Principle Investigator
Kai Fu
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
kai.fu@utah.edu
Prof. Kai Fu joined the University of Utah in 2022 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received his Ph.D. degree in Microelectronics and Solid State Electronics from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2013. He was an Associate Professor at Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics (SINANO), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), an Assistant Research Scientist at Arizona State University (ASU), and a Research Scientist at Rice University. He is authored 1 book chapter, 90+ journal papers, 60+ conference proceedings, and 27 granted patents. He has supervised 10+ graduate students. He is the reviewer of 20+ journals, and a Section Board Member (Power Electronics) of Electronics.
Ph.D. Sutdents
Hunter Ellis
Hunter Ellis received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Utah in 2020. He is currently working to receive his Ph.D. at the University of Utah. His research focuses on spread spectrum time domain reflectometry, signal processing, simulation design, and gallium nitride semiconductor devices.
Email: u0973796@utah.edu
Imteaz Rahaman
Imteaz Rahaman received a bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh, in 2019. He further pursued an MS degree in Electrical Engineering at Texas State University, USA, graduating in 2023. During this time, he worked on the integration of diamond on Ga2O3 at the Advanced Micro-/Nano- Materials & Devices Lab at Texas State University. Currently, he serves as a graduate research assistant at the University of Utah, specializing in Wide Bandgap (WBG) & Ultra-Wide Bandgap (UWBG) materials for future Power electronics. His areas of expertise include the growth and characterization of thin films, wide bandgap materials, seeding techniques, laser-solid interaction, thin-film defects, diamond, and physical and chemical vapor deposition fabrications. He has authored or co-authored around 21 peer-reviewed articles in prestigious peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He has been serving as a reviewer in prominent journals and conferences like Taylor & Francis, REM 2020.
Email: u1351894@utah.edu
Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=j54cqTkAAAAJ
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Imteaz-Rahaman
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/imteaz-rahaman-a82660240/
Botong Li
Botong Li got his B.S. in physics at Jilin University in 2021. He then pursued a master’s degree in electronic science and technology at Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, focusing on the epitaxial growth and device fabrication of Ga2O3, graduating in 2024. He is now serving as a graduate research assistant at the University of Utah. His research interests include the epitaxy of Ultra-Wide Bandgap (UWBG) materials and power electronic device fabrication.
Email: u1540316@utah.edu
Undergraduate
Apostoli Hillas
Apostoli Hillas is finishing his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Utah in December 2024. He has an emphasis on micro electrical-mechanical systems (MEMS) and semiconductor physics and has experience in electron microscopy. Apostoli is currently working on gallium-based proton detectors to create devices assisting with proton-radiation cancer therapy treatments. He is also working on semiconductor simulations using AI solutions for edge termination for wide bandgap devices.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/apostoli-hillas/
Group Alumni
Jacqueline Cooke
Dr. Jacqueline Cooke completed a dual M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and in Physics at New Mexico State University in 2017. She then received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Utah in 2022. Her Ph.D. was in the optical characterization of Ga2O3, a wide band gap material of interest for high power devices. Her achievements include discovering new methods of characterizing sample quality, improving the understanding of defects within films, as well as discovering a new type of defect unique to Ga2O3 and similar to the v-defect in GaN, the Sympetalous defect. She is now working as a Postdoc with Dr. Kai Fu in the process of improving the fabrication of Ga2O3 diodes. Her interests include photonics, R&D of novel electro-optics, optical devices, THz, metamaterials, quantum optics, plasmonic, electronics, and emerging applications.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacooke1
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jacqueline-Cooke
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3z90AmEAAAAJ&hl=en