disseration – William G. Vandenberghe

NOVEMBER 2022

Kolade Oyekan successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation “MATERIALS AND SURFACES FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES: A FIRST-PRINCIPLES STUDY”.

JUNE 2022

Aaron Kramer successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation “Modeling Fill Factor Losses In Organic Solar Cells”.

MARCH 2022

Mehrdad Rostami Osanloo successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation “The Dielectric Properties of Two-Dimensional Materials and their Applications in Electronic Devices: A First-Principles Study”.

MARCH 2022

Ali Saadat successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation “Laterally Diffused Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors: Device Design and Optimization for Low-Voltage and Mid-Voltage Power Applications”.

FEBRUARY 2022

Sabyasachi Tiwari successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation “Modelling Topological and Magnetic Materials for Charge and Spin-Based Devices”.

I’m an Associate Professor at UT Dallas since 2021.

I have a diverse research group composed of experts unraveling electron transport at the nanoscale using theoretical and computational methods.
Starting from the laws of quantum mechanics, we explain how modern electronics work and how to design electronic devices of the future. We use commercially available codes and develop open-source software to study novel materials and devices. Materials of interest are conventional semiconductors, two-dimensional materials, topological insulators, layered magnets, and novel dielectrics. Device structures under investigation are transistors and solar cells.
Collaborating with industrial partners, our work impacts nanoelectronics, power electronics, and photovoltaics.