News
12/2022 In an event celebrating the 75-th Anniversary of the discovery of transistors, Prof. Alam discussed, how Purdue a alum, Mohamed Atalla, built the first MOSFET transistor and initiated the Moore's law.
04/2022 Prof. Hussain's EDS podcast interview with Prof. Alam as a part of EDS Luminaries Series.
10/2021 Marco Fratus poster's "Universal scaling of electrochemical immunosensors: An analytical-based approach" won the 'People's Choice Award' during the Purdue Engineering Virtual Graduate Showcase 2021.
05/2021 The International Energy Commission IEA-PVPS report on the technology potential of next-generation solar Cells includes our contributions to thermodynamics and design considerations of bifacial solar cells.
04/2021 Nicolo Zagni's paper on NC-BioFET is highlighted as one of the most important papers on 2D electronics published by Applied Physics Letters.
03/2021 An article in the global Edition of PV Magazine has highlighted the collaborative international study by Tahir Patel on “Global analysis of next-generation utility-scale PV: Tracking bifacial solar farms,” published in Applied Energy.
07/2020 An article in the global Edition of PV Magazine has highlighted the importance of Tahir Patel's recent work on “Temperature-dependent energy gain of bifacial PV farms: A global perspective,” published in Applied Energy.
06/2020 A Purdue news release highlights the significance of our recent PNAS paper on the thermodynamic limits of bifacial solar cells. An interview with "Inside Indiana Business" offers a broader perspective.
01/2020 A news article explains the importance of about the bifacial solar cells results published in PNAS.
10/2019 Two recent papers have been highlighted as Editor's Choice for the respective journals: Applied Physics Letters highlighted Bikram K. Mahajan and Yen-Pu Chen's paper on β-Ga2O3 transistors and ACS Materials Letters highlighted Nicolo Zagni's paper on Perovskite-based Reconfigurable MOSFETs.
09/2019 IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices has published a special issue on reliability whose cover page featured our work. See the page here.
05/2019 The editors of Applied Physics Letters will highlight Nicolo Zagni's paper on Supernerstian biosensors as an Editor's Choice article on the journal's website.
05/2019 Levi Davies is the receipient of the prestigious Draper Fellowship. He will be working on radiation-hard 3D electronics.
03/2019 Quiz1 and Quiz2 regarding the physics of self-heated transistors for the tutorial in the International Reliability Physics Symposium.
03/2019 Applied Physics Letters has published a special issue on negative capacitor field-effect transistor. The collection was guest-edited by Prof. Alam, Prof. Ye, and Dr. Si.
11/2018 Xin Jin's poster on multi-layer encapsulant design for bio-electronics has been nominated for MRS 2018 best poster award.
10/2018 Prof. Alam will receive the highest IEEE Education Award "For educating, inspiring, and mentoring students and electron device professionals around the world".
09/2018 Predictive modeling to serve as an EKG to monitor the health of a solar farm. A purdue New Release on the recent work by X. Sun.
05/2018 Four quizzes for the PVSC Tutorial (Quiz 1, Quiz 2, Quiz 3, Quiz 4) and a draft copy of the corresponding book is posted here and here. The codes are posted at this website.
04/2018 Xingshu Sun's Applied Energy paper on bifacial solar modules has been highlighted in Nature Energy. Link
03/2018 Raghu Chavali's paper on Heterojunction solar cell has been selected as the cover story for "Progressin photovoltaics" Journal.
02/2018 Aida Ebrahimi's work on the mechanics of temperature-dependent death of bacteria is featured as a NSF Science360 highlight.
12/2017 Purdue News Release and a perspective by Prof. Ionescu explain the importance of our recent work on 2D NCFET published in Nature Nanotechnology.
09/2017 Two papers from the group will be featured in IEDM, the flagship conference of our field. The first paper by Woojin Ahn will discuss self-heating of FinFET and Nanosheet transistors, while the second paper will discuss 2D Negative Capacitor Transistors.
04/2017 Aida Ebrahimi has successfully defended her thesis on "Droplet-based Impedance Sensing for Biomedical Applications and Probing Bacterial Response to Environmental Stressors". She will join Penn State University as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2017.
03/ 2017 Xingshu Sun's article on spectrally cooled solar module is highlighted in Nature Energy. Link
Keynote talk at 2018 IPFA
08/2018 Prof. Alam will be the keynote speaker at the 25th International Conference on Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits to be held in Singapore in 2018.
