10/2025 - Imteaz & Anthony’s work on Study of Optical Properties of MOCVD-Grown Rutile GeO2 Film was published in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. Congratulations! 

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6463/ae13ba

9/2025 - Botong’s work on Phase Evolution and Substrate-Dependent Nucleation of Quartz GeO2 Films Grown by Metal-Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition on r- and c-Plane Sapphires was published in physica status solidi (a) applications and materials science. Congratulations! 

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pssa.202500508

9/2025 - Hunter’s work on Carbon-Nanotube/β-Ga2O3 Heterojunction PIN Diodes was highlighted on journal cover of ACS Applied Electronic Materials. Congratulations! 

https://pubs.acs.org/toc/aaembp/7/18

9/2025 - Hunter’s work on Degradation of 2.4-kV Ga2O3 Schottky Barrier Diode at High Temperatures Up to 500°C was published in IEEE TED. Congratulations! 

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 72, no. 10, pp. 5372-5378, Oct. 2025, doi: 10.1109/TED.2025.3601139.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11150718?source=authoralert

8/2025 - Six presentations at GOX 2025 Workshop

- Imteaz Rahaman, Botong Li, Hunter D. Ellis, Michael A. Scarpulla, and Kai Fu, "Seed-Driven Stepwise Crystallization for Phase Control in Growing Rutile GeO2 Films by MOCVD," GOX 2025, Salt Lake City, Utah. (Oral)

- Imteaz Rahaman, Botong Li, Hunter D. Ellis, Michael A. Scarpulla, and Kai Fu, "Advanced MOCVD Growth and TEM Analysis of Rutile GeO2," GOX 2025, Salt Lake City, Utah. (Poster)

- Hunter Ellis, Imteaz Rahaman, Jared Miller, Ajayyvarman Mallapillai, Apostoli Hillas, Vikren Sarkar, Kai Fu, "Evaluation of a β-Ga2O3 MSM Detectors for Proton Therapy," GOX 2025, Salt Lake City, Utah. (Oral)

- Hunter Ellis, Botong Li, Wei Jia, Haoyu Xie, Jichao Fan, Weilu Gao, Kai Fu, "Thermal Degradation and Performance Enhancement of β-Ga2O3 Diodes Using CNT/Ga2O3 Heterojunctions ," GOX 2025, Salt Lake City, Utah. (Oral)

- Botong Li, Imteaz Rahaman, Bobby Duersch, Hunter D. Ellis, Kai Fu, "Nucleation and Evolution of GeO2 Grown on Sapphire Substrates by MOCVD," GOX 2025, Salt Lake City, Utah. (Poster)

- Botong Li, Imteaz Rahaman, Bobby Duersch, Hunter D. Ellis, Kai Fu, "In- situ Study of Crystal Quality and Phase Transition of Ga2O3 and GeO2 at High Temperatures up to 1000 C by XRD," GOX 2025, Salt Lake City, Utah. (Poster)

8/2025 - Hunter’s work on Carbon-Nanotube/β-Ga2O3 Heterojunction PIN Diodes was published in ACS Applied Electronic Materials. Congratulations! 

ACS Applied Electronic Materials 2025 7 (18), 8357-8363

DOI: 10.1021/acsaelm.5c00631

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsaelm.5c00631

6/2025 - Introduction of semiconductors to University of Utah Asia Campus students​

5/2025 - Imteaz’s work on A TEM study of MOCVD-grown rutile GeO2 films was published in APL and highlighted as a featured article. Congratulations! 

Appl. Phys. Lett. 126, 212106 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0244206

4/2025 - Kai attended IMAPS APPE/CICMT/HiTEC Conference and gave a talk on high temperature memory effect in GaN. 

https://pubs.acs.org/toc/aaembp/7/7

4/2025 - Our work on the growth of rutile GeO₂ using MOCVD was highlighted on the journal cover of ACS Applied Electronic Materials. 

https://pubs.acs.org/toc/aaembp/7/7

3/2025 - Imteaz’s work on Seed-Driven Stepwise Crystallization (SDSC) for Growing Rutile GeO2 Films via MOCVD was published in ACS Applied Electronic Materials. Congratulations! 

DOI: 10.1021/acsaelm.4c02361

11/2024 - Hunter Ellis gave oral presentation at Fall 2024 meeting of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the AAPM, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

11/2024 - A review paper on plasma treatment technologies for GaN electronics by UU, SINANO, Rice, and ASU was published in Electronics. Congratulations to Botong and all authors!

Electronics 2024, 13(22), 4343; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13224343

9/2024 - Imteaz’s work on the rutile-GeO2 by MOCVD was published in APL. Congratulations!
​Appl. Phys. Lett. 125, 102103 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0226661

8/2024 - High school students ​

8/2024 - A review paper on epitaxial growth of Ga2O3 by UU, Rice, and ASU is published in Materials ! Congratulations!

Materials 2024, 17(17), 4261. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma17174261 ​

8/2024 - Welcome Botong to join our group​

8/2024 - Imteaz gave an oral presentation at GOX 2024 on GeO2 growth​

6/2024 - Introduction of semiconductors to University of Utah Asia Campus students​

6/2024 - High School Summer Research Internship Program: welcome high school student to our lab​

6/2024 - Dr. Sarkar and Dr. Fu received HCI Engineering Award: Innovation in Cancer Engineering (ICE) Partnership Seed Grants​

6/2024 - Imteaz’s work on Growth of GeO2 on R-Plane and C-Plane Sapphires by MOCVD was published in ACS Applied Engineering Materials. Congratulations!

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsaenm.4c00320

5/2024 -  Dr. Fu gave an invited talk at 245th ECS Meeting on WBG materials

5/2024 -  Imteaz gave an oral presentation at ICMOVPE XXI on GeO2 growth