News

This list highlights news from the PetersonLab research group. For news about Prof. Peterson's other professional activities, including the Lurie Nanofabrication Facility, please follow her on LinkedIn.

10/14/24 Congratulations to PetersonLab PhD student Ahmad Matar Abed on publication of his work "Effect of post-deposition annealing on crystal structure of RF magnetron sputtered germanium dioxide thin films" in the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A!

8/1/24 Thanks to Jasper Scherz and Zurisadai Yanez, who participated in the NSF M-SHORE REU this summer in PetersonLab. Thank you for all of your hard work!

4/10/24 Many congratulations to PetersonLab PhD candidate Ahmad Matar Abed who was awarded a 2024 Society of Vacuum Coaters Foundation scholarship! 

3/4/24 Congratulations to PetersonLab PhD candidate Ahmad Matar Abed who presented his work at the APS March Meeting!

3/1/24 Many thanks to Prof. Parsian Mohseni for hosting me for Rochester Institute of Technology's Microsystems Engineering Seminar!

1/25/24 Congratulations to PetersonLab PhD alum Dr. Baran Demir on publication of part of his thesis work "Improved Heteroepitaxy of κ-Ga2O3 on c-plane Sapphire by Initial Mist Flow Stabilization during Mist Chemical Vapor Deposition" in Thin Solid Films! 

11/21/23 Congratulations to PetersonLab PhD alum Dr. Kishwar Mashooq on publication of his work "Effect of Metal Capping Layer in Achieving Record High p-Type SnO Thin Film Transistor Mobility" in IEEE Transaction on Electron Devices!

9/19/23 Welcome to Satyam Patel, a new PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering!

6/29/23 Congratulations to PetersonLab PhD candidate Ahmad Matar Abed who presented his work at the 65th Electronic Materials Conference!

6/7/23 Thanks to the organizers of the 2023 AVS Michigan Chapter Spring Symposium for inviting me to give a plenary talk on "The Role of Academic Nanofabrication Facilities in Growing the Semiconductor Ecosystem.” It was great to participate in the meeting!

5/31/23 Welcome to Abdelghany Abouelnagga and Oliver Bartz, who are participating in the Intel REU and NSF M-SHORE REU this summer in PetersonLab!

5/15/23 Thanks to the ULSIC vs TFT 8 conference organizers for inviting me to give a talk and participate in a panel! It was great to visit Japan and meet with so many thin film transistor specialists from around the world. 

4/12/23 Baran Demir successfully defends his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Congratulations, Dr. Demir!

4/5/23 Kishwar Mashooq successfully defends his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Congratulations, Dr. Mashooq!

3/17/23 Congratulations to Julia Lenef, PhD candidate in the group of Prof. Neil Dasgupta, on publication of our co-authored work "Tunable Sulfur Incorporation into Atomic Layer Deposition Films using Solution Anion Exchange" in Chemistry of Materials!

1/6/23 Congratulations to PetersonLab PhD candidate Kishwar Mashooq on publication of another article from his PhD work "Demonstration and Analysis of Ambipolar SnO Inverter with High Gain,” as an invited article in the Applied Physics Letters Special Collection on Metal Oxide Thin-Film Electronics!

12/7/22 Jaesung Jo successfully defends his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Congratulations, Dr. Jo!

11/29/22 Congratulations to PetersonLab PhD candidate Baran Demir on his presentation at the 2022 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting!

11/3/22 Congratulations to PetersonLab PhD candidate Tonglin L. Newsom on publication of her first first-author paper "59.95 mV·dec-1 Subthreshold Swing Achieved in Zinc Tin Oxide TFTs with in situ Atomic Layer Deposited Al2O3 Gate Insulator,” an Editor's Pick in IEEE Electron Device Letters! 

11/2/22 Congratulations to PetersonLab alum Dr. Chris Allemang on publication of another article resulting from his PhD work "Robustness of passivated ALD zinc tin oxide TFTs to aging and bias stress,” in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices!

10/24/22 Prof. Peterson gives an invited (virtual) talk to the 4th International Workshop on Gallium Oxide and Related Materials. Many thanks to the organizers for the invitation!

9/13/22 Congratulations again to Dr. Lee and our Berlin collaborators on our second paper together, entitled "Effect of post-metallization anneal on (100) Ga2O3/Ti–Au ohmic contact performance and interfacial degradation  in APL Materials!