Our paper on 2D NC-FET has been published in Nature Nanotechnology
12/2017 The work explain the importance of the device technology for low power applications. Here is the Purdue News Release associated with the article. Prof. Ionescu provides a broader perspective.
Work on 2D NCFET and Self-heating in Transistors to be featured at IEDM
09/2017 Two papers from our group will be featured in IEDM, the flagship conference of our field. The first paper by Woojin Ahn discusses self-heating of FinFET and Nanosheet transistors, while the second paper discusses 2D Negative Capacitor Transistors.
06/ 2017 Our Concept could sustainably meet human needs of 'full Earth'
A new concept proposes to provide food, energy and water resources for the world's growing population by combining systems that simultaneously use different parts of sunlight's spectrum to produce crops, generate electricity, collect heat and purify water. The article appeared in Nature Scientific Report in June 2017 . (http://rdcu.be/tlmr) (https://phys.org/news/2017-06-concept-sustainably-human-resource-full.html)
03/2017 Xingshu and Ryyan wins I2D Competition
Our PV-team is selected as one of the winners in the 2017 I2D Lab Exposition poster competition. [Poster] (March 2017)
06/2016 Aida Ebrahimi's work on Bacterial Osmoregullation published in PNAS
Live/dead bacterial detecting electronic sensor based on osmoregulation: may allow for fast detection and classification of bacteria for medical diagnostics and food safety. The work was featured by 12 news outlets, including ScienceDaily (June 2016).
10/2015 TechCon Award for Xingshu Sun
Xingshu Sun won Best in Session Award in Modeling and Simulation at TECHCON 2015 Conference [Purdue] (Oct. 2015)
01/2015 A Perovskite Solar Cell shows world class efficiency
New solution-processed technique for growing large grain, high-efficiency perovskite solar cells developed in collaboration with LANL. [ScienceDaily] (Jan. 2015)
Archived News
06/29/2015 Aida has been selected as one of the Rising Stars in EECS, 2015.
06/25/2015 Aida was work on droplet biosensors has been awarded the Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship.
01/23/2015 Piyush Dak's work on MoS2 biosensors is highlighted in Purdue ECE homepage ("Two-dimensional layered MoS2 biosensors enable highly sensitive detection of biomolecules")
01/30/2015 Reza's work on large scale perovksite solar cells published in Science.
11/16/2014 Abdul Wahab's work on CNT purification is highlighted in Purdue ECE homepage.("Microwave purification of large-area horizontally aligned arrays of single-walled carbon nanotubes")
11/14/2014 Abdul Wahab's CNT-fracture work is among the top 50 popular articles in TED in October. ("Implications of Electrical Crosstalk for High Density Aligned Array of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes")
01/10/2014 Ankit's (0mV/decade) TED paper is among the top 10 most downloaded TED papers in September. ("Proposal of a Hysteresis-Free Zero Subthreshold Swing Field-Effect Transistor")
07/30/2014 Ankit Jain defends his PhD thesis on: “Fundamental design principles of novel MEMS based ‘Landau’ switches, sensors, and actuators: Role of electrode geometry and operation regime”
05/30/2014 Sambit Palit defends his PhD thesis on: “Charging and Breakdown in Amorphous Dielectrics: Phenomenological Modeling and Approach and Applications”
03/28/2014 The group developing Nanohub-U courses wins the Purdue Distance Learning Award.
01/04/2014 Paper by Raghu et al., titled “Multi-Probe Characterization of Inversion Charge for Parameterization of HITTM” has been selected as IEEE best student paper finalist in PVSC-2014.
12/17/2013 Work on ultra-sensitive DNA detection by Aida Ebrahimi et al. highlighted in Lab on a Chip [Link] [News link]
11/22/2013 Ankit Jain selected to speak as “Bright Mind” at KAUST-NSF Conference. [news link]
10/03/2013 MEMS LAB is published and available online on nanoHUB
10/01/2013 Reza Asadpour joins our group. He will work on solar cells
09/20/2013 Ryyan’s work on Single Material Tandem Solar Cell is submitted to DOE as one of the highlights of Columbia EFRC
09/16/2013 Masud and Shin to present at 2013 IEDM on their respective works on Hot Atom Damage in Ferroelectrics and Variability-Reliability of NW Transistors
09/16/2013 Biswajit Roy defends his PhD Thesis on Organic Solar Cells. He is to join SanDisk.
