The wide bandgap
semiconductors, also known as the third-generation semiconductors, have
enormous potentials to revolutionize almost every industry on the planet and in
space. Because of the unique and superior properties, they can be made in
ultra-efficient, ultra-sensitive and ultra-reliable optical and electronic
devices.
Despite being in the early
phrase of development and commercialization, the third-generation semiconductors
have already resulted in industries worth of hundreds of billions USD and creating
numerous jobs, as well as 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics. Opening your phone,
computers and anything using electricity, you will likely find plenty of them. More
potentials are to be unlocked by smart and hard-working researchers such as
you.
This VSRP project is offered by the Advanced
Semiconductor Laboratory, a world-leading laboratory with state-of-the-art
facilities in the third-generation semiconductor research. The VSRP students
will have the opportunity to learn the latest materials, devices, and physics
of the third-generation semiconductor as well as the combination with other
exciting things such as 2D materials and quantum photonics. More importantly,
every VSRP student will have his/her own project to solve a key problem.
The project needs 4-6 months
to be completed. It is going to be an exciting period with intense training and
research work both theoretically and experimentally. Successful students can
likely publish their results in prestigious scientific venues.