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ECE Seminar October 7: Printed Electronics for Air Force Applications

 The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Boise State University invites you to attend a free public seminar hosted on Zoom. This week's seminar features  Dr. Emily Heckman, a Senior Research Engineer at Air Force Research Laboratory. October 7 @ 10:30 am  https://boisestate.zoom.us/j/92994002201 ABSTRACT |    This talk will provide an overview of the field of printed electronics and ongoing research efforts in this area at the Air Force Research Laboratory Sensors Directorate. Printed electronics is a subset of additive manufacturing that uses technologies such as inkjet and aerosol jet printing and various other direct-write tools to additively print electronic devices on flexible, conformal and traditional substrate platforms. The AFRL Sensors Directorate is currently exploring this technology for application areas such as RF circuits and antennas, optoelectronic devices, sensors, and rapid prototyping. Challenges such as post-processing, repeatability, and reliabi
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Master's Thesis Presentation: Novel Memristor Based True Random Number Generator

Scott Stoller, a master's student studying electrical engineering here at Boise State, is scheduled to present his thesis Novel Memristor Based True Random Number Generator on Friday, October 9 at 10 AM. The memristor is the fourth fundamental circuit element. A true random number generator is designed using a memristor device to capture entropy. This thesis discusses the design, fabrication, and characterization of the novel memristor-based TRNG. SPEAKER BIO |  Scott Stoller graduated from Texas A&M University in 2012 with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. He moved to Boise after graduation where began work as a NAND Integration Product Engineer at Micron.  Stoller is now in his final semester of study at Boise State. Stoller is supported in his thesis research by ECE professor Dr. Kris Campbell and his supervisory committee, Drs. Barney and Cantley. This is a remote presentation.    Tune in using this link

ECE Seminar Sept 30: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, the Linac Coherent Light Source, and Matter in Extreme Conditions

 The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Boise State University invites you to attend a free public seminar hosted on Zoom. This week's seminar features  Dr. Gilliss Dyer, Lead Staff Scientist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. September 30 @ 10:30 am  https://boisestate.zoom.us/j/92994002201 ABSTRACT |    Founded in 1962, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has remained a world-leading research laboratory by constantly reinventing itself to pursue leading-edge science. Its most prominent user facility, the Linac Coherent Light Source, repurposed SLAC's linear accelerator to create the world's first hard X-ray free electron laser. In just over 10 years of operation, LCLS has opened up new areas of scientific inquiry by providing an exquisite probe of ultrafast atomic-scale phenomena. A series of major upgrade projects are maintaining the prominence of LCLS amidst growing competition. Recently, LCLS has been turned resumed user operations after over a y

ECE Seminar Sept 23: Secure Cellular Communication Services Using Blockchain

The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Boise State University invites you to attend a free public seminar hosted on Zoom. This week's seminar features  Dr. Ben Arazi, Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben Gurion University. September 23 @ 10:30 am  https://boisestate.zoom.us/j/92994002201 ABSTRACT |  Blockchain is the technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. It has expanded to redefining the meaning of trust, authorization, and other fundamental security issues in open networks. The principle is skipping here the need for trusted third parties. Blockchain is rated as #1 in the LinkedIn list of “skills companies need most in 2020”. According to Forbes, “Blockchain shows massive potential for the Telecom industry.” Blockchain serves here in subscription identity; settling accounts; roaming management; identity-as-a-service and data management’ and more. This seminar will focus on research activities in these areas.   SPEAKER BIO |  

ECE Seminar Sept 16: Optical Fibers Sensors

The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Boise State University invites you to attend a free public seminar hosted on Zoom.  This week's seminar features ECE PhD Candidate Sohel Rana. September 16 @ 10:30 am  https://boisestate.zoom.us/j/92994002201 ABSTRACT |  As traditional electronic systems are beginning to hit a wall in terms of interconnect speed and performance, it is believed that optics presents a blue sky with immense potential for technology innovations and widespread adoption in the areas of communication, security, energy, sensing, computing, etc in the not-too-distant future. Optical fiber systems have found a plethora of promising and potential applications in significant fields due to their low loss and wide bandwidth. Following these, we are developing fiber optic sensors that may survive in harsh environments such as high radiation field and high temperature and provide useful information regarding temperature, pressure, and strain. SPEAKER BIO |  Soh

ECE Seminar Sept 9: Raman Spectroscopy in Semiconductor Processing and Characterization

The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Boise State University invites you to attend a free public seminar hosted on Zoom. This week's seminar features Dr. Rene Rodriguez, a professor of physical chemistry at Idaho State University. September 9 @ 10:30 am  https://boisestate.zoom.us/j/92994002201 ABSTRACT |  Raman Spectroscopy probes the vibrational energy states of a material. Since the vibrational states are characteristic of a particular material, Raman spectra of substances like reactant gases in a PECVD process or the thin film which is deposited during the process, provide information about the identities and or concentrations of the substances. Experimentally Raman analysis can be performed in a coherent fashion for harsh environments or as a spontaneous process for more routine analysis.  This seminar will include an introduction to spontaneous and coherent Raman spectroscopy followed by two examples from the PECVD studies performed in our lab. In one study, c

ECE Seminar Sept 2: Hybrid Perovskite Semiconductor Lasers

The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Boise State University invites you to attend a free public seminar hosted on Zoom. This week's seminar features Dr. Chris Giebink, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Penn State University. September 2 @ 10:30 am  https://boisestate.zoom.us/j/92994002201 ABSTRACT |  Hybrid perovskite semiconductors are best known for their rapid ascent in the world of photovoltaics; however, their tunable bandgap and attractive gain characteristics also motivate their application in light-emitting diodes and lasers. In particular, perovskites have renewed hope for achieving the long-standing goal of a non-epitaxial, solution-processable laser diode, which could impact areas ranging from silicon photonic integration to point-of-care medical diagnostics. This talk will focus on recent developments toward this goal, including pulsed and continuous-wave optically-pumped lasing, perovskite light-emitting diodes operating at ~kA/cm2 curr