8/9/22 Congratulations to Dr. Ming-Hsun Lee and to our collaborators from Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ) on our first collaborative paper on "Exploiting the Nanostructural Anisotropy of β-Ga2O3 to Demonstrate Giant Improvement in Titanium/Gold Ohmic Contacts," out today in ACS Nano. It's great to finally see these exciting results in press!

8/1/22 Many thanks to Bao Vo and Daniel Li, who spent the summer with PetersonLab as part of U-M's Summer Undergraduate Research Experience. They did some amazing work! Thanks to them and to their PhD student supervisors, Ahmad Abed and Tanya Lu.

7/1/22 Congratulations to  Jaesung Jo, Kishwar Mashooq and Dr. Ming-Hsun Lee on their presentations at the 64th Electronic Materials Conference!

6/29/22 Luis Miaja-Avila from NIST gives a talk at the 64th Electronic Materials Conference showing the first-ever EUV pulsed atom probe tomography of β-Ga2O3 we supplied.

6/28/22 Congratulations to PetersonLab PhD candidates Jaesung Jo and Kishwar Mashooq on their presentations at the 80th Device Research Conference!

6/1/22 Congratulations to PetersonLab alumni Dr. Ming-Hsun Lee and Dr. Hannah Masten on their oral presentations on work from their PhD theses at the Compound Semiconductor Workshop 2022!

5/30/22 Congratulations to PetersonLab alum Dr. Hannah Masten on her invited presentation, on the topic of her PhD research, at the 241st ECS Meeting!

5/25/22 Prof. Peterson gives an invited talk at the MRS Spring 2022 Virtual Symposium MF03. Thanks to the organizers for the invitation!

4/12/22 Congratulations to PhD candidate Kishwar Mashooq on publication of his article "Extraction of SnO subbandgap defect density by numerical modeling of p-type TFTs," in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices! 

3/19/22 Prof. Peterson gives an invited talk to the Ga2O3 MURI led by University of Utah. Many thanks to Prof. Scarpulla for hosting the seminar!

3/16/22 Congratulations to PhD candidate Jaesung Jo on publication of his latest article "Experimental and theoretical study of hole scattering in RF sputtered p-type Cu2O thin films," in Applied Physics Letters! This is the first published work arising from our highly productive collaboration with the Kioupakis group.  

1/21/22 Congratulations to Dr. Hannah Masten on publication of her latest article "Effects of high temperature annealing on the atomic layer deposited HfO2/β-Ga2O3 (010) interface," in the Journal of Applied Physics Special Topic on Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Materials and Devices!

12/6/21 Ming-Hsun Lee successfully defends his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering. Congratulations, Dr. Lee! 

11/10/21 Peterson Lab PhD student Ming-Hsun Lee receives a 2nd Place Poster Award at the 2021 Inaugural Michigan Materials Research Institute (MMRI) Symposium.

11/10/21 Prof. Peterson gives an invited talk at the 2021 Inaugural Michigan Materials Research (MMRI) Symposium on "Scalable Atomic Layer Deposition for P-type and N-type Oxide Semiconductor TFTs." (Recording here, starting @ 51:23) Thank you to MMRI for the chance to present our latest work! 

11/1/21 Hannah Masten successfully defends her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Congratulations, Dr. Masten!

8/31/21 Congratulations to first-author MSE PhD candidate Ming-Hsun Lee on publication of our Invited Feature Review Paper "Process and characterization of ohmic contacts for beta-phase gallium oxide," in a J. Materials Research Focus Issue on Ultra-Wide Bandgap Materials, Devices and Systems. Many thanks to editors Man Hoi Wong, Oliver Bierwagen, Robert Kaplar and Hitoshi Umezawa for the invitation to contribute to this issue!

8/26/21 Check out Prof. Peterson's invited talk on "Scalable Atomic Layer Deposition for P-type and N-type Oxide Semiconductor TFTs," at the 21st International Meeting on Information Display (IMID 2021), held in Seoul, Korea. The talk is available online through Sept 26th. http://www.imid.or.kr/2021/index.asp 

6/25/21 Congratulations to PhD students Tonglin Lu, Jaesung Jo, and Chris Allemang on their presentations at the 63rd Electronic Materials Conference and 79th Device Research Conference!

