Center for Materials, Devices and Integrated Systems
October Newsletter
Your assistant to keep you updated. Snippets on upcoming events, news about facilities, publications, past event notes.
Brief.
Our team is growing! Please join us to welcome Dr. Zonghuan Lu as theSemiconductor Process Engineer. In this role, Dr. Lu will provide direct support to our new tools, primarily, e-beam lithography and transmission electron microscopy, acquired through Department of Defense Microelectronics Commons program and Northeast Regional Defense Technology Hub (NORDTECH). Previously Dr. Lu was working as a research associate at CMDIS and he was responsible for developing nano-fabrication process using e-beam lithography, PVD, and dry etching techniques for binary anisotropic metallic CoSn and topological semi-metallic CoSi nanowires fabrication for advanced interconnect applications. Don’t hesitate to email to Dr. Zonghuan Lu (contact: luz@rpi.edu) to congratulate!
CMDIS Annual Research Symposium will be held on November 22nd, Friday at the Heffner Alumni House! The 7th annual research symposium abstract submissions are open, the deadline is October 23, Wednesday. We invite all faculty, researchers, students, partners and collaborators to our signature event that celebrates research in microelectronics, interface and thermal engineering, advanced materials, metrology, energy and sustainability, polymers, biomaterials, composite materials, modeling and simulation, and advanced manufacturing, robotics and control research. The all-day program features research presentations, discussions and networking, Art-in-Science exhibition, award ceremony and happy hour (bring your ID!). Follow the announcements and learn more for scope and submission guidelines.
You may consider our facility tours for external visitors or faculty candidates. During the walking tour, the visitors will learn about CMDIS and our research enterprise, meet with technical expertise, and discuss fabrication, analytical, and characterization capabilities. Don’t have time? Then you may consider a guided virtual tour in Micro and Nanofabrication Cleanroom. Learn more.
RPI @ Albany Nano team provides Albany Nanotechnology Complex facility tours. The Albany Nanotechnology Complex is a leading research and development facility in Albany, New York, focused on semiconductor innovation and advanced nanotechnology. It hosts multiple organizations and provides state-of-the-art cleanroom facilities, fostering collaboration between academia, industry, and government. If you’d like to schedule a tour for your external visitors, faculty candidates or small size student groups, don’t hesitate to reach out by filling the facility tour request form.
What’s ahead?
2024 Albany Nanotechnology Symposium
(30 October 2024, Albany Nanotechnology Complex)
Albany Nanotechnology Symposium (ANS) provides a forum for promoting cross-functional and interdisciplinary research in device technologies. The conference features invited and contributed talks, and posters by authors from research institutions, industry, and academia. This year’s topics focus on emerging research and development with semiconductor, quantum, and photonic device technologies. Abstracts submissions are over, but registration is still open until 16 October, limited space left. Learn more.
2025 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit
(7-11 April 2025, Seattle, WA)
Abstract submission deadline: 17.October
The 2025 MRS Spring Meeting is the key forum to present research to an interdisciplinary and international audience. It provides a window on the future of materials science, and offers an opportunity for researchers—from students and postdoctoral fellows, to Nobel and Kavli Prize Laureates—to exchange technical information and network with colleagues. Learn more.
APS Global Physics Summit
(16-21 March 2025, Anaheim, CA)
Abstract submission deadline: 25.October
APS March Meeting and April Meeting will now be called the APS Global Physics Summit. This event is the largest physics research conference in the world, uniting 14,000 members of the scientific community across all disciplines of physics. Learn more.
New York State Innovation Summit
(28-29 October, Syracuse, NY)
This multi-day is event for NYS organizations that want to showcase and discover new and emerging technologies that support innovation and drive business growth. The event serves as an opportunity to foster collaboration; introduce industry to experts that can assist growth, strengthen our statewide innovation ecosystem and showcase promising early stage companies. Learn more.
2024 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting and Exhibit
(1-6 December, Boston, MA)
The MRS Fall Meeting delivers a combination of interdisciplinary cutting-edge research, innovative technologies, and collaborative networking with the field’s leading minds, which leads to new discoveries in areas ranging from quantum materials to energy and sustainability. Learn more.
