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our work for a broader audiencePress Articles
are a good introduction to us and our work, for a broader audience
- Alex Gabourie's paper on "Reduced thermal conductivity of supported and encased monolayer and bilayer MoS2" was among top 1% most-cited papers in IOP journals from 2021-23
- Katie Neilson wins a Best Student Presenter Award at SRC TechCon 2024
- Koosha Nassiri Nazif and Alex Shearer are selected as Breakthrough Energy Fellows (2024)
- Eric Pop comments in a big 7-part article about the future of computing, by The Economist (2024)
- Plus a related interview on The Economist's Babbage Podcast
- Eric Pop is interviewed for a Stanford Engineering story about upgrades to the Stanford Nanofab (2024)
- Robert Bennett received the "Best Best Student Presentation Award" at the 2024 MRS Spring Meeting, Symposium EL05, for his talk titled "A Method for Extracting 2D Semiconductor Mobility in Transistors with Gate-Voltage-Dependent Contact Resistance"
- Crystal Nattoo was featured by nano@stanford for International Women in Engineering Day (2024)
- Eric Pop was interviewed by TVR (Televiziunea Română, the Romanian public TV) about the group's research at Stanford; the article is in Romanian, and you can watch Eric's awkward Romanian interview when it's available
- Xiangjin Wu and Asir Khan's new work on superlattice materials for a 'universal' memory is described in a Stanford School of Engineering news story (2024)
- The work is also covered in Interesting Engineering, IEEE Spectrum, and Live Science
- Plus Yahoo! News, Semiconductor Engineering, Nanowerk, Descopera.ro (in Romanian), and many others
- Eric Pop comments in an article in The Economist on the future of Moore's Law, the 2023 IEDM, 3D stacking, and 2D (TMD) transistors. In case the link is paywalled, here is a PDF of the article (2023)
- Asir Khan receives the Best Student Presentation award at AVS 2023
- Asir Khan wins a Best Student Presenter Award at TechCon 2023
- Eric Pop receives the 2023 Viskanta Fellowship from Purdue University, "for independent and innovative research in the field of thermal sciences". The title of the Viskanta Lecture was "Thermal Transport in Layered Materials, Devices, and Systems"
- Asir Khan receives the AVS Russell & Sigurd Varian Award for his work on "novel materials for low-power memory and energy-efficient nanoelectronics" (2023)
- Katie Neilson receives the Best Lightning Talk award at the SUPREME center's annual review, for her presentation "Improving and Understanding 2D Material-Based P-Type Transistors" (2023)
- Xiangjin Wu receives a Best Poster Award at the Non-Volatile Memory Technology Symposium (NVMTS 2022)
- Asir Khan receives the 2022 MRS Fall Meeting Gold Student Award (2022)
- He also received the Best Student Presenter Award at the 2022 MRS Fall Meeting, for the talk "Chalcogenide-Superlattice Interfaces and Intermixing Modulating Phase-Change Memory Performance"
- And here is the Stanford EE news story, about both awards
- Eric Pop is elevated to APS Fellow for "for contributions to the physics of electrical and thermal transport in one- and two-dimensional materials, and their applications to transistors and data storage" (2022)
- Asir Khan receives the IEEE EDS PhD Student Fellowship (2022)
- Michelle Chen and Connor Bailey win Best Student Presenter awards at TechCon 2022
- Alwin Daus' work on flexible temperature sensors is covered in a nice story by AZO Nano (2022)
- Asir Khan's work wins Best Student Paper Award at the VLSI Symposium (2022)
- This was paper T4-1: "First Demonstration of Ge2Sb2Te5-Based Superlattice Phase Change Memory with Low Reset Current Density (~3 MA/cm2) and Low Resistance Drift (~0.002 at 105 °C)"
- Update: Asir receives the award at the 2023 VLSI Symposium, here is the Stanford EE news story
- Connor Bailey's presentation is selected as a Scientific Highlight at the MRS Spring 2022 meeting
