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POWERlab Highlights
Luca Nela was selected for his outstanding thesis, New Technologies to Enhance the Figures-of-Merit of GaN Power Devices, which was supervised by Elison Matioli in the Power and Wide-band-gap Electronics Research lab (POWERlab) in the School of Engineering (STI).
This annual prize, awarded for the first time in 2022, is given to the author of the most outstanding PhD thesis in the field of Microsystems & Microelectronics, and constitutes the EDMI’s highest recognition. The award consists of a certificate and of a CHF 3,000 prize, jointly funded by the Institute of Electrical and Micro Engineering (IEM) and by STI. Congratulations Luca!
The EPFL School of Engineering’s Power and Wide-band-gap Electronics Research Laboratory (POWERlab), headed by professor Elison Matioli, has received the selective 2021 IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics Prize Letter Award, for their paper entitled High-Accuracy Calibration-Free Calorimeter for the Measurement of Low Power Losses authored by Armin Jafari et al. and published on IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL). Congratulations Armin and the entire team!
Vanadium oxide is well known to alter its atomic arrangement at high temperatures, and change from insulating to conducting behavior. In this paper, we show that its structure also carries memory, in the form of structural states rather than electronic. These states can be arbitrarily manipulated on short time scales and tracked beyond hours after excitation (exhibiting similar features to glasses). These glass-like functional devices provide a novel scheme for data storage and processing, and could offer a route to neuromorphic computation and multi-level memories. This work has just been published in nature electronics. Congratulations Mohammad and the entire team!
PhD Award given at the Swiss NanoConvention in 2021. Congratulations Luca!
The paper entitled “High-Performance Enhancement-Mode AlGaN/GaN Multi-Channel Power Transistors” presented by Luca Nela has received the Charitat Award at the 33rd International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs (ISPSD 2021), held in Nagoya, Japan. This is the second Charitat Award in a row for Luca. Congratulations!!!
Our paper on multichannel nanowire power devices was published in Nature electronics. Congratulations Luca and the entire team!
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
Congratulations Remco and the entire team!
Awarded to Armin Jafari for the best paper at the IEEE 9th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference (IPEMC2020 ECCE Asia). Congratulations Armin!
Awarded to Elison Matioli for the development of Nanoscale devices for large-scale challenges: from efficient power electronics to bridging the terahertz gap [link]
Awarded to Jun Ma for the best PhD thesis in 2020 in the EDMI doctoral program. Congratulations Jun!
Awarded to Kerim Yildirim for the best master thesis in the fields of physics, electrical and mechanical engineering at EPFL. Congratulations Kerim!
Awarded to Remco van Erp at the 2020 International Workshop on Thermal Investigations of ICs and Systems (Therminic). Congratulations Remco!
Awarded to Luca Nela, as the first author and presenter of the best paper at the International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs. Congratulations Luca!
Awarded to Remco van Erp at the 2020 IEEE Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems conference. Congratulations Remco!
Awarded to Georgios Kampitsis to move to Imperial College in the UK. Congratulations George!
Awarded to Remco van Erp at the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference 2019, CA, USA. Congratulations Remco!
Latest publications
GaN growth on ScAlMgO4 substrates via thermally-dewetted thin Al films
Japanese Journal Of Applied Physics. 2022-11-01. Vol. 61, num. 11, p. 118003. DOI : 10.35848/1347-4065/ac980f.Electrical control of glass-like dynamics in vanadium dioxide for data storage and processing
Nature Electronics. 2022-08-22. DOI : 10.1038/s41928-022-00812-z.Stable enhancement-mode operation in GaN transistor based on LiNiO junction tri-gate
Applied Physics Letters. 2022-08-01. Vol. 121, num. 5, p. 053501. DOI : 10.1063/5.0098052.Nanoplasma-based Millimiter-wave Modulators on a Single Metal Layer
IEEE Electron Device Letters. 2022-06-30. p. 1-1. DOI : 10.1109/LED.2022.3187456.A perspective on multi-channel technology for the next-generation of GaN power devices
Applied Physics Letters. 2022-05-09. Vol. 120, num. 19, p. 190501. DOI : 10.1063/5.0086978.Funding
Thank you to all funding sources that enable our research!