ECE PhD student wins Best Paper Award at DRC 2022
Adam Charnas, a PhD student in Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering has been awarded the 2022 Device Research Conference Best Student Paper Award (DRC 2022). The research in the paper, entitled "Record RF Performance of Ultra-thin Indium Oxide Transistors with Buried-gate Structure," was supervised by Peide (Peter) Ye, Richard J. and Mary Jo Schwartz Professor of ECE, in close collaborations with Purdue Ph.D. student Jackson Anderson and Dana Weinstein, professor of ECE.
In this work, the radio frequency (RF) performance of indium oxide transistors with a high working frequency is characterized for the first time. A new record high transit frequency (fT) among amorphous metal oxide semiconductor transistors is reported with simultaneously high maximum frequency of power gain (fmax).
"I have spent near 10 years at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, including my undergraduate study,” said Charnas. “Purdue offers me the best education in semiconductors, microelectronic and nanotechnology fields. I appreciate the motto learned from my advisor - learning something through doing."
DRC 2022 was held June 26-29, 2022. This year marked the 80th anniversary of the DRC—the longest running device research meeting in the world. The gathering brings together leading scientists, researchers, and students to share their latest discoveries in device science, technology and modeling.