FACULTY

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New Devices, Modeling, and Fabrication

Experimentalist with a deep understanding in various atomic layer deposition solutions. He is also interested in novel ferroelectric materials for ferroelectric memory and oxides for novel logic and BEOL applications.

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New Devices, Modeling, and Fabrication

Design and processing of functional nanocomposite thin films for microelectronics, optoelectronics, high-temperature superconductors, solid oxide fuel cells, plasmonics and photonics, ferroelectric and ferromagnetic applications, and radiation tolerant materials.

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New Devices, Modeling, and Fabrication

Theorist exploring magnetism, classical and quantum spintronics, next-generation information processing & bio-devices.

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New Devices, Modeling, and Fabrication

Sensible and evaporative heating of thin films, pool boiling, flow boiling, jet-impingement cooling, spray cooling, micro-channel heat sinks, heat transfer enhancement, heat transfer in rotating systems, critical heat flux, and capillary pumped flows.

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New Devices, Modeling, and Fabrication

Quantum physicist developing novel qubit hardware in semiconductor and hybrid superconductor/semiconductor systems. Work includes semiconductor growth, mesoscopic device fabrication, and low temperature electron transport.

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New Devices, Modeling, and Fabrication

Physics, modeling, and simulation of electronic and thermal transport in semiconductor devices.

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New Devices, Modeling, and Fabrication

Nanoscale electronic devices, molecular/semiconductor devices, microwave devices, and characterization.

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New Devices, Modeling, and Fabrication

Known for pioneering the non-equilibrium Green function (NEGF) model widely used in semiconductor industry to model nanoscale electronic devices. Also known for creative proposals that inspired new fields of research like negative capacitance devices, spintronics and probabilistic bits.

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New Devices, Modeling, and Fabrication

Experimentalist working on novel materials for logic and interconnect applications. She is also an expert in developing concepts for back-end-of-line (BEOL) heterogeneously, monolithically integrated memory applications.

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New Devices, Modeling, and Fabrication

Experimentalist working on optical meta-materials and quantum materials.

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New Devices, Modeling, and Fabrication

Experimentalist that characterizes various materials and devices employing time resolved, low-temperature photoluminescence, Raman spectroscopy, and near IR ellipsometry.

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New Devices, Modeling, and Fabrication

Experimentalist working on low-dimensional transport for logic and memory applications. He designs, fabricates, characterizes and analyzes novel devices and circuits from transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs).

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New Devices, Modeling, and Fabrication

He works on experiments and simulations of reliability aspects in novel logic and memory devices. He also investigates radiation damage of devices and circuits.

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Heterogeneous Integration and Advanced Packaging

Synthesis of nanomaterials, Radiation Damage in nanostructured materials, Mechanical behavior of nanostructured metals, dynamics of metal bonding.

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Heterogeneous Integration and Advanced Packaging

Electronics cooling and packaging phase-change transport phenomena microscale and nanoscale surface engineering for enhanced thermal transport.

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Heterogeneous Integration and Advanced Packaging

Heterogeneous Integration and Advanced Electronics Packaging with a focus on thermomechanical behavior, reliability, and electrical-thermal-mechanical co-design. Co-director, SRC Center for Heterogeneous Integration Research in Packaging (CHIRP).

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Heterogeneous Integration and Advanced Packaging

Scalable nanomanufacturing: lithography and imaging optical and magnetic data storage nanoscale energy conversion, transfer and storage for alternative energy.

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Heterogeneous Integration and Advanced Packaging

Transport phenomena in multi-scale, heterogeneous materials & systems fundamentals of nanoscale thermal transport electronics cooling and thermal management.

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Heterogeneous Integration and Advanced Packaging

Reducing the operational energy footprint of polymer membranes through material design.

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Heterogeneous Integration and Advanced Packaging

Molecular visualization of interfacial mechanics, including adhesion, friction, and wetting novel measurements of  polymer interfacial properties and mechanics.

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Heterogeneous Integration and Advanced Packaging

Four-Dimensional (4D) materials science with a particular emphasis on the deformation behavior of advanced materials at bulk and small length scales characteristic of advanced packaging.

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Heterogeneous Integration and Advanced Packaging

Modeling and measurement of microstructure development using advanced characterization techniques to predict reliability.

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Simulation and Modeling

Multiphysics, Multiscale modeling of electronic devices and packages. Electrical-thermal-mechanical co-design of Heterogeneously Integrated systems. Reliability modeling and experimental characterization including fatigue, fracture and electromigration.

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Simulation and Modeling

Theorist exploring equilibrium and non-equilibrium phenomena in nanodevices and molecules. This covers electronic and phonon bandstructures as well as heat, charge and spin transport in nanodevices.

