The following faculty are affiliated with the Center for Solid State Electronics Research and make extensive use of the NanoFab cleanroom and laboratories:

James Adams, Ph.D. Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering. Computer modeling of materials for semiconductor processing (oxidation, metallization, film growth); solar cells; metal forming; catalytic converters.

Terry L. Alford, Ph.D. Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering. Microelectronic metallization and reliability; silicide formation; ion-beam modification of materials.

David R. Allee, Ph.D. Department of Electrical Engineering. Low voltage power analog CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) for A/D (analog/digital) converters and RF (radio frequency) circuits; impact of device design on system performance; ultra small-scale device fabrication.

Jonathan P. Bird, Ph.D. Department of Electrical Engineering. Nanometer semiconductor device fabrication and characterization; low temperature magneto-transport characterization; spintronics.

Veronica A. Burrows, Ph.D. Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering. Surface science; environmental sensors; semiconductor processing; interfacial chemical and physical processes in sensor processing; lubrication; composite materials.

Nikhilesh Chawla, Ph.D. Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering. Mechanical behavior of advanced materials including lead-free solders, composite materials, and powder metallurgy materials.

Sandwip K. Dey, Ph.D. Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering. MOCVD, ALCVD, and sol-gel of electroceramics; MOCVD of metals; characterization of electrical, nanostructural, and nanochemical properties; high-K dielectrics and metals for CMOS and ULSI DRAMs; non-volatile ferroelectric RAMs; embedded passives for packaging

David K. Ferry Ph.D. Department of Electrical Engineering. Nanoelectronics; nanolithography; quantum structured devices; transport physics and modeling of quantum effects in submicron devices.

John W. Fowler, Ph.D. Department of Industrial Engineering. Semiconductor manufacturing systems analysis; discrete-event simulation; applied operations research.

Antonio A. Garcia, Ph.D. Harrington Department of Bioengineering. Protein purification; acid-base molecular interactions in separations; solid-liquid interfacial phenomena; scanning probe microscopy; biocolloid chemistry; chromatography; biosensor immobilization.

Stephen Goodnick, Ph.D. Department of Electrical Engineering. Semiconductor transport; quantum and nanostructure device technology; high frequency and optical devices.

Edwin W. Greeneich, Ph.D. Department of Electrical Engineering. Semiconductor device modeling; analog integrated circuits; BiCMOS devices and circuits; low-voltage operational amplifier circuits; high-frequency, low power communications.

Mark Hayes, Ph.D. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Design and construction of bioanalytical chemical probes; ultramicro sampling techniques; microseperations; novel sensitive detection schemes and their use in in vivo analysis.

Jiping He, Ph.D. Harrington Department of Bioengineering. Design and micro-fabrication of advanced neural implant systems; brain-machine interface; direct brain control of neuroprosthetic devices; application of bio-MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) for implantable devices.

Bruce C. Kim, Ph.D. Department of Electrical Engineering. Mixed-signal circuits; radio frequency integrated circuit (RF IC) fabrication; bulk acoustic wave resonators; nanoelectronics packaging; bio-MEMS; integrated passives; RF IC modeling and testing.

Michael N. Kozicki, Ph.D. Department of Electrical Engineering. Silicon integrated-circuit processing, integrated/solid-state ionics, low energy non-volatile memories, interconnect systems, optical switches, microfluidics, molecular and nano-electronic integrated systems.

Subhash Mahajan, Ph.D. Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering. Origins of defects in semiconductors; defect influence on device behavior; high-temperature microelectronics; deformation behavior of solids.

James W. Mayer, Ph.D. Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering. Electronic materials and metallization of integrated circuits; development of new semiconductor materials; development of new metal systems for interconnectors; interdiffusion and reactions in thin films; analysis of paint pigments, art media, and metallic artifacts; ionbeam analysis; Rutherford back scattering analysis.

