- Fall 2024
- Welcome to Corey White, who joins as a postdoc fellow from UT Austin, and to Cornell Horne Jr., who joins as an MS student from UIUC EE!
- Congrats to David Montealegre, who joined HMNTL as a Research Engineer. He will support the Silicon Crossroads Microelectronics Commons Hub by installing, operating, and training on HMNTL’s new suite of heterogeneous integration equipment.
- Check out this story on 3rd-year Ph.D. candidate Adrian Birge.
- Summer 2024
- Congrats to Brian Li on his successful Ph.D. defense!
- Archishman Saha joined us as a Ph.D. candidate in ECE.
- Congrats to Adrian Birge on winning the Area 3 Best Student Presentation award at PVSC in Seattle! His talk was titled “High-efficiency MBE-grown 1 eV InGaAs solar cells.”
- Congrats to Brian Li on his successful Ph.D. defense!
- Spring 2024
- Bora Kim received the Nick and Katherine Holonyak, Jr. Graduate Student Award from the ECE Department.
- Congrats to Adrian Birge on winning a NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities (NSTGRO) Fellowship!
- Fall 2023
- Devon Lee joined us from U. Wisconsin-Platteville as a Ph.D. candidate in ECE. Welcome!
- Summer 2023
- Congrats to Mijung Kim on her successful Ph.D. defense! She will join UCLA as a postdoc.
- We are excited to collaborate on a new MURI project led by U. Michigan, where we will investigate the controlled formation of dislocations and their transport properties in topological insulators!
- Congrats to Mijung Kim on her successful Ph.D. defense! She will join UCLA as a postdoc.
- Spring 2023
- Mijung Kim received the Nick and Katherine Holonyak, Jr. Graduate Student Award from the ECE Department. Congratulations!
- Larry was appointed Director of Holonyak Laboratory
- Fall 2022
- Congrats to Pankul Dhingra and Ryan Hool for their successful Ph.D. defenses during the spring and summer! Pankul joined Apple and Ryan Hool will join SolAero Technologies.
- Farewell to Dr. George Nelson who joined AIM Photonics.
- Welcome to three new group members! Dr. David Montealegre joins us from the University of Iowa as a postdoc; Xizheng Fang joins us from UIUC as a PhD candidate in ECE; Adrian Birge joins us from Lawrence University as a PhD candidate in MatSE.
- Pankul Dhingra won Outstanding Student MBE award in the spring for his ICMBE talk, “InP quantum dot and InGaP quantum well visible lasers on Si.”
- Larry was appointed Interim Director of Holonyak Laboratory.
- Congrats to Pankul Dhingra and Ryan Hool for their successful Ph.D. defenses during the spring and summer! Pankul joined Apple and Ryan Hool will join SolAero Technologies.
- Summer 2021
- Welcome to three new group members! Dr. George Nelson joins us from Rochester Institute of Technology as a postdoc; Bora Kim joins us from Ewha Womans University as a PhD candidate in ECE; Yiteng Wang joins us from Georgia Tech as a PhD candidate in MatSE.
- We are looking to hire! If you are a graduate student or postdoc interested in semiconductor materials and devices, please get in touch.
- Ryan Hool won a best student presentation award at Virtual PVSC 2021- two in a row!
- Minjoo Larry Lee was promoted to full professor and received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research.
- Summer-Fall 2020
- Press coverage for Tony’s article in Cell Reports Physical Science:
- New collaborative paper led by Seth Bank’s group along with Dan Wasserman and Viktor Podolskiy published in Optica.
- Farewell to Shizhao Tony Fan, who joined Suzhou Institute of Nano-tech and Nano-bionics (SINANO), Chinese Academy of Sciences as a research scientist.
- Ryan Hool won a best student presentation award at Virtual PVSC 2020.
- Yukun Sun defended his PhD thesis in March 2020. He will join KLA in Ann Arbor, MI.
- Brendan Eng graduated with his MS and joined Intel in Hillsborough, OR.
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