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School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Radiation effects faculty

Radiation effects

Engineers study the effects of radiation on electronics and use nuclear technology for power generation. Building electronics that can operate in high-radiation environments is essential for applications such as spacecraft.

Electrical engineering faculty members in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University conduct research on radiation effects in many areas, such as developing new types of radiation-hardened electronics, the effects of radiation on resistive random-access memory and more.

Hugh Barnaby

Hugh Barnaby

Professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Barnaby's research interests include semiconductors for hostile environments, device physics and modeling, microelectronic device and sensor design and manufacturing, and analog/RF/mixed signal circuit design.

Mariana Bertoni

Mariana Bertoni

Professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

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.

Ying-Chen Chen

Ying-Chen Chen

Assistant Professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Keith Holbert

Keith Holbert

Associate Professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Holbert teaches engineering courses on electric power generation. His expertise includes instrumentation and system diagnostics including radiation effects. He has published two textbooks and more than 200 papers.

Jennifer Kitchen

Jennifer Kitchen

Associate Professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Kitchen’s research focuses on improvements in efficiency and power management for high-frequency circuits and systems.

Matthew Marinella

Matthew Marinella

Associate Professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

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

Nicholas Rolston

Nicholas Rolston

Assistant Professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Nick's research group focuses on developing next-generation renewable energy devices—with a focus on printable thin-film photovoltaics and batteries—using high-throughput processing and reliability-based characterization.

Yong-Hang Zhang

Yong-Hang Zhang

Professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering