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
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.
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
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
Associate Professor
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Marinella has served in technical advising and leadership roles in various Lab- and DOE-level initiatives on next generation computing for government applications.
Yong-Hang Zhang
Professor
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Yong-Hang Zhang is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and the founding director of the Center for Photonics Innovation at ASU. His primary research is on the growth, fabrication and characterization of novel optoelectronic materials and devices with focus on narrow-gap semiconductors, IR detectors, and solar cells. His recent work focuses on type-II superlattice and IR detectors and heterovalent semiconductor integration (such as II-VI, IV-VI, IV-IV and III-V) for lsaer, detector and solar cells applications. He did his thesis research at the Max Planck Institute for Solid States Research and received his doctoral degree in physics from the University of Stuttgart in 1991….