QSL News

Date	Event
June, 2009	Congratulations on Zheng Yang on his PhD graduation
May 17-22, 2009	Prof. Jianlin Liu co-organizes the Sixth International Conference on Silicon Epitaxy and Heterostructures (ICSI-6), together with Professor Ya-Hong Xie of UCLA and Dr. Matthias Bauer of ASM, Inc. Dr. Liu serves as technical program and publication chair. ICSI-6 is held at Aryes Hotel, Manhattan Beach, Los Angeles, May 17-22, 2009. ICSI conference is the premier international conference in Si-based heterostrucures and devices. The meeting locations rotate between Asia, Europe and America and were held in the past in: Miyagi (Japan 99), Strasbourg (France 01), Santa Fe (NM, USA 03), Awai Island (Japan 05), Marseille (France 07). The ICSI-6 conference topics are: Growth, characterization and modeling of Si and group IV (C, Si, Ge, Sn) based thin film materials including research on various interfaces on Si; Formation and characterization of group IV based nanostructures including quantum dots, nanowires and self-assembly processes; Process technologies for group IV based heterostructures including doping, source/drain and channel engineering as well as strained Si; Electronic properties and device applications such as transistors and nano-structured devices; Optical properties and device applications including solar cells of Si and Ge based heterostructures; Germanium based semiconductors... from materials to devices; Si(Ge)-based materials growth and device fabrication for spintronics such as spin polarized electron injection, transport, and manipulation, as well as other electron spin based phenomena; Growth, characterization and applications of epitaxial (high-k) dielectric materials; Emerging technologies: epitaxial graphene film and III-V on Si growth and characterization. Our group members Huimei Zhou, Bei Li, Mario Olmedo, Ning Zhan, and Jingjian Ren attend and help the conference while Huimei, Bei, and Mario also present our research in Si-based nonvolatile memories by oral and poster presentations.
December, 2008	Sheng Chu’s Applied Physics Letters paper (APL 93, 181106(2008) on “Electrically pumped ultraviolet ZnO diode lasers on Si” is among the top 20 (placed the 2^nd) most downloaded papers of Applied Physics Letters in November 2008. The link is here: http://apl.aip.org/dbt/most_downloaded.jsp?KEY=APPLAB&Year=2008&Month=11&agg=md
December, 2008	Our ZnO pn-junction laser paper (APL 93, 181106(2008) which was published on Nov 3 is in the news at Laser Focus World.
May, 2008	Sheng Chu’s Applied Physics Letters paper (APL 92, 152103(2008)) on “Sb-doped p-ZnO/Ga-doped n-ZnO homojunction ultraviolet light emitting diodes” is in the top 20 (Placed the 7^th) most downloaded papers of Applied Physics Letters in April 2008. The link is here: http://apl.aip.org/dbt/most_downloaded.jsp?KEY=APPLAB&Year=2008&Month=4&agg=md
December, 2007	Congratulations on Leela Mandalapu for her successful PhD defense
March, 2007	Congratulations to Yan Zhu on her PhD graduation.
December, 2006	Congratulations to Faxian Xiu on his graduation as the first PhD of the group.
October, 2006	Yan Zhu won Best in Session Award at the SRC Student Symposium 2006. The SRC Student Symposium is held to provide a student/industry networking event with outstanding technical presentations by students, ample opportunities for discussing the research presented, and a lot of interaction between students and industry participants. Only those SRC/MARCO supported graduate students who are within one year of their PhD graduation are eligible for participating this event. More than 130 PhD students presented their research at this Symposium this year. The event was held at the Embassy Suites in Cary, North Carolina, on October 9th and 10th. The event was sponsored by eight SRC member companies: AMD, Applied Materials, Freescale, IBM, Intel, Mentor Graphics, Novellus, and Texas Instruments. Yan Zhu won the sole Best in Session Award for her paper entitled "Self-aligned Silicide/Si Hetero-Nanocrystal Floating Gate Nonvolatile Memory”. This research, which is supported by MARCO center on FENA has demonstrated a novel memory device that can be used to replace flash memory toward CMOS ultimate limit. SRC and MARCO secured websites have announced this information.
October, 2005	Faxian Xiu won 3^rd place Best Poster Award in the 7^th Bourns College of Engineering Industry Day graduate student poster competition. His poster is titled “Sb-doped p-type ZnO thin films by molecular beam epitaxy”. More than 60 graduate students across the college presented their research in this annual event.
April 24, 2004	Ultimate Vacuum Services donated ECR plasma source to the Lab
March 25, 2004	The first Nanocrystal Flash Memory fabricated and tested in the group history
August, 2003	Professor and Chair King-Ning Tu of UCLA Materials Science and Engineering Department donated MBE components worth $200K to the Lab
March, 2003	APA Optics, MN donated Perkin Elmer 425B MBE system to the Lab