Recognition and Awards

Recognition awards and Service

Dr. William Vandenberghe served as the general chair of the 2022 Executive Committee for the IEEE Semiconductor Interface Specialists Conference which was held in San Diego, California from December 7-10, 2022. Topics included semiconductor/insulator interfaces, the physics of insulating thin films and the interaction among materials science, device physics and state-of-the-art technology.

Dr. Orlando Auciello received the 2022 Top Honorable Mention at the worldwide Create the Future Design Contest for a new squid glaucoma shunt, developed with Dr. Karanjit Kooner from UT Southwestern Medical Center.

Research Awards – From September 2022 – March 2023

We are proud to recognize our faculty who have collectively earned research awards totaling more than $4.9 million since September 2022:

Principal Investigator (PI)	Award Agency	Title
Dr. Amy Walker	National Science Foundation	Improving Transfer Academic, Career and Community Engagement for Student Success (IT ACCESS) in Engineering and Computer Science
Dr. Amy Walker	National Science Foundation	Pattern‐Directed Growth of Metal Chalcogenide Nanostructures on Surfaces: Composition and Structure Control
Dr. Amy Walker	National Science Foundation	Collaborative Research: Photoassisted CVD for Low Temperature Area Selective Deposition
Dr. Lev Gelb	National Science Foundation	CDS&E: Thin Film Analysis by XPS: Quantitative Modeling of Sputtering and Depth Profile Data, Machine Learning Classifiers, and Novel Applications
Dr. Ted Moise	Texas Instruments	Early Detection of Low Data Margin in FRAM Capacitors
Dr. Jiyoung Kim	SK Hynix	Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) of In Based Nitride Channel layer for 3-D stacked device applications
Dr Manuel Quevedo	Texas Instruments	Next Generation Test Contactors
Dr Manuel Quevedo	3D Epitaxial Tech/DOE	SBIR P-II: Atomically Precise Manipulation of Silicon-Aluminum Interfaces for Improving Energy Performances in Microelectronic Devices
Dr Manuel Quevedo	VPR Accelerator	Center for Harsh Environment Semiconductor and Systems
Dr. Robert Baumann	Semiconductor Research Corporation	Development of Two-Photon Absorption Laser System for Creating Single Event Effects
Dr. Kyeongjae Cho	Tokyo Electron	TDDFT Modeling of EUV Resist Polymers
Dr. Kyeongjae Cho	Semiconductor Research Corporation	Conversion of HZO to a Low Voltage Ferroelectric and High k Dielectric
Dr. Kyeongjae Cho	DARPA Sponsored Special Project	Interlayer Engineering of Heterostructure Thermal Boundary Resistance of Power Device Heat Spreader
Dr. Kyeongjae Cho	Northrop Grumman	UWBG Electronics Device Modeling and System Studies
Dr. Kyeongjae Cho	Hanyang University	First Principle Study on the Electronic Properties of Nanocrystalline-amorphous Phase Composite Nanolayer
Dr. Kyeongjae Cho	Samsung Electronics	Performance and Reliability Boosters for Amorphous Oxide Semiconductors (AOS) TFT