Solid-State Electronics

The Solid-State Electronics area (SSE) within Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) focuses on the development and improvement of electronic, optoelectronic and micro- and nano-electromechanical devices for a variety of applications. Device examples include transistors for nano-CMOS and post-CMOS logic, analog, and mix-signal applications; photodetectors, photodiodes and lasers, and optical interconnects for short- and long-range communication; chemical and biological sensors for medical and defense applications; and solar cells. Material systems include unstrained and strained "conventional" column IV and III-V semiconductors, organics and polymers, and novel materials such as graphene, as well as appropriate insulators such as silicon dioxide and high-dielectric-permittivity ("high-k") materials.

Many of the research laboratories are housed on the J. J. Pickle Research Campus within the Microelectronics Research Center (MRC) which has 14,000 square feet of class 100 clean room facilities, additional lab space and office space for faculty, staff and students.