Nathan Newman, Ph.D. Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering. Synthesis, characterization and modeling of novel electronic material systems for microwave, photonic and high-speed applications; spintronics.

Pedro D. Peralta, Ph.D. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Indentation mechanics of anisotropic substrates; mechanical behavior of transition metal silicides and nitrides; grain boundary effects on high strain rate deformation of intermetallic materials; fatigue fracture of metallic materials; effects of material anisotropy in mechanical properties; damage mechanics

Patrick E. Phelan, Ph.D. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Thermal phenomena in superconducting devices; cryogenics; microscale applications; environmental control engineering.

Stephen Philips, Ph.D. Department of Electrical Engineering. Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), nanofluidic devices, systems-on-a-chip.

S. Thomas Picraux, Ph.D. Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering. Electronic materials synthesis and processing; nanostructures on silicon; nanowire and nanopillar growth; metal silicides; focused ion beam and lithographic patterning; ion beam modification.

Gregory B. Raupp, Ph.D. Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering. Gas-solid surface reaction mechanisms and kinetics; interaction between surface reactions and simultaneous transport processes; semiconductor materials processing; thermal and plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (CVD); environmental pollution remediation and control; photocatalytic oxidation.

Anneta Razatos, Ph.D. Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering. Bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation; atomic force microscopy; protein adsorption; fouling of biomaterials and implants; coagulation; biological colloids; self assembled monolayers to control biological interactions.

Ronald J. Roedel, Ph.D. Department of Electrical Engineering. Semiconductor materials and devices; growth and characterization of compound semiconductors, including Si-Ge.

George Runger, Ph.D. Department of Industrial Engineering. Applied statistics; process control and optimization, especially for massive, multivariate data sets; application in nontraditional manufacturing such as semiconductor, electronics, chemical and process industries.

Dieter K. Schroder, Ph.D. Department of Electrical Engineering. Semiconductor materials and devices; characterization; low-power electronics; defect characterization; measurement, identification, and control of metallic contaminants in semiconductors.

Jun Shen, Ph.D. Department of Electrical Engineering. Solid-state device physics; transport mechanisms in organic electroluminescent devices; optoelectronic neural processors based on GaAs metal semiconductor field effect transistors (MESFETs), vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs), and detectors; microelectro-mechanical and micro-magnetic switches for logic and memory.

Karl Sieradzki, Ph.D. Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering. Fracture of solids; environmental effects on the mechanical behavior of materials; mechanics and physics of thin films and nanostructured materials; thin-film deposition and growth processes; phase transformations.

Brian J. Skromme, Ph.D. Department of Electrical Engineering. Wide bandgap compound semiconductor materials, heterostructures, and devices for optoelectronic and electronic applications, including silicon carbide and gallium nitride; optical and electrical characterization of semiconductor materials.

Nongjian (N.J.) Tao, Ph.D. Department of Electrical Engineering. Molecular electronics; nanostructured materials and devices; chemical and biological sensors; surface plasmon resonance; atomic force and scanning tunneling microscopies.

Trevor Thornton, Ph.D. Department of Electrical Engineering. Sub-threshold transistors; deep submicron MOSFETs; molecular electronics; semiconductor nanostructures.

Konstantinos S. Tsakalis, Ph.D. Department of Electrical Engineering. Linear and nonlinear control systems; adaptive methods; application of control and optimization principles to semiconductor manufacturing.

Ampere A. Tseng, Ph.D. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Nano- and micro-fabrication using electron and ion beams, wafer bonding, design and fabrication of microgyro and microfluidic devices.

Dragica Vasileska, Ph.D. Department of Electrical Engineering. Semiconductor device theory; transport in semiconductors; semiconductor device modeling (semiclassical and quantum).

Yong-Hang Zhang, Ph.D. Department of Electrical Engineering. MBE growth of III-V compound semiconductor materials; optoelectronic devices including lasers, detectors, and their integration with Si ICs.