Team Diamond Photoconductive Semiconductor Switches [Graduate Student: Mr. Zhuoran Han & Mr. Jaekwon Lee, Advisor: Prof. Can Bayram] invented a method for enabling high current diamond photoconductive switches through a novel, buried channel concept. U of I U.S. Patent application 63,530,434 and 63,531,298 lays the foundations for enabling this next phase of reliable switches for next-generation electric grid.
Team Diamond Photoconductive Semiconductor Switches and their invention are selected as the Graduate Runner-up (i.e., second place) in the National Inventors Hall of Fame Collegiate Inventors Competition (CIC).
This recognition comes with $5,000 and a patent acceleration.
Since 1990, the Collegiate Inventors Competition has been held as a national competition. This is the first ECE Illinois Graduate Runner-up recognition (and the highest campus recognition to-date) in this national, competitive platform.
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