Electronic Materials research encompasses a variety of materials, including semiconductors, magnetic materials, and optical materials. They can be both inorganic and organic. The most common applications for electronic materials are computer chips, optical devices such as LEDs and diode lasers, sensors, and materials designed to take advantage of unique quantum properties. At UF, we’re examining novel methods of creating and doping semiconductors and growing interesting new materials with unique magnetic and electrical properties for future devices. We’re even investigating ways of making organic photovoltaic devices that may promise inexpensive energy harvesting.
Faculty
Education: Ph.D., 2017, University of California, Santa Barbara
Research Interests: energy storage materials, functional and electronic materials, lithium-ion batteries, structure-property relationships, X-ray diffraction, pair distribution function analysis, local structure, amorphous and disordered materials
Lab Website: Butala Research Group
Education: Ph.D. 2014, Pennsylvania State University
Research Interest: Computational materials, CALPHAD, Phase-field method, Machine learning, Ferroelectric materials, Physical metallurgy, Recycling aluminum, Additive manufacturing, Microstructure evolution, Rapid solidification, Phase transformation
Education: Ph.D., 2000, Washington University in St. Louis
Research interests: AI-driven and ab-initio materials science; deep learning and generative models for materials prediction and inverse design; interpretable machine-learning force fields; quantum and superconducting materials; molecular magnetic qubits and spin coherence; electronic-structure and phonon-based modeling of electron–phonon coupling; electrochemical and solid–liquid interfaces; and open computational frameworks linking predictive AI, first-principles simulation, and experiment.…
Ph.D., 2006, University of Florida
Research Interests: Growth and Characterization of Wide and Ultra-wide Bandgap Semiconductor Materials
Education: Ph.D., 1987, University of California-Berkeley
Research Interests: Electronic materials, semiconductor processing and characterization, ion implantation, transmission electron microscopy.
Lab Website: Swamp Group
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Dr. Kevin S. Jones is a Distinguished Professor and holds the Fredrick N Rhines Chair in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at UF.…
Education: Ph. D., 2002, The Pennsylvania State University
Research Interests: sustainable material synthesis; advanced functional ceramics; nuclear energy; applied and explainable AI in materials science, neuromorphic memory, connectomics and graph theory, single crystal growth, materials under extreme environments; radiation effects on electronics; plant-derived materials; bioceramics.
Lab Website: Nino Research Group (NRG)
Ph. D., 1989, Louisiana State University
Research Interests: Electronic, photonic, and magnetic thin film materials; electronic oxide materials; thin film deposition
Ph.D., 2005, Princeton University
Research Interests: Nanostructured electronic materials, organic-inorganic hybrid materials, surfaces and interfaces, energy materials, photovoltaic cells, light-emitting diodes and other optoelectronic devices
Lab Website: Xue Research Group