MS and Ph.D. completed (Primary Advisor). All graduates found
jobs in an area related to thesis research immediately after thesis defense.
1. Jianhui Zhang, Ph.D. thesis on Design and fabrication of 4H-SiC
Power BJTs, May, 2006. Joined United Silicon Carbide, Inc. as Sr. Research
Engineer 2. Gokul Ramamani, M.S. thesis on Effects of Passivation and Annealing
on the Performance of 4H-SiC MPS diodes, May 2006. 3. Leonid Fursin, Ph.D. thesis on Design and fabrication of a high-voltage
normally-off planar 4H-SiC VJFET, May, 2005. Joined United Silicon Carbide,
Inc. as Sr. Research Engineer 4. Xueqing Li, Ph.D. thesis on Design and simulation of high voltage
4H-SiC power devices, May ,2005. Joined United Silicon Carbide, Inc. as
Sr. Research Engineer 5. Yanbin Luo, Ph.D. thesis on
SiC Power Bipolar Junction Transistors, June 25, 2004. Joined Intel
R&D Center. 6. Feng Yan, Ph.D. thesis
on 4H-SiC Avalanche Photodiodes, May 2003. Joined NASA/Raytheon. 7. Kiyoshi Tone, Ph.D. Thesis
on SiC Vertical Junction Field-effect Transistors, Oct. 2002. Joined Intel
R&D Center. 8. Thomas Koscica, Ph.D. thesis on "A new type of semiconductor
device: the field effect real space transfer transistor", graduated May
1998. Joined Exogen. 9. Yan Shi, Ph.D. thesis
on "Tunable photodetectors based on MBE grown strain compensated multi-quantum
well AIGaAsSbjInGaAsSb", graduated May, 1998. Joined Alcatel-Lucent
Technology. 10. Christi Madsen, Ph.D.
thesis on "The first planar optical waveguide filter architecture and demonstration",
graduated 5/1996 and Joined Bell Lab. Now with Texas
A&M. 11. Walter B. Buchwald, Ph.D.
thesis on "InGaAsP /InP Optothyristors", graduated 5/1996. Joined Raytheon 12. Terry Burke, Ph.D. thesis on "Deep traps and their effects on
the performance of high power GaAs photoconductive switches", graduated
5/1993. Now with US TACOM. 13. Jutao Chen, M.S. thesis on "Effect of laser polarization on
optical fiber communication", graduated 10/1997. Now with All-Tech. 14. Gregory Lorezon, M.S. thesis on "Computer modeling of SiC thyristors",
graduated 5/1995. Now with US CECOM. 15. James Wang, M.S. Thesis title" A compact GaAs tuner IC for direct
broadcast satellite", graduated in May, 1991. With Anadigics. 16. Robert Lis, M.S. student, Thesis title: "A novel InP based optothyristor
for pulsed high power . switching applications", graduated in May, 1992.
Joined GE. 17. John T. Bayruns, M.S. student, research project: "A C-band integrated
circuit image rejection block converter using novel phase-shift circuit
designs", graduate in January, 1992. With Anadigics, Inc.