When deciding what to study at Tsinghua University in Beijing, Jin Wang remembers boiling it down to two choices: chemical engineering or electrical engineering. But her father, a mechanical engineer himself, gave her the following influential advice: if you want to really make a contribution, then choose chemical engineering. She never looked back.
Auburn will recognize the 2022 recipients of the university’s most prestigious faculty awards for teaching, research and outreach during its 16th annual Faculty Awards ceremony on Nov. 17.
Researchers at the University of South Florida have developed a novel approach to mitigating electromigration in nanoscale electronic interconnects that are ubiquitous in state-of-the-art integrated circuits. This was achieved by coating copper metal interconnects with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), an atomically-thin insulating two-dimensional (2D) material that shares a similar structure as the wonder material graphene.