Labs

Lab Video Description Faculty
Kim Research Group Integrated wireless MEMS/NEMS systems (sensors, actuators, circuits, energy harvesters), microfluidics Hanseup Kim
Mastrangelo Lab Microfabricated systems that interface with biological structures Carlos Mastrangelo
Scarpulla Research Group ▶️ Semiconductors and photovoltaics Mike Scarpulla
Terahertz Optoelectronics Research Group ▶️ Applied electromagnetics, electronic & optoelectronic devices and materials Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez
Utah Nanofab Harsh environment MEMS Florian Solzbacher
AMANDA Lab Nano-electro-mechanical systems (NEMS) Massood Tabib-Azar
NanoEngineering Lab

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 Nanoscale engineering for energy Heayoung Yoon
Wireless Microsystems Lab

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 MEMS Sensor Interfaces Darrin Young
Fu Research Group ▶️ Wide bandgap semiconductor devices Kai Fu

Faculty

Kai Fu

Assistant Professor

Semiconductor devices, wide bandgap semiconductors (GaN, AlN, Ga2O3, BN, diamond), material epitaxy science, nanofabrication, semiconductor characterization, reliability, heterogeneous integration, power electronics, high-temperature electronics

Hanseup Kim

Department Chair; Director, Utah Nanofab; H. Kent Bowen Endowed Professor

USTAR Professor

Biological nano- and micro-systems in moving fluids for medical applications including micro- pumps and valves. System integration in robotics and energy harvesting for micro- robots, actuators, hydraulics, energy harvesting systems, and manufacturing technology

Sriram Krishnamoorthy

Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of California Santa Barbara

Semiconductors-based nanoscale electronic/optoelectronic devices, with focus on material synthesis, electronic transport, design/modeling, nanoscale fabrication, and characterization of devices and materials. Specifically, wide band gap oxide/nitride semiconductor devices for a wide range of applications such as power electronics, ultra-violet optoelectronics, vacuum electronics, and high temperature electronics

Carlos Mastrangelo

USTAR Professor

Microfabricated systems that interface with biological structures at multiple scales. These include new microfluidics technologies, bioMEMS, novel detection microtechnologies and methods, cell and tissue level microinstruments and microsystems.

Mike Scarpulla

Professor

Semiconductors and photovoltaics: earth-abundant, benign compound semiconductors for thin film photovoltaics such as Cu2ZnSnS4. Other sulfide semiconductors for PV, light management for thin film PV, CIGS, laser processing of semiconductors, and the physics of semiconductor alloys and transition metal and rare earth additions to semiconductors.

Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez

Associate Professor

EM and optics: terahertz technology, high frequency electronics, two dimensional materials, active metamaterials, plasmonics, and nanophotonics

Florian Solzbacher

Gerald and Barbara Stringfellow Endowed Professor

Harsh Environment MEMS, including: materials (SiC (on Si), SOI, GaN), metallisation systems for high temperatures and aggressive ambient conditions, and silicon fusion bonding and packaging issues

Massood Tabib-Azar

USTAR Professor

Nano-electro-mechanical systems (NEMS), nano devices and molecular electronics, metrology tools, microwave-AFM for bio-nano-info, and novel fabrication techniques

Heayoung Yoon

Associate Professor

Solar energy conversion, NanoEngineering: Engineering micro/nanomaterials to enhance device performance and functionality in the fields of solar energy conversion, advanced nanoelectronics, and 3D hybrid imaging at nanoscale

Darrin Young

USTAR Associate Professor

Low-power integrated circuits design coupled with MEMS-based sensing systems for wearable sensing, biomedical implant, environmental sensing, power transfer, RF communication, and general industrial sensing applications