2020 03 Serving in Editorial Board (Applied Microscopy)

Dr. Yoon invited to the Editorial Board of Applied Microscopy. This journal covers all the interdisciplinary fields of technological developments in new microscopy methods and instrumentation and their applications to biological or material science for determination of structure and chemistry (see details here).

The peer-reviewed articles will be available through Applied Microscopy and SpringerOne.

2020 02 Dinorah wins $1,000 Research Award!

We congratulate our team member, Dinorah Segovia, for winning the Individual Capstone Project Funding at the University of Utah. She receives $1,000 for her research project of Si plasmonic micro/nanowire sensors. Dinorah is using a customized wet-oxidation furnace in our lab to engineer the size of the nanowires for tunable plasmonic resonances.

We appreciate the great help from Nanofab staff members (particularly Mr. Tony Olsen and Mr. Brian Baker) to make this possible. We are grateful for the generous support of the University and the ECE Department. See the news posted on the ECE Department website (ECE_Story).

2020 01 Yang and Kaden submit papers to EMC

Two papers have been  submitted to the EMC (62th Electronic Materials Conference; Columbus, OH) this year. Both papers report our recent results obtained in close collaborations with NRL (Naval Research Lab), NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), and the Physics Department (Prof. J. Gerton) and the Nuclear Program (Profs. G. Sojoden, E. Cazalas) at the University of Utah.

2019 12 eMicroscopy Class

This year, the advanced Electron-Beam Microscopy class (ECE 6960-006) was extended to senior undergrad students (ECE 5960-007). The final project includes a poster presentation of individual students’ projects. The interdisciplinary course provides fundamental knowledge about the (scanning) electron microscopy and the practical lab sessions at Utah’s Nanofab. The best SEM image selected by the guests is “3D microstructured pillar array” taken by Dinorah Segovia (bottom left).  Students, thank you for presenting your beautiful work.

2019 12 ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Our Collaborative work with NIST and NRL is presented in an ACS paper.

“Unveiling Defect-Mediated Charge-Carrier Recombination at the Nanometer Scale in Polycrystalline Solar Cells”, Yohan Yoon, Wei-Chang D. Yang*, Dongheon Ha, Paul M. Haney, Daniel Hirsch, Heayoung P. Yoon, Renu Sharma, and Nikolai B. Zhitenev, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2019, 11, 50, 47037–47046 (2019); https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsami.9b14730