Team – Mu-ATOMS | Center for Manipulation of Atomic Ordering for Manufacturing Semiconductors

Principle Investigators

Shui-Qing “Fisher” Yu

University of Arkansas

EFRC Director

Thrust 2, 4

SiGeSn Materials and Devices, Semiconductor Optoelectronics.

https://yulab.uark.edu/

Jin Hu

University of Arkansas

UA local Deputy

Crosscut lead, Junior Advisory Committee

Thrust 3, 4

Materials synthesis, Quantum Materials, Transport, Magnetism.

https://quantumlab.uark.edu/

Greg Salamo

University of Arkansas

Thrust 2

MBE III-V Nanostructures and SiGeSn, MBE, STM, Nonlinear Optics.

Hugh Churchill

University of Arkansas

Thrust 4

2D materials, Quantum Materials, Nano-Fab.

http://churchill-lab.com/

Hiro Nakamura

University of Arkansas

Thrust 3, 4

ARPES, MBE

https://nakamura.uark.edu/

Tianshu Li

George Washington University

Thrust lead

Thrust 1

Computation Material Modeling for SiGeSn Material System for SRO, Modeling of Nucleation Process.

https://blogs.gwu.edu/tsli/

Jifeng Liu

Dartmouth College

Thrust leader

Thrust 3

Group-IV Photonics, Ge and GeSn, Crystallization

https://sites.dartmouth.edu/liu-research

Yong-Hang Zhang

Arizona State University

Thrust 2

MBE III-V, II-VI, and group-IV MBE.

http://asumbe.eas.asu.edu/

Paul McIntyre

Stanford University

Thrust 2, 3

GeSn nanowire, X-Ray

http://mcintyre.stanford.edu/

Andrew Minor

U.C. Berkeley

Thrust 3

TEM

https://aminor.mse.berkeley.edu/

Shengbai Zhang

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Thrust 1

SRO’s Impact on Electronic Structure and Property; Modeling of Epitaxy Growth

https://homepages.rpi.edu/~zhangs9/

Dragica Vasileska

Arizona State University

Crosscut lead, DEI Committee

Thrust 1

Transport Modeling and Advanced Transistor Modeling

https://www.dragicavasileska.net/

Yuping Zeng

University of Delaware

Thrust lead

Crosscut lead, Junior Advisory Committee

Thrust 2

GeSn transistor, high speed transistor, GeSn MBE.

https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~yzeng/

Ezra Bussmann

Sandia National Lab

Deputy Director

Thrust 2, 3

MBE/STM.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NoOZlYQAAAAJ&hl=en

Tzu-Ming Lu

Sandia National Lab

Thrust lead

Thrust 4

Transport, Superconductor, Quantum Materials, Nanofabrication.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jscL8jgAAAAJ&hl=en

Shashank Misra

Sandia National Lab

Thrust 2

Atomically Precise Advanced Manufacturing

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=3T7HSuAAAAAJ

Michael Lilly

Sandia National Lab

Thrust 4

Low T Material Characterization

https://cint.lanl.gov/research/thrusts.php

Mansour Mortazavi

University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff

Thrust 3

Optical and Optoelectronics

https://www.uapb.edu/administration/research_innovation_and_economic_development/staff.aspx

Staff

Emma McIntosh

University of Arkansas

EFRC Program Coordinator

Shunda Chen

Staff Research Scientist
*BES Early Career Network Representative 2023-2024

Research focus on utilizing theoretical modeling, first-principles calculations, advanced atomistic simulations, machine learning, and high-performance computing for investigating Short-Range Order (SRO) in Group IV alloys, and impacts of SRO on materials’ properties, including electronic, thermal and topological quantum properties, and beyond.

Postdoctoral Researchers

Dinesh Baral

University of Arkansas

Postdoctoral researcher with research focus on utilizing Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy (STM/S) to explore the atomic ordering during the growth of GeSn. The objective is to understand the short-range order evolution during the growth.

Anis Attiaoui

Stanford University

Postdoctoral researcher with focus on growth of group IV nanowires and optical characterization.

Priyanka Petluru

Sandia National Laboratories

Postdoctoral Researcher

Manish Sharma

University of Arkansas

Postdoctoral researcher focusing on low-temperature electrical transport measurements to explore the topological character in the Germanium-Tin system

Manoj Shah

University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff

Postdoctoral researcher with focus on developing GeSn, III-V on Sapphire, and 2D materials based optoelectronic devices.

Caitlin McCowan

Sandia National Laboratories

Postdoctoral Researcher

Yunsheng Qiu

University of Arkansas

Postdoctoral Researcher focused on Group IV materials synthesis and characterization

Zheng Ju

Arizona State University

Postdoctoral scholar with research focus on molecular beam epitaxy growth and semiconductor optoelectronic devices and materials.

Shrawan Roy

University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff

Postdoctoral researcher with focus on the optical properties of 2D materials.

Adelaide Bradicich

Sandia National Laboratories

Postdoctoral researcher investigating Group IV alloy growth and electronic transport characterization.

Moheb Sheikhi

University of Delaware

Postdoctoral researcher with focus on SiGeSn transferring and fabrication of transistor devices.

Suho Park

University of Delaware

Postdoctoral researcher with focus on epitaxial growth of group IV semiconductor, material characterization, device fabrication and characterization regarding GeSn ribbon transfer.

Sungjae Hong

Sandia National Laboratories

Postdoctoral researcher with focus on electrical and thermal transport characterization of group IV alloy.

Pargam Vashishtha

University of Arkansas

Postdoctoral researcher focusing on epitaxial growth and characterization of group IV materials for optoelectronic applications.

Students

Abdulla Said Ali

University of Arkansas

Graduate student with research focus on fabrication and characterization of GeSn Aspect Ratio Trapping (ART).

Shangda Li

Dartmouth College

Ph.D. Candidate with research focus on fabrication of GeSn and material property study.

Shedrack Dafe

University of Delaware

PhD student in Quantum Science and Engineering with a research focus on device fabrication, GeSn growth using MBE, and material characterization of (Si)GeSn (TOF-SIMS, XRD, and Raman). My work aims at device optimization for applications in high-performance electronics, infrared optoelectronics, and quantum technologies

Siddhant Gangwal

Arizona State University

Graduate Research Assistant with research focus on modeling electronic properties for group IV alloy (Si-Ge-Sn-Pb) material systems and developing transport models (path integral implementation of BTE) for nanodevices.

Sudeep Puri

University of Arkansas

Graduate Student

Ram Joshi

University of Arkansas

Graduate Student

Xin Qi

Arizona State University

Graduate Research Assistant

Allison McMinn

Arizona State University

Graduate Research Assistant

Xiaochen Jin

George Washington University

Graduate Student

Christopher Lemkan

George Washington University

Student

Sophia Arvin

University of California Berkeley

Ph.D. student with research focus on in-situ laser-material interactions, materials characterization, and optical properties of materials.

Haochen Zhao

University of Delaware

Ph.D. Candidate with research focus on Epitaxial growth of GeSn using MBE technique, material characterization of (Si)GeSn (TOF-SIMS, XRD, XPS and Raman), and device fabrication related to GeSn materials (Transistor and photodetector).