07/10/2013 Sourabh Dongaonkar completes his PhD on End-to-End modeling of Solar Cells. He Will join Intel..
07/02/2013 Biswajit’s paper on open circuit voltage of organic solar cells is the editor’s list as one of the most notable APL papers published in 2012
06/20/2013 Sourabh and Biswajit are nominated as finalist for best paper award at PVSC
06/10/2013 Caren Les of Photonics Spectra magazine writes a feature article on copercolating transparent conductor
05/22/2013 Copercolating transparent conductors with highest performance ever reported in the literature
02/12/2013 Building a biochemistry lab on a chip
02/11/2013 Piyush’s work on droplet evaporation discussed in a PNAS paper
11/12/2012 High-performance transparent electrodes -- Commentary
10/10/2012 Masud’s work featured as an APL highlight
05/14/2012 Ankit Jain’s PNAS paper on Flexure-FET discussed in a Purdue Press-release
05/14/2012 Prof. Alam to speak as the plenary speaker at the International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering
04/16/2012 Biswajit Ray wins the top prize in the poster competition for Indo-US Workshop on Scalable Nanomaterials. .
02/10/2012 Sunshot Award for Ink-based Solar Cells
10/12/2011 Prof. Alam elected Fellow of American Association for the Advanced of Science (AAAS)
08/03/2011 Biswajit Ray gets the best mentor award for the 2011 SURF program.
06/13/2011 Sourabh Dongaonkar wins ‘Best Paper runner-up’ at the PVSC Conference for his work on Modeling of Shunt in thin-film solar cells.
04/03/2011 Pradeep Nair will join Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, as a Professor of Electrical Engineering from August, 2011.
09/15/2010 Jonghyun’s work on Nanobiosensors included in 2010 pre-conference highlights at IEDM IEDM Website
07/26/2010 New center to create models, simulations to improve solar cells Purdue News release
07/16/2010 $5M industry-university partnership targets smart grid-photovoltaics EDN News
07/13/2010 SRC establishes $5M research partnership to market smart grid and PV technologies Newsnet
07/15/2010 SRC develops $5 million industry-university partnership for alternative energy research centers PV-tech.org
07/13/2010 Chip industry tactics to be emulated for energy research Wall Street Journal Blog
07/13/2010 SRC creates industry and university collaboration for energy research SRC News release
06/06/2010 Model predicts disease detection APS News, American Physical Society
10/10/2008 Pradeep Nair wins the 2008 International Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation doctoral dissertation award for his research on nanobiosensros.
08/10/2008 Ehtesham’s paper on “NBTI on Strained Devices” and Dhanoop’s paper on “Interface Traps of III-V MOSFETs” is accepted for presentation at the 2008 IEDM Conference.
07/27/2008 Nanonet' circuits closer to making flexible electronics reality nanotechwire.com
07/22/2008 'Nanonet' circuits closer to making flexible electronics reality Purdue university
08/01/2008 Purdue researchers building flexible and folding electronics Purdue Exponent
07/28/2008 Nanotube mesh boosts plastic electronics RSC Chemistry World
07/24/2008 Breakthrough will help embed electronics on plastic sheets Indo-Asian News Service
07/23/2008 Nanotubi di carbonio e carta per il cuore dei futuri computer rainnew24.it
07/25/2008 Nanotechnology builds flexible electronic circuits from random networks of carbon nanotubes Foresight nanotech Institute
07/28/2008 Nanonet circuits closer to making flexible electronics reality Science Daily
07/24/2008 Nanonet technology may soon make for flexible electronics Thaindian News
07/24/2008 Researchers advance CNT-based networks Semiconductor International
07/23/2008 Carbon nanotubes combine high performance and flexibility for electronics. Technology Review
06/20/2008 Ahmed Ehtesamul Islam receives the prestigious IEEE EDS Ph.D. Student Fellowship Award in recognition for his work on Theory of Transistor Reliability (…..)
04/20/2008 Pradeep Nair thesis on Nanobiosensors wins 2007-2008 ECE Outstanding Dissertation Award (….)
02/10/2008 Late News papers by Nauman Butt and Dhanoop Varghese accepted for presentation at the 2008 International Reliability Physics Symposium.
