ICORLAB

is ready for the 2024-2025 academic year.

Congratulations to University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Illinois ECE ICORLABers Mr. Zhuoran Han and Mr. Jaekwon Lee for the National Inventors Hall of Fame award.

Thanks to the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) Program for the opportunity, and Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) and II-VI FOUNDATION for the funding, and our vendor partners Great Lakes Crystal Technologies and DIAMFAB for valuable support.
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A RELIABLE SWITCH FOR A CARBON-NEUTRAL ELECTRIC GRID: Increased energy demand and climate change cause power outages, disrupting daily lives and costing American households $150 billion annually. Photoconductive Semiconductor Switches (PCSS) promise to address complex challenges faced by the aging U.S. power grid and transform it into a more reliable and resilient grid. The diamond-based PCSS technology allows for faster recovery from outages and improves grid stability with rapid switching, high-voltage capabilities and exceptional reliability, while reducing reliance on fossil fuels, enabling wider adoption of renewable sources and advancing toward net-zero emissions.
https://youtu.be/ihZ9oTLlns0?feature=shared

Congratulations to the Graduate Runner-Up of the 2024 Collegiate Inventors Competition®, Photoconductive Semiconductor Switch (PCSS)! University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Congratulations to Zhuoran Han and professor Can Bayram on earning a spot on the TOP DOWNLOADED list for their paper "Diamond p-Type Lateral Schottky Barrier Diodes With High Breakdown Voltage (4612 V at 0.01 mA/Mm)" on IEEE EDL.

READ THE PAPER: https://buff.ly/4eS1ciU

Check out these 19 collegiate inventors who are among the most creative young innovators in the country! Meet the Finalists of the 2024 Collegiate Inventors Competition® and learn how each team is striving to make a difference. Don't miss your chance to participate by voting for the People’s Choice Award! https://bit.ly/3Bj9LVs #CIC2024 #YoungInventors #MakingADifference

Diamond-based semiconductors for a faster, more resilient power grid Diamond-based semiconductors for a faster, more resilient power grid

Diamond Electronics Suit Green Power Grids Carbon’s crystalline form works well with renewables’ high voltages and currents

Mind the (green) gap Mind the (green) gap

FRONT COVER of Applied Physics Letters’ New Year’s issue: Going green with cubic III-nitrides shows promise for filling the green gap in solid-state lighting & enabling integrated photonics.

Cubic III-nitrides achieve 32% of internal quantum efficiency in the green, which is comparable to hexagonal active layers; using only 16 % of indium content, which is much lower than hexagonal ones.

That's one step towards the buildings goal and a giant leap for photonics and electronics.

Thanks to our sponsors. ICORLAB Illinois ECE The Grainger College of Engineering University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) Office of Naval Research

Appl. Phys. Lett. 124, 011101 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0179477
DOI: 10.1063/5.0179477

Check out a new paper by Zhouran Han and Can Bayram of Illinois PSM | University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign on diamond p-type lateral Schottky barrier diodes with high breakdown voltage (4612 V at 0.01 mA/mm). Learn more and read the journal: bit.ly/3Rdgx4X

Congratulations to Professor Can Bayram and his Ph.D. candidate, Zhuoran Han for gaining the #1 spot at IEEE for their paper "Diamond P-Type Lateral Schottky Barrier Diodes With High Breakdown Voltage (4612 V At 0.01 MA/Mm)" in IEEE Electron Device Letters!

PAPER LINK: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10236581

Next generation semiconductors: Diamond device shows highest breakdown voltage Next generation semiconductors: Diamond device shows highest breakdown voltage