News at Kummel Lab

     2009

• Both Sarah and Jian won 2009 Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Techcon Best Paper in Session Award. (Sep. 2009)

• Erik and Tobin join our lab. (Sep. 2009)

• Our III-V MOSFETs Research is on Cover of MRS Bulletin. (Aug. 2009)

• Jian and Wil's poster was nominated for Outstanding Poster Awards in 2009 MRS Spring Meeting (Apr. 2009)

• Jian won 2009 Materials Research Society Graduate Student Silver Award (Apr. 2009)

• Jian won 2008 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad (Mar. 2009)

• Wil and Jian's poster "Surface Pinning Study of In₂O on InGaAs Surface" won Honorable Mention in UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering Research Expo 2009 (Feb. 2009)

• Wil won the Young Scientist Award at the PCSI-36. Congratulations! (Jan. 2009)

• Ngoc's paper was accepted by J. Chem. Phys. in less than three weeks (Jan. 2009)

     2008

• Jian won AVS Graduate Research Award (Oct. 2008)

• Congratulations to Dr. Jeongwon on passing his PhD defense! (June 2008)

• Jeongwon's paper "Bilayer processing for enhanced organic-electrode contact in ultrathin bottom contact organic transistors" was published in Appl. Phys. Lett. (May 2008)

• Jian won Intel Foundation 2008-09 PhD Fellowship Award (May, 2008)

• Jian won 2008 Materials Research Society Graduate Student Silver Award (Mar. 2008)

• A.C. Kummel, J. Clemens and T. Song "Method to Passivate Group III Rich Surface for ALD Deposition of Unpinned Oxide/Compound Semiconductor Interfaces" provisional patent filed (Feb. 2008)

• A.C. Kummel, J. Shen, D.L. Winn and T. Song "Group III Rich Surface for Formation of Unpinned Oxide/Compound Semiconductor Interfaces", provisional patent filed (Feb. 2008)

• Tao Song and Jian Shen won the Young Scientist Award at the PCSI-35 (Jan. 2008)

      2007

• Ngoc's paper "A density functional theory study on the binding of NO onto FePc films" was published in J. Chem. Phys. (Dec. 2007)

• Sarah and Ngoc's paper "Dynamics of analyte binding onto a metallophthalocyanine: NO/FePc" was published in J. Chem. Phys. (Dec. 2007)

• Darby's paper "Electronic properties of adsorbates on GaAs(001)-c(2x8)/(2x4) " was accepted in J. Chem. Phys. (Aug. 2007)

• Jim and Wilhelm join our lab. (Aug. 2007)

• Darby Winn and Alex Feldman wedding, Congratulations...! (June 23rd, 2007)

• Congratulations to Dr. Richard D. Yang on passing his PhD defense! (June 2007)

• Congratulations to Dr. Tyler J. Grassman on passing his PhD defense! (May 2007)

• Congratulations to Dr. Darby L. Winn on passing her PhD defense! (May 2007)

• Jon passed his third year PhD exam, Congratulations! (May 2007)

• A.C. Kummel, R.D. Yang, W.C. Trogler and T. Gredig "Ultra-thin organic TFT chemical sensor, making thereof, and sensing method", provisional patent filed (May 2007).

• Richard's paper on "Ultrathin organic transistors for chemical sensing" was accepted in Appl. Phys. Lett. (May 2007)

• Undergrads Byron Ho and Vince So won Outstanding Poster awards for their poster “Bluetooth-enabled Handheld Sensing Package with Organic Transistors.” in UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering EUReKA event. (Feb. 2007)

• Darby Winn 's paper on "Direct and indirect causes of Fermi level pinning at the SiO/GaAs interface." was published in J. Chem. Phys. (Feb. 2007)

• Joon Sung Lee joins our lab. (Jan. 2007)

• Darby Winn won the Young Scientist Award at the PCSI-34, Congratulations! (Jan. 2007)