01/03/2008 Model checks how biosensors shape up LabTechnologist.com
01/11/2008 Sensor Insights Sensor Magazine
01/04/2008 Model is first to compare performance of biosensors ScienceDaily, NSFNews, Small Times
01/04/2008 Sensor Design gets systematic EETimes
12/15/2007 Nomination for ICCAD William J. McCalla Best Paper Award for K. Kang
10/10/2007 D. Varghese’s IEDM paper on off-state degradation is a finalist for Best Paper Award
10/10/2007 A. Islam’s IEDM NBTI paper nominated for Roger Haken best paper award
09/10/2007 Haldun Kufluoglu wins best presentation award in Techcon 2007 Purdue ECE Highlights
07/10/2007 Linear Nanotube arrays could result in new electronic devices Azonano.com
07/05/2007 Professor Alam becomes a Purdue University Faculty Scholar.
06/13/2007 K. Kang’s DAC paper on NBTI-aware design nominated for Best Paper Award
05/12/2007 Nanotube lineup for electronics Materials Today
04/12/2007 A flexible approach to mobility Nature Nanomaterials News & Views
04/05/2007 Molecular Electronics: A promising lineup Nature
03/29/2007 A breakthrough in nanotube electronics MIT Tech Review
03/26/2007 Nanotubes used as semiconductor materials Science Daily
03/26/2007 Nanotubes used as semiconductor materials United Press International
03/25/2007 Linear arrays of nanotubes offer path to high-performance electronics Nanowrek.org
03/25/2007 Linear arrays of nanotubes offer path to high-performance electronics Physicsorg.com
03/25/2007 New nanotube arras for high performance electronics Cnnmag.com
02/22/2007 Professor Alam becomes a distinguished lecturer for IEEE EDS IEEE Website
01/31/2007 Surprises in Nanocantilevers NCN Newsletter
10/12/2006 Professor Alam elected to the technical advisory board of Nanomix
09/06/2006 Anomalous resonance in Nanoscale cantilevers Nanotechweb
08/28/2006 Nanocantilevers yield surprises critical for designing new detectors Nanotech-now
06/19/2006 Performance limits of nanobiosensors Nanowerk Spotlight
04/12/2006 Professor Alam wins the 2006 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award IEEE News
01/01/2006 Professor Alam elected an fellow of IEEE Purdue ECE Highlights
05/20/2005 Transistor degradation unified Materials R&D
02/17/2005 Model describes transistor death Newsfactor.com
01/13/2005 Predicting transistor reliability R&D Magazine
03/12/2004 NBTI: A growing threat to device reliability Semiconductor International
12/17/2004 Haldun Kufluoglu’s paper finalist for IEDM Best student paper award
12/06/2004 Unified transistor modeling on tap for IEDM EETimes
11/14/2004 A unified model for transistor reliability NewMaterials.com
04/25/2004 Silicon dioxide could still insulate 70-nm ICs EETimes
01/05/2004 Researchers debate Negative Bias effects on chips EETimes
04/30/2003 Muhammad Alam receives 2003 IRPS best paper award Purdue ECE Highlights
04/28/2003 Bell Labs researcher thinks outside the box EETimes
04/07/2003 Shift from SiO2 could be tough EETimes
04/01/2003 Agere Team sees improved reliability EETimes
12/23/2002 Silicon gets a reprive – by way of less than a hair Business week
12/20/2002 Chip firm shows greater resilience of silicon di-oxide Electronics Weekly
12/11/2002 Agere proves reliability of silicon ICs despite shrinking transistors EETimes Asia
12/05/2002 Agere trumpets technology discovery: thinner layers of smaller ICs Morning Call
06/01/2001 Exploring the limits of gate oxide scaling Semiconductor International
04/20/2001 Muhammad Alam receives the 2000 IRPS Outstanding Paper Award
04/26/2000 Bell Labs claims 1.5nm chip limit Electronicsweekly.com
05/15/2000 Innovations in technology Businessweek
05/04/2000 Silicon feels the squeeze London Sunday Times
05/01/2000 Don’t write off silicon: its getting leaner and meaner Canberra Times
04/21/2000 Silicon dioxide could still insulate 70-nm ICs EETimes
04/20/2000 Scientists extend silicon chip technology lifespan Vnunet.com
04/18/2000 Reaching the limit Bell Labs Newsletter
04/17/2000 Bell Labs researchers claim gate oxide to hit 6-atom level Electronics News
04/17/2000 Gate oxide not to hit brick wall Semiconductor Business Report
04/17/2000 Research finding from Lucent on silicon technology Bell Labs press release