Nanoelectronics faculty

Allee associate director of the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering and is a member of the National Academy of Inventors.

Bertoni heads the DEfECT Lab at ASU, working to establish an efficient platform of energy technologies based on earth abundant and environmentally benign materials with the potential of achieving terawatt-level deployment.

Umberto Celano’s research interests lie at the intersection of condensed matter physics, semiconductor technology, and materials analysis, with a focus on nanoelectronics.

Ying-Chen (Daphne) Chen is currently an assistant professor in the School of Electrical, Computing and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. She received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at The University of Texas at Austin in 2019, B.S. and M.S. degree from National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan). Prior to joining ASU, she was the assistant professor at Department of Electrical Engineering, Northern Arizona University. She was R&D Pathfinding Emerging Memory Engineer at Micron Technology, and a hardware developer at IBM on emerging memory and computing applications. Her primary research focuses on emerging electronics, device…

Fan’s current research is in the areas of semiconductors and phase-change materials for electronics and photonics such as neuromorphic devices and tunable photonic devices; nanomaterials for electrochemical energy storages.

Fu’s research focuses on third-generation wide/ultrawide bandgap semiconductor materials and devices for applications in electronics and photonics.

Goodnick is the deputy director of ASU LightWorks. Some key research contributions: photovoltaics, global modeling of high frequency devices, fabrication and characterization of nanoscale semiconductor devices.

Goryll’s areas of expertise include Si and SiGe Chemical Vapor Deposition, self-organization phenomena during semiconductor growth, surface and interface physics, strain in semiconductors, new materials in CMOS processing.

Hihath is an expert in bioelectronics, biosensors and nanoelectronics. He is the director of the Center for Bioelectronics and Biosensors and a professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering.

Holman’s research group at ASU focuses on new materials and device designs for high-efficiency silicon, CdTe, and silicon-based tandem solar cells.

Kozicki develops new materials, processes, and devices in applications ranging from information storage to supply chain security.

Kexin (Kathy) Li is an assistant professor in the School of Electrical Computer and Energy Engineering. She earned her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2022 and joined ASU after working as a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University. Kexin’s research focuses on understanding and modeling the physical behavior of emerging nanoscale electronic materials and devices, to enable new system-level functionalities for high-power and high-frequency applications. Her current work involves building a framework for technology-circuit and device-circuit co-design, which requires expertise in nanoelectronics, semiconductor device physics, and circuit design. Kexin has collaborated extensively with…

Prof. Matthew Marinella leads a research group dedicated to advancing electronic and ionic memory technologies for energy efficient and resilient AI computing.

Sanchez Esqueda’s research focus is the development of electronic technologies through the exploration of novel nanoscale materials and device functionalities for computing, memory and sensing applications.

Prof. Dragica Vasileska research interests include semiclassical and quantum transport modeling and simulation of nanoscale devices and solar cells. She is an IEEE Fellow as of 2019.

Wang aims to bridge the nanoscience and biotechnology in research. His primary research interests have been in nanofabrication, 3D printing, nanophotonics, nanopores, and personalized infectious disease diagnostics.

Yao’s research has focused on various optoelectronic devices based on semiconductor heterostructures, nanophotonic structures, plasmonics and graphene.

Yu’s areas of expertise range from nanostructure and nano device fabrication and characterization, wide bandgap semiconductor electronic and optoelectronics to wearable electronics.