- Sanchit Deshmukh and Miguel Muñoz Rojo's paper in Science Advances is highlighted in an article (2022)
- Aditya Sood receives the MRS Postdoctoral Award (2022)
- Crystal Nattoo is profiled in a spotlight article by the Stanford School of Engineering (2022)
- Eric Pop receives the Intel 2021 Outstanding Researcher Award for leading work on "Doping and Contacts for Atomically Thin 2D Semiconductors" (2022)
- all the credit goes to Kirstin Schauble, Connor McClellan, Aravindh Kumar, Ryan Grady, Dr. Eilam Yalon, Kirby Smithe, Chris English and other previous group members who contributed to this work
- the EE department also puts out a small press release
- Aravindh Kumar's IEDM paper on alloyed In/Au contacts to MoS2 is covered by IEEE Spectrum (2021)
- Koosha Nassiri Nazif's work on flexible high-specific-power solar cells is covered by (2021-22)
- the Stanford Report, IEEE Spectrum, PV Magazine, Forbes, MRS Bulletin, and PhysicsWorld
- also in Interesting Engineering, CleanTechnica, Futurity, Anthropocene, Freethink, TechXplore, All about Circuits, 7Zine (French), Basic Thinking (German), Rinnovanili (Italian), Revista Nuve (Spanish)
- Crystal Nattoo is interviewed in a Stanford Report article about underrepresented groups in STEM (2021)
- Eric Pop is elevated to IEEE Fellow for "contributions to phase change memory, and to the thermal science of nanomaterials and nanoscale transistors" (2021)
- Alwin Daus receives the AVS Nanoscale Science and Technology Division (NSTD) Early Career Award (2021)
- Asir Khan's paper on flexible phase-change memory is covered in a Stanford/Precourt press release (2021)
- very good IEEE Spectrum article: This Memory Tech is Better when It's Bendy
- other good stories at Forbes, C&EN (Flexible Memory Uses Less Power) and at ScienceLine
- additional coverage from EE Times, Physics World, Ars Technica, and tom'sHARDWARE, and Stanford EE
- also picked up by EurekAlert!, SCIENMAG, TechXplore, eurasiareview, MIRAGE News, The Hack Posts, NEWSBREAK, TechnoSports, MINNEWS, Aroged, Insider Voice, California18, sciencesprings, Hardware Upgrade (in Italian), and some social media posts
- Eric Pop is quoted in a Wired article about flexible Arm processors (2021)
- Alwin Daus' work on flexible sub-100 nm transistors is covered in a Stanford press release (2021)
- Our APL paper on carbon nanotube thermoelectrics is covered in an AIP press release (2021):
- "Nontoxic, Flexible Energy Converters Could Power Wearable Devices"
- also covered by ScienceDaily, EurekAlert, and Phys.org
- Isha Datye wins one of the Best Paper Awards at the 2020 Virtual MRS Spring/Fall 2020 Meeting
- her talk was titled "Improving the Electrical Performance of MoS2 Transistors Using Tensile Strain"
- Stephanie Bohaichuk is selected as one of the Rising Stars 2020 at the UC Berkeley location of this workshop
- Alwin Daus and Koosha Nazif win best poster award at the eWEAR symposium (2020)
- their poster was titled "Flexible Ultra-thin Electronics and Solar Cells for Self-powered Wearable Systems"
- Connor McClellan and Connor Bailey win the best-poster award at the annual JUMP-ASCENT review (2019)
- their poster was titled "Towards BEOL Compatible 2D Semiconductor Transistors"
- Sam Vaziri and Eilam Yalon's ultrathin heat shield work is highlighted in a Stanford press release (2019)
- the story is covered by Nature News, New Atlas, Phys.org, ScienceAlert, AzoNano, and XinhuaNet
- also showing up on SlashDot, ScienceHook, InterestingEngineering
- Eric Pop is interviewed by the People Behind the Science podcast (2019)
- Eric Pop participates in a Stanford Let's Have an Awesome Time Doing Science Workshop (2019)
- Aditya Sood's ballistic phonon study is highlighted in a story by Physics World (2019)
- Connor McClellan is one of two SRC students selected for recognition at the SEMI/ISS conference (2019)
