Professor Yong-Hang Zhang received MURI(Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative) Award to investigate fundamental materials properties for better infrared imaging technology, which will involve silicon-germanium-tin (SiGeSn) alloys for use in the next generation of lighter, faster and more energy efficient infrared imaging. Professor Zhang and his collaborator Professor Andrew Chizmeshya will receive approximately $2 million of a…

Material Research Society 2019 MRS Spring Meeting was successfully held in Phoenix, AZ. Professor Yong-Hang Zhang delivered an invited talk entitled “Semiconductor Heterovalent Interfaces and Integration”.

Dr. Maxwell Lassise will join Solar Junction Corporation as an epitaxy scientist. He will be conducting research and development on optoelectronic and other semiconductor devices. The group would like to gratefully thank Max for his many contributions in the past years. We wish him continued success in his future scientific work with Solar Junction.

(Max is defending his dissertation thesis) Congratulations to Dr. Calli Campbell and Dr. Maxwell Lassise on their successful PhD defenses entitled “Monolithic Heterovalent Integration of Compound Semiconductors and Their Applications” and “Molecular Beam Epitaxial growth of monocrystalline MgxCd1-xTe/MgyCd1-yTe (x<y) double heterostructures and solar cells”, respectively. Congratulate Calli and Max on their advancement, and wish them…

We are excited to announce that MBE Optoelecrtronics Lab Ph.D. student, Tyler McCarthy, has been named a recipient of the Dean’s Fellowship from Ira. Fulton School of Engineering. This award is for exceptional graduate students who exhibit the potential to make substantial contributions within their field of study and who bring a strong passion for conducting…

(Cross-section view of 3J ELO solar cell containing ~1.9eV GaInP, 1.4 eV GaAs, and 1.0 eV GaInAs subcells) Our group alumni Dr. Alex Kirk, currently the principle scientist at Microlinks Device, has been working on thin ELO multi-junction solar cells. One of the 3J cells he designed has been included as a world record ELO…

Maxwell Lassise will join Solar Junction Inc. in Phoenix, Arizona for the spring internship. We are looking forward to have more collaborations with Solar Junction Inc in the future.

Dr. Yang Zhang will join the Institute of Nanoscience and Engineering at University of Arkansas this month. The group would like to thank Yang for his many contributions to our group in the past year. We wish him prosperity in his research at University of Arkansas.

Professor Yong-Hang Zhang was elected as the chair of the advisory boards for both the International Conference (IC MBE) and the North American Conference on MBE (NAMBE) in recognition of his outstanding leadership, contributions and achievements in the area of molecular beam epitaxy and its applications. It is worth mentioning that our group has a total…

The 14th International Conference on Mid-IR Optoelectronics: Materials and Devices (MIOMD 2018) was successfully held in Flagstaff, Arizona from October 7-10, 2018. The conference was co-chaired and organized by Prof. Zhang and many of our group alumni and collaborator, Fisher Yu, Elizabeth Steenbergen, Stephen Sweeney, and Shane Johnson. It brought together many scientists and engineers…