Core Faculty

Martin Brooke, Associate Professor, specializes in developing new analog and mixed signal integrated circuits for unconventional applications. His research is characterized by collaborative multi-investigator programs, resulting in significant hardware demonstrators.

April Brown, John Cocke Professor and Sr. Associate Dean for Research, specializes in the synthesis and design of nanostructures to microelectronic devices.

Chris Dwyer, Assistant Professor, specializes in DNA self-assembly, nanoscale circuit modeling and fabrication, and computer architecture.

Richard Fair, Professor, specializes in microfluidic systems for lab-on-a-chip applications based on electrowetting technology. Fair is primarily focused on applications, such as a chip to detect malaria, a chip to do DNA sequencing by synthesis, a chip for printing artificial tissue constructs and live cells. He is also investigating the scaling of chip dimensions from the microliter and nanoliter volumes down to picoliter volumes. Additional research is underway in semiconductor devices, processes, and modeling.

Jeff Glass, Hogg Engineering Professor, specializes in the growth and characterization of thin films for electronics, primarily diamond, zinc oxide and silicon carbide; and chemical vapor deposition, sputtering, materials analysis and electronic properties.

Nan Marie Jokerst, J.A. Jones Professor, specializes in integrated nanosystems and microsystems with an emphasis on photonic integration for sensing and telecommunications systems.

Hisham Massoud, Professor, specializes in MOS ultrathin gate dielectrics, device physics, modeling, simulation, and characterization, and particularly near-limit CMOS performance and nanoelectronic device simulation.

Adrienne Stiff-Roberts, Assistant Professor, specializes in epitaxial growth and characterization of quantum-confined semiconductor materials; the synthesis and characterization of hybrid organic/inorganic nanomaterial thin films; and the design, fabrication, and characterization of optoelectronic and photonic devices featuring hybrid nanomaterials, especially in the infrared regime.