Faculty and staff directory

David Allee

David Allee

David Allee
Professor, Associate Director

Research Interests
Flexible electronics, large area sensing arrays, VLF electric and magnetic fields, fundamental and external electrical noise, nuclear amplifiers, nanometer scale device and nanofabrication

allee@asu.edu
(480) 965-6470
Tempe Campus, GWC 347

Raja Ayyanar

Raja Ayyanar

Raja Ayyanar
Professor

Research Interests
Power electronics, DC-DC converters, power management, power conversion and control for renewable energy interface, especially PV and wind, electric vehicles, motor drives, wide bandgap devices and applications

rayyanar@asu.edu
(480) 727-7307
Tempe Campus, ERC 587

Bertan Bakkaloglu

Bertan Bakkaloglu

Bertan Bakkaloglu
On Semiconductor Professor

Research Interests
Analog, RF and mixed-signal IC design, integrated power management circuits for high reliability applications, self-test and calibration of high reliability analog and mixed signal circuits, frequency synthesizers

bertan.bakkaloglu@asu.edu
(480) 727-0293
Tempe Campus, ISTB4 573

Constantine A. Balanis

Constantine A. Balanis

Constantine A. Balanis
Regents Professor Emeritus

Research Interests
Computational electromagnetic methods for antennas and scattering, flexible and conformal antennas, high impedance surfaces (HIS), RCS reduction techniques using EBG checkerboard surfaces, metasurfaces for antenna pattern beam forming, ferrite-loaded non-uniformly biased CBS antennas, smart/adaptive antennas for wireless communications

balanis@asu.edu
(480) 965-3909
Tempe Campus, GWC 452

Hugh Barnaby

Hugh Barnaby

Hugh Barnaby
Professor

Research Interests
Semiconductors for hostile environments, device physics and modeling, microelectronic device and sensor design and manufacturing, analog/RF/mixed signal circuit design and test

hbarnaby@asu.edu
(480) 727-0289
Tempe Campus, ISTB4 561

Visar Berisha

Visar Berisha

Visar Berisha
Associate Professor
Joint appointment with Speech and Hearing

Research Interests
Statistical signal processing, speech perception and processing, psychoacoustics

visar@asu.edu
(480) 727-6455
Tempe Campus, Coor Hall 3472

Mariana Bertoni

Mariana Bertoni

Mariana Bertoni
Associate Professor
Fulton Energy and Materials Professor
Hopkins Professor

Research Interests
Defect engineering of solar cell materials, transparent conducting oxides, defects in semiconductors, synthesis, growth and deposition of semiconductors, electrical and optical characterization, X-ray microscopy and spectroscopys

Mariana.Bertoni@asu.edu
(480) 727-0755
Tempe Campus, ERC 173

Daniel Bliss

Daniel Bliss

Daniel Bliss
Professor

Research Interests
Adaptive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communications, distributed cooperative communications, full-duplex relays, MIMO radar, information theory, estimation bounds, channel phenomenology, statistical signal processing for anticipatory medical applications

d.w.bliss@asu.edu
(480) 965-3913
Tempe Campus, GWC 302D

Yu Cao

Yu (Kevin) Cao

Yu Cao
Professor

Research Interests
Physical modeling of nanoscale technologies, design solutions for variability and reliability, and neural-inspired hardware and algorithms for learning

ycao@asu.edu
(480) 965-1472
Tempe Campus, ISTB4 563

Chaitali Chakrabarti

Chaitali Chakrabarti

Chaitali Chakrabarti
Professor

Research Interests
VLSI architectures for media processing and wireless communications, algorithm-architecture co-design of signal processing systems including medical imaging, low-power embedded systems, reliable memory system design

chaitali@asu.edu
(480) 965-9516
Tempe Campus, GWC 302B

Jennifer Blain Christen

Jennifer Blain Christen
Associate Professor

Research Interests
Bio-compatible integration techniques for CMOS electronics/sensors, microfluidics and soft lithography, bio-MEMS, low power analog and mixed-mode circuits for bio-medical/analytical instrumentation, systems engineering focusing on multi-physics/multi-modal and feedback including neural, electrochemical and optical/fluorescence systems

jennifer.blainchristen@asu.edu
(480) 965-9859
Tempe Campus, GWC 334

Rudy Diaz

Rudy Diaz
Emeritus Professor

Research Interests
Analytic theory of natural and artificial media, measurement and design of the electromagnetic properties of materials, magneto-dielectric materials for broadband antennas and electromagnetic structures, optical scattering of sub-wavelength objects in complex environments and nanophotonics, time domain computational electromagnetics.

