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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 JSPS....
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
Cornell delegates of 10 at the 2023 International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors (ICNS)
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...
Bennett Cromer and Wenwen Zhao won best presentation awards
Bennett gave an excellent presentation at the 2023 MSE Annual Grad Symposium at the beginning of the fall semester. Congrats! Wenwen delivered the best student presentation at the 2023 CNF Annual Meeting in September. Congrats!
EK Kim wins the Best Student Paper award at DRC 2023, congrats!
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....
Prof. Xing & Prof. Jena honored with the Cornell Engineering Research Excellence 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....
Prof. Xing leads SUPREME – a JUMP 2.0 research center
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....
Congrats to Jon McCandless for winning a Best Oral Presentation award at IWGO 2022
Jon presented his study on Si doping in MBE grown Ga2O3 at IWGO 2022 at Nagano, Japan. https://iwgo2022.org/
Takuya Maeda started as an Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo
Congrats to Takuya for having won his first research grant! https://sites.google.com/view/takuya-maeda/home
Joe Casamento joining MIT as an Assistant Professor
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
Congrats to Justin Tan, Wenwen Zhao and Len van Deurzen for winning awards!
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...
Zexuan Zhang and Yongjin Cho demonstrate the power of atomic cleaning to move forward the AlN electronics and photonics
Check out their article in Science Advances and the news release. https://phys.org/news/2022-10-technique-boosts-electronic-photonic-prospects.html
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. The team website can be found: https://discoverexpedition.usc.edu Expeditions: DISCoVER:...
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