2026
- 01/11/2026 – Dr. Yixin Xiong published his paper “GaN Digital IC Operating up to 800°C Temperature” on IEEE TED. Congrats!
- 01/2026 – Dr. Yixin Xiong joins GaNify LLC, CA.
2025
- 11/12/2025 – Chu Group first get-together meal at UIUC!
- 10/03/2025 – Rian Guan successfully defended his Ph.D. titled “The Development of Gallium Nitride Super-Heterojunction Sidewall Gated HEMTs“. Congrats!
- 10/02/2025 – Yixin Xiong successfully defended his Ph.D. titled “GaN IC for High Voltage and High Temperature Applications“. Congrats!
- 09/04/2025 – Kevin Dai joined Chu group for his Undergrad project!
- 08/27/2025 – William Curry joined as Master graduate student for his project on “GaN High Operating Temperature Wheatstone Bridge Amplifier IC“.
- 08/12/2025 – Yixin Xiong, Dr. Jianan Song, Dr. Mansura Sadek, and Prof. Rongming Chu present their work at on Lester Eastman Conference (LEC) 2025 at the University of Florida. Yixin Xiong won the Best Student Presentation. Congrats!
- 08/11/2025- Thrilled to announce that our work on GaN high temperature devices and ICs was covered by IEEE Spectrum news article.
- 07/03/2025 – Dr. Ajay Kumar Visvkarma published his paper “p-GaN Gated HEMT with 770 ION/IOFF Ratio Operating at 800 °C” on IEEE EDL. Congrats!
- 06/27/2025 – Get-together dinner before moving the lab from PSU to UIUC.
- 06/24/2025 – Yixin Xiong published his paper “GaN Bootstrapping Amplifier IC Operating at up to 800° C Temperature” on IEEE EDL. Congrats!
- 06/22-25/2025 – Yixin Xiong, Dr. Ajay Kumar Visvkarma, and Yuxin Du present their work at DRC 2025 at Duke University, NC. Yixin Xiong won the Best Poster award. Congrats!
- 06/01/2025 – Dr. Jianan Song joined Prof. Miaomiao (Mia) Jin‘s group in Penn State University as a Postdoctoral Researcher. Congrats!
- 05/11/2025 – Dr. Jianan Song and Dr. Mansura Sadek join their Ph.D. ceremony. Congrats!
- 05/11/2025 – Jianan Song graduated on May 11st 2025, got his Ph.D. degree, and be a Doctor of Philosophy. Congrats!
- 05/06-07/2025 – Jianan Song, Zequan Chen, Yuxin Du, Yi-shuo Huang, and Prof. Rongming Chu attend the half-year MURI reviewing meeting in Arlington, Virginia.
- 05/01/2025 – Dr. Mansura Sadek published her paper “Field-dependent carrier transport in implanted isolation region of GaN lateral power devices” on APL Material. Congrats!
- 03/01/2025 – Dr. Zequan Chen joined our group as a Postdoctoral Researcher. He is coming from Bristol, UK, and will focus on device reliability testing and in-depth analysis in device physics.