rudydiaz@asu.edu
(480) 965-4281
Tempe Campus, GWC 369

Deliang Fan

Richard Kiehl

Deliang Fan
Assistant Professor

Research Interests
Energy Efficient and High Performance Big Data Processing-In-Memory Circuit, Architecture and Algorithm, with applications in Deep Neural Network, Data Encryption, Graph Processing and Bioinformatics Processing-in-Memory system development

dfan@asu.edu
Tempe Campus, ISTB4, 551D

David Ferry

David Ferry

David Ferry
Regents’ Professor Emeritus

Research Interests
Quantum effects in submicron semiconductor devices and nanostructures, general development of quantum transport in open systems

david.ferry@asu.edu
(480) 965-2570
Tempe Campus, ERC 559

Houqiang Fu

Sayfe Kiaei

Houqiang Fu
Assistant Professor

Research Interests
Wide and ultrawide bandgap semiconductors, III-nitrides, Gallium Oxide, power electronics and ICs, HEMTs, vertical power devices, extreme-environment devices, optoelectronics, RF/microwave devices, photonics, MOCVD growth, solid-state physics, device simulation and modeling, nanofabrication, nano-scale characterization, device reliability and failure analysis.

 

Houqiang@asu.edu 

 

Stephen Goodnick

Stephen Goodnick

Stephen Goodnick
Professor

Research Interests
Solid state device physics, transport in nanostructures, nanoelectronic devices and circuits, computational electronics, RF and microwave devices, optoelectronic, energy conversion devices

stephen.goodnick@asu.edu
(480) 965-9572
Tempe Campus, ERC 552

Michael Goryll

Michael Goryll

Michael Goryll
Associate Professor

Research Interests
Surface and interface physics, new materials in CMOS processing, fabrication of nanoscale semiconductor devices, transport phenomena in nanopores, integration of biomineralized structures with silicon MEMS, electrophysiological properties of cell membrane ion channels, low-noise analog amplifier design, electronic instrumentation for biophysical measurements

michael.goryll@asu.edu
(480) 965-9517
Tempe Campus, ERC 255

Kory Hedman

Kory Hedman

Kory Hedman
Professor, Director, PSERC
Fulton Schools of Engineering Distinguished Professorship
Advanced Energy Technology endowed chair

Research Interests
Power and energy systems, operations research, renewable energy, power system economics, operations and planning, transmission engineering, mathematical programming, stochastic optimization, market design, energy economics, financial engineering

khedman@asu.edu
(480) 965-1276
Tempe Campus, ERC 579

Gerald Heydt

Gerald Heydt

Gerald Heydt
Regents’ Professor Emeritus, Professor of Advanced Technology

Research Interests
Power engineering, electric power quality, distribution engineering, transmission engineering, computer applications in power engineering, power engineering education, power system sensors and instrumentation

heydt@asu.edu
(480) 965-8307
Tempe Campus, ERC 509

Keith Holbert

Keith Holbert

Keith Holbert
Associate Professor

Research Interests
Nuclear engineering, process monitoring and diagnostics, sensor fault detection, instrumentation development, radiation effects on electronics

holbert@asu.edu
(480) 965-8594
Tempe Campus, ERC 581

Zachary Holman

Zachary Holman
Zachary Holman
Trustee Professor

Research Interests
Amorphous silicon/crystalline silicon heterojunction solar cells, light management in solar cells, transparent conductive oxides, semiconductor nanoparticles, optical and electronic properties of nanoscale materials, plasma synthesis of powders, deposition of powders and thin films

Zachary.Holman@asu.edu
(480) 965-9959

Mojdeh Khorsand

Mojdeh Khorsand

Mojdeh Khorsand
Assistant Professor

Research Interests
Power systems operations and planning, power systems restoration and cascading events, cyber-security for electric power systems, renewable energy, transient stability studies, protection systems, power flow control technologies, stochastic optimization, and electric energy markets

mojdeh.khorsand@asu.edu
(480) 965-0787
Tempe Campus, ERC 525

Richard Kiehl

Richard Kiehl
Richard Kiehl
Adjunct faculty

Research Interests
Nanoelectronics: self-assembled nanostructures, novel nanodevice concepts, locally connected circuit architectures and non-Boolean computing paradigms.

