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School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Semiconductors faculty

Semiconductors

Semiconductors are materials that can conduct electricity, but not as efficiently as conductor materials. Semiconductor materials are used with conductors to create semiconductor chips, power electronics and solar panels, and the term “semiconductor” has become used as shorthand for chips.

Electrical engineering faculty members in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University are conducting semiconductor research in a variety of areas, including metrology and characterization of new devices, exploring best practices to integrate chiplets into one system, designing chips for national defense that can withstand extreme environmental operating conditions and more.

Christopher Bailey

Christopher Bailey

Professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Bailey's research expertise is advanced semiconductor packaging for heterogeneous integration. His research focus is on Packaging Technologies, Thermal Management, Multi-Physics Modelling, and Reliability.

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.

Umberto Celano

Umberto Celano

Associate Professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

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

Chaitali Chakrabarti

Chaitali Chakrabarti

Professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Chakrabarti's areas of expertise include low power embedded system design, reliable memory design, VLSI architectures for signal processing and communications, and algorithm-architecture codesign.

Ying-Chen Chen

Ying-Chen Chen

Assistant Professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Krishnendu Chakrabarty

Krishnendu Chakrabarty

Professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Krishnendu Chakrabarty is the Fulton Professor of Microelectronics in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University.

Zhaoyang Fan

Zhaoyang Fan

Professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

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.

Deliang Fan

Deliang Fan

Associate Professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Fan's research interests include efficient AI hardware and algorithm, AI chip design, in-memory computing circuits and architecture, adversarial and trustworthy AI system.

Jiaqi Gu

Jiaqi Gu

Assistant Professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Michael Goryll

Michael Goryll

Associate Professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

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.

Stephen Goodnick

Stephen Goodnick

Professor Emeritus

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

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.

Christiana Honsberg

Christiana Honsberg

Professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Honsberg's areas of expertise include ltra-high efficiency solar cells and silicon solar cells.

Joshua Hihath

Joshua Hihath

Center Director and Professor

Biodesign Center for Bioelectronics and Biosensors

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.

Leslie Hwang

Leslie Hwang

Assistant Professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Zachary Holman

Zachary Holman

Vice Dean and Professor

Fulton Schools of 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.

Michael Kozicki

Michael Kozicki

Professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

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

Nidhin Kurian Kalarickal

Nidhin Kurian Kalarickal

Assistant Professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Kalarickal's research focuses on epitaxial growth and device engineering of wide and ultra-wide band gap semiconductors for application in next generation power switching and RF/mm-wave electronics.

Sayfe Kiaei

Sayfe Kiaei

Professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

IEEE Fellow and Professor at Arizona State University whose research spans RFIC, analog and digital ICs, wireless communications, sensors, and renewable energy. He has led multiple international research centers.

Richard King

Richard King

Professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Kexin Li

Kexin Li

Assistant Professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

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.

Brian Skromme

Brian Skromme

Professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Skromme's areas of expertise include compound semiconductor materials and devices, wide bandgap semiconductors, optical characterization, and engineering education research.

Marco Saraniti

Marco Saraniti

Sr. Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and Professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Saraniti's field of expertise is Computational Electronics and Biophysics

Meng Tao

Meng Tao

Professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Tao's research interests range from semiconductor surfaces, interfaces and thin films; terawatt-scale solar photovoltaics to two-dimensional transition metal chalcogenides and chemical vapor deposition.

Dragica Vasileska

Dragica Vasileska

Professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

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.

Yu Yao

Yu Yao

Associate Professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

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

Jun Zhang

Jun Zhang

Assistant Professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Zhang’s research expertise spans deep learning, computer architecture, embedded systems and VLSI design automation.

Yong-Hang Zhang

Yong-Hang Zhang

Professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering