Current Research Projects
  • National Science Foundation (NSF)
    Graphene-based electrically reconfigurable THz aperture arrays for imaging applications
  • National Science Fundation (NSF)
    2D crystal semiconductors: electron transport and device applications
  • Office of Naval Research (ONR)
    III-N devices and architectures for terahertz electronics (DATE)
  • Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC)
    LEAST: Center for low energy systems technology
  • National Science Fundation (NSF)
    MRI: Development of an apertureless near-field scanning optical and magneto-optical Kerr effect microscope for nano-science applications.
  • Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC)
    Chemically functionalized graphene as high performance heat spreader
  • Advanced Research Program Agency – Energy (ARPA-E)
    Program: Strategies for wide-bandgap inexpensive transistors for controlling high efficiency systems (SWITCHES)
    Title: GaN epi-wafers for vertical high-power devices grown by vapor phase epitaxy on lowcost, high-quality ammonothermal GaN substrates
  • Advanced Research Program Agency – Energy (ARPA-E)
    Program: SWITCHES
    Title: PolarJFET: a novel vertical GaN power transistor concept
  • National Science Foundation (NSF)
    EFRI-2DARE: Monolayer Heterostructures: Epitaxy to Beyond-CMOS Devices
Past Research Projects
  • National Science Foundation (NSF)
    MRI: Acquisition of Ultrafast Spectroscopy Instrumentation for Material Research and Education
  • Office of Naval Research (ONR)
    Polarization-doped GaN HBTs
  • Office of Naval Research/Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ONR/ DARPA)
    Ideal channel field effect transistors
  • Office of Naval Research (ONR)
    Nitride/Oxide multifunction materials: bridging the gap between materials and devices
  • University of Notre Dame (Faculty Research Program)
    Graphene nanoribbon-based FETs and gated RTTs for integrated high-speed RF devices and circuits
  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
    DURIP: Transport characterization system for electronic, optical & multifunctional materials and devices
  • Office of Naval Research/Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ONR/ DARPA)
    Ultrascaled AlN/GaN HEMT technology for mm-wave applications
  • Office of Naval Research (ONR)
    AlGaAs/GaAs/GaN HBTs by wafer fusions
  • Nanoelectronic Research Initiative (NRI)
    MIND: Midwest Institute of Nanoelectronics Discovery (Phase 1.0)
  • National Science Foundation (NSF)
    Evaluation of nanoribbons for lateral bandgap engineering
  • Office of Naval Research (ONR)
    Engineering of oxide/nitride semiconductors (EONS)
  • Inlustra Technologies, Inc.
    Characterization of non-polar bulk GaN substrates (DoD STTR)
  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
    Stacked quantum wire AlN/GaN HEMTs
  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
    YIP: Quantum limits of AlN/GaN RF HEMTs
  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
    The Compact Mid-Ultraviolet Technology (CMUVT) program
    AlGaN MQW Mid UV LEDs over sapphire and bulk AlN
  • Office of Naval Research (ONR)
    THz power sources based on negative differential resistance in GaN
  • National Science Foundation (NSF)
    Nanoscale optoelectronics with polarization and bandgap engineered nitride nanowire/silicon heterostructures
  • Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI)
    MIND: Midwest Institute of Nanoelectronics Discovery (Phase 1.5)
  • University of Notre Dame (Faculty Research Program)
    A microfluidic approach of terahertz chemical and biological sensing
  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
    DURIP: Complex oxide heterostructure physics by chemical beam epitaxy
  • National Institute Standard & Technology (NIST)
    Internal Photoemission Spectroscopy
  • National Science Foundation (NSF)
    A room temperature portable terahertz camera using zero bias Sb-based heterostructure backward diodes for imaging applications
  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
    The Microscale Power Conversion (MPC) Program
  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
    The Nitride Electronic NeXt-Generation Technology (NEXT) program
    Ultrafast RF and mixed-signal electronics with ultra-scaled binary AlN/GaN HEMTs
  • National Science Foundation (NSF)
    CAREER: Graphene and graphene nanoribbon optoelectronic properties and devices
  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
    2D crystal semiconductors: new materials for GHz-THz devices
  • Agnitron Technology, Inc.
    Radiation hard multi-channel AlN/GaN HEMT for high efficiency X- and Ka-band power

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