4/16/21 Matthew Lamb is awarded a 2021 EECS Outstanding Achievement Award for Electrical Engineering. This is the department's top award, given to just one senior in the major. Matt is not only an amazing electrical engineer, he is also getting a dual degree in violin performance from U-M. Way to go, Matt!

4/12/21 Christopher Allemang successfully defends his ECE PhD thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Allemang!

3/30/21 Prof. Peterson speaks at Stanford EE's Electronics Systems Technology  seminar series on "Oxide Semiconductor Electronics: from BEOL thin film circuits to high-voltage UWBG devices." Thank you for hosting me for a virtual visit - it was an honor and pleasure!

3/23/21 Major kudos to PetersonLab PhD student Ahmad Matar Abed, who has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship! He joins Tonglin (Tanya) Lu and Hannah Masten as NSF GRFs working in our group. Congraulations, Ahmad!

3/3/21 Congratulations to ECE PhD candidate Hannah Masten on our latest publication: "Charge trapping and recovery in ALD HfO2/β-Ga2O3 (010) MOS capacitors," in Semiconductor Science and Technology!

12/11/20 Congratulations to PetersonLab PhD student Chris Allemang, who has been awarded the IEEE EDS PhD Fellowship Award for 2020! Learn more here.

11/30/20 Check out our latest results on ohmic contacts to gallium oxide in two talks at the 2020 Virtual MRS Spring/Fall meeting. MSE PhD student Ming-Hsun Lee presents on "The effect of silicon ion-implant on charge transport mechanisms or Ti/Au ohmic contacts to β-Ga2O3" in S.EL15.01.08, and I give an invited talk on "Process and Chararcterization of Ohmic Contacts for Beta-phase Gallium Oxide" in S.EL15.01.10. The talks are available on demand through December 31st to all registered conference attendees!

11/20/20 Congratulations to Tae H. Cho and PetersonLab's Chris Allemang as well as all the other amazing collaborators from Prof. Kira Barton and Prof. Neil Dasgupta's groups on our joint publication: “Area-Selective Atomic Layer Deposition Patterned by Electrohydrodynamic Jet Printing for Additive Manufacturing of Functional Materials and Devices” published in ACS Nano!

11/10/20 Congratulations to PetersonLab ECE PhD candidates Jaesung Jo and Kishwar Mashooq, and our co-authors from Prof. Neil Dasgupta's group on our latest collaborative publication: "Causes of the Difference between Hall mobility and Field Effect Mobility for p-type RF Sputtered Cu2O Thin Film Transistors," in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices!

9/26/20 Congratulations to MSE PhD candidate Ming-Hsun Lee on our latest publication: "Accelerated Aging Stability of β-Ga2O3 - Titanium/Gold Ohmic Interfaces," in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces!

9/18/20 The College of Engineering names Prof. Peterson as the Director of the Lurie Nanofabrication Facility. If you want to learn how LNF can expand the impact of your research, or have ideas, questions or concerns about LNF, please contact Becky here. External academic and industry users are welcome at LNF, and we also do service work!

9/3/20 Welcome to new U-M ECE PhD student Tonglin (Tanya) Lu from Boise State University, new U-M MSE PhD student Ahmad Matar Abed from University of Puerto Rico at Humacao, and new undergraduate research assistant, a U-M dual degree student in EE and violin performance, Matthew Lamb. We are glad you've joined us here in PetersonLab!

6/12/20 Congratulations to ECE PhD candidate Chris Allemang and our co-authors from Prof. Neil Dasgupta's group on our publication "High-Performance Zinc Tin Oxide TFTs with Active Layers Deposited by Atomic Layer Deposition," in Advanced Electronic Materials! We are excited to share this work with the community.

12/13/19 Congratulations to PetersonLab ECE PhD candidate Chris Allemang for winning 3rd prize in the LNF Users Symposium Poster Competition!

12/12/19 Prof. Peterson visits the Institute Functional Oxides for Energy-Efficient IT at the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin to give an invited talk on "Exploiting In Situ Interfacial Reactions for Oxide Semiconductor Power Devices." Many thanks to Prof. Dr. Catherine Debourdieu for a great visit!

12/9/19 Prof. Peterson gives an invited talk on "Materials Interfaces for β-Ga2O3 Power Devices" to Prof. Dr. Holger Eisele's group at the Institut für Festkörperphysik at TU Berlin. They are doing amazing work on oxide semiconductor surface science!

