Spring 2023
January 27, 2023
Strain Engineering 2D van der Waals Devices
Prof. Stephen M. Wu
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rochester University
February 3, 2023
Nanophotonics-Enabled Infrared Microspectrometers and Optical Tweezers
Prof. Kenneth Crozier
Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne
February 17, 2023
Linear Optics Quantum Computing
Prof. Youngik Sohn
Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
February 24, 2023
Mechanistic Understanding Coupled with the Discovery of Multifunctional Energy Materials
Dr. Carolin M. Sutter-Fella
Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
March 10, 2023
Sustainability and the Future of Semiconductor Innovations
Dr. Carolyn R. Duran
Vice President and Engineering Manager, Components Research, Intel Corporation
March 17, 2023
Defects, Devices, and Degradation of Metal Halide Perovskites: An Electrochemist’s Perspective
Prof. Erin L. Ratcliff
Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona
March 24, 2023
Large Scale Optical Switching in Google Data Centers
Dr. Kevin Yasumura
Platforms Optics Team, Google LLC
April 7, 2023
The Berkeley Surface Emitting Laser (BerkSEL): A Scale-Invariant Laser?
Prof. Boubacar Kante
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley
April 14, 2023
Carbazole Based Self-assembly Monolayers for Highly Efficient Sn/Pb-Perovskite Solar Cells
Prof. Maria Antonietta Loi
Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen
May 5, 2023
How to Train Your Demon in the Lab: Neural-Network Feedback-Control Protocols for Fluctuating Nanosystems
Dr. Steve Whitelam
Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Fall 2023
September 8, 2023
Compute Unlocks Photonic Inverse Design
Dr. Jesse Lu
Founder and CEO, SPINS Photonics Inc.
September 15, 2023
Adventures in Polarization Land: Electronic and Photonic Devices with Nitride Semiconductors
Prof. Debdeep Jena
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University
September 22, 2023
Nanoscale Magnetic Devices: Applications to Hardware AI and Quantum Computing
Prof. Jayasimha Atulasimha
Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University
September 29, 2023
Skin-like, Scalable, and Accessible Wearables for Mental Health
Prof. Yasser Khan
Electrical and Computer Engineering, USC
October 6, 2023
Acoustically Driven Ferromagnetic Resonance: Quantum Sensing in a Low SWaP-C Package
Dr. Dominic Labanowski
Sonera
October 11, 2023
Electronic Device Development Using the Newest Melt-Grown Semiconductor: β-Ga2O3
Dr. Ahmad Islam
Air Force Research Laboratory, Sensors Directorate
October 13, 2023
Rethinking AI Algorithm and Hardware Design with Neuromorphic Computing
Prof. Priya Panda
Electrical Engineering, Yale University
October 20, 2023
What one material can do
Prof. Junqiao Wu
Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley
October 27, 2023
Manipulating Ferroic Properties in 2D Materials
Prof. Jie Yao
Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley
November 3, 2023
Advanced Large-scale Manufacturing of 2D Materials
Prof. Zak Al Balushi
Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley
November 17, 2023
Virtual Metrology: From Pipe Dream to Reality
Dr. Mike Young-Han Kim
Founding CEO of Gauss Labs Inc.
Fall 2022
August 19, 2022
Flexible Nanoscale Organic Thin-Film Transistors
Dr. Hagen Klauk
Organic Electronics Group, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research Stuttgart
August 22, 2022
Co-designing Neuromorphic Systems from Materials to Algorithms
Dr. Sapan Agarwal
Principal Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories
September 2, 2022
Computing with Physical Systems
Prof. Peter McMahon
Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University
September 16, 2022
Spin-Transfer-Torque MRAM: The Next Revolution in Memory
Dr. Daniel Worledge
MRAM Senior Manager, IBM Almaden Research Center
September 23, 2022
Computing with p-Bits: Between a Bit and a q-Bit
Prof. Supriyo Datta
Electrical And Computer Engineering, Purdue University
September 30, 2022
Carbon Nanotube Transistors: Recent Progress Towards Applications in Highly-Scaled and High-Performance CMOS Logic
Dr. Greg Pitner
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC)
October 7, 2022
Intelligent Image-Activated Cell Sorting
Prof. Keisuke Goda
Department of Chemistry, University of Tokyo
October 21, 2022
Fast-Tunable and Low-Loss Stress-Optical Microsystems
Prof. Sunil Bhave
Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
October 28, 2022
Carbon Nanotube Transistors for a Future 3D Logic Technology
Prof. H.-S. Philip Wong
Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
December 2, 2022
Designing Artificial Synapses for Application-Specific Neuromorphic Computing Using Magnetic and 2D Materials
Prof. Jean Anne Incorvia
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas, Austin
Spring 2022
January 27, 2022
Workforce Preparation: What Have You Gotten Yourselves Into? (Grad School Semiconductor Edition)
Dr. Reinaldo Vega
Advanced Technology Definition, IBM Research
February 18, 2022
Convergence of Electronics and Photonics in CMOS Integrated Systems
Prof. Miloš Popović
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University
March 4, 2022
Diffractive Optical Networks & Computational Imaging Without a Computer
Prof. Aydogan Ozcan
Electrical Engineering & Bioengineering, UCLA
March 11, 2022
Advanced Logic Technology: Trends and Challenges
Dr. Victor Moroz
Synopsys Fellow, Synopsys Inc.
