NEWS
Conference Chair for IWBNS-XI
PI Siddha is the conference chair for IWBNS-XI which will be held in the fall of 2020 in the Lehigh Valley. Lots of work ahead, but looking forward to organizing an awesome workshop as the many that have come prior!
Congratulations Vince Rienzi!
Congratulations are in order for Vince Rienzi: He was just accepted to his dream school, University of California, Santa Barbara, to pursue his Ph.D. in Materials. Best of luck and enjoy the sunny beaches while playing frisbee! UCSB is certainly lucky to have you.
Plumbing job continues
One thing is for sure, this lab will be a great place to do some exciting work. So shiny and new. Just look at all those gas lines. Can’t wait for the gas cabinets to arrive to hear them humming. Hoping for April to be the official ribbon cutting month!
Strandwitz vs. Pimputkar Group Round 5: Laser Tag
Zap, zap! Winter is approaching so this time it’s an indoor event … Laser Tag! May the better team zap away!
BBQ Session!
Okay, so the Pimputkar Group lost a bet while bowling … the bet being the loser hosts a BBQ session. So here we go: time to BBQ and smoke some meats before the winter hits!
New Publication: Growth kinetics of basic ammonothermal gallium nitride crystals
Hot off the press! Read more on the topic of growth kinetics as it relates to crystal growth of bulk GaN in basic ammonothermal systems.
Book chapter on bulk growth of GaN published!
Interested in coming up to speed on the current state-of-the-art in bulk, single crystal growth of GaN? Here’s your chance to get an overview of what has happened in the past decade. Read more here.
Member of the Program Committee Member
PI Siddha has joined the Program Committee Member for the SPIE Optics and Photonics (Wide Bandgap Session). Great group to work with and looking forward to building out the wide bandgap session at the conference series!
PI Siddha speaks at Colorado School of Mines
PI Siddha Pimputkar has been invited to speak at the Colorado School of Mines to establish collaborations with the great community of nitride growers at CSM and NREL. Excited for future collaboration opportunities once the lab is up and running at Lehigh and thank you for the invitation!