12/2/19 Prof. Peterson gives an invited talk on "Interfaces for Oxide Power Semiconductor Devices" at the Ferdinand-Braun Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik (FBH) in Berlin. Thank you to Dr. Hans-Joachim Würfl for hosting me!

11/27/19 Prof. Peterson gives an invited talk on "Solution-processed amorphous oxide semiconductors for thin-film power management circuits," to the Universität Leipzig's Felix-Bloch-Institut für Festkörperphysik, in Leipzig, Germany. Thank you to Dr. Holger von Wenckstern for arranging a great visit!

11/18/19 Congratulations to PetersonLab alumnus Dr. Youngbae Son, along with former undergraduate researchers Brad Frost and Yunkai Zhao, on publication of our paper: "Monolithic integration of high-voltage thin-film electronics on low-voltage silicon integrated circuits using a solution process," in Nature Electronics! Check out the U-M press release here: https://news.engin.umich.edu/2019/11/taking-transistor-arrays-into-the-third-dimension/

10/28/19 Prof. Peterson gives an invited talk on "Exploiting In Situ Interfacial Reactions for Oxide Semiconductor Power Devices," to the E.ON Energy Research Center at RWTH Aachen University in Aachen, Germany. Thank you to Prof. Dr. Rik De Doncker for hosting me!

10/10/19 Prof. Peterson gives an invited talk on "Materials Interfaces for β-Ga2O3 Power Devices" to the Leibniz Science Campus for Growth and Fundamentals of Oxides (GraFOx) community at the Institut für Kristallzüchtung in Berlin. Thank you to GraFOx, IKZ, and especially to Dr. Martin Albrecht and Dr. Oliver Bierwagen for the invitation!

9/26/19 Prof. Peterson gives a talk on "3-D Integration of Zinc Tin Oxide Electronics" at the TCO 2019 conference at the Universität Leipzig in Germany. Thanks to Prof. Dr. Marius Grundmann and Dr. Holger von Wenckstern for hosting a great meeting.

9/2/19 Prof. Peterson begins a sabbatical in Beriln, Germany, as a Visiting Scientist at the Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik. Many thanks to Dr. Oliver Bierwagen, Dr. Lutz Geelhaar and Prof. Dr. Henning Riechert for hosting me!

8/13/19 PhD student Ming-Hsun Lee presents on "Investigation of Interfacial Evolution at Beta Phase Gallium Oxide Titanium/Gold Ohmic Junctions," at the 3rd International Workshop on Gallium Oxide and Related Materials, held in Columbus, OH. Congratulations, Ming!

7/25/19 Prof. Peterson gives an invited talk on "Interfacial Defects in Ga2O3," at the 30th International Conference on Defects in Semiconductors held in Seattle, WA. Thank you to Prof. Matthew McCluskey for the invitation!

7/23/19 PetersonLab bids farewell to Tonglin (Tanya) Lu of Boise State University, who has been working with us in the 2019 U-M Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP). Thank you for your hard work, Tanya!

6/27/19 PhD student Chris Allemang presents on “Electrical Performance of Annealed Zinc-Tin-Oxide Thin-Film Transistors Made by H2O-Based Thermal Atomic Layer Deposition” at the 61st Electronic Materials Conference held in Ann Arbor, MI. Congratulations, Chris!

6/27/19 PhD student Ming-Hsun Lee presents on “A study of the interface of β-Ga2O3 with Ti/Au contacts” at the 61st Electronic Materials Conference held in Ann Arbor, MI. Congratulations, Ming!

6/26/19 PhD student Hannah Masten presents on “Deep Depletion and Hole Generation in β-Ga2O3 MOS Capacitors” at the 61st Electronic Materials Conference held in Ann Arbor, MI. Congratulations, Hannah!

6/23/19 Prof. Peterson is elected as Vice Chair of the IEEE Device Research Conference for 2020. Thanks to the DRC Board!

5/22/19 Prof. Peterson gives an invited talk on "Materials Interfaces for β-Ga2O3 Power Devices" at the 46th International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films (ICMCTF) in San Diego. Thanks to Dr. Marko Tadjer and Prof. Chris Muratore for the invitation!

5/16/19 Prof. Peterson is promoted to Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, with tenure, effective Sept. 1, 2019. 

