Prof. Bayram awarded a Coherent / II-VI Foundation Grant Renewal

Thanks to the Coherent / II-VI Foundation Block-Gift Program, we will strengthen our shared mission: Create a stronger population of new engineering-, science- and mathematics-educated individuals who will ultimately increase and improve the tough and ever more complicated technical pool of engineers and scientists seeking to tackle problems facing our nation and the world.

Team Diamond Photoconductive Semiconductor Switches selected as a 2024 National Inventors Hall of Fame Collegiate Inventors Competition Graduate Runner-up

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 […]

Team Diamond Photoconductive Semiconductor Switches selected as a 2024 National Inventors Hall of Fame Collegiate Inventors Competition Finalist

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 […]

Prof. Bayram awarded under CHIPS and Science Act

Applied Research Institute (ARI) / Silicon Crossroads Microelectronics Commons (SCMC) Hub recently awarded the Commercial Leap Ahead project titled “High-Performance Diamond Electronics for Next Generation Defense Systems”. Led by Great Lakes Crystal Technologies,  team members are GE Aerospace, Penn State Applied Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Michigan State University, University of Notre Dame, […]

Prof. Bayram awarded a Coherent / II-VI Foundation Grant

Thanks to the Coherent / II-VI Foundation Block-Gift Program, we will strengthen our shared mission: Create a stronger population of new engineering-, science- and mathematics-educated individuals who will ultimately increase and improve the tough and ever more complicated technical pool of engineers and scientists seeking to tackle problems facing our nation and the world.