3rd Annual Workshop on Emerging Trends in Semiconductor Technology
Admission is free, but registration is required.
Emerging Trends in Semiconductor Technology is hosted by the University at Buffalo’s Center for Advanced Semiconductor Technologies. This workshop brings together academic, industry and community leaders to focus on developing: Energy-efficient microelectronics to address the ever-increasing computing and communication requirements; Novel widegap semiconductors for electric vehicles and power grids; and Advanced photovoltaic (solar) technologies to meet the growing energy demands while achieving a net-zero carbon footprint.
The UB Center for Advanced Semiconductor Technologies fosters multi-disciplinary collaborations between researchers to address pressing needs of modern computing, green automotives and clean energy.
Check back soon for a detailed agenda.
Zhaoning Song
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy; Faculty, Wright Center for Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization, University of Toledo
Zhaoning Song is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Toledo and a faculty member of the Wright Center for Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization. His research focuses on thin-film photovoltaic and optoelectronic devices, with particular emphasis on perovskite photovoltaics, tandem solar cells, photodetectors, and photoelectrochemical cells. His broader interests include device physics and modeling, nanomaterial synthesis, thin-film optoelectronics, and techno-economic analysis of emerging photovoltaic technologies.
Seth Hubbard
Professor and School Head, School of Physics and Astronomy; Member, NanoPower Research Laboratories, Rochester Institute of Technology; NanoPower Research Laboratories
Seth Hubbard is currently Professor and Head of the School of Physics and Astronomy. He also holds a courtesy appointment in the Microsystem Engineering PhD Program and is a member of the NanoPower Research Laboratory, serving as lab director from 2015-2025. Dr. Hubbard research involves epitaxial growth, fabrication and characterization of solar photovoltaic and optoelectronics devices. He has received over $20M in funded external research related to photovoltaic device development, has authored or co-authored over 200 journal and conference publications on electronic and photovoltaic devices and received an NSF CAREER Award as well as the RIT Trustee Scholarship Award. Dr. Hubbard serves as an Editor of the IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics and is actively involved in the organization of the IEEE Photovoltaics Specialists Conference. He has been the advisor to 6 post-doctoral fellows, 15 PhD graduates and over 30 MS students. Prof. Hubbard received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from The University of Michigan and a B.S. in Physics from Drexel University.
Fang Luo
Empire Innovation Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Director, Spellman High Voltage Power Electronics Laboratory, Stony Brook University
Fang Luo is an Empire Innovation Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Spellman High Voltage Power Electronics Laboratory at Stony Brook University. His research focuses on power electronic converters and systems, power module packaging, and electromagnetic-interference modeling and mitigation in power electronics systems.
Bibhudutta Rout
Professor, Department of Physics, University of North Texas
Rout is actively pursuing research in several experimental areas involving condensed matter physics, materials science, nano-science and technology. His current research interests include materials analysis and modification using high energy focused ion beams; Growth and analysis of micro-nanostructures using UHV techniques involving MBE, E-beam, Ion beam.
Qing Cao
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Affiliate, Departments of Chemistry and Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Cao received his BS degree in 2004 from Nanjing University, and his Ph.D. in 2009 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After working at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center as research scientist for 9 years, he returned to the University of Illinois as an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Affiliate of the Department of Chemistry and of the Department of Electrical Engineering.
Christopher Broyles
Postdoctoral Researcher, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Dr. Broyles is interested in synthesis and characterization of (quantum) materials, superconductivity and strongly correlated topological systems. While a graduate researcher at Washington University, Broyles worked to understand the nature of low temperature quantum phases through electronic, thermal and magnetic properties.
Rachel S. Goldman
Maria Goeppert Mayer Collegiate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Department, College of Engineering; Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Physics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
Goldman's research group develops strategies for manipulating and identifying atoms in functional inorganic materials for high efficiency solar cells, long-wavelength light-emitters and detectors, high temperature electronics, spintronics, and quantum computing. Goldman's lab's emphasis is on understanding processing-structure-property correlations in semiconductor films, nanostructures, and heterostructures. Goldman and her team of researchers are primarily experimentalists using ultra-high vacuum techniques including molecular-beam epitaxy (“million buck evaporator”), scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), and both blanket and focused ion implantation. Golman's lab has developed computational efforts aimed to assist in our understanding of solute incorporation in alloys (Monte Carlo-Molecular Dynamics simulations of ion-solid interactions) and plasmon-enhanced light-emission from semiconductor nanocomposites (electromagnetic simulations of light-matter interactions)
Submit a poster
Students are welcome to submit posters for display during the first day of the conference.
- Poster title
- Presenter name
- Presenter email address
Please send the poster title and a short abstract (≤ 120 words) to Prof. Liu at changjia@buffalo.edu by Sunday, August 10.
This year's poster session includes awards recognizing outstanding contributions.