 

Sayfe Kiaei

Sayfe Kiaei
Motorola Chair

Research Interests
Radio frequency and analog integrated circuits, integrated power management IC.

 

sayfe@asu.edu
(480) 727-8207
Tempe Campus, ISTB4 591C

 

Richard R. King

Richard R. King

Richard R. King
Professor

Research Interests
High-efficiency silicon and III-V photovoltaics, solid-state device physics, recombination at semiconductor defects and interfaces, multijunction solar cells, thin-film compound semiconductor growth and characterization.

Richard.R.King@asu.edu
(480) 727-3698

Jennifer Kitchen

Jennifer Kitchen

Jennifer Kitchen
Associate Professor

Research Interests
RF integrated transceivers on silicon and III-V materials (GaN), power management and distribution for high-frequency integrated circuits for consumer applications, low-power/long-term field deployment ICs for the military and green energy (solar arrays), programmable and broadband wireless transceivers for future generation (5G) wireless communication systems

kitchen.jennifer@asu.edu
(480) 965-1857
Tempe Campus, ISTB4 551D

Ying-Cheng Lai

Ying-Cheng Lai

Ying-Cheng Lai
ISS Professor

Research Interests
Nonlinear dynamics, complex networks, quantum transport in nanostructures, graphene physics, signal processing, biological physics

Ying-Cheng.Lai@asu.edu
(480) 965-6668
Tempe Campus, GWC 610

Qin Lei

Qin Lei

Qin Lei
Assistant Professor

Research Interests
High power converters for high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission/medium voltage direct current (MVDC) transmission, medium voltage drive, grid-integration of renewable energy sources, transportation electrification/electric vehicle/hybrid electric vehicle, power management for smart-grid/micro-grid, wide-band gap device application (SiC, GaN), energy storage

qin.lei@asu.edu
(480) 965-0013

Robert LiKamWa

Robert LiKamWa

Robert LiKamWa
Assistant Professor
Joint appointment with the School of Arts, Media and Engineering

Research Interests
Mobile operating systems; mobile computer architecture; low-power mobile systems; computational imaging systems; computer vision systems; augmented reality systems; virtual reality systems; holographic computing

likamwa@asu.edu
Tempe Campus, Stauffer B201

Matthew J. Marinella

Headshot of Matthew Marinella

Matthew J. Marinella
Associate Professor 

Research Interests
Microelectronic devices and circuits, energy efficient computing, memory technologies, neuromorphic computing and radiation effects

m@asu.edu
602-543-5331
Tempe Campus, GWC 347

Deirdre Meldrum

Deirdre Meldrum

Deirdre Meldrum
Distinguished Professor of Biosignatures Discovery

Research Interests
Automation in life sciences, automation, micro- and nanotechnologies, microscale systems, lab-on-achip, single cell, genomics, ecogenomics, robotics, control systems

deirdre.meldrum@asu.edu
(480) 727-9397
Tempe Campus, BDA A 110B

Toni Mengert

Toni Mengert

Toni Mengert
Academic Success Advisor, Sr. – Graduate Academic Advisor

Toni Mengert joined the ECEE advising team in 2012. As a graduate advisor, Toni advises and counsels ECEE graduate students (with last name G-O) regarding academics.

eceegrad@asu.edu
(480) 965-3424
Tempe Campus, GWC 234

Robert Monahan

portrait of Robert Monahan

Robert Monahan
Assistant Director, Academic Services

Robert earned a BA in Psychology from DePaul University in Chicago, IL in 2000 and a MS in Counseling and Student Personnel from Minnesota State University, Mankato in 2002. Being a college student can be one of the richest and most exciting times in life. Robert works here to help students connect to that excitement. When he’s not working with students at ASU, Robert spends time with his family and enjoys hiking and biking in the desert.

