Technical Focus Areas

  • Crystallinity
  • Controlled doping
  • Surface science
  • Carrier injection and transport
  • Low-resistivity ohmic contacts
  • Heterojunctions and interfaces
  • Extreme environment defect generation and correlation with electro-optical properties
  • Physical electronics and devices
  • Materials characterization

Thrust Leads

Computational Modeling and Theory, Jincheng Du

Physical Electronics, Usha Philipose

Radiation Effects, Bibhu Rout

Thin Films, Nigel Shepherd

Members 

Nigel Shepherd (Director), Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D., University of Florida

Usha Philipose (Co-Director), Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D., University of Toronto

Rajarshi Banerjee, Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D., Ohio State University

Marco Buongiorno-Nardelli, Condensed Matter Theory, Ph.D., International School for Advanced Studies

Oliver Chyan, Chemistry/Materials Chemistry, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jincheng Du, Ceramics, Ph.D., Alfred University

Gary Glass, Physics, Ph.D., University of Tennessee

Teresa Golden, Chemistry, Ph.D., New Mexico State University

Jeffry A. Kelber, Analytical & Surface/Materials Chemistry, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

JungKwun Kim, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo

Guru Khalsa, Physics, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Chris Littler, Physics, Ph.D., University of North Texas

Hung Luyen,  Electrical Engineering/Applied Electromagnetics, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison

Gayatri Mehta, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D., University of Pittsburg

Sundeep Mukherjee, Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology

Jens Neu, Physics/Experimental Physics, Ph.D., Technical University of Kaiserslautern

Rick Reidy, Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

Bibhu Rout, Physics, Ph.D., Utkal University

Andrey Voevodin, Metallurgy / Material Sciences Engineering, Ph.D., Tula Technical University

Xiao Li, Polymer Chemistry and Physics, Ph.D., Chinese Academy of Sciences - Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry

Richard Zhang, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology

 

UNT is a core member of the National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC).