ADVANCE Fellows Award: Materials Integration Concepts for Electronic and Photonic Devices

预计ADVANCE Fellows奖不仅将推动PI在学术界的职业生涯，还将使她成为追求工程和材料科学职业的女性学生的榜样和导师。这项研究将整合电磁波与非均匀介质相互作用的基础研究，工程混合陶瓷材料新思想的认可，以及对先进无线通信系统至关重要的创新设备的开发。该研究的目标是通过在器件设计中集成不同的电介质和磁性材料来影响其电路中的波传播过程，从而找到增强微波和毫米波器件功能和减小尺寸的新方法。低温共烧陶瓷技术的最新成就为多种陶瓷的共处理提供了机会，这使得这些方法变得可行。该研究将以全波电磁分析为基础，包括原型制造和测量，预计将在几个相关领域取得重大进展，其中将在器件设计中使用各种陶瓷的集成，特别是：1）在滤波器和天线中的局部电抗负载，以减小器件尺寸和优化特性; 2）天线芯片中的电磁场重新分布以提高效率和方向性; 3）电光调制器中的供电传输线中的相移; 4）在毫米波范围内形成具有奇异电磁特性（包括负折射率）的陶瓷超材料。从研究活动中获得的知识将被纳入一个新的跨学科课程，在该课程中，材料科学，固态物理学和电气工程概念将被结合起来，以解决未来无线通信中的问题。这项工作的结果预计将激励器件设计人员应用工程衬底，促进基于材料的集成技术的发展，并促进各种创新的紧凑型微波和毫米波元件。该高级研究员奖将由ECS和DMII两个部门管理。

It is anticipated that the ADVANCE Fellows award will not only advance the PI's career in academia, but also allow her to serve as a role model and mentor to women students who are pursuing careers in engineering and materials science.This research will integrate fundamental study of electromagnetic wave interaction with non-uniform media, approbation of new ideas in engineering hybrid ceramic materials, and development of innovative devices vital for advanced wireless communication systems. The goal of the research is to find new ways to enhance functionality and reduce size of microwave and mm-wave devices by affecting wave propagation processes in their circuitry through integration diverse dielectric and magnetic materials in the device design. Recent achievements in low-temperature co-fired ceramics technology open up the opportunities to co-process diverse ceramics, which makes the approaches feasible. The research will be based on full-wave electromagnetic analysis and include prototype fabrication and measurements.Significant advances in several related areas are expected, where the integration of diverse ceramics in the device design will be used, in particular, for: 1) local reactive loading in filters and antennas to reduce device size and optimize characteristics; 2) electromagnetic field redistribution in antenna chips to improve efficiency and directivity; 3) phase shifting in power supplying transmission lines in electro-optical modulators; 4) formation of ceramic meta-materials with exotic electromagnetic properties, including negative refractive index, in mm-wave range. The knowledge gained from the research activities will be incorporated into a new interdisciplinary course, in which materials science, solid-state physics, and electrical engineering concepts will be combined to tackle future problems in wireless communications.The results of this work are expected to motivate device designers to apply engineered substrates, to stimulate the development of integrated materials-based technology and to promote a wide variety of innovative compact microwave and mm-wave components. This ADVANCE Fellows award will be managed by two divisions, ECS and DMII.