Current Members

Principle Investigator

Oscar Dubon

Professor

Associate Dean for Equity & Inclusion and Student Affairs

College of Engineering


Email: oddubon@berkeley.edu

Research Engineers

Petra Specht

Research: Material and device characterization of group III-nitrides via advanced TEM, reliability, HR-TEM of catalytic materials, compound semiconductor MBE


Email: specht@berkeley.edu

Graduate Students

Jose Fonseca

Research: Properties of 2D metal-chalcogenide materials


Email: jose.j.fonseca@berkeley.edu

Christopher Francis

Research: Highly-mismatched oxides


Email: chris.francis@berkeley.edu

Thang Pham

Research: BN Nanotubes, Hexagonal BN


Email: thangpt88@berkeley.edu

Maribel Jaquez

Research: Highly-mismatched oxides, ZnOSe


Email: mjaquezn@berkeley.edu

Edy Cardona

Research: Fundamental studies of the synthesis and electronic properties of 2D materials


Email: ecardona@berkeley.edu

Raj Kumar

Research: Batteries


Email: rkumar0827@gmail.com

James Chavez

Research: GaMnTe


Email: jamesseowchavez@berkeley.edu

Clarissa Towle

Research:


Email: ctowle@berkeley.edu

About Us

Advanced semiconductor research at the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Latest News

Upcoming: August 18th

Low Dose Microscopy Workshop at LBL

Whether you are advanced, adept, or a beginning microscopist, we encourage you to attend this workshop at LBL! Details on the home page in "Featured"

July 2017

Vice Chancellor of Equity and Inclusion

PI Oscar Dubon accepts position as Vice Chancellor of Equity and Inclusion!

May 9, 2017

Graduation!

Congratulations to the following people for graduating:

  • Edy Cardona - Masters of Science in Materials Science and Engineering
  • Chris Francis - Doctor of Philosophy in Materials Science and Engineering

April 30, 2017

LAGSES membership

Edy becomes president of LAGSES, and James becomes treasurer of LAGSES!

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