- Eric Pop is named among the world's Highly Cited Researchers for 2018 by Web of Science
- Aditya Sood's thermal transistor paper is highlighted in a Stanford press release (2018)
- the story is also covered by UC Davis Egghead News
- and then picked up by Phys.org, Nanowerk, and ECN Electronic Component News
- Connor McClellan wins the Best Presentation Award at the SRC TechCon Conference (2018)
- Stephanie Bohaichuk wins the Best Poster Award at the Device Research Conference (2018)
- Michelle Chen wins the MRS Spring 2018 Best Presentation Award in Symposium NM11 (2018)
- Eric Pop is quoted in a Chemistry World story about materials beyond silicon (2018)
- Connor McClellan wins the Best Paper in Session Award at the SRC TechCon Conference (2017)
- Michal's paper on HfSe2 transistors with native HfO2 oxides is highlighted in a Stanford press release (2017)
- the story is also covered by IEEE Spectrum, Phys.org, and Chemistry World
- also by ZDNet, ScienceDaily, ECNMag, PowerElectronics, and The Inquirer
- Alex and Saurabh receive the Best Conference Paper Award at the IEEE NANO 2017 conference
- Kirby receives the First-Place Student Presentation Prize at the EDISON'20 conference, for his work titled "High-field transport and velocity saturation in CVD monolayer MoS2" (2017)
- Eric Pop is quoted in a IEEE Spectrum article about the most complex MoS2 microchip to date (2017)
- Eric Pop's invited talk at IEDM on the limits of phase-change memory technology (as led by Feng Xiong and Eilam Yalon) is covered in a thoughtful blog at EE Times (2017)
- Chris English's presentation of ~10 nm scale MoS2 transistors at IEDM is covered by IEEE Spectrum (2016)
- Kirby Smithe's study of large-area synthetic monolayer MoS2 is highlighted in a Stanford press release, including the infamous nano-Trump and nano-Clinton images (2016)
- the story is also covered by ScienceBlog, AzoNano, LiveScience, and in the German press
- naturally, this kind of stuff also makes its way onto Twitter
- Group alumnus Feng Xiong joins the ECE faculty at University of Pittsburgh (2016)
- Eric Pop is named on the Most Cited Researchers List in Electrical Engineering by Elsevier (2016)
- Isha Datye and Alex Gabourie win Best Poster Award at the Device Research Conference (2016)
- Ning Wang wins Best Paper in Session Award at the SRC TechCon Conference (2016)
- Our N3XT collaboration on monolithic 3D electronics is announced in a Stanford press release (2015)
- Our collaboration with Prof. P. Wong on phase change memory with graphene electrodes is highlighted (2015)
- Zuanyi Li wins the Chinese government award for students studying abroad (2015)
- Our collaboration with Prof. Lyding at UIUC is highlighted in a press release (2015)
- Kyle's work on mapping heating at graphene grain boundaries is highlighted by nanotechweb (2014)
- Science magazine published an article about PIs moving labs between Universities, featuring our group (2014)
- Chris English wins Best Paper in Session Award at the SRC TechCon Conference (2014)
- Feng's Gold Graduate Student Award at MRS-2014 is highlighted in a press release at UIUC (2014)
- Our collaboration on nanosoldering carbon nanotube junctions is highlighted in a UIUC press release (2013)
- Enrique and Ashkan's graphene oscillators with Poli Milano are highlighted by nanotechweb (2013)
- Ashkan, Josh and Chris' collaboration on nanowire growth on graphene is in a UIUC press article (2013)
- the story is also covered by ScienceDaily, PhysOrg, and other outlets
- Andrey Serov's work on graphene grain boundaries is highlighted by nanotechweb (2013)
- Josh, David and Zhun-Yong's work on graphene grain boundaries in a Beckman news story (2013)
- the story is also covered by ScienceDaily
- Josh Wood receives Silver Prize at 2012 TSMC outstanding student research awards (2012)
- An Economist article (2012) highlights our phase-change memory work from 2011.