4/28/19 Congratulations to graduate student Chris Allemang on acceptance of his paper: "Passivation of Thin Channel Zinc Tin Oxide TFTs using Al2O3 Deposited by O3-based Atomic Layer Deposition" in IEEE Electron Device Letters!

4/17/19 Prof. Peterson is elected to serve as Treasurer for the MRS-affiliated Electronic Materials Conference from June 2019-2021. She looks forward to serving as an officer of EMC!

4/10/19 Congratulations to graduate student Hannah Masten on acceptance of her paper: "Ternary Alloy Rare Earth Scandate as Dielectric for β-Ga2O3 MOS Structures" in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices!

3/26/19 Congratulations to graduate student Ming-Hsun Lee on publication of his paper: "Annealing Induced Interfacial Evolution of Titanium/Gold Metallization on Unintentionally Doped β-Ga2O3," in a Focus Issue on Gallium Oxide Based Materials and Devices of ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology!

3/1/19 Youngbae Son successfully defends his PhD thesis! Congratulations, Dr. Son!

3/1/19 Prof. Peterson gives U-M's Materials Science and Engineering Department seminar. Thank you for the invitation, MSE!

2/1/19 Congratulations to graduate student Ming-Hsun Lee on publication of his paper: "Interfacial reactions of titanium/gold ohmic contacts with Sn-doped β-Ga2O3," in a Special Topic Issue on Wide Bandgap Oxides in APL Materials!

1/23/19 Congratulations to PhD candidate Zumrad Kabilova on publication of her paper: "Observation of impurity band conduction and variable range hopping in heavily doped (010) β-Ga2O3," in Semiconductor Science and Technology!

12/11/18 Congratulations to PhD candidate Chris Allemang for winning the 1st prize in the 2018 LNF Users Symposium for his poster titled "Electrical Performance of Annealed Zinc-tin-oxide Thin-film Transistors Deposited by Atomic Layer Deposition". Well done, Chris!

11/30/18 Congratulations to PhD student Youngbae Son on publication of his paper: "Exploiting In Situ Redox and Diffusion of Molybdenum to Enable Thin‐Film Circuitry for Low‐Cost Wireless Energy Harvesting" in Advanced Functional Materials! Youngbae's work was highlighted in an AFM frontispiece:   

8/28/18 Welcome to Jaesung Jo, a new PhD student in ECE. Mr. Jo comes to Michigan from University of Seoul, Korea. Welcome, Jaesung!

8/15/18 Hannah Masten, a PhD student in PetersonLab, presents on "Ga2O3 MOSCAPs with low Dit using yttrium-scandium oxide high-k dielectric," at the 3rd US Workshop on Gallium Oxide, held in Columbus, Ohio. Well done, Hannah!

8/1/18 Prof. Peterson, along with colleagues Profs. Elaheh Ahmadi, Emmanouil (Manos) Kioupakis, Cagliyan Kurdak, Jamie Phillips, and Steve Yalisove, receive a $250,000 Research Accelerator award from the University of Michigan's College of Engineering to develop an innovative, environmentally friendly manufacturing method for the deposition of crystalline gallium oxide films for use in high-power devices. Many thanks to the College of Engineering for this support!

6/27/18 PhD student Hannah Masten presents on "Ternary Alloy Rare Earth Scandate as Dielectric for β-Ga2O3 MOS Structures" at the 60th Electronic Materials Conference held at University of California - Santa Barbara. Congratulations, Hannah!

6/8/18 PetersonLab expands by moving all of our test and measurement equipment into a new lab. (See the Research Projects tab for a photo.) Many thanks to ECE and the College of Engineering for the provision of this much-needed space!

5/31/18 Prof. Peterson gives an invited talk on " 'Electronics on Anything' Using Wide Bandgap Amorphous Oxide Semiconductors" at Compound Semiconductor Week 2018, held at MIT in Cambridge, Massachussets. Many thanks to the organizers for the invitation!

5/9/18 Belated congratulations to PhD student Zumrad Kabilova for winning a poster award at the U-M Engineering Graduate Symposium in November 2017. Her poster won 5th Place in the Optics, Photonics, and Solid-State Devices Division. Well done, Zumrad!

5/7/18 UM undergraduate Shantam Ravan joins PetersonLab for his Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering project. Welcome, Shantam!

