ECE Materials Research

Scott Barker, professor of electrical and computer engineering, is associate dean for academic affairs for UVA's School of Engineering. His research interests include applying MEMS and micromachining techniques to the development of millimeter-wave and terahertz circuits and components.

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Avik Ghosh, professor of electrical and computer engineering and professor of physics, leads the Virginia nano-computing research group to understand non-equilibrium properties of nano-scale material structures using high performance computational resources.

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Jon Ihlefeld, associate professor of materials science and engineering and electrical and computer engineering, leads the multifunctional thin film group in the study of process-structure-property relations in ferroelectric, dielectric, and ion-conducting oxides.

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Kyusang Lee, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and materials science and engineering, leads the thin-film device lab in the use of organic and inorganic materials in optoelectronic devices, with a particular emphasis on applications for solar energy conversion and imaging.

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Arthur W. Lichtenberger is a research professor in electrical and computer engineering and director of UVA's microfabrication laboratories. His group investigates superconducting materials and microfabrication technologies for new terahertz devices, circuits and metrology.

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Nathan Swami, professor of electrical and computer engineering, leads research in signaling at the nano-bio interface. His group develops electrically functional microfluidic devices and instrumentation for label-free manipulation, sorting and cytometry of biosystems.

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Robert Weikle, professor of electrical and computer engineering, leads the far-Infrared and Terahertz research lab in millimeter and submillimeter-wave device characterization, circuit design, prototyping and metrology.

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Mona Zebarjadi, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and materials science and engineering, leads the Energy Science and Nanotechnology Laboratory, which provides efficient and reliable solid state devices to convert waste heat and solar energy to usable electrical energy.

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