Robert.Monahan@asu.edu
(480) 965-0789
Tempe Campus, GWC 248

Angelia Nedich

Angelia Nedich

Angelia Nedich
Professor

Research Interests
Large-Scale Distributed Systems, Sensor Networks and Network Science, Data Analytics, Decision and Control Systems, Operations Research

Angelia.Nedich@asu.edu
(480) 965-9019
650 E Tyler Mall GWC Rm 311   Tempe

Duong Nguyen

Ahmed Alkhateeb
Duong Nguyen
Assistant Professor

Research interests
Decision-Making, Market Design, Network Economics, Power System Economics, Cloud/Edge Computing, Power and Energy Systems, Operations and Planning, Applied Operations Research

duongnt@asu.edu
Tempe Campus

Sule Ozev

Sule Ozev

Sule Ozev
Professor

Research Interests
Self-test and self-calibration for wireless transceivers, analysis and mitigation of process variations for mixed signal and digital circuits, fault-tolerant and reconfigurable heterogeneous systems, mixed signal circuit testing

sule.ozev@asu.edu
(480) 727-7547
Tempe Campus, ISTB4 565

Anamitra Pal

Anamitra Pal

Anamitra Pal
Assistant Professor

Research Interests
Power and energy systems, energy modeling and smart grids, wide-area monitoring, protection and control

anamitra.pal@asu.edu
(480) 965-2882
Tempe Campus, ERC 573

Joseph Palais

Joseph Palais

Joseph Palais
Professor Emeritus and Graduate Program Chair, Electrical Engineering
Academic Director for the Online and Professional Programs for Global Outreach and Extended Education

Research Interests
Fiber optic communications, holography, distance education

joseph.palais@asu.edu
(480) 965-3757
Tempe Campus, GWC 222

George Pan

George Pan

George Pan
Professor

Research Interests
Computational electromagnetics, high-speed electronics packaging, magnetic resonant imaging RF coil design and analysis, inverse scattering, rough surface scattering, millimeter-wave antenna systems

george.pan@asu.edu
(480) 965-1732
Tempe Campus, GWC 318

Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola

Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola

Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola
Professor

Research Interests
Time-varying signal and system processing; statistical processing for detection, estimation and tracking; signal processing algorithm development for biomedical, biological and structural health monitoring; wireless communications applications

Papandreou@asu.edu
(480) 965-7881
Tempe Campus, GWC 312

Joelina Peck

Joelina Peck

Joelina Peck
Assistant Director, Research Advancement

Joelina is the Assistant Director, Research Advancement for the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering. Her primary responsibility is to assist faculty and researchers in the development, preparation, and submission of sponsored project proposals to various federal and non-federal agencies as well as provide analytical and financial oversight of sponsored awards. She serves as a consultant to management on policies, plans and objectives. She interacts with senior internal and external personnel on significant technical matters. She represents the organization in providing solutions to difficult and technical issues associated with sponsored projects.  She interacts with faculty and staff across the seven schools of Engineering to provide support and effective management of sponsored projects.

Joelina received her Certification in Research Administration (CRA) in 2009 from the Research Administrators Certification Council (RACC). Joelina has been in the research administration field for 13 years. She joined ASU in 1999 and left for a brief period in 2010 to work as the Manager of the Sponsored Research Office for a non-profit Medical Research Institute in California. She recently returned to ASU in 2014.

joelina.peck@asu.edu
(480) 965-8913
Tempe Campus, GWC 270

 

Stephen Phillips

Stephen Phillips

Stephen Phillips
Professor, Director, School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Research Interests
Applications and integration of microsystems including microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), microelectronics, microactuators, neural recording and neural stimulation; applications of systems and control including adaptive control, control of microsystems, prosthetics, feedback control over nondeterministic networks

Stephen.phillips@asu.edu
(480) 965-6410
Tempe Campus, GWC 208

Lynn Pratte

Lynn Pratte

Lynn Pratte
Manager, Graduate Academic Advisor

Lynn Pratte joined the ECEE advising team in 2015. As a graduate advisor, Lynn advises and counsels ECEE graduate students (with last name A-C) regarding academics. She first joined ASU as a staff member in 2013 and has experience in graduate and international admissions. Lynn holds a Bachelor of Science in Sustainability and a Master of Science in Environmental Resource Management.

