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At the annual ECE Banquet, held Friday May 4th 2018, NETlab member Adithya Kommini was honored with an “Outstanding Teaching Assistant” award from the department. Congratulations Adithya!

At the annual ECE Banquet, held Friday May 4th 2018, NETlab member Adithya Kommini was honored with an “Outstanding Teaching Assistant” award from the department. Congratulations Adithya!

Prof. Zlatan Aksamija was recently quoted in a Science News story about why scientists are studying how 2-D materials such as graphene behave at high temperatures. In the February 13 edition of Science News, Aksamija said that commonly used silicon-based electronics are “hitting a brick wall” regarding how much smaller they can be manufactured, and that 2-D materials could be ideal for constructing the next generation of tiny devices:

 http://ece.umass.edu/news/aksamija-comments-prominent-science-news-magazine

Prof. Zlatan Aksamija was recently quoted in a Science News story about why scientists are studying how 2-D materials such as graphene behave at high temperatures. In the February 13 edition of Science News, Aksamija said that commonly used silicon-based electronics are “hitting a brick wall” regarding how much smaller they can be manufactured, and that 2-D materials could be ideal for constructing the next generation of tiny devices:

 http://ece.umass.edu/news/aksamija-comments-prominent-science-news-magazine

Cameron and NETlab alum Ela’s work on the thermal boundary conductance between van der Waals atomic layers and substrates, with impact on device applications on graphene, MoS2 and related materials, was included in Highlights of 2017, section on Energy at the Nanoscale: http://iopscience.iop.org/journal/0957-4484/page/Highlights%202017

Our article will be free to read throughout 2018, offering unlimited access to the work.

Cameron and NETlab alum Ela’s work on the thermal boundary conductance between van der Waals atomic layers and substrates, with impact on device applications on graphene, MoS2 and related materials, was included in Highlights of 2017, section on Energy at the Nanoscale: http://iopscience.iop.org/journal/0957-4484/page/Highlights%202017

Our article will be free to read throughout 2018, offering unlimited access to the work.

Adithya’s recent work on “Thermoelectric Properties of Periodic Quantum Structures in the Wigner-Rode Formalism” has been accepted for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. The article is available here: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/aaa110

The UMass College of Engineering news office has written a nice article about our recent paper on graphene/MoS2 interfaces, published in Scientific Reports. Here is a link to the news article: http://engineering.umass.edu/news/aksamija-and-his-graduate-students-publish-paper-scientific-reports