Research

Halide (/and chalcogenide) perovskites and chalcogenides solar cells and clean energy generation

• Pb-free halide (/and chalcogenide) perovskites for tandem solar cells and water splitting and solar-fuels.
• 2D-TMDC based tandem thin-film solar cells to enhance efficiency of existing CIGS and CdTe technologies.
• Novel materials for clean energy generation (e.g. betavoltaics and waste heat utilization)

Graduate Students:
Huilong Liu (PhD), Joshua Muhammad (PhD), Karthika Haridas (PhD), Manaswini Bhamidimarri (PhD), Neelima Kuttappa Mukkatira (PhD)

Undergraduate Students:
Laasya Thiagarajan, Ethan Christie, Tania Yi-wye Chim

High Bandwidth Interconnects for Advanced Packaging 

• Interconnect materials for 3D-HI
• Cu-RDL, chip-to-substrate hybrid bonding, TSV and TGV reliability, embedded packages
• Reliability of fine-pitch interconnects
• 2D materials for high bandwidth interconnects

Students:
Faharia H. Bhuiyan (PhD), Haohan Guo (PhD), Jakob I. Ramos (MS), Karthika Haridas (PhD), Chris Morrissey (PhD)

Undergraduate students:
Kyle Wiegand, Caroline Cameron, Parker J. Jeffrey, Ethan X. Tan, Salihcan Paul Kremer

Materials for thermal management in Advanced Packaging

• Novel methods of topological cooling using thermo-photonic or thermo-electric coolers 
• Degradation kinetics of thermal interface materials for immersion cooling

Students:
Manaswini Bhamidimarri (PhD), Neelima Kuttappa Mukkatira (PhD), Bijay Chettri (MS), Jacey R. Birkenmeyer (MS)

Undergraduate Students:
Mark Tereck

Enabling Tunable On-Chip Optical Memory by tailoring persistent photoconductivity and ion migration in thin-film semiconductors