Jena Research Group

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Jena Research Group

Collaborations

Randy Feenstra’s group, Physics, Carnegie Mellon University.
Grace's group, EE, Notre Dame.
Patrick Fay’s group, EE, Notre Dame.
Alan Seabaugh’s group, EE, Notre Dame.
Ken Kuno's group, Chemistry, Notre Dame.
Mihir Sen (AME, Notre Dame).
Arvydas Matulionis, Fluctuation Research Laboratory, Lithuania.
David Cahill, MSE, UIUC.
Jacob Khurgin (JHU) & Yujie Ding (Lehigh).

PostDoctoral Scholars

	Name / Link	Started	Dept.	Project

1)	Dr. Qingling Hang	July ‘08	EE	Nitride Nanoelectronic Devices (Position: Visiting Assistant Research Professor, Jointly with H. Xing)
2)	Dr. Vladimir Protasenko	Oct ‘08	EE	Optical Spectroscopy of Nanostructures and Wide-Bandgap Devices (Jointly with H. Xing)

Graduate Students

	Name / Link	Started	Dept.	Project

1)	John Simon	Fall ’03	EE	MBE growth of Nitride HBTs by Polarization Doping
2)	Cao Yu	Fall ’05	EE	MBE growth of AlN/GaN heterostructures & Device Applications
3)	Amol Singh	Fall ’05	EE	Nanowire & Nanocrystal Physics & Device Applications
4)	Aniruddha Konar	Spr ’06	Physics	Transport properties in Nanostructures
5)	Tian Fang	Spr ’07	EE	Graphene Nanoelectronics (co-advised with H. Xing)
6)	Kevin Goodman	Spr ’07	EE	MBE growth of Nitride Nanostructures & Device Applications
7)	Williams Munoz	Fall ’06	AME	Instabilities in Semiconductor Transport, THz applications (co-advised with M. Sen)
8)	Kristof Tahy	Fall ‘07	EE	Graphene Nanoelectronics

Undergraduate Students

	Name / Link	Started	Project	Comments

1)	Jeff Wolanin	Summer 2008	Solar Cells
2)	Bill Carson	Fall 2008	Solar Cells
3)	David Shilling	Fall 2008	Graphene & 2D Crystals

Group Alumni

	Name / Link	Project	Graduated		Degree			Currently at

PostDoctoral
2)	Ms. Xiangning Luo	Graphene Nanoelectronics	Sept ‘08		PostDoc			Vega Wave Systems, Chicago
1)	Ms. Niti Goel	MBE growth of Nitride Heterostructures	Aug '05		PostDoc			Intel Research, Palo Alto, California

Ph.D.
2)	Albert (Kejia) Wang	InN: MBE growth & Device Applications		Sept ‘08		Ph.D.	IBM T. J. Watson, Yorktown Heights, NY
1)	Siddharth Rajan	Co-Advised with Prof. U. Mishra, UCSB		Sept ‘06		Ph.D.	Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University

M.S.
1)	Anubhav Khandelwal	CdSe Nanowire Field-Effect Transistors	Oct '05		M.S.			SanDisk, Mountain View, California

B.S.
1)	Andy Barthel	Surface functionalization of nitrides	May '05		B.S.			Graduate school, Yale University
2)	Ms. Pranati Bansal	Nitride surface functionalization	May '05		B.S.			Accenture, New York
3)	Ms. Nicole Rogers	Nitride devices: Ohmic contacts	May '05		B.S.			Air Force, Atlanta

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