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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...

Reet's thesis "Integrated Electronics on Aluminum Nitride: Materials and Devices" has received a Springer Thesis Award, and will appear soon under Springer Thesis.

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  

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,...

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...

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...

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/01/seven-faculty-members-elected-aaas-fellows

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...

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...

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  

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...

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...

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