5/1/18 A warm welcome to Dr. Alana Hyland, who is joins the group as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow! Dr. Hyland received her PhD from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

3/13/18 Prof. Peterson gives an invited talk at the German Physics Society Annual Meeting (Deutschen Physikalischen Gesselschaft e.V. 2018) focused session on Oxide Semiconductors for Novel Devices in Berlin, Germany. Many thanks to Dr. Holger von Wenckstern, Dr. Oliver Bierwagen, Dr. Karsten Fleischer, and Prof. Dr. Holger Eisele for the kind invitation!

1/25/18 Prof. Peterson gives a seminar to University of Notre Dame's EE Department. Thank you to Prof. Patrick Fay for hosting!

11/3/17 Prof. Peterson gives a seminar at University of Minnesota's ECE Department. Thank you to Prof. Sarah Swisher for hosting!

11/1/17 Congratulations to PhD candidate Youngbae Son on publication of his paper: "The effects of localized tail states on charge transport mechanisms in amorphous zinc tin oxide Schottky diodes" in Semiconductor Science and Technology!

9/15/17 PhD student Zumrad Kabilova gives a talk on "Charge transport in highly doped (010) β-Ga2O3 single crystals made by edge-defined film-fed growth" at the 2nd International Workshop on Gallium Oxide and Related Materials in Parma, Italy. Great job, Zumrad!

9/13/17 PhD student Hannah Masten gives a talk on "Photo-assisted capacitance-voltage characterization of interface states in SiO2/β-Ga2O3 (010) MOS capacitors" at the 2nd International Workshop on Gallium Oxide and Related Materials in Parma, Italy. Well done, Hannah!

9/12/17 Prof. Peterson gives a seminar at the Center for Nanoscience and Technology at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (CNST IIT@Polimi). Thank you to Dr. Mario Caironi for hosting!

9/11/17 Congratulations to alum Dr. Wenbing Hu for publication of another paper based on his PhD work in PetersonLab: "The roles of rare-earth dopants in solution-processed ZnO-based transparent conductive oxides" in the Journal of Applied Physics!

9/8/17 PetersonLab welcomes PhD student Baran Demir and CoE Honors undergraduate student Rachel Shaska. Welcome, Baran and Rachel!

8/28/17 Prof. Peterson gives a seminar at University of Nairobi, Department of Physics, Nairobi, Kenya. A warm thank you to Dr. K. Kaduki for hosting!

8/21/17 Prof. Peterson gives a seminar at Makerere University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Kampala, Uganda. Many thanks to ECE Dept. Chair Dr. Roseline Akol for hosting!

8/2/17 Congratulations to PhD candidate Youngbae Son and former master's student Alex Liao on publication of their paper: “Effect of relative humidity and pre-annealing temperature on spin-coated zinc tin oxide films made via the metal–organic decomposition route,” in the Journal Materials Chemistry C!

7/6/17 PetersonLab receives funding for a new collaborative project through the NSF Scalable Nanomanufacturing - Integrated Systems program. Thank you to the NSF's Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) Divison for their support!

6/29/17 PhD student Youngbae Son presents on "In situ oxidation, reduction, and diffusion between bottom electrodes and solution-processed amorphous oxide semiconductor" at the 59th MRS Electronic Materials Conference at University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. Well done, Youngbae! 

6/27/17 PhD student Chris Allemang presents on "Increased Blocking Voltage in Solution Processed ZTO HVTFTs through Drain Offset" and Youngbae Son gives a poster on "Enhancing breakdown voltage in amorphous zinc tin oxide Schottky diode" at the 75th IEEE/MRS Device Research Conference at University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. Well done, Chris and Youngbae! 

6/21/17 Prof. Peterson is elevated to Senior Member of the IEEE.

6/20/17 Prof. Peterson is honored to be selected for a 2018 University of Michigan Henry Russel Award. Press releases here and here.

5/1/17 UM undergraduates Abhishek Kumar and Rodrigo Cuba join PetersonLab for their Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering project. Welcome, Abhi and Rodrigo!

1/10/17 Prof. Peterson receives an NSF CAREER award to work on "Band Engineering in Amorphous Semiconductors." Many thanks to the NSF's Division on Materials Research for the support! 

11/19/16 Congratulations to PhD candidate Youngbae Son for winning a poster award at the UM Engineering Graduate Symposium. His poster won first prize in the "Optics, Photonics and Solid-State Devices" category. This is his second such award this year; he previously won a poster award at the May 2016 WIMS2 Industrial Advisory Board meeting. Well done, Youngbae!

