstanding Researchers
This award is based on our seminal contributions to the p-channel FETs in wide bandgap semiconductors. Sam Bader, Reet Chaudhuri, Kazuki Nomoto, Austin Hickman, Hyunjea Lee are key contributors along with Prof. Al Molnar's group!...
Kevin’s another Editor’s Pick: pseudomorphic epitaxy and doping AlGaN on bulk AlN!
A resistivity as low as 7.5 mohm-cm is achieved on Al0.6GaN. More can be found on Al0.6-1.0GaN in https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0037079
Phillip reports creation of beautiful marriage of quantum enemies!
Publication in Science Advances: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abf1388 Cornell Chronicle: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/02/researchers-create-beautiful-marriage-quantum-enemies
Austin selected for the SSDM 2021 Young Researcher Award. Congrats!
http://www.ssdm.jp the SSDM2021 Young Researcher Award. This award is given to the outstanding papers presented at the previous year’s conference, authored by young researchers aged 33 years old or younger.