Owen Meilander

On May 7th, Haley received the 2025-2026 CF ChenBest Translational Research Award for her paper “Improving p-typer Doping in Gallium Nitride through Magnesium Diffusion from the Vanderbilt Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Read her work published in Journal of Electronic Materials here!… Read More

On May 5th, 2026, Prof. Mona Ebrish was recognized at the 2026 Engineering Faculty and Staff Spring Reception. The success of Prof. Ebrish and the lab was acknowledged through receiving the Rising Star Research Award. Read more at the following link. Read More

On April 10th, both Haley and Owen presented posters at Vanderbilt’s 5th annual ECE Day. Owen’s poster, ‘Heatless Soldering via ULMCS Particles: A Novel Metallic Adhesion Layer for Micro-Transfer Printing and Heterogeneous GaN Integration’ won the Best Student Poster Award!… Read More

Prof. Mona Ebrish has received a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award for her exceptional promise in research and education. Her project focuses on developing innovative, programmable doping strategies for wide-bandgap semiconductors to overcome longstanding limitations in device fabrication. Ultimately, this research aims to give engineers greater design freedom,… Read More

On November 13th, Owen presented at the 25th annual VINSE NanoDay. At this event, he won both the t-shirt design conference along with the Best Poster Award for his Poster entitled ‘Advancing GaN Electronics through Substrate Engineering and Integration’. Read More

On October 13th, Owen Meilander was recognized with the VINSE Distinguished Service Award at the 19th annual VINSE Fall Faculty Celebration for his exemplary contributions that strengthen research and STEM outreach within the VINSE community. Read more here. Read More

As she wrapped up her rotation with the lab, Emanuela Riglioni presented her work looking at the Heterogeneous Integration of GaN devices with Si to VINSE community. Her work impressed the judges so much that she won 1st place in the IMS first year poster presentation competition! We are thankful… Read More

On August 13th, Haley and Owen were able to present the exciting work exploring the optimization of metal/GaN contacts that they have been doing at Oak Ridge National Lab! This gave them the opportunity to make many connections for future collaborations. Read More

On August 1st, our summer students Lisa and Tianqi presented their work at the 13th annual Undergraduate Research Symposium! They presented alongside students in the VINSE REU, Chemical Biology REU, VINSE Tech Crew, and VUSE Summer Research Programs. Their posters entitled “Etch, Release, and Transfer of GaN Transistors” and Investigating… Read More

On June 26 – 28, Haley, Owen, and Prof. Ebrish attended the 66th annual Electronic Materials Conference at the University of Maryland, College Park. This included presentations by both Haley and Owen, marking the first presentations in the EEDG group!… Read More