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Welcome to the SUPREME Semiannual Newsletter. Past editions of the newsletter can be found on our website. At the Center for SUPeRior Energy-efficient Materials and dEvices (SUPREME), we are dedicated to demonstrating the basic materials and technology breakthroughs needed to address the seismic shifts identified by the semiconductor community. We are committed to student participation at all levels and support interdisciplinary education of the workforce for the future of the semiconductor industry.
Many Center Students presented at TECHCON 2024 hosted by SRC in Austin, Texas in September 2024. Read more about their presentations here.
The third-year Ph.D. candidate pioneering work on the “first switch effect” will help researchers understand the reliability of ferroelectric field effect transistors.
Judy Cha, Lester B. Knight Director of the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility and professor of materials science and engineering (Cornell University) receives the 2024 Cornell Engineering Research Excellence Award. Cornell Chronicle Dec. 2024
Haochen Wang was awarded an “Outstanding Graduate Student Award” by the Solid State Lighting and Energy Electronics Center (SSLEEC) for his computational studies of piezoelectricity, spontaneous polarization, permittivity, and nonlinear optical properties of AlScN alloys. The award was presented at the 2024 SSLEEC Annual Review Conference.
Prof. Steven George from the University of Colorado at Boulder has received the DPS Nishizawa Award from the International Symposium on Dry Process (DPS). Prof. George accepted the DPS Nishizawa Award during the DPS2024 symposium held at the Chitose Civic Culture Center in Hokkaido, Japan on November 14 and 15, 2024. The DPS Nishizawa Award is the highest award in DPS. This award recognizes an individual who has made outstanding academic/technological achievements in fields of interest to DPS. The DPS Symposium covers all aspects of the rapidly evolving fields of dry processes, including but not limited to plasma etching and deposition processes, diagnostics and modeling of plasmas and surfaces, and surface modifications by plasmas, for the applications in, e.g., microelectronics, power devices, sensors, environmental protection, biological systems, and medicine. The DPS has provided valuable forums for in-depth discussion among professionals and students working in this exciting field for more than four decades. http://www.dry-process.org/2024/awards.html
Chris G. Van de Walle, Distinguished Professor of Materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Herbert Kroemer Chair in Materials Science, has been awarded the 2025 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics from the American Physical Society (APS). This top prize in computational physics recognizes Van de Walle’s outstanding work in the “development and application of first-principles methods for computing the structural, electronic, and optoelectronic properties of point defects and interfaces.”
Judy Cha, Ph.D. ’09, professor of materials science and engineering in Cornell Engineering has been elected as fellows of the American Physical Society (APS). Cha, who is also the Lester B. Knight Director of the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility, focuses her research on synthesis and transport properties of topological and 2D nanomaterials and their phase transformations in order to understand the structure-electronic property relationships of these quantum nanomaterials. The APS cited her pioneering contributions in the development of nanoscale synthesis and characterization methods for topological nanomaterials, resulting in enhanced properties of the topological electronic states for device applications and fundamental studies.
Cornell Engineering celebrated excellence in education at its 2024 Fall Faculty Reception, honoring outstanding faculty members and recognizing their contributions by presenting the college’s annual awards for teaching and advising.
Michael Collings, a 5th year student in MSE at CU Boulder, won first prize for his poster “Tunable Electron Enhanced Etching of β-Ga2O3 Using HCl Reactive Background Gas and Positive Sample Voltage” at the Rocky Mountain Chapter AVS Symposium last week.
The Center for Superior Energy-Efficient Materials and Devices (SUPREME) and the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility (CNF) have been awarded $549,000 in funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to expand their education and outreach programming. The award will support Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) at Cornell University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2025 through 2027 by establishing the new REU Site: Summer Research Program at SRC JUMP2.0 SUPREME. Each year, the 10-week program will host 10 REU students (five at Cornell and five at MIT) who will participate in semiconductor research in cutting-edge cleanroom facilities. Students’ individual research projects will align with latest research for future microelectronics applications at SUPREME a Center of the Joint University Microelectronics Program 2.0 (JUMP 2.0) of the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC). Prof. Grace Xing, Center Director of SUPREME, shares on behalf of all SUPREME PIs “We are excited on partnering with NSF through this REU Site to broaden participation of young talents in the pursuit of future electronic materials and devices.” REU participants will gain valuable skills in cleanroom and semiconductor technologies, exposure to latest microelectronics research, as well as networking opportunities via direct interactions with semiconductor industry liaisons and the SUPREME Annual Meeting. The mentoring also includes professional development via workshops and talks on ethics in research, effective presentation and writing, intellectual properties and entrepreneurship, career paths, and students become part of the network of JUMP 2.0 Centers and the wider SRC research community. Further details and how to apply can be found here: https://supreme.cornell.edu/reu-site-summer-at-supreme/.