70th Annual IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting
(7-11 December San Francisco, CA )
IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) is the world’s preeminent forum for reporting technological breakthroughs in the areas of semiconductor and electronic device technology, design, manufacturing, physics, and modeling. IEDM is the flagship conference for nanometer-scale CMOS transistor technology, advanced memory, displays, sensors, MEMS devices, novel quantum and nano-scale devices and phenomenology, optoelectronics, devices for power and energy harvesting, high-speed devices, as well as process technology and device modeling and simulation. Learn more.
The 34th Microelectronics Design & Test Symposium (IEEE MDTS 2025)
(19-21 May 2025, Albany, NY)
Paper submission deadline: 15 December 2024
The IEEE Microelectronics Design & Test Symposium (MDTS) provides a forum for academia and industry to learn about the latest advances in microelectronics and to share research and design work. The Symposium environment fosters academic-industry collaboration with tutorials, a guided panel, invited speakers, original research papers, including hosting student original research communications. The Program Committee invites researchers and practitioners to submit tutorial, panel, and special session proposals. Learn more.
Approaching deadlines
(Undergraduate) The Hertz Fellowship*
(Applications: 19.August - 27.October)
The program provides financial and lifelong professional support for the nation’s most promising graduate students in science and technology. All eligible applicants must be college seniors, first-year graduate students, or in a gap year preparing to apply to graduate school; intend to pursue a PhD in the applied physical and biological sciences, mathematics, or engineering; intend to direct their studies toward understanding and solving major, near-term problems facing society; and be citizens or permanent residents of the United States. Learn more.
(Graduate) The National GEM Consortium*
(Application dedline: 8.November)
GEM offers MS and Ph.D. level students an outstanding opportunity and access to dozens of the top Engineering and Science firms and Universities in the nation. The GEM Fellowship was designed to focus on promoting opportunities for individuals to enter industry at the graduate level in areas such as research and development, product development, and other high level technical careers. GEM also offers exposure to a number of opportunities in academia. Learn more.
(Graduate) Amelia Earhart Fellowship*
(Application deadline: 15.November)
Globally, women make up around 25 percent of the workforce in the aerospace industry. In an effort to carry out its mission that women have access to all resources and are represented in decision-making positions on an equal basis with men, Zonta International offers the Amelia Earhart Fellowship. The US$10,000 Fellowship is awarded annually to up to 30 women pursuing Ph.D./doctoral degrees in aerospace engineering and space sciences. It may be used at any university or college offering accredited post-graduate courses and degrees in these fields. Women of any nationality pursuing a Ph.D./doctoral degree who demonstrate a superior academic record conducting research applied to aerospace engineering or space sciences are eligible. Learn more.
(Grad/Post-doc) Schlumberger Faculty for the Future*
(Applications: 8.November)
Fellowships are awarded to women from developing and emerging economies who are preparing for PhD or post-doctoral study in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) disciplines to pursue advanced graduate study at top universities in their disciplines abroad. Learn more.
*please contact Elizabeth Madigan (madige@rpi.edu) Sr. Program Administrator, Fellowships, Office of Graduate Education for more opportunities.
Publications on our radar.
