Lab Members

Faculty

Dr. Aaron D. Franklin

Dr. Aaron D. Franklin

Addy Professor

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE)
Department of Chemistry
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs (Pratt School of Engineering)

Fitzpatrick CIEMAS 3473

919-681-9471

aaron.franklin@duke.edu

PhD Students

Faris Albarghouthi

Faris Albarghouthi

Ph.D. Candidate

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) 

faris.albarghouthi@duke.edu

Brian Cole

Brian Cole

Ph.D. Student

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) 

brian.cole@duke.edu

Jay Doherty

Jay Doherty

Ph.D. Candidate

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE)

jay.doherty@duke.edu

Hansel Alex Hobbie

Hansel Alex Hobbie

Ph.D. Candidate

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE)

hansel.hobbie@duke.edu

Samantha Holmes

Samantha Holmes

Ph.D. Student

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE)

samantha.k.holmes@duke.edu

Brittani (Carroll) Huegen

Brittani (Carroll) Huegen

Ph.D. Candidate, NSF GRFP Fellow

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE)

brittani.carroll@duke.edu

Victoria Ravel

Victoria Ravel

Ph.D. Student

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE)

victoria.ravel@duke.edu

Brittany Smith

Brittany Smith

Ph.D. Candidate, NSF GRFP Fellow

brittany.smith276@duke.edu

Baiyu Zhang

Baiyu Zhang

Ph.D. Candidate

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE)

baiyu.zhang@duke.edu

Undergraduate Students

Danny Badia

CS major, joined lab in 2023

Joshua Guthrie

ECE/CS major, joined lab in 2023

Lauren Kenselaar

BME major, joined lab in 2023

Quentin MacFarlane

ECE major, joined lab in 2022

James Mu

BME major, joined lab in 2023

Xiongxiong Pei

ECE major, joined lab in 2021

Matthew Salfity

BME major, joined lab in 2022

Chandler Wimmer

BME/ME major, joined lab in 2023

Alumni

PhD Student Alumni

Dr. Hattan Abuzaid

(2022 PhD)
Dissertation: "On the impact of materials and processes on edge-contacted 2D transition metal dichalcogenide transistors"
Currently: Consulting Lead at KAPSARC in Saudi Arabia

 

Dr. Shiheng Lu

(2022 PhD)
Dissertation: "Aerosol jet printing of carbon nanotube thin-film transistors"
Currently: Research Engineer at Huawei

Dr. Nick Williams

(2021 PhD)
Dissertation: "Custom inks and printing processes for electronic biosensing devices"
Currently: Director of Product at X-COR Therapeutics

 

Dr. Jorge Cardenas

(2020 PhD)
Dissertation: "In-Place Printing of Carbon Nanotube Transistors at Low Temperature"
Currently: Postdoctoral Researcher at Sandia National Lab

 

Dr. Yuh-Chen Lin

(2020 PhD)
Dissertation: "Two-Dimensional Negative Capacitance-FETs with Ferroelectric HfZrO2"
Currently