MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

Research Interests

• Defects in semiconductors;
• Heteroepitaxial growth of electronic materials;
• Diffraction theory;
• Transmission electron microscopy and its applications in materials science;
• Fiber-reinforced composites;
• Synthetic growth of diamond;
• Orientation relationship in bicrystals and fundamentals of epitaxy.

Current Projects

Wide-Bandgap Semiconductor Thin Film Epitaxy Using Low-Pressure Metal-Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (C. Li, P. Pirouz)

Failure Analysis of SiC Pressure Sensors (C. Li, P. Pirouz)

Characterization of Lattice Defects in SiC Bulk and Epilayer Materials Used in the Fabrication of High-Performance Electronic Devices (K. Speer, P. Pirouz)