Title: Nanoelectronic materials and devices at the crossroads: Recent advances and future perspectives

    Speaker: Debdeep Jena  （Professor, University of Notre Dame, USA）

    Time: May 20,2014   10:30AM

   Venue:Academic Conference Center, IOS, CAS

 

Biography：Debdeep Jena is a professor in the department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame with a concurrent appointment in the department of Physics.  His research and teaching interests are in the MBE growth and device applications of quantum semiconductor heterostructures of various materials such as III-Nitrides, 2D crystals, and Oxides.  The experimental device work in his group is driven by the theory of charge, heat, and spin transport in nanomaterials.  His research work has appeared in various journals such as Science, Nature Journals, and Physical Review Letters.  He has received the NSF CAREER award in 2007, the ISCS Young Scientist award in 2012, and an IBM Faculty award in 2012.
 
Abstract: As electronic devices are scaled to their size and speed limits, there is a certain pessimism about an impending 'end' symbolized by Moore's law.  In the talk, I will argue and make a case that this crossroad offers the greatest opportunity for inevitable breakthroughs that will rejuvenate the field.  I will review research results in the field, and those from our group, that are driven by this belief.  Material science and physics are the drivers of new devices.  In that light I will discuss extreme-bandgap semiconductors, 2D crystals, and oxide materials, and how the physics in them is driving new ideas in the fields of computation (low-power electronics), communications (high-speed RF), energy (power electronics), and (bio)photonics (visible and deep-UV).