Yoon Research Group (ECE, University of Utah)
Yoon research group hosted high-school campers participating the Hi-GEAR program (High School-Girls Engineering Abilities Realized) at the University of Utah. We assembled solar cars and watched them working under sunlight. A nice sunny day was perfect for exploring the integrated technology (solar + robotics).
“Water‐Assisted Liftoff of Polycrystalline CdS/CdTe Thin Films Using Heterogeneous Interfacial Engineering“, D. Magginetti1, J. Aguiar1,2, J. Winger1, M. Scarpulla1,3, E. Pourshaban2, H. Yoon1,3, Advanced Materials Interfaces 1900300, 2019.
1. Materials Science and Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84102, USA
2. Nuclear Materials Department, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID 83415, USA
3. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84102, USA
Congratulations David, passing your PhD proposal exam.
Dr. Yoon and David visited Bryant Middle School (Salt Lake City, UT) and gave a talk on “Small Things (nanoscale)”. We thank Amy in the College of Engineering at the University of Utah and Principal Smith for organizing the time. Hope to meet the middle school students again soon.
Katrina (first year undergraduate student) has been working with David to create a suitable testing apparatus for outdoor PV characterizations. She designed the structure using SolidWorks and fabricated it using a 3D printer. She also performed the PV measurements using this apparatus.
Every year, the ECE Department organizes the Technical Open-House (see details) for undergraduate students. Dr. Yoon encourages students in her class (ECE 3200: Introduction to Semiconductor Device Physics) to attend this exciting event. Here are some reviews from the students attending the Technical Open-House this year.
The presenters were knowledgeable, confident, and concise. Their use of a large screen to step through the presentation provided clarity and good flow. I appreciated that they took the time to understand the level of understanding their audience would have and broke down highly technical items into bite-sized pieces of information
(taken/described by Todd Renner)
Two papers were accepted for oral presentation at EMC in June 2019. Good job, David and Erfan!
We welcome Katrina Le, a first-year undergrad student (ACCESS Program). She will be working with David to run photovoltaic measurements outside.
David and Dr. Yoon have filed an invention discloser related to free-standing optoelectronic thin-film materials. David’s persistence made this happen. Thank you, David!
Graduate students in the ECE 6960-006 (eMicroscopy) gave a poster presentation, a part of final project. This interdisciplinary course provides the fundamental knowledge about the (scanning) electron microscopy and the practical lab sessions at the Utah’s Nanofab. The poster session was open to public. Students, thank you for all your hard work!
High resolution SEM imaging of transverse tensile cracks in polymer matrix composites (Caitlin Arndt, Mechanical Engineering)
SEM Porosity characterization of the Jurassic Pimienta Formation (Carlos Vega-Ortiz, Chemical Engineering)
Nanostructure of Cu2O Nanofiber (Karthikeyan Baskaran, Materials Science Engineering)
A look at Resistive RAM (Patsy Cdareanu, Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Electron Microscopy Investigations of asphaltenes precipitation with inorganic solids (Weiyi Kong, Chemical Engineering)
GaN Neutron Radiation (Sam Sprawls, Electrical and Computer Engineering)