9/1/16 Congratulations to PhD candidate Youngbae Son and former undergraduate research assistant Jiabo Li on publication of their paper: "In Situ Chemical Modification of Schottky Barrier in Solution-Processed Zinc Tin Oxide Diode" in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces!

9/1/16 PetersonLab welcomes new PhD students Hannah Masten and Zumrad Kabilova. Welcome, Hannah and Zumrad!

6/29/16 Prof. Peterson receives the prestigious DARPA Director's Fellowship, which is given to a handful (< 4) of Young Faculty Award recipients each year. Many thanks to DARPA for their support!

6/22-23/16 Master's student Alex Liao presents a talk on "Sub-100nm Paraffin Wax Layers Made via Solution Process" and UM PhD student Wenbing Hu presents on "The Role of Rare-Earth Dopants in ZnO-Based Transparent

Conducting Oxides" at the 58th Electronic Materials Conference in Newark, Delaware. Well done, Alex and Wenbing! 

6/15/16 Wenbing Hu successfully defends his PhD! Congratulations, Dr. Hu!

6/1/16 PetersonLab welcomes new PhD student Christopher Allemang and welcomes U. Texas-Dallas undergraduate Anuhya Emmandi for a summer research project. Welcome, Chris and Anu!

5/3/16 UM undergraduates Vishal Subrahmanyam, Jason VandenBerg and Chengpei Xi join PetersonLab for Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering project. Welcome, Vishal, Jason and Chengpei!

2/17/16 PhD candidate Wenbing Hu and undergraduate research Brad Frost's paper on "Thermally stable yttrium–scandium oxide high-k dielectrics deposited by a solution process" is published in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. Congratulations, Wenbing and Brad!

2/14/16 Prof. Peterson gives an invited talk at SPIE Opto West Conference 9749 (Oxide-based Materials and Devices VII) in San Francisco, California

10/22/15 Prof. Peterson gives an invited talk at Frontiers in Optics 2015 in San Jose, CA.

10/8/15 Prof. Peterson gives an invited talk at Beyond CMOS! Workshop with Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics - Halle in Ringberg, Germany

9/8/15 PetersonLab welcomes U-M EE Master's student Alex Liao as a research assistant. Welcome, Alex!

8/28/15 FlexTech Alliance receives $75M DoD award for Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing Innovation Institute (FHE-MII). Prof. Peterson is part of a Michigan cluster of institutions affiliated with FHE-MII.  http://www.fhemii.com/flextech-alliance-receives-75-million-department-of-defense-award-to-create-and-manage-a-flexible-hybrid-electronics-manufacturing-facility/

7/24/15 U-M undergraduate Shuvro Guha completes his SURE Project. Learn more about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iml_L4LC414. Thanks, Shuvro, for your great work!

6/25/15  Graduate student Wenbing Hu presents his work on "Ternary alloys of rare earth scandates as printable high-k dielectrics" in an oral presentation at the 57th Electronic Materials Conference in Columbus, Ohio

5/4/15   U-M undergraduate Shuvro Guha joins PetersonLab for a Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering project. Welcome, Shuvro!

2/8/15   Prof. Peterson gives an invited talk at SPIE Opto West Conference 9364 (Oxide-based Materials and Devices VI) in San Francisco, California

9/9/14   Prof. Peterson presents a paper co-authored with undergraduate researcher Jiabo Li at the International Workshop on Zinc Oxide in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

8/27/14   Prof. Peterson receives DARPA Young Faculty Award

8/22/14   PetersonLab welcomes new PhD students Chun-Li Lo and Youngbae Son. Welcome to Michigan!

8/22/14   PetersonLab says goodbye to Brad Frost, undergraduate researcher, as he heads to Apple for a year-long internship. Good luck, Brad!

8/9/14   PetersonLab says goodbye to Julie Miller, NNIN REU summer undergraduate researcher. Thanks, Julie!

6/23/14   Undergraduate researcher Brad Frost presents a poster at the Electronic Materials Conference in Santa Barbara, CA

5/13/14   Wenbing Hu and Prof. Peterson publish an article in Applied Physics Letters, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4875958

5/5/14   Yunkai Zhao begins UM CoE SURE summer research program. Welcome, Yunaki!