March 18, 2022
Multimode Fiber Optics and Applications
Prof. Hui Cao
Applied Physics & Electrical Engineering, Yale University
April 8, 2022
High-Throughput Single-Molecule Assays Using DNA Origami
Prof. Ashwin Gopinath
Mechanical Engineering, MIT
April 15, 2022
Minimally Invasive Neural Interfaces: Battery-free Bioelectronics and Lensless Microscopes
Prof. Jacob Robinson
Electrical and Computer Engineering & Bioengineering, Rice University
April 22, 2022
Innovation in Semiconductors for High Voltage
Dr. Ahmad Bahai
Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Texas Instruments
April 29, 2022
Understanding Radiative Recombination in Two Dimensional Semiconductors
Shiekh Zia Uddin
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley
May 6, 2022
Micro-Electro-Mechanical Relay Technology for Beyond Von Neumann Architecture
Xiaoer Hu
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley
Spring 2021
February 12, 2021
Robust and Energy-Efficient VLSI Silicon Photonics for Communications and Computing
Dr. Di Liang
Hewlett Packard Labs
February 19, 2021
News and Future of Semiconductors
Prof. Chenming Hu
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, UC Berkeley
February 26, 2021
Ubiquitous Active Surfaces
Prof. Vladimir Bulovic
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, MIT
March 5, 2021
Silicon Photonics: The Bumpy Road Toward Industrial Success
Dr. Gianlorenzo Masini
Luxtera/Cisco
March 12, 2021
Organic Mixed Ionic/Electronic Conductors for Applications in Bioelectronics
Prof. Jonathan Rivnay
Northwestern University
March 19, 2021
Engineering (Useful) Quantum Systems
Prof. Sara Mouradian
UC Berkeley
April 2, 2021
Quantum Interconnects for Superconducting Quantum Processors
Prof. Alp Sipahigil
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley
April 9, 2021
The Hunt for Mobile Holes Induced by Polarization in GaN
Prof. Huili Grace Xing
Cornell University
April 16, 2021
Integrated Optical Coherence Tomography: Continuous Physiological Monitoring and the Era of Homo augmentus
Dr. Michael Eggleston
Nokia Bell Labs
April 23, 2021
Wearable Platforms for Sweat Sensing at Rest
Dr. Mallika Bariya
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley
April 30, 2021
Electronics 5.0: New Materials and Devices for Edge Intelligence
Prof. Tomas Palacios
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
May 7, 2021
Innovations for Continuation of Moore’s Law During Next 10 Years
Dr. Tahir Ghani
Intel Corporation
May 14, 2021
Magnonic Spintronics: Toward Spin Wave Based Information Processing
Prof. Luqiao Liu
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
Fall 2021
September 17, 2021
Electronics and Spintronics in 2D Materials
Prof. Sanjay Banerjee
Microelectronics Research Center, UT Austin
October 1, 2021
High Power Diffraction-Limited Tapered Diode Lasers
Dr. Jenna Campbell
Freedom Photonics
October 7, 2021
Coventor Seminar, Part 1: "Understanding MEMS"
Dr. Gerold Schröpfer
Coventor, Inc., a Lam Research Company
October 14, 2021
Coventor Seminar, Part 2: "SEMulator3D®: Speeding up Process Optimization with Virtual Processing"
Dr. Joseph Ervin
Coventor, Inc., a Lam Research Company
October 16, 2021
Towards Optical Quantum Networks Based on Rare-Earth Ions and Nano-Photonics
Prof. Andrei Faraon
Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, Caltech
October 22, 2021
Quanta Image Sensor (QIS), or, Detecting Single Electrons in Silicon at Room Temperature, Without Avalanche Multiplication, in a Commercial Product
Prof. Eric Fossum
Dartmouth Engineering, Dartmouth College
October 29, 2021
Transient Electronics
Prof. John Rogers
Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
November 5, 2021
Color Center in Silicon: From Ensembles to Single Qubit
Dr. Walid Redjem
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley
November 8, 2021
Advanced Packaging, Heterogeneous Integration, and the Future of Semiconductor Systems
Prof. Madhavan Swaminathan
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech
November 12, 2021
High Performance Graphene Nanoribbon Transistors
Dr. Zafer Mutlu
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley
November 19, 2021
Microscopic Robots
Prof. Paul McEuen
Department of Physics, Cornell University
December 10, 2021
What's Hot in Semiconductors?
Dr. Rutger Vrijen
McKinsey & Company
Spring 2020
Sarah Kurtz, UC Merced, “Creating Positive Feedback Loops to Accelerate the Energy Transition”, February 7, 2020
Jie Yao, UC Berkeley, “New Degrees of Freedom in Layered van der Waals Materials”, March 13, 2020
Laura Waller, UC Berkeley, “Computational Microscopy in Scattering Media”, April 3, 2020
Ken Goodson, Stanford University, “Thermal Management Research from 3D Chips to Power Electronics”, April 24, 2020
Fall 2020
Sapan Agarwal, Sandia National Laboratories, “A Survey of Emerging Beyond CMOS Devices and Architectures”, July 23, 2020
Eric Yue Ma, UC Berkeley, “Sensing Quantum Materials with New Electromagnetic Probes”, September 18, 2020
Jeehwan Kim, MIT, “Stackable Electronics Enabled by Freestanding 2D/3D Materials”, September 25, 2020
Paolo Gargini, IEEE, Chairman IRDS, “Use of the Roadmap (IRDS) Method to Overcome Industry Inflection Points”, October 9, 2020
Ramamoorthy Ramesh, UC Berkeley, “Electric Field Control of Magnetism”, October 16, 2020
Zia Karim, Yield Engieering Systems, “Low Thermal Budget Trends for Interconnect RDL Polyimides For 3D Advanced IC Backend Applications”, October 23, 2020
Derya Baran, KAUST, “Emerging Materials and Devices for Energy Harvesting Applications”, November 6, 2020
Spring 2019
Jeffrey Bokor, UC Berkeley, “Ultrafast Spintronics”, February 1, 2019
Roya Maboudian, UC Berkeley, “Silicon Carbide Micro-/Nanosystems for Harsh Environment Applications”, April 12, 2019
Hayden Taylor, UC Berkeley, “Understanding chemical-mechanical planarization: a ubiquitous process in modern IC manufacturing”, April 26, 2019
Fall 2019
Sadasivan Shankar, Harvard University, “A Framework for Information Processing and Computing Beyond Moore’s Law”, October 18, 2019
Jelena Notaros, MIT, “Integrated Optical Phased Arrays: LiDAR, Augmented Reality, and Beyond”, November 1, 2019
Natalia Litchinitser, Duke University, “Structured Light-Matter Interactions in Engineered Photonic Media”, November 22, 2019
Eric Pop, Stanford University, “Electronic, Thermal, and (Some) Unusual Applications of 2D Materials”, December 6, 2019
Spring 2018
Eli Yablonovitch, UC Berkeley, “Semiconductor Thin-Film Transfer Technology Has Finally Arrived”, February 2, 2018
Marco Ronaldi, UC Santa Cruz, “Taking Electrons out of Bioelectronics”, March 9, 2018
Luqiao Liu, MIT, “Magnetic Memories with Topological Insulator and Compensated Ferrimagnet”, June 15, 2018
Fall 2018
Eli Yablonovitch, UC Berkeley, “Quantum Computing versus Classical Analog Algorithms”, September 14, 2018
Sandeep Kumar, UC Riverside, “Origin of Strong Rashba Spin Orbit Coupling and Spin-Hall Effect in Si”, October 5, 2018
Anthony Yen, ASML, “EUV Lithography: The Road to HVM and Beyond”, October 19, 2018
Spring 2017
Mona Jarrahi, UCLA, “New Frontiers in Terahertz Devices and Systems”, February 17, 2017
Junqiao Wu, UC Berkeley, “Electrons that Conduct Charge But Not Heat”, March 10, 2017
Jin-Woo Han, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, “Sustainable Semiconductor for Personal Satellite and Deep Space Exploration”, April 7, 2017
Subramanian S. Iyer, UCLA, “Forget about SoCs – Let’s talk about SoWs (System on Wafer)”, April 14, 2017
Fall 2017
Constance Chang-Hasnain, UC Berkeley, “Flat Photonics Using High Contrast Metastructures”, September 15, 2017
Vladimir Stojanovic, UC Berkeley, “More-than-Moore with Integrated Silicon-Photonics”, November 3, 2017
Seth Fortuna, UC Berkeley, “Antenna-LED for On-Chip Optical Communication”, December 1, 2017
Fall 2016
Dieter Bimbaum, Institut für Festkörperphysik, Technische Universität Berlin, “Quantum Dot Based Flash Memories: The Holy Grail, Unifying DRAM and Flash?”, September 30, 2016
James Schuck, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, “Hyperspectral Mapping of Optoelectronic Properties at Length Scales That Matter in 2D and 3D Semiconductors”, October 7, 2016
Ana Claudia Arias, UC Berkeley, “From Materials Deposition to Flexible Systems: Integrating Devices with Printing Technologies”, October 28, 2016
Tsu-Jae King Liu, UC Berkeley, “There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom - and at the Top”, December 2, 2016