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Past Seminars

Dr. Andreas Heinrich -- April 24, 2009, 2:00PM
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies of Atomic-Scale Computation

The information technology industry has been able to exponentially shrink the size of...

Dr. Jeffrey Bokor -- April 17, 2009, 2:00PM
Nanomagnet-Based Logic Architecture

Interacting ensembles of ferromagnetic nano-islands can perform basic logic operations and...

Dr. Niti Goel -- April 03, 2009, 2:00PM
Advanced Gate Stack Research and Challenges for Integration in NAND Flash Memory and III-V Logic Devices

After three decades of successful scaling of transistors, the trend is reaching fundamental...

Dr. Aaron Franklin -- March 27, 2009, 2:00PM
Carbon Nanotube Transistors: The Future?

Over the past decade, tremendous progress has been made in the fabrication and...

Dr. Joanna Mirecki Millunchick -- March 20, 2009, 2:00PM
Directing Self Assembly and Defect Formation in Compound Semiconductors

Dr. Libai Huang -- March 06, 2009, 2:00PM
Ultrafast Dynamics of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Ultrafast nonlinear optical spectroscopy was employed to study the optical and electronic...

Dr. Pengcheng Jia -- April 25, 2008, 2:00PM
A New Broadband Amplifier Architecture Using Coaxial Waveguide Spatial Power Combining Technology

CAP Wireless, Inc. develops and manufactures a broad range of RF and microwave amplification...

Dr. David Janes -- April 18, 2008, 2:00PM
Nanowire Devices for Thin-Film Electronics and Sensing

Semiconductor nanowires are interesting as channel materials for transistors as well as chem./b

Dr. Eric Pop -- April 04, 2008, 2:00PM
Power Dissipation in Nanoscale CMOS and Carbon Nanotubes

High power densities are considered a major roadblock in the evolution of nanoelectronics. At...

Mr. Farbod Shafiei -- March 28, 2008, 2:00PM
Measurement of the Separation Dependence of Resonant Energy Transfer between CdSe/ZnS Nanocrystals

A study of the interaction between different sized Nanocrystalline Quantum Dots (NQD) helps to...

Patrick Fay -- February 22, 2008, 2:00PM
Sb-Heterostructure Backward Tunnel Diodes for Millimeter-Wave Detection and Imaging

Millimeter-wave detection is becoming an increasingly important technology for avionics...

Dr. Masataka Higashiwaki -- February 08, 2008, 2:00PM
GaN heterostructure field-effect transistor technology for millimeter-wave applications

High-frequency and high-power transmitters utilizing solid-state amplifiers are essential for...

Dr. James Cooper -- February 01, 2008, 2:00PM
Graphene Nanoelectronics

: Graphene is a revolutionary "nano-fabric" consisting of a single sheet of carbon atoms in a...

Dr. J. Brad Boos -- January 25, 2008, 2:00PM
Sb-based Transistors and Diodes for High-Speed, Low-Power Applications

There is an expanding need to reduce power consumption in high-speed analog, digital, and...

Dr. Maja Remskar -- December 07, 2007, 4:00PM
Nanotechnology and Health How do we safely produce and utilize nanoparticles?

Concerns have been raised about exposure to nanoparticles and their potential impact on health...

Scott Howard -- November 19, 2007, 01:00AM
Quantum Cascade Lasers:
High-Performance Semiconductor Lasers for the Mid-Infrared

Quantum cascade (QC) lasers are versatile mid-infrared semiconductor light sources ideal for...

Dr. Chanoch Carmeli -- May 01, 2007, 12:30PM
HIGHLY EFFICIENT HYBRID BIO-SEMICONDUCTOR NANO PHOTO SENSORS AND PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES

The electronic coupling between the photoactive proteins and semiconductors or metals is used...

T.F. Kuech -- April 24, 2007, 12:30PM
The Growth and Characteristics of GaAsSb Based Heterostructures

GaAs-based multiple quantum well heterostructures comprised of metastable alloys, such as...

Dr. Dieter Gruen -- April 17, 2007, 12:30PM
ULTRANANOCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND:
SYNTHESIS, PROPERTIES AND APPLICATIONS

Ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD) films are deposited from microwave plasmas typically...

Dr. Rhonda Drayton -- April 10, 2007, 12:30PM
Use of 3D Design Methods for RF Integrated Packaging and Circuits

The information age emerged from the parallel development of computing and RF communication...

Dr. Debdeep Jena -- March 27, 2007, 12:30PM
Graphene for Electronics:
Can Dirac rescue Moore's Law?

Graphene is the newest carbon-based material that has generated tremendous interest in the...

Dr. Tomas Palacios -- March 20, 2007, 12:30PM
Nitride Electronics:
New ideas at the mm-wave frontier

In the short span of 15 years, nitride-based semiconductors have evolved tremendously from...

Dr. Alan Seabaugh -- February 27, 2007, 12:30PM
Zero-Bias Detectors and Circuits for Energy Harvesting

This talk will consider the requirements for constructing zero-bias detectors and circuits...

Dr. Cengiz Ozkan -- February 26, 2007, 12:30PM
Carbon Nanotube-DNA Nanoarchitectures and Electronic Functionality

Biological molecules such as deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) possess inherent recognition and self-

Dr. Gary Bernstein -- February 20, 2007, 12:30PM
Quilt Packaging

"Quilt Packaging," (QP) a new superconnect paradigm for interchip communication, is presented...

