This award was set up in honor of Shun Lien Chuang and is presented to a graduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering who has demonstrated excellence and high scholastic achievement. This is a great honor, which recognizes the quality of Yi-Chia’s graduate career. It also comes with a certificate and an […]
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Journal paper highlighted as the Front Cover
ACS Omega selected our work (ACS Omega 5, 3917 – 3923 (2020) as the issue Front Cover. The cover art illustrates the crystal structure and band alignments of zincblende AlN/GaN/InN heterostructures. The innovative zincblende III-nitrides material system featuring type-I band alignment and polarization-free nature is beneficial to capture both electrons and holes for recombination and […]
Jarod awarded the Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium Outstanding Presentation Trophy
Select Highlights by – Holonyak MNTL
Jarod invited to the Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium
Jarod received Office of Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Award
Team Cubic LEDs selected as a 2019 National Inventors Hall of Fame Collegiate Inventors Competition Finalist
Team Cubic LEDs [Graduate Student: Mr. Richard Liu, Advisor: Prof. Can Bayram] invented a method for enabling single-crystal single-phase cubic GaN semiconductors. U of I U.S. Patent 10,027,086 (issued July 17, 2018) lays the foundations for enabling this next phase of III-nitride materials for advanced light emitting diodes and transistors. National Inventors Hall of Fame […]
Kihoon and Hsuan-Ping ranked as excellent teachers by the ECE 443 Spring class
List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students
Dicky awarded an SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship in the amount of $3,000
Select Highlights by – Nick Holonyak, Jr Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory – University of Illinois ECE Department – SPIE
Dennis awarded the SPIE BACUS Scholarship in the amount of $5,000
Select Highlights by – Nick Holonyak, Jr Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory – University of Illinois ECE Department – SPIE
Nisha awarded a DaRin Butz Foundation Research Scholarship
Nisha is awarded a DaRin Butz Foundation Research Scholarship that comes with a $5,000 stipend. Nisha will work ~35 hrs per week over 10 weeks in the summer and focus on understanding the impact of junction temperature on LEDs.