PhD Students

 

Jiashu Qian

qian.539@osu.edu

Jiashu Qian received his M.S. degree in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at The Ohio State University in May 2020 and his B.S. degree in the Microelectronics Science and Engineering at Nanjing University of Science and Technology in June 2018. He has been an OSU ECE WBG member since February 2020 pursuing his research interests of reliability of power devices and wide-bandgap semiconductor power devices design. He is currently working on methodologies for identification of SiC MOSFET failure modes through accelerated tests from FORD motor company and SPICE modeling for 10kV SiC power devices.

 

Limeng Shi

shi.1564@osu.edu

Limeng Shi received her B.S. degree in Electronic Science and Technology from Hunan University in 2017. She received her M.S. degree in Microelectronics and Solid State Electronics from Peking University in 2020. During her graduate study, Limeng’s research work in the key laboratory of Shenzhen Advanced Electronic Devices and Integrated Application mainly focused on improving the stability and reliability of the GaN HEMTs. She is currently a second-year Ph.D. student in the ECE Department at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. She is actively involved in SiC commercial MOSFETs reliability research and optimization of SiC lateral MOSFETs. She is responsible for testing and evaluating the reliability of commercial SiC power MOSFETs in the Ford project.

Michael Jin

jin.845@osu.edu

Michael Jin received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University in May, 2021, and has been a member of the OSU ECE SiC Reliability group since then. His research topics include the simulation, design, fabrication, and testing of SiC power devices. He is currently studying the effects of pulse-voltage TDDB, gate oxide screening, and SiC radiation detectors.

Monikuntala Bhattacharya

bhattacharya.119@osu.edu

Monikuntala Bhattacharya received her B.Tech. (B.S.) degree in Electrical Engineering from Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, Kolkata, India, in July 2017. She received the M. Tech. (M.S.) degree in Nanoscience and Technology from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, in July 2019. She joined the OSU ECE WBG group in January 2022. Her research interests include the simulation, design, fabrication, and testing of SiC power devices. She is currently working on the 3.3kV SiC MOSFET modelling project and Interface Defect Analysis of SiC Power Devices, among others.

Shiva Houshmand

houshmand.3@osu.edu

Shiva Houshmand received her B.S. degree in Electrical Telecommunications Engineering at Tabriz University in July 2017. She received her M.S. degree in Micro and Nano Electronics at K. N. Toosi University of Technology in May 2021. She joined the OSU ECE WBG group in August 2023. Her research interests include the simulation, fabrication, and testing of SiC power devices

Zach Weber

weber.979@osu.edu

Zach Weber received his B.S. degree in Engineering Physics with an Electrical Engineering focus from The Ohio State University in May 2022. His research interests include quantum devices and sensors. Zach began to work alongside the group in the Fall of 2022, working on the design, simulation, fabrication, and implementation of a SiC neutron detector and related circuitry.