eceegrad@asu.edu
(480) 965-1729
Tempe Campus, GWC 222

Tom Quinn

Tom Quinn

Tom Quinn
Academic Success Advisor – Undergraduate Academic Advisor

Tom is joining the ECEE advising team after 7 years in higher education (most of which was spent as a financial aid advisor). He originally studied English Education and served as a classroom teacher for two years before making the switch to serve post-secondary students. He is the proud father of a nine-month old baby boy, which is where most of his time and energy goes. Tom does a little community service with the Valley Alano club in Tempe and with the Gilbert “Friends for Life” Animal Rescue. He is an avid reader and active in an online community (Goodreads) where he does an annual reading challenge and shares book reviews. If you want to get him talking, the fastest way is to ask what book he has been reading lately.

askee@asu.edu
(480) 965-3424
Tempe Campus, GWC 213

Martin Reisslein

Martin Reisslein
Martin Reisslein
Professor and Graduate Program Chair, Computer Engineering

Research Interests
Metro and access fiber/wireless networks, multimedia streaming, multimedia traffic characteristics, software defined networking, engineering education

reisslein@asu.edu
(480) 965-8539
Tempe Campus, GWC 411A

Lalitha Sankar

Lalitha Sankar

Lalitha Sankar
Associate Professor

Research Interests
Cyber-security and privacy in the Smart Grid, privacy of electronic data, information- theoretic privacy measures, applications of game theory to privacy problems, finite block-length source coding, distributed state estimation and optimal power flow with security and privacy guarantees in the Smart Grid

Lalitha.Sankar@asu.edu
(480) 965-4953
Tempe Campus, ERC 585

Jae-sun Seo

Jae-sun Seo

Jae-sun Seo
Associate Professor

Research Interests
Digital/mixed-signal circuit design, VLSI design for neuromorphic computing and machine learning, integrated voltage regulators, high-speed on-chip transceivers

jaesun.seo@asu.edu
(480) 727-2660
Tempe Campus, ISTB4 551B

Jennie Si

Jennie Si

Jennie Si
Professor

Research Interests
Learning and approximate dynamic programming, estimation and filtering of stochastic processes, neural networks, neurophysiological basis for learning and cognitive processing, cortical neural information processing

si@asu.edu
(480) 965-6133
Tempe Campus, GWC 351

 

Brian Skromme

Brian Skromme
Professor, Assistant Dean

Research Interests
Compound semiconductor materials and devices, especially wide bandgap materials for optoelectronic, high frequency, high-power and high-temperature applications; optical characterization of semiconductor materials; development of GaN and SiC-based materials and devices; development of educational software for engineering courses, engineering education

skromme@asu.edu
(480) 965-8592
Tempe Campus, ERC 155

Elizabeth Sowell

Elizabeth Sowell

Elizabeth Sowell
Manager, Academic Advising

Elizabeth Sowell joined the ECEE advising team in 2012. She has worked in the Fulton Schools of Engineering in student services and advising since 2007 and has advised both undergraduate and graduate students. She earned her master’s degree in Religious Studies from Claremont Graduate University. She enjoys helping students reach their educational goals at ASU

askee@asu.edu
(480) 965-3424
Tempe Campus, GWC 213

Andreas Spanias

Andreas Spanias

Andreas Spanias
Professor, Director, SenSIP Center

Research Interests
Digital signal processing (DSP), speech and audio coding, adaptive filters, real-time processing of sensor data, DSP for arts and media applications

 

spanias@asu.edu
(480) 965-1837
Tempe Campus, GWC 411E

 

Meng Tao

Meng Tao
Meng Tao
Professor

Research Interests
Semiconductor surfaces, interfaces and thin films; terawatt-scale solar photovoltaics; chemical vapor deposition; electrochemistry in solar photovoltaics; solar photovoltaic systems and applications; and two-dimensional transition metal chalcogenides.

meng.tao@asu.edu
(480) 965-9845
Tempe Campus, ERC 157

Konstantinos Tsakalis

Konstantinos Tsakalis

Konstantinos Tsakalis
Professor and Undergraduate Program Chair, Electrical Engineering

Research Interests
Applications of control, optimization and system identification theory to semiconductor manufacturing, chemical process control and prediction and control of epileptic seizures

tsakalis@asu.edu
(480) 965-1467
Tempe Campus, GWC 358

Pavan Turaga

Pavan Turaga
Professor
Joint appointment with the School of Arts, Media and Engineering

