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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, […]