- Ashkan Behnam and Austin Lyons' graphene nanoribbon interconnect study is highlighted by nanotechweb (2012)
- the story is also featured in the "Best of 2012" collection of articles on nanotechweb.org
- Feng Xiong wins Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship (MF3) and Yee Memorial Fund Fellowship (2012)
- Ashkan Behnam and Enrique Carrion's graphene inverter collaboration with Politecnico di Milano Como (Roman Sordan group) is highlighted (2012):
- on nanotechweb and on PhysicsWorld
- Eric Pop comments in an Ars Technica article about sub-nanosecond phase-change memory (2012)
- Eric Pop comments in an IEEE Spectrum article on silicon-based memristive devices (2012)
- Josh Wood wins Beckman Graduate Fellowship (2012)
- Dave Estrada's recent work on graphene sensors is highlighted (2012):
- CVD graphene sensors (Adv Mat): University Press Release, ScienceDaily, PhysOrg, NanoWerk
- flaky graphene sensors (Appl Phys Lett): AIP Physics News Highlights, PhysOrg, ScienceDaily
- Feng Xiong receives Gold Prize at 2011 TSMC outstanding student research awards (2011)
- ECE department news story, also highligthing Feng's TECHCON (2011) best-in-session award
- Josh Wood's Nano Letters article on graphene growth in a University press-release (2011)
- nice article by SPIE Newsroom
- well-written coverage at the MRS.org web site and MRS-360 newsletter
- also on Azom.com / e! Science News / Nanowerk News / Red Orbit / Science Codex / Science Daily
- Eric Pop gives an interview on his recent appointment as Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study (2011)
- Eric Pop is interviewed by investment website Seeking Alpha (2011)
- Albert Liao gives an interview on his work at TECHCON 2011
- Eric Pop comments in a Technology Review article on memory work from IBM (2011)
- Eric Pop comments in an IEEE Spectrum article on memory work similar to ours (2011)
- Feng Xiong wins Beckman Graduate Fellowship (2011)
- Eric Pop is interviewed in a technology article for the Christian Science Monitor (2011)
- Kyle Grosse's measurement of graphene contact thermoelectrics in a University press-release (2011)
- David Estrada frying eggs on a CPU at the Boys and Girls Club, on local TV station WCIA News (2011)
- also coverage by the Daily Illini and the College of Engineering news
- Feng Xiong's Science magazine article on ultra-low power memory in a University press-release (2011)
- well-written article at Technology Review
- research highlight in Nature Nanotechnology
- selected for the cover image of Science magazine (Apr 29, 2011 issue)
- in the IEEE Spectrum (#1) and again in the IEEE Spectrum (#2)
- in-depth analysis at EE|Times
- radio interview with Eric Pop on NAE radio WTOP (Washington DC)
- on nanotechweb / PhysicsWorld / TechNewsWorld / BSN and Fox News
- generating some buzz on the popular sites Engadget and Slashdot
- more coverage in the Telegraph, ScienceDaily, Times of India, R&D Magazine
- Austin Lyons' conference presentation in Spain highlighted in local newspaper (2011)
- David Estrada's three recent awards are featured on the ECE web site (2011)
- Myung-Ho Bae's article is selected as the cover page of Nano Letters, Dec 2010 issue
- Creating a carbon-based electronics future (Beckman News article on research in our lab, 2010)
- Eric Pop receives Presidential Early Career (PECASE) award from the White House (2010)
- White House press release
- in Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette
- article in the Dailly Illini
- on Pres. Mike Hogan's blog
- in Romanian Ziarul Timpul ("The Times"), also as PDF; more here, here, here and as video
- Albert Liao receives 2010 TSMC outstanding student research award (2010)
- Eric Pop receives Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator award (2010)
- Eric Pop receives NSF CAREER award (2010)
- David Estrada's article is highlighted: Are DC measurements of nanotubes trustworthy? (2010)
- Eric Pop receives Air Force (AFOSR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) award (2009)
- Albert Liao receives NRI Hans J. Coufal fellowship (2009)
- Sumit Dutta receives NASA fellowship (2009)
- also profiled in the News India Times
- Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) interviews Eric Pop (2009)
- Albert Liao's article is highlighted: nanotube avalanche doubles current (2009)
- also on PhysOrg, ScienceDaily, UPI, AzoNano, RedOrbit
- Eric Pop receives DARPA Young Faculty Award (2008)
- Eric Pop's article is highlighted: Caution about nanotube contacts (2008)
- Eric Pop & Prof. Ken Goodson: Engineers take the temperature of new transistor designs (2006)
- Eric Pop's article is highlighted: Measuring nanotubes' conductivity (2005)
updated June 2024