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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.
John receives the 2020 IEEE SISC Ed Nicollian Award. Congrats!
https://www.ieeesisc.org This year's SISC will continue the tradition of presenting an award memorializing Prof. E. H. Nicollian. The award will be given for the best student presentation. Ed Nicollian was a pioneer in the exploration of metal oxide semiconductor...
Wenshen won a Best Student Presentation Award at EMC 2020. Congrats!
Wenshen has been a runner up at a number of international conferences in the past few years. We are glad for Wenshen's winning of an EMC Student Award! By the time of graduation, Wenshen published 10 first-authored journal papers including 6 featured articles, and 8...
Wenshen answers “thermionic or tunneling? The universal transition electric field in ideal Schottky barrier diodes”
Ideal Schottky barrier diode is an extremely well studied topic in the past 70 years! What's new in Wenshen's discovery in 2020? It turned out that the carrier transport region dominated by both thermionic emission and tunneling is relatively murky. Wenshen...
Austin and Reet were featured in the Cornell Engineering Entrepreneurs article
Austin and Reet, currently in their final year to their PhD degree, have credited the Commercialization Fellow program, the NSF I-Corp program, the Scale Up and Prototyping program, the CTAM (now IGNITE) program, the Praxis Center for Venture Development and other...
Kazuki presented at IEDM 2020 world-record p-channel GaN FETs, moving the bar up by 40X!
These p-channel GaN FETs boast a current density of >420 mA/mm and a speed of ~20 GHz. For the first time, it is possible to design a circuit with hole-conducting transistor in GaN! The secret ingredient lies in the "high-mobility" 2D hole gas generated by the...
Congrats to Prof. Jena, among the top 1% highly cited in 2019 and 2020!
https://recognition.webofscience.com/awards/highly-cited/2020/
Riena and Celesta report single crystalline alpha-AlGaO growth and characterization. Congrats!
"The path that leads to the next generation of high-power electronics is not long. But it needs to be wide. Very wide." Cornell Chronicle article Publication in Science Advances: Crystal orientation dedicated epitaxy of ultra wide bandgap 5.4-8.6 eV a-(AlGa)2O3 on...
Lei Li awarded 2021 MTT-S Graduate Fellowship. Congrats to Lei!
https://mtt.org/students/