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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, 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...

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...

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"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...

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Combined, the Jena-Xing group published over 35+ peer-reviewed articles this year!

Prof. Xing is elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society. https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2019/09/three-faculty-elected-fellows-american-physical-society    

Reet and Sam report the first hole doping arising from symmetry breaking in GaN/AlN without impurity dopants.  This phenomenon was first predicted by Cornell researchers about 20 years ago.  The hunt for this hole gas is finally over; more fundamental physics and...

Henryk’s work on buried tunnel junction was conceived and demonstrated for the first time. http://www.semiconductor-today.com/news_items/2019/jun/cornell-140619.shtml  

Congrats to Riena! She presented her study on achieving phase-pure alpha-Ga2O3 on sapphire for the first time.

Congrats to Vlad Protasenko for receiving a grant to work on commercialization of DUV-based Roomba-style sterilizer.

https://doi.org/10.7567/1347-4065/ab147b

PR Materials Editor’s suggestion: https://journals.aps.org/prmaterials/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.064001  

Featured as Spotlights: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.7567/1882-0786/ab206c

APL Editor’s pick: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5099957?af=R

Semiconductor Today: http://www.semiconductor-today.com/news_items/2019/jul/cornell-110719.shtml

Kevin Lee receives Best Poster Award at DRC 2019!  

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2019/05/commercialization-fellows-set-sights-tech-solutions  

Jonathan McCandless has won the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Ryan Page has won the MSE TA Award of 2019! Shuyao Chen has won the ECE Best Poster Award of 2019!  

Remember to perform error analysis for all studies! https://www.mrs.org/61st-emc/awards