Group Members
Our group is always looking for very motivated PhD students with interest in wide band gap electronic materials and devices. Students with a strong background/interest in semiconductor device physics, materials synthesis, and nanofabrication with a bachelors/masters degree in materials engineering, electrical engineering (or related fields) can contact me. Please send a note (with CV) to sriramkrishnamoorthy@ucsb.edu , if you are interested in discussing your research interests with me.
We look forward to working with a diverse group of highly motivated graduate, undergraduate students and postdoctoral researchers.
April 2024- Open Positions
We are hiring! We have one open postdoctoral researcher position (Expertise in transistor processing and or MOCVD epitaxy). Please reach out to us (sriramkrishnamoorthy@ucsb.edu) if you are interested.
Group Picture- Fall 2023 Photo Credit: Lilli McKinney, COE, UCSB
Saurav Roy
Graduate Student
Materials, UC Santa Barbara
Started July 2019 @ U Utah
Joined UCSB Fall 2021
Carl Peterson
Graduate Student
Materials, UC Santa Barbara
Started Feb 2021 @ U Utah
Started Fall 2021
Steve Rebollo
Graduate Student
Materials, UC Santa Barbara
Co-advised with Prof. Jim Speck
Fall 2021 - current
Yizheng Liu
Graduate Student
Materials, UC Santa Barbara
Fall 2022 - current
Kittamet Chanchaiworawit (San)
Graduate Student
Materials, UC Santa Barbara
Fall 2022- current
Rachel Kahler
Graduate Student
Materials , UC Santa Barbara
Fall 2023- current
DoD SMART Fellow
Ziliang (Merlin) Ling
Undergraduate Researcher
Physics, UC Santa Barbara
Joined Summer 2022
Mentor: Carl Peterson
Benjamin Kostroun
Undergraduate Researcher
Physics, UC Santa Barbara
Joined Summer 2022
Mentor: Saurav Roy
Group Pictures- Archive
Krishnamoorthy Group Picture- Fall 2022
Photo Credit: Lilli McKinney, COE, UCSB
Krishnamoorthy Group Picture- Spring 2021
Alumni
Krishnamoorthy Group Alumni
PhD Alumni
Dr. Arkka Bhattacharyya, ECE, U Utah (Aug 2018- Aug 2022), Thesis: Materials and Device Engineering for UWBG β-Ga2O3 based Electron Devices: Towards Energy Efficient Power Electronics, Select Awards/Honors: (1) MRS Spring 2021, UWBG symposium best paper award (awarded by the symposium organizers) (2) IWGO-4 (2022) Young Researcher Paper Award, (3) 2023 College of Engineering Outstanding Dissertation Award. First employment: Post-doctoral researcher, UC Santa Barbara.
Dr. Praneeth Ranga, PhD Alumni ECE, U Utah (August 2017- Jan 2022), Thesis: Vapor Phase Epitaxial Growth of Gallium Oxide Thin Films and Heterostructures for High Performance Electronics, Select Awards/Honors: (1) Best ECE Thesis Award 2021 (2) University Graduate Research Fellowship 2020-2021. First employment: Intel Corporation.
Postdoc Alumni
Dr. Esmat Farzana, Materials, UCSB (2022- 2023)- Co-advised with Prof. Jim Speck: Now Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University
Dr. Arkka Bhattacharyya, Materials, UC Santa Barbara (Sept. 2022- March 2024): First employment: Applied Materials
Visiting PhD Alumni
Nathan Episcopo, Visiting Graduate Student, U Texas, El Paso (Prof. Ramana Chintalapalle's group), MRL NSF- PREM Program, Summer 2022- UCSB Materials, Co-mentors: Carl Peterson & Saurav Roy
Palvan Seyidov, Visiting Grad Student, Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ), Germany, August- Nov 2023, Project: Electrical breakdown in Co-, Ni- and Fe- doped Ga2O3 CZ substrates. First employment: Siltronic AG
Masters/ (BS/MS) Alumni
Brandon Zhou, BS (Mech. Eng.)/ MS (Materials) Program, 2022- 2023.
Liam Shore, BS (Mech. Eng.)/ MS (Materials) Program, UC Santa Barbara ,2023.
Vivek Sattiraju, ECE, U Utah, Masters Project Student Alumni, Research Volunteer, September 2017- July 2018, MS project: Low Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth and Lithography Recipes for Emerging Transparent Semiconducting Oxide- β Gallium Oxide. First employment: IM flash.
Undergraduate Researcher Alumni
Joseph E. Lyman, Undergraduate Researcher Alumni, ECE, U Utah, Feb 2018- May 2020, Select Honors/Awards: (1) Barry Goldwater Fellowship, (2) EE Outstanding Student Researcher Award, (3) Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award 2021 (University-wide), First employment: Wilson Electronics.
Xingyue (Sophie) Wang, Undergraduate Researcher Alumni, ECE, U Utah, Jan 2021- May 2021, EE Student Excellence Award 2021, Joined ECE masters program @ University of California San Diego, Fall 2021.
Kevin A. Ramirez, undergraduate Researcher Alumni, Chemical Engineering, U Utah, October 2019- March 2020, First employment: L3Harris Technologies.
Ryan Baum, Undergraduate Researcher Alumni, ECE, UCSB, Feb 2023- June 2023.
Janani Ganesh, Undergraduate Researcher Alumni, ECE, UCSB, Feb 2023- June 2023.
David Lopez, Undergraduate Researcher, ECE, UC Santa Barbara Summer 2023- Dec 2023. MRL CAMP program; SIOP research scholarship, Mentor: Carl Peterson
High School Intern Alumni
Saad Asad, High School Intern, Evergreen Valley High School, UCSB Research Mentorship Program (RMP) 2022, UCSB Materials, Summer 2022, Mentor: Carl Peterson, Project: "Electrical Characterization of β-Ga2O3 MOVPE-Grown Schottky Diodes with Ni/Au Contacts", Joining Materials Science and Engineering @ University of California, Berkeley Fall 2023. Mentor: Carl Peterson
Kevin He, High School Intern, Dos Pueblos High School, Research Mentorship Program (RMP) 2022, UCSB Materials, Summer 2022, Mentor: Carl Peterson, Project: "Electrical Characterization of Aluminum Gallium Oxide Thin Films", Joining Engineering Sciences (Physics) @ University of California, Berkeley Fall 2023. Mentor: Carl Peterson