Director, School of Arts, Media and Engineering

Research Interests
Computer vision, human activity analysis, machine learning, rehabilitation and preventive interventions

pturaga@asu.edu
(480) 965-3704
STAUFFER B-259   950 S. Forest Mall Tempe

Daniel Tylavsky

Daniel Tylavsky

Daniel Tylavsky
Emeritus Professor

Research Interests
Electric power systems, applying social optimization to power system markets, numerical methods applied to large-scale system problems, parallel numerical algorithms, new educational methods and technologies, and transformer thermal modeling.

tylavsky@asu.edu

Dragica Vasileska

Dragica Vasileska

Dragica Vasileska
Professor

Research Interests
Semiconductor device physics, semiconductor transport, 1-D to 3-D device modeling, quantum field theory and its application to real nanoscale device structures, heating effects in nano-scale devices, current collapse in GaN HEMTs, optoelectronics including modeling of solar cells and photodetectors

vasileska@asu.edu
(480) 965-6651
Tempe Campus, ERC 555

Vijay Vittal

Vijay Vittal

Vijay Vittal
ASU Foundation Professor in Electric Power Systems
Ira A. Fulton Chair
Regents Professor

Research Interests
Electric power, power system dynamics and controls, nonlinear systems, computer applications in power, sustainable energy, modeling and simulation of complex systems

vijay.vittal@asu.edu
(480) 965-1879
Tempe Campus, ERC 513

Allison Walls

Allison Walls

Allison Walls
Academic Success Coordinator

Allison was raised in Tempe, Arizona and is a graduate of ASU’s Master of Counseling program. She worked in community mental health for two years before returning to ASU as an undergraduate academic advisor in the School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering. In her free time, Allison enjoys cooking, volunteering, and spending time outdoors.

askeeonline@asu.edu 
(480) 965-3424
Tempe Campus, GWC 213

Chao Wang

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Chao Wang
Assistant Professor

Research Interests
Nanostructures, nanoimprint lithography, nanooptics, biomolecular sensing, nanofluidics, DNA hydrodynamics, ferroelectrics.

wangch@asu.edu
(480) 965-2056
Tempe Campus, ERC 542

Yang Weng

Yang Weng

Yang Weng
Assistant Professor

Research Interests
Power systems, machine learning, demand response, data analytics, cyber-physical systems, and convex optimization

yang.weng@asu.edu
(480) 965-8202

Meng Wu

Meng Wu
Assistant Professor

Research Interests
Electric power systems, data analytics for power system planning and operations, modelling and stability assessment for renewable energy integration, optimization methods for smart grids and electricity markets.

mwu@asu.edu
(480) 965-8706

Yu Yao

Yu Yao

Yu Yao
Associate Professor

Research Interests
Electronic transport and optic properties of semiconductor nanostructures, two dimensional materials, nanophotonic structures and their applications in advanced optoelectronics and reconfigurable optical devices; mid-infrared technology and its application for infrared sensing, medical and imaging

yuyao@asu.edu
(480) 965-9208
Tempe Campus, ERC 557

Hongbin Yu

Hongbin Yu
Associate Professor

Research Interests
Nanostructure and nano device fabrication and characterization; flexible, transparent and wearable electronics; wide bandgap semiconductor electronic and optoelectronics; quantum size effect in metallic and semiconducting nanostructures; integrated microwave and power devices

yuhb@asu.edu
(480) 965-4455
Tempe Campus, ERC 159

Saeed Zeinolabedinzadeh

Saeed Zeinolabedinzadeh
Assistant Professor

Research Interests
High-frequency millimeter-wave, and terahertz integrated circuits; integrated photonics and electronics-photonics circuits; high-speed IC design for radiation-intensive space environments, and radiation hardening; IC design for robust operation over the temperature, down to cryogenic temperatures 

Saeed.Zeinolabedinzadeh@asu.edu

Yuji Zhao

Yuji Zhao

Yuji Zhao
 Adjunct Professor

Research Interests
Electronics and photonics; MOCVD growth and device applications of GaN wide bandgap semiconductors, including LEDs, lasers, solar cells, and power transistors; nanofabrication and nanoscale characterizations; new physics, materials, devices for future solid-state electronics