11.15-16.23-RD-Jaramillo

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  Recent decades have seen exciting explosions of research into new and lesser-studied semiconductors, including such broad categories as complex-structured nitrides and chalcogenides and layered and two-dimensional (2D) materials. Even so, silicon has further consolidated its position as the leading material for computing, solar energy conversion, and even for some optoelectronics. In light of this friendly but often overmatched competition with silicon, I will motivate continued innovation in new semiconducting materials and present materials development projects in my research group that address future technology and market needs. I will highlight research on forming high-performance semiconductor-dielectric interfaces with 2D materials for transistors and on exploring new perovskite semiconductors for solar cells. Throughout, I will emphasize how choices in fundamental research topics can address the manufacturability of future semiconductor technologies.

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