Rollinson J.; Karlicek R.F.; Hella M.M., Scalable free-space photonic antennas in foundry SOI silicon photonic platforms, 2024, Optics Express, DOI:10.1364/OE.524532
Kumari S.; Dhull N.; Lin W.; Lu Z.; Redwing J.; Lu T.-M.; Wang G.-C., In-plane and out-of-plane domain orientation dispersions in 1 to 3 monolayers epitaxial WS2 and MoS2 films on GaN(0001) film/sapphire(0001), 2025, Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, DOI:10.1016/j.physe.2024.116117
Nguyen Y.T.; Okafor C.; Zhao P.; Sen O.; Picu C.R.; Sewell T.; Udaykumar H.S., Continuum models for meso-scale simulations of HMX (1,3,5,7-tetranitro-1,3,5,7-tetrazocane) guided by molecular dynamics: Pore collapse, shear bands, and hotspot temperature, 2024, Journal of Applied Physics, DOI:10.1063/5.0232413
Lee S.; Wang C.; Chakrapani V., Green Rust: A Potent Reductant for Unassisted Conversion of CO to Multicarbon Liquid Products, 2024, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, DOI:10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c02608
Heimer M.M.; Sun Y.; Grosu S.; Cyran C.C.; Bonitatibus P.J., Jr.; Okwelogu N.; Bales B.C.; Meyer D.E.; Yeh B.M., Novel intravascular tantalum oxide-based contrast agent achieves improved vascular contrast enhancement and conspicuity compared to Iopamidol in an animal multiphase CT protocol, 2024, European Radiology Experimental, DOI:10.1186/s41747-024-00509-2
Shen P.; Gall D., Electron Scattering at Ru-TiN-Ru Interface Stacks, 2024, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, DOI:10.1109/TED.2024.3453223
Torky M.; Paul Chow T., Comparative Performance Evaluation of High-Voltage Bidirectional, Conventional and Superjunction Planar DMOSFETs in 4H-SiC, 2024, Solid State Phenomena, DOI:10.4028/p-W1i4eE
Jayarathne D.; Paternain S.; Mishra S., Allocation of Control Authority Between Dynamic Inversion and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Helicopter Aerial Refueling, 2024, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, DOI:10.23919/ACC60939.2024.10644725
Dikshit A.; Wallner J.; Hossain M.J.; Rakib Uddin M.; Mann J.; Aiello A.; Carpenter L.G.; Timalsina Y.; McDonough C.; Fahrenkopf N.; Leake G.; Baiocco C.; Striemer C.; Halepis M.; Coleman D.; Begovic A.; Yang H.; Zylstra M.; Jahn J.; Goldstein J.; Poulton C.V.; Stievater T.; Tyndall N.; Fanto M.; Harame D., AIM Photonics Design Enablement: A Design-Assembly-Test Platform Advancing the Silicon-Photonics Ecosystem, 2024, 2024 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition, OFC 2024 - Proceedings
Past month in a minute.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Martin A. Schmidt ’81, Ph.D., has been appointed to the CHIPS Industrial Advisory Committee (IAC). This group of leaders from industry, academia, federal laboratories, and other areas provides guidance to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo on the nation’s semiconductor research and development initiatives supporting CHIPS for America. Learn more.
Richard Gross, Ph.D., Constellation Chair of Biocatalysis and Metabolic Engineering, has been selected as a member of the 2024 class of fellows of the American Chemical Society (ACS). Learn more. Congratulations!
Peter J. Bonitatibus Jr., Ph.D., associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has been honored with the Anders Gustaf Ekeberg Tantalum Prize for excellence in tantalum research and innovation. Bonitatibus was presented the award by the Tantalum-Niobium International Study Center (T.I.C.) based out of Belgium at T.I.C.'s 65th General Assembly held in Tokyo, Japan. Learn more. Congratulations!
We were at the RPI’s Reunion & Homecoming Research Showcase on 27 September 2024. During the event, we discussed latest research at RPI and introduced new acquisitions to the Micro and Nanofabrication CleanRoom and Characterization Core.
IEEE EDS RPI Student Chapter visited Albany Nanotech Complex with Dr. Brent Engler. The students met with IEEE EDS regional representatives during the visit and participated in a facility tour.
Dr. Katharine Dovidenko joined CHEM 4530 Modern Techniques in Chemistry class to introduce Characterization Core capabilities, instruments and techniques, and discuss the ongoing research on different tools.
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Cover images:
(1) Varad Mahajani, MSE, Enigmatic Seahorse, 2023 CMDIS Annual Research Symposium Art-in-Science submission
(2) 2024 New York State Pollution Prevention Institute Green Chemistry Symposium Poster Session, 20.September.2024
(3) Xuanjie Wang, MANE, Phases of Moon, 2022 CMDIS Annual Research Symposium Art-in-Science submission
(4) Dr. Katharine Dovidenko, CHEM4530, Modern Techniques in Chemistry class talk, 7.October.2024
(5) 2024 RPI Bicentennial Reunion and Homecoming Research Showcase, 27.September.2024
(6) IEEE EDS RPI Student Chapter, Albany Nanotech Complex Site Visit, 2.October.2024
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