Dr. HsuehChia Chang -- February 13, 2007, 12:30PM
Induced Dipoles and Dielectrophoresis of Nano-Colloids

Induced AC electric dipoles of nano-colloids can be used to manipulate and assemble the beads...

Dr. B. Brar -- February 06, 2007, 12:30PM
Antimonide Based Semiconductors for Low Power Millimeterwave Circuits

Antimonide based compound semiconductors (ABCS) have a bandstructure that make them ideal for...

Dr. Gerhard Klimeck -- January 30, 2007, 12:30PM
Electronic Structure of Si/InAs Composite Channels

Although pure InAs, has a lighter effective mass and higher mobility than Si, an ultra-scaled...

Dr. P.W. Bohn -- January 23, 2007, 12:30PM
Chemical and Biochemical Sensing in Porous GaN Produced by Metal-Assisted Electroless Etching

A great deal of the interest displayed in porous semiconductors in recent years is motivated...

Dr. Steven Ringel -- September 08, 2006, 3:00PM
The Science and Application of Metamorphic Semiconductor Heterostructures:
A New Age of Advanced Device Technologies Reaches Puberty

The past few years have been witness to a grudging but dramatic acceptance of the realization...

Dr. Fred Terry, Jr. -- May 02, 2006, 12:30PM
Micro and Nano Technology at the Michigan Nanofabrication Facility

This seminar will give an overview of micro and nano technologies at the Michigan...

Minghao Qi -- April 25, 2006, 12:30PM
Microcavities in Three-Dimensional Phototonic Crystals

A photonic crystal (PhCs) is typically a composite of a high-dielectric-constant material (e.g...

Dr. Neil Zimmerman -- April 18, 2006, 12:30PM
A Fundamental Standard of Capacitance:
Counting Electrons One-by-One

Solid-state devices based on the Coulomb blockade give us a remarkable ability: we can move...

Dr. Jasprit Singh -- April 11, 2006, 12:30PM
Disorder versus Coherence:
Reaching into the Terrahertz Regime

The terrahertz regime in the electromagnetic spectrum is still a frequency regime that...

Jasprit Singh -- April 11, 2006, 12:30PM
Disorder versus Coherence:
Reaching into the Terrahertz Regime

The terrahertz regime in the electromagnetic spectrum is still a frequency regime that...

Dr. Alexander Efros -- April 04, 2006, 11:00AM
Semiconductor Nanorod Optical Properties

There is growing interest in nanometer-scale crystalline semiconductor structures of various...

Dr. Steven Ringel -- March 28, 2006, 11:00AM
The Science and Application of Metamorphic Semiconductor Heterostructures:
A New Age of Advanced Device Technologies Reaches Puberty

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Dr. Paul Saunier -- March 20, 2006, 11:30AM
The future of AlGaN/GaN HEMT Technology

Assessing the future of the AlGaN/GaN technology is challenging!

On one hand AlGaN/GaN...

Dr. Douglas Hall -- March 14, 2006, 12:30PM
New Uses for “Rust”:
Recent Developments in Compound Semiconductor Oxidation for Optoelectronic and Electronic Devices

The 1990 discovery of the wet-thermal native oxides of AlGaAs at UIUC has led to significant...

Dr. Katherine Liu -- March 07, 2006, 12:30PM
Thermal Strategy Update

Advances in microfabrication processes and ever-increasing demand for faster processing of...

Steve Koester -- February 28, 2006, 12:30PM
SiGe Heterostructures:
One-Hit Wonder or the Next Rolling Stones?

The introduction by IBM of a production SiGe HBT technology in 1998 marked a major milestone...

Deli Wang -- February 21, 2006, 12:30PM
Semiconductor Nanowires for Nanoelectronics

Ms. Michelle Roberts -- February 14, 2006, 12:30PM
Strain Engineering Using Si/SiGe Nanomembranes

Controlling strain in the Si/SiGe hetero-system provides control over band offsets and carrier...

Dr. Xiangyang Li -- February 07, 2006, 12:30PM
Photodetectors:
introduction, its meteorological application in China, and current nanowire based work at Notre Dame

Photodetectors are critical parts in the information technology. It is the eyes of imaging...

Dr. Peter Ye -- January 31, 2006, 12:30PM
III-V MOSFETs: Opportunities and Challenges

Practical GaAs MOSFET, in particular for large-scale integrated circuits or digital...

Dr. Michael Flynn -- January 24, 2006, 12:30PM
Research in Analog Circuits at the University of Michigan

This presentation begins with an overview of the research of the analog group at the...

Dr. Longxia Li -- December 20, 2005, 3:00PM
New Progress in Large-size CdZnTe Single Crystal Growth using a Modified Vertical Bridgeman Technique for Room Temperature Radiation Detectors

Dr. Longxia Li is the president and founder of Yinnel Tech, Incorporated, located in South...

Ilesanmi Adesida -- March 22, 2005, 12:30PM
Processing and Device Issues in GaN and Related Compounds

Over the last decade, significant and rapid advances in the epitaxial growth of gallium...

Leonid Rokhinson -- March 01, 2005, 12:30PM
Spin separation in cyclotron motion

The ability to manipulate spin of charge carries in a controllable fashion is central to the...