TECHCON 2024 Recap

Aijia Yao (PI Tomás Palacios)
Degree Program: MIT EECS PhD, expected graduation 2028
Presentation Title: High-performance Multi-channel MoS2 Transistors for Front-end-of-line Integration
Task # 3137.001
Received Top 10 Best Student Presenter Award

Qiuyuan Wang (PI Luqiao Liu)
Degree Program: PhD 2027 Electrical Engineering, MIT
Presentation Title: A Massively Parallel In-memory-computing Architecture Using Stochastic Computing
Task # 3137.009

Lauren Hoang (PI Eric Pop)
Degree Program: PhD 2026, Stanford
Presentation Title: Contact-induced Strain for Enhanced Performance in Monolayer WS2 Transistors
Task # 3137.043

Margaret Quinn (PI James Rondinelli)
Degree Program: PhD 2027, Northwestern
Presentation Title: Investigating Polymorphism in the Aurivillius Phases for Ferroelectric Memories
Task # 3137.045

Priyankka Gundlapudi Ravikumar (PI Asif Khan)
Degree Program: PhD 2026 or 2027 Electrical and Computer Engineering, GA Tech
Presentation Title: Comprehensive time dependent dielectric breakdown (TDDB) characterization of ferroelectric capacitors under bipolar stress conditions
Task # 3137.011

Chung-Tao (Josh) Chou (PI Luqiao Liu)
Degree Program: PhD 2026, MIT
Presentation Title: Large Spin Polarization in Antiferroamgnetic Tunneling Junctions
Task # 3137.016

Katie Neilson (PI Eric Pop)
Degree Program: PhD 2025 Electrical Engineering, Stanford
Presentation Title: Molecular Beam Epitaxy for Contacts to p-type 1L WSe2 Transistors
Task # 3137.043
Received Top 10 Best Student Presenter Award

Wenwen Zhao (PI Debdeep Jena)
Degree Program: PhD 2025 Applied Physics, Cornell
Presentation Title: BAWFET: A compact monolithic integration combining BAWs and FETs for active filtering
Task # 3137.035

Eungkyun (EK) Kim (PI Grace Xing)
Degree Program: PhD 2026 Electrical Engineering, Cornell
Presentation Title: AlN/GaN/AlN HEMTs on Single-Crystal Bulk AlN Substrates
Task # 3137.003

Matthew Roddy (PI Dan Ralph)
Degree Program: PhD 2027 Physics, Cornell
Presentation Title: Gate-Tunable Anomalous Hall Readout in a Topological Insulator–Two-Dimensional Magnet Heterostructure
Task # 3137.010

Kathleen Smith (PI Grace Xing)
Degree Program: PhD 2024 Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell
Presentation Title: As-Deposited Contact Processing and Structure on Oxide Semiconductors for Back End of Line Compatible Devices
Task # 3137.003

Sanzida Rahman (PI Daniel Gall)
Degree Program: PhD 2026 Materials Engineering, RPI
Presentation Title: Boride Compounds as Potential Interconnect Metal
Task # 3137.19

Zhien (Abigail) Wang (PI Jing Kong)
Degree Program: PhD 2025 Materials Science and Engineering, MIT
Presentation Title: Graphene Synthesis on Single Crystalline Cu(111) substrate
Task # 3137.030

Michele Campbell (PI James Rondinelli)
Degree Program: PhD 2028 Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern
Presentation Title: Evaluating Hyperferroelectricity in Candidate Materials
Task # 3137.045

Viet-Anh Ha (PI Feliciano Giustino)
Post Doctoral Associate, UT Austin
Presentation Title: Monolayer WS2: A potential ultra-high mobility semiconductor
Task # 3137.028

Xiaoxi Huang (PI Dan Ralph)
Post Doctoral Associate, Cornell
Presentation Title: Manipulating spin transport with ferroelectric polarization
Task # 3137.014