Congratulations to IMG member Dr. Yuncong Liu for receiving this year’s Florida Semiconductor Institute (FSI) Rising Star Award! This highly prestigious and competitive honor recognizes outstanding Ph.D. graduates in semiconductor technologies who demonstrate breakthrough research and strong potential for future leadership in the field. As this year’s recipient, Dr. Liu is recognized for his innovative work in silicon carbide device design and fabrication, under the supervision of Prof. Philip Feng at UF and Prof.

Gigahertz (GHz) resonances are very important carriers of information and energy, not only key to functions of many information-processing chips, but also bridges that enable coherent 'translation' among mechanical/acoustic, microwave electronic, and optical wave signals.  Conventional GHz mechanical resonances often require excitations of bulk or surface modes in special crystals and sizable devices often tens or hundreds of microns.  Considering state-of-the-art transistors that are genuinely nanoscale and approaching molecular scale, and the great need of integrating GHz transducers (sen

Imagine a guitar string strummed more than a billion times a second. No human can hear the sound, but this ultra-high-frequency hum may one day power the world’s most sensitive transducers or help to unlock the secrets of the quantum realm.  

Scientists are using vibrating nanoscale drumheads to study how magnetism moves and changes inside special materials — a discovery that could help power the next generation of fast, energy-efficient computers.

A team of physicists and engineers has discovered a new way to eavesdrop on some of the most elusive and subtle magnetic phenomena in nature — using membranes so thin and sensitive they can hear what no traditional probes could see or sense.