Cutting-edge research on materials, devices, or physics of the third-generation semiconductor

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Project Description

The wide bandgap semiconductors, also known as the third-generation semiconductors, have enormous potentials to revolutionize almost every industry on the planet and in space. Because of the unique and superior properties, they can be made in ultra-efficient, ultra-sensitive and ultra-reliable optical and electronic devices. Despite being in the early phrase of development and commercialization, the third-generation semiconductors have already resulted in industries worth of hundreds of billions USD and creating numerous jobs, as well as 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics. Opening your phone, computers and anything using electricity, you will likely find plenty of them. More potentials are to be unlocked by smart and hard-working researchers such as you. This VSRP project is offered by the Advanced Semiconductor Laboratory, a world-leading laboratory with state-of-the-art facilities in the third-generation semiconductor research. The VSRP students will have the opportunity to learn the latest materials, devices, and physics of the third-generation semiconductor as well as the combination with other exciting things such as 2D materials and quantum photonics. More importantly, every VSRP student will have his/her own project to solve a key problem. The project needs 4-6 months to be completed. It is going to be an exciting period with intense training and research work both theoretically and experimentally. Successful students can likely publish their results in prestigious scientific venues. ​ ​​​​​​​
Program - Electrical Engineering
Division - Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering
Field of Study - ​Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Physics, Material Science, Chemistry

About the
Researcher

Xiaohang Li

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Xiaohang Li

Professor Li is interested in the ultrawide bandgap and wide bandgap semiconductors. He is focused on growth, simulation, fabrication, and characterization of next-generation III-nitride and III-oxide devices. Professor Li's research has resulted in many pioneering and cutting-edge results widely recognized and awarded by IEEE, SPIE, American Association of Crystal Growth, and Edison Innovation Foundation.

The devices of particular interest include LED, laser, high power devices, high frequency devices, and sensors. These devices are expected to become the enabling technologies to revolutionize energy, communication, health, sensing, and many others which are crucial for the sustainable future of human society.

Professor Li's research activities are highly interdisciplinary. They involve students and researchers from electrical engineering, applied physics, material science, machine learning, and other related disciplines. They are supported by state-of-the-art facilities including and not limited to: MOCVD, PLD, ALD, photolithography, e-beam lithography, PL, TEM, XRD, Raman, XPS, SIMS, RBS, supercomputer in his lab and at KAUST. 

Desired Project Deliverables

​In research, no deliverables can be compared with a patent or a peer-review paper. In the past, all the VSRP students can generate patents or publish first-authored or co-authored papers in prestigious journals. The publication record has help strengthened their credentials greatly for future career development. Therefore, the incoming VSRP students are expected to do the same. PS: one example can be found here: https://goo.gl/8sorGf​