POWERlab Highlights
2021 – IEEE ISPSD Charitat Award – awarded to Luca Nela for the second year in a row, as the first author and presenter of the best paper at the International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs.
2021 – Nature electronics paper: Our paper on multichannel nanowire power devices was published in Nature electronics
2020 – Nature paper: Our paper on embedded microchannel cooling was published in Nature and featured in many news outlets:
Scientific American – Le Figaro – Le Temps – NRC – IEEE Spectrum – New Scientist – Nature podcast – Olhar Digital – RTS
2020 – Nature paper: Our work on nanoplasma devices for ultra-fast electronics published in Nature was featured in Nature podcast [link]
2020 – ECCE-Asia best paper award – awarded to Armin Jafari for the best paper at the IEEE 9th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference (IPEMC2020 ECCE Asia)
2020 – University Latsis Prize – awarded to Elison Matioli for the development of Nanoscale devices for large-scale challenges: from efficient power electronics to bridging the terahertz gap
2020 – Best Doctoral Thesis Distinction (EDMI) – awarded to Jun Ma for the best PhD thesis in 2020 in the EDMI doctoral program
2020 – Gilbert Hausmann prize – awarded to Kerim Yildirim for the best master thesis in the fields of physics, electrical and mechanical engineering at EPFL.
2020 – Therminic best paper award – awarded to Remco van Erp at the 2020 International Workshop on Thermal Investigations of ICs and Systems (Therminic).
2020 – IEEE ISPSD Charitat Award – awarded to Luca Nela, as the first author and presenter of the best paper at the International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs.
2020 – IEEE iTherm best paper award – awarded to Remco van Erp at the 2020 IEEE Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems conference.
2020 – Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions fellowship (Horizon 2020) – awarded to Georgios Kampitsis to move to Imperial College in the UK.
2019 – IEEE APEC 2019 best presentation award – awarded to Remco van Erp at the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference 2019, CA, USA
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Impact of Embedded Liquid Cooling on the Electrical Characteristics of GaN-on-Si Power Transistors
IEEE Electron Device Letters. 2021-09-20. DOI : 10.1109/LED.2021.3114056.Seed Dibbling Method for the Grow of High-Quality Diamond on GaN
Acs Applied Materials & Interfaces. 2021-09-15. Vol. 13, num. 36, p. 43516-43523. DOI : 10.1021/acsami.1c08761.p-NiO junction termination extensions for GaN power devices
Applied Physics Express. 2021-07-01. Vol. 14, num. 7, p. 071006. DOI : 10.35848/1882-0786/ac09ff.Performance of GaN Power Devices for Cryogenic Applications Down to 4.2 K
Ieee Transactions On Power Electronics. 2021-07-01. Vol. 36, num. 7, p. 7412-7416. DOI : 10.1109/TPEL.2020.3047466.High-Performance Enhancement-Mode AlGaN/GaN Multi-Channel Power Transistors
2021-06-15. 33rd International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs (ISPSD), Nagoya, Japan, May 30-Jun 03, 2021. p. 143-146. DOI : 10.23919/ISPSD50666.2021.9452238.Funding
