In the summer of this year, ECE’s Prof. Bethanie Stadler will be making her way to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as part of a collaborative research project with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). She is one of an international 4-person team which includes C-SPIN director and ECE faculty Prof. Jian-Ping Wang, […]
Prof. Anand Gopinath has been awarded the 2017 Microwave Application Award of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) for his contributions to the analysis of microstrip lines and their discontinuities. Microstrip lines are widely used in high frequency circuits and the generic form is a printed line on a dielectric substrate with a […]
Prof. Bethanie Stadler is a recipient of the 2017 Taylor Award for Distinguished Service. The award is in recognition of her services to the magnetics and materials research communities, and her service to the department, the University, and the surrounding community. The George W. Taylor Awards are endowed within the College of Science and Engineering […]
Scientists at the University of Minnesota have created a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) that can be switched by a pulse of light lasting one trillionth of a second, setting a speed record. The magnetic tunnel junction is a device critical to information technology with the termination of Moore’s law, a principle that has ruled the […]
Prof. Rhonda Franklin has been awarded the 2016-17 John Tate Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising. She is one of four recipients named for this year’s award. Prof. Franklin has been a keen and dedicated participant in the University’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP), and the NSF-sponsored Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program. As ECE’s […]
ECE doctoral student Chunhui Dai has won the Best Poster award at the 2016 Materials Research Society’s (MRS) Fall meeting. His research poster was one of only 5 Best Poster award winners from among 600 posters presented at the MRS meeting. Chunhui’s poster is titled “Nanoscale In Situ Self-Assembly Using Ion-Beam Microscopy System.” He is […]
In an international/multi-institutional undertaking, Prof. Tony Low from ECE and researchers from other institutions have conducted a study that highlights how manipulation of 2D materials could make our modern day devices faster, smaller, and better. The findings are published in the most recent edition of Nature Materials, a leading journal in materials science and engineering research. […]
ECE faculty, Prof. Steven Koester has been named an IEEE Fellow effective January 2017. He is cited by the IEEE for “contributions to group-IV electronic and photonic devices.” Prof. Koester’s research focuses on novel electronic, photonic and sensing device concepts with an emphasis on graphene and other 2D materials. He has authored or co-authored over […]
With Two-Dimensional Materials, Sometimes Less is More Scientists in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota recently demonstrated that the unique properties of molybdenum disulphide (MoS2 ) make it an excellent candidate for use in memory chips. Not too long ago the best place to find molybdenum disulphide was in […]
Measurement of optical torque by scientists holds promise for industrial and consumer devices Researchers at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, have measured the twisting force, or torque, generated by light on a silicon chip. Torque, in the context of light, stems from the spin angular momentum of photons (particles of […]
