Lab News

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

On August 11th and 12th, Prof. Mona Ebrish and Owen attended the 2025 Lester Eastman Conference on High Performance Devices at the University of Florida. This included a presentation by Owen where he won Best Poster! Congratulations to Owen!… Read More

We are pleased to announce that Haley Dishman was selected to participate in the NASA L’SPACE NASA Proposal Writing and Evaluation Experience (NPWEE) program. Through this program, her proposal on “Beryllium Implantation for Complex Device Structures” was selected by NASA reviewers to advance to the full proposal stage,… Read More

On March 17 – 19th, Prof. Ebrish and Owen attended the 2025 Government Microcircuit applications and Critical Technology Conference in Pasadena, California. This included presentations by both Owen and Prof. Ebrish. Read More

Haley was awarded a GEM fellowship. This program promotes the bennifits of a higher education degree within industry. Through the fellowship, Haley will be working as an intern for NASA at Goddard Space Flight Center over the summer of 2025! Congratulations to Haley!… Read More