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Simulation and Modeling

Finite Elements and Phase Field simulations of stress relaxation, kinetics, and diffusion in thin films. Integration of thermal, electrical, and mechanical fields to predict failure in electronics.

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Simulation and Modeling

Theorist working on modeling of nanoelectronic devices, genetic algorithm based optimization, and image processing.

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Simulation and Modeling

CAD design expert exploring computational electromagnetics, modeling and simulation of micro- and nano-scale integrated circuits, high-speed VLSI circuit design and analysis, high-performance VLSI CAD, applied electromagnetics, signal and power integrity, fast and high-capacity numerical methods, scattering and antenna analysis, and bio-electromagnetics.

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Simulation and Modeling

Microstructural modeling of multifunctional materials, including solder-based interconnects microstructural evolution and phase transformations in confined geometries reliability and optimization of FeRAMs, portable power sources.

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Integrated Circuits and Systems Design

VLSI and circuit design, sensing and communication circuits/systems, energy harvested sensor nodes for internet of things (IoT), analog/RF, wireless, and security.

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Integrated Circuits and Systems Design

Neuromorphic computing, device-circuit-architecture co-design for AI workloads, computing-in-memory, robust and secure system design, and energy-efficient integrated circuits and systems.

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Integrated Circuits and Systems Design

Expert in embedded systems, Internet-of-things and energy-efficient and secure embedded computing.

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Integrated Circuits and Systems Design

Kuhardware for AI and machine learning, compute near and in memory, and secure microelectronics.

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Integrated Circuits and Systems Design

Experimentalist exploring nanoscale electronic devices including devices based on carbon nanotubes and nanowires, nanoelectromechanical devices, RF devices, device characterization and modeling, RF and microwave circuits, low-power electronics, 3D integration, optoelectronics, Nanofluidic and vacuum electronic.

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Integrated Circuits and Systems Design

VLSI designer of circuits and systems for wireless sensing applications.

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Integrated Circuits and Systems Design

Theorist exploring device-circuit co-design in emerging nanotechnologies for Boolean and non-Boolean computing, spintronics, low power variation tolerant VLSI design, device-circuit modeling.

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Sensors and Thermal Imaging

Experimentalist exploring new mechanical designs and efficient transducers to make MEMS resonators with high resonance frequency, low motional impedance, strong transducer coupling coefficient, low bias drift and wide programmable range.

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Sensors and Thermal Imaging

Experimentalist exploring quantum electronics, mutual interaction of heat, light, and electricity in nano materials and devices, lock-in imaging and advanced image processing with applications to nanoscale thermal measurements and roll-to-roll process monitoring.

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Sensors and Thermal Imaging

scalable manufacturing processes of flexible electronic devices that can empower technologies for health-care and environmental monitoring convergence of advancements in functional polymers and electrical engineering for developing innovative tools and technologies that can be utilized in solving various obstacles in healthcare, agriculture, and the environment.

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Sensors and Thermal Imaging

nanophotonics, including photovoltaics, lighting, thermal physics, sources, detectors, and switches.

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Sustainability and Life Cycle Analysis

Environment friendly design and life cycle engineering for sustainable electronics, sustainable energy, manufacturing high-performance buildings.

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Sustainability and Life Cycle Analysis

Environmentally responsible design and manufacturing; sustainable systems; decision-making for sustainability; manufacturing; corporate social responsibility; sustainability education.

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Sustainability and Life Cycle Analysis

environmental sustainability, water pollution control, and the environmental fate of organic contaminants; water consumption in supply chains; sustainable electronics and environmental sustainability in engineering education.

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MEMS and Photonics

Investigation of fundamental thermal transport in thin film and two dimensional semiconductors, and development of innovative solutions for thermal transport control and thermal switching in semiconductor devices

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MEMS and Photonics

Experimentalist interested in Nanotechnology, especially 3D nanofabrication and low-cost nanolithography micro and nanophotonics, with emphasis on 3D photonic crystals and integrated Si photonic circuits thermophotovoltaics and solar cells.

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MEMS and Photonics

Experimentalist focusing on reconfigurable analog/RF electronics for adaptive communications, signal intelligence, and harsh-environment sensors.

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MEMS and Photonics

Experimentalist investigating quantum interaction of light with atoms and its role in quantum optical communication, computation and sensing. We work towards developing a hybrid and scalable platform for future quantum optical technologies.

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MEMS and Photonics

Experimentalist exploring inter-domain coupling in Opto-mechanical, Spin-Acoustic and Atom-MEMS devices to design and fabricate inertial sensors, clocks, frequency combs and computing and microwave sub-systems.