Philip Feng Research Group

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.

Congratulations to recent IMG graduate, Dr. Wen Sui, and his advisor Prof. Philip Feng, on the publication of their research article, “AlScN-on-SiC microelectromechanical Lamb wave resonators operating at high temperature up to 800°C”, in Applied Physics Letters.

Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0185606

Congratulations to IMG Ph.D. student, Tahmid Kaisar, and IMG Professor, Dr. Philip Feng, for their research article, “Parametric Frequency Divider Based Ising Machines”, recently published in Physical Review Letters. In this work, they report on a new class of Ising machines (IMs) that rely on coupled parametric frequency dividers (PFDs) as macroscopic artificial spins.

IMG will have a strong presence at this year's IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (IEEE MEMS 2024) from January 21^st to January 25^th.

If you find yourself at the conference, please try to stop by their works. A big congratulations to all the authors below!

Oral

At the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) 2023 taking place in San Francisco, CA this week, ECE Florida Ph.D. student S M Enamul Hoque Yousuf, along with his advisor Prof. Philip Feng, reports on a new advancement in “More-than-Moore” devices using atomically thin semiconductors.