Invention Description Gallium Nitride (GaN) is a wide bandgap semiconductor that has gained significant attention in recent years specifically for use in RF and power electronics due to its excellent material properties and better performance compared to traditional silicon (Si) devices. GaN based lateral high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs)...

Perovskite materials, especially hybrid metal halide perovskite (MHP), have garnered significant attention because of their potential in the field of solar cells. However, the further development of perovskite materials has been plagued by their stability challenges. Because of the “soft” ionic nature of the lattice while being brittle and...

The industry of perovskite materials has been highly sought out for next generation technology and devices. Perovskite thin films have been used in a large array of applications including light-emitting diodes (LEDs), solar cells, lasers and photodetectors. However, within recent years the widely existing defects (from significant intrinsic point defects...

-collapse: collapse; } Solid-state nanopores are attractive because of their low cost and broad potential utility from single-molecule bioanalytical sensing to diagnostics and sequencing of DNA and protein molecules. Unfortunately, conventional use of conductive silicon substrates results in high capacitive noise, significantly limiting sensing accuracy...

Background Aluminum nitride (AlN) has been studied in recent years as an ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor for next-generation high-voltage and high-temperature electronics. The ultra-wide bandgap and large critical breakdown of AlN enables these applications, but the development of AlN-based electronic devices faces many challenges. The controllable...

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have revolutionized genomics research because they enable faster, cheaper and accurate decoding of nucleotide sequences. This has resulted in breakthroughs in diagnostics, disease risk assessment, personalized medicines, screening and more. However, despite all the NGS-related advancements that have been...

Inverters are devices typically used in solar power generation systems to convert electric current to a more useful type, but are prone to failure and are the main cause of malfunction in solar power systems. Using transformer-less (TL) inverters is a desirable alternative because of their higher efficiency, lower size, and lower cost. However, TL inverters...

Background Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been used in many different applications in recent years for pattern recognition and data mining, and are widely considered to be the dominant algorithmic framework in machine learning. However, DNNs are computationally and energetically intensive algorithms that perform billions of floating-point operations...

Background Data converters act as gatekeepers between analog and digital formats, translating information between the physical world and computing devices. Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) specifically convert analog signals to digital numbers, where information can be processed, analyzed, and stored in digital format for human consumption. Many...

Background Electronic devices that use clocks (e.g., smartphones, cars, GPS) require stability of timing reference signals. For wireless and wireline communications applications, short-term clock stability is an important factor, and long-term stability is less of a concern due to periodic synchronizations between the radio nodes. Short-term clock...