Semiconductors faculty

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Daphne Chen is an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU), Tempe. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, and her B.S. and M.S. degrees from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. Prior to joining ASU, she served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Northern Arizona University. She also held industry positions as an R&D Pathfinding Emerging Memory Engineer at Micron Technology and as a hardware developer at IBM, working on emerging memory and computing applications. Her research…

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

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.

Dr. Gu received his Ph.D. degrees, under the supervision of Prof. David Z. Pan and Prof. Ray T. Chen, in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA, in 2023. He has broad research interests spanning from emerging hardware design for efficient computing (photonics, post-CMOS electronics, quantum), hardware-algorithm co-design, efficient AI/ML algorithms, and electronic-photonic design automation.Dr. Gu has authored 80+ peer-reviewed international journal/conference papers in above area. He has received Best Paper Award at ASP-DAC 2020, selected as one out of 6 Best Paper Finalists at DAC 2020, won First Place at the ACM/SIGDA Student Research Competition (SRC) held…

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.

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

Leslie Hwang is an assistant professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering. She joined ASU after working at Synopsys as a senior research and development engineer, where she worked on the machine learning team for the company’s IC Validator, which verifies correctness and manufacturability of semiconductor chip designs. Hwang’s awards include an Intel computer engineering fellowship and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Harold L. Olesen Undergraduate Teaching Award. Her expertise is in applied machine learning for physical design in electronics and advanced semiconductor packaging.

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.

Kiaei is the director of the Connection One Center (NSF I/UCRC Center) and Motorola Chair in Analog and RF Integrated Circuits.

Research in Professor Richard King’s group includes technologies for one-sun, flat-plate multijunction cells, defect tolerance at grain boundaries and other defects in perovskites and wide-bandgap CIGS-related materials, physics of recombination-benign defects, low-cost polycrystalline III-V solar cells, dilute nitride Ga(In)NAs(Sb), and integration of compound semiconductors with high-efficiency silicon solar cells. Prior to joining Arizona State University’s School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, he was principal scientist and technical fellow at Spectrolab, Inc. His research on photovoltaics over the last 30 years has explored metamorphic III-V materials, high-lifetime back-contact silicon solar cells, dilute nitride GaInNAs(Sb), ordered and disordered (Al)GaInP, characterization of…

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.

Park’s work focuses on addressing the challenges that arise with the advancement of power semiconductors.

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.

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.

Saraniti’s field of expertise is Computational Electronics and Biophysics

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

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.

Thornton’s research interests include ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor devices, diamond electronics for high power RF integrated circuits, and silicon-on-insulator MESFETs.

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.

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

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….