Ali Javey (Advisor)

Wearable sweat sensors have emerged as attractive platforms for non-invasive health monitoring. While most sweat sensors have relied on exercise or chemical stimulation to generate sweat, natural thermoregulatory sweat is an attractive alternative as it can be accessed during routine and even sedentary activity without impeding user lifestyles, while also potentially preserving correlations between sweat and blood biomarkers. For rapid accumulation of natural sweat that enables quick, single-point measurement of sweat analytes, we develop a simple, skin-attachable sensing platform to...

Using electroluminescence as a metrology method could have many advantages for on-chip characterization of chemical composition, where the need for an on-chip light source can be eliminated and materials with different excitation energies can be characterized by the same device. However, the range of materials that can be used in electroluminescent devices is typically limited due to challenges related to material processing and band alignment. In this project, we aim to develop a multiplexed electroluminescent device that can produce electroluminescence from infrared to ultraviolet...

Ever since the invention of the transistor, aggressive channel length scaling has been pursued to achieve higher performance and greater packing density. In order to preserve gate control at short channel lengths, the transistor channel has evolved from bulk to low dimensional substrates, such as 2D thin films and 1D nanowires. For scaling to continue, it is vital that we understand the processing and physics of low dimensional materials.

Chapter 2 focuses on quasi-2D ultrathin body InAsSb-on-insulator n-FETs. III-V materials offer high mobilities for excellent on-state currents,...