Lecture Series Archive

Abstract - We live in extremely exciting times, often identified as age of the fourth industrial revolution. With electrification at every level, we are witnessing the most significant transformation of transportation since the internal combustion engine. Renewable energy is now a reality. Robotics and autonomous vehicles are upon us. This new world needs new physical electronics solutions with new materials, devices and heterogeneous integration to drive these innovations to their full potential. Widebandgap (WBG) semiconductors present a pathway to enable much of these electronics with higher efficiency and newer functionalities. Semiconductor devices with higher power density have unprecedented value in both power and high frequency electronics. Reducing conversion losses helps minimizing consumption of limited resources; it simultaneously enables new compact solutions, the basis for offering increased power conversion performance at reduced system cost. GaN has also opened the door to other ultrawide bandgap materials such as Diamond, Aluminum Nitride and Gallium Oxide.

Dr. Srabanti Chowdhury is an Associate Prof. of EE at Stanford University and holds an adjunct faculty position at UC Davis. She received her M.S and PhD in EE UC Santa Barbara. She received the DARPA Young Faculty Award, NSF CAREER and AFOSR Young Investigator Program (YIP) in 2015. In 2016 she received the Young Scientist award at the International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors (ISCS). She serves as the member of two committees under IEEE Electron Device Society. She has served the IEEE International Devices Meeting (IEDM) technical sub committee Electron served the IEEE International Electron on Power Devices & Compound Semiconductor and High Speed Devices (PC) subcommittee in 2016 and 2017. She was the PC subcommittee chair for IEDM-2018, and continues to serve the IEDM executive committee for 2019. She is a senior member of IEEE.

Abstract - Metamaterials was once synonymous with ‘paradigm shift’ and ‘future technology’. In the first decade of the 21st century, metamaterials were sought to solve a large number of problems in microwaves and optics, and rapidly advance industrial, scientific, medical, and military technologies. Yet very few of the initial expectations have come to fruition. This lack of concrete applications led some critics to label metamaterials as an “unearned irony of the improperly educated postmodern crowd”. This talk sheds some light on the origin behind the initial enthusiasm and the followed disappointment in metamaterial research. The successor of bulk metamaterials, namely metasurfaces, is introduced and the underlying electromagnetic-metasurface interactions are analyzed. A detailed insight is given into metasurface engineering and several realizable applications. An overview of metasurface engineering future roadmap is laid out with pointers to some of the available exciting research and development opportunities.

Dr. Mohamed Salem is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Science at Sonoma State University. He received his Ph.D. from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ in2009. Prior to joining Sonoma State University, he was a lecturer with the University of Idaho, Moscow, ID. He has several years of postdoctoral experience with Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwwal, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Salem's research focuses on electromagnetic propagation and scattering phenomena and wave-matter interaction. He is particularly interested in metasurface application in wavefront shaping and unconventional waves and beams, such as localized waves.