Over the summer of 2019, three PhD graduates of Professor Balandin’s Nano-Device Laboratory and Phonon Optimized Engineered Materials (POEM) Center accepted employment with Intel Corporation in Portland. Ece Aytan received her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) with the dissertation entitled “Spin-phonon coupling in antiferromagnetic NiO.” Ruben Salgado’s PhD in MSE dealt with “Electrical and thermal characterization of low-dimensional materials.” The topic of Adane Geremew’s dissertation research in Electrical Engineering is “Low-dimensional charge-density-wave materials and devices.” Photos show (from left to right) Ece Aytan, Ruben Salgado and Adane Geremew at POEM Center, UC Riverside.
