Christopher Hinkle
Associate Professor
chris.hinkle@utdallas.edu
Phone: 972-883-5711
Office: RL 4.406
800 West Campbell Rd.
Mailstop: RL 10
Richardson, TX 75080-3021
Education
PhD, Physics, North Carolina State University, 2005
BS, Physics, North Carolina State University, 1999
Overview
Our research group combines innovative materials growth, interface and chemical bonding analysis, and state-of-the-art devices to significantly enhance the knowledge and performance capabilities of nanoelectronic, optoelectronic, and energy storage applications. Our approach utilizes advanced molecular beam epitaxy techniques and highly developed materials characterization to fundamentally understand the growth process, material nanostructure, chemical bonding, and experimentally determined band structure. We then correlate those findings with advanced electrical transport measurements with devices that we fabricate to take full advantage of the novel properties of the materials and heterostructures that we create.
Research Interests
- Photovoltaics
- Li-ion Batteries
- III-V Nanoelectronics
- the development of 2D materials (HfSe2, WSe2, WTe2, h-BN, monolayer Te) and heterostructures for advanced low-power electronics such as the broken-gap tunnel FET and the BiSFET.
- the development of 2D and 3D topological insulators (Bi2Se3, Bismuthene, Stannanane) for defect immune, topologically protected low-power devices and neuromorphic electronics.
- the heterogeneous integration of high-mobility channel materials (GaN, Ge, InGaAs) on bulk Si (100) with high-k/metal gates and advanced low-resistivity contacts for high-performance FinFETs.