Rice WIDE Lab Attend CHIMES Meeting at Penn State University!

Shisong, Zhaobo, and Prof. Yuji Zhao attended CHIMES review meeting at Penn State University! CHIMES hosted its first annual review Sep 5-6 at Penn State University. We had a record participation of 160+ with highly charged conversations and discussions over several topics that included our center overview and vision, 4 industry presentations, 14 theme and…

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Prof. Yuji Zhao Joins $32.7M DARPA/SRC JUMP 2.0 Center!

Our team at Rice University is one of 14 university partners named to the $32.7 million, Penn State-led Center for Heterogeneous Integration of Micro Electronic Systems (CHIMES), aimed at developing heterogenous integration to advance efficient integration of semiconductor devices, microelectronics chips and other components. The project was created by the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC)’s Joint University…

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High Temperature GaN Solar Cell Paper Published in Materials Today Energy

We published an invited review paper in the Materials Today Energy! Please go to the publication website for details. abstract III-nitride InGaN material is an ideal candidate for the fabrication of high performance photovoltaic (PV) solar cells, especially for high-temperature applications. Over the past decade, significant efforts have been made to improve the PV performance…

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UWBG Review Paper published in Oxford Open Materials Science

We published an invited review paper in the Oxford Open Materials Science! Please go to the publication website for details. Ultrawide bandgap (UWBG) materials such as diamond, Ga2O3, hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) and AlN, are a new class of semiconductors that possess a wide range of attractive properties, including very large bandgap, high critical electric…

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Paper on selective area regrowth and doping published in Materials Today!

Selective area regrowth involves many important topics in materials science, including regrowth dynamics, the impurities at the regrowth interface, field assisted tunneling, electron holography for interface electrostatic potential profile, and dopant profiling. These most recent results in the last three years can be very beneficial for the study of regrowth, interfaces, impurities, and leakage in…

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Tao joined Rice WIDE Lab, Welcome!

Tao Li received the B.Eng. degree in Optoelectronic Information Science and Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China in 2021. After that, he joined the WIDE Group led by Professor Yuji Zhao at Rice University and started pursuing his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests lie in nanoscale light-matter interaction…

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Mingfei joined Rice WIDE Lab! Welcome!

Mingfei received his B.S. degree in Physics in 2020 from Wuhan University. His previous work focused on perovskite photodiodes and solar cells. He joined the Rice WIDE Lab in 2021 and is currently seeking a Ph.D degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice. Welcome, Mingfei! 

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