Duke ECE Hardware Startup Selected for Y Combinator
Researchers Tania Roy and Sanjeev Chauhan will take their retina-inspired semiconductor startup, Synapse Semiconductor, to Y Combinator this summer.
Nanoelectronic Materials & Devices
Strengthened by a historic investment from the family of Pierre R. Lamond, Duke ECE is home to a wide range of transformative research in semiconductors, nanoelectronics, and computer engineering: fields increasingly shaping how we live in a smarter society.
Structuring materials and particles at the tiniest of scales can imbue them with unique electronic, optical, or mechanical properties—engineers in Duke ECE are harnessing these attributes to enable transformative applications, from neuromorphic computing to environmentally friendly printed electronics. We are also working to create self-assembling electronic devices, and exploring the potential of novel electronic materials to enable next-generation chips, high-performance transistors, solar cells, photodetectors, and more.
Research Areas
- Laser evaporation technology
- Nanoscale transistors
- Nanoscale transport and interfaces
- Dynamic assembly of silicon particles
- Hybrid nanocomposites
- Nanomaterial-enabled electronic devices
- Computational and compressive sensing and measurement
- Nanofabrication
- Printed and thin-film electronics
- Heterogeneous integration
- Neuromorphic computing devices
- Atomic layer deposition and etching
- Quantum devices
Highlights
Chen Wins IEEE Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award
Award-winning publication provides a blueprint for chip design companies to train machine learning models that help detect lithography hotspot patterns in IC layouts before fabrication while protecting proprietary layout data.
Teaching at the Speed of Semiconductor Research
Aaron Franklin’s ECE 512 course on emerging nanoelectronic devices gives students a current look at the fast-changing world of semiconductor device research.
Associated Faculty
April Brown, Ph.D.
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Richard Fair, Ph.D.
Lord-Chandran Distinguished Professor of Engineering
Aaron Franklin, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. Distinguished Professor of ECE
Jeff Glass
Hogg Family Director of Engineering Management & Entrepreneurship, Professor of ECE
Nan Jokerst, Ph.D.
J. A. Jones Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Tania Roy, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Adrienne Stiff-Roberts, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Community-Based Innovation, Professor of ECE
Haozhe “Harry” Wang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Other Research Specialties
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