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Georgia Tech Receives $65 Million Grant from Semiconductor Research Corporation for JUMP 2.0 Centers

Intelligent machines and AI characters that can interact seamlessly and intimately with human beings will have wide-ranging effects on society – in healthcare, search and rescue, business and defense, and even recreation. The technology is not very far off, and a massive national effort, led in part by Georgia Tech researchers, is charting the course.

At the Edge of Graphine-Based Electronics

A pressing quest in the field of nanoelectronics is the search for a material that could replace silicon. Graphene has seemed promising for decades. But its potential faltered along the way, due to damaging processing methods and the lack of a new electronics paradigm to embrace it. With silicon nearly maxed out in its ability to accommodate faster computing, the next big nanoelectronics platform is needed now more than ever.

Fall 2022 IEN Seed Grant Winners Announced

The four winning projects in this round were awarded IEN cleanroom and lab access time to be used over the next year. In keeping with the interdisciplinary mission of IEN, the projects that will be enabled by the grants include research in microelectronics, optoelectronics, battery technology, and novel materials for energy harvesting.

Researchers Create Smaller, Cheaper Flow Batteries for Clean Energy

Clean energy is the leading solution for climate change. But solar and wind power are inconsistent at producing enough energy for a reliable power grid. Alternatively, lithium-ion batteries can store energy but are a limited resource. Researchers at Georgia Tech believe flow batteries may be the solution.

Inaugural IEN Exponential Electronics Seed Grant Awarded

IEN has selected “In-Body Networks of Electronic Therapeutics” as the first project funded by the new IEN-E^x program. If the project is successful, it could lead to the development of previously impossible minimally invasive electronic therapeutic devices such as ingestible insulin pumps and triggerable neurostimulation systems.

Faces of Research: Meet Mark Prausnitz
Prausnitz is a Regents' Professor and the J. Erskine Love Jr. Chair in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Director of the Center for Drug Design, Development, and Delivery.

Georgia Tech Remains in Top 20 in Higher Education Research Spending
For the second consecutive year, the Georgia Institute of Technology has garnered a spot among the 20 universities in the U.S. with the highest amount of research and development (R&D) spending. Georgia Tech ranked No. 20, based on the annual Higher Education Research and Development Survey conducted by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The ranking is especially significant because Georgia Tech is the only institution in the Top 20 without a medical school.

Cleanroom Corner

Heidelberg MLA 150 Upgrade

IEN cleanroom has finished upgrading the Heidelberg MLA 150 #2 maskless aligner. The 405nm laser has been added to the equipment which has enabled the tool to work on more photoresists. More importantly, the resolution of the equipment has been upgraded to 0.6um which gives the tool superior advantages in sub-micron photolithography. This upgrade has given IEN cleanroom users more flexibility in processing challenging projects that require high resolution.

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IEN Publications

Thermoradiative Devices Enabled by Hyperbolic Phonon Polaritons at Nanoscales
Dudong Feng, Xiulin Ruan, Shannon K. Yee, Zhuomin M. Zhang

An Epitaxial Graphene Platform for Zero-Energy Edge State Nanoelectronics
Vladimir S. Prudkovskiy, Yiran Hu, Kaimin Zhang, Yue Hu, Peixuan Ji, Grant Nunn, Jian Zhao, Chenqian Shi, Antonio Tejeda, David Wander, Alessandro De Cecco, Clemens B. Winkelmann, Yuxuan Jiang, Tianhao Zhao, Katsunori Wakabayashi, Zhigang Jiang, Lei Ma, Claire Berger, Walt A. de Heer

Neural sampling machine with stochastic synapse allows brain-like learning and inference
Sourav Dutta, Georgios Detorakis, Abhishek Khanna, Benjamin Grisafe, Emre Neftci, Suman Datta

Electrically Driven Reprogrammable Phase-Change Metasurface Reaching 80% Efficiency
Sajjad Abdollahramezani, Omid Hemmatyar, Mohammad Taghinejad, Hossein Taghinejad, Alex Krasnok, Ali A. Eftekhar, Christian Teichrib, Sanchit Deshmukh, Mostafa A. El-Sayed, Eric Pop, Matthias Wuttig, Andrea Alù, Wenshan Cai, Ali Adibi

Antiferroelectric Negative Capacitance from a Structural Phase Transition in Zirconia
Michael Hoffmann, Zheng Wang, Nujhat Tasneem, Ahmad Zubair, Prasanna Venkatesan Ravindran, Mengkun Tian, Anthony Arthur Gaskell, Dina Triyoso, Steven Consiglio, Kandabara Tapily, Robert Clark, Jae Hur, Sai Surya Kiran Pentapati, Sung Kyu Lim, Milan Dopita, Shimeng Yu, Winston Chern, Josh Kacher, Sebastian E. Reyes-Lillo, Dimitri Antoniadis, Jayakanth Ravichandran, Stefan Slesazeck, Thomas Mikolajick, Asif Islam Khan

Tile-Based Massively Scalable MIMO and Phased Arrays for 5G/B5G-Enabled Smart Skins and Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Xuanke He, Yepu Cui, Manos M. Tentzeris

A Programmable On-Chip Hopf Bifurcation Circuit
Jennifer Hasler

Events

Distinguished Lecture in Materials (Virtual) | Applications of and Advances in Boron Nitride Nanotubes and Additively Manufactured Ceramic Matrix Composites - January 24, 2023 | 11:00 a.m. - Noon
Featuring Ryan Holtschneider, Lead Data Scientist, Epic Advanced Materials

2022-2023 Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience Distinguished Lecture | Designer Nanocarriers for Cancer Therapy - January 24, 2023 | 11:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Featuring Paula T. Hammond, Institute Professor and Department Head of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nano@Tech Spring 2023 Series | LEEFT with Nano for Water Disinfection - February 7, 2023 | Noon - 1:00 p.m. Featuring Xing Xie , Assistant Professor and Carlton S. Wilder Junior Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Tech

Single-Crystalline Nanomembranes for Flexible/Stackable Electronics - February 10, 2023 | 11:00 a.m. - Noon
Featuring Associate Professor Jeehwan Kim, Massachusets Institute of Technology

Georgia Tech Battery Day - March 30, 2023 | 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Convening Georgia Tech and Industry to Advance Energy Storage Technologies

2023 Brumley D. Pritchett Lecture and Institute for Materials Symposium on Materials Innovations - March 31, 2023 | 8:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
The symposium will feature a combination of technical presentations, distinguished seminars, a poster contest, and student recruitment activities. These evets are co-hosted by the Institute for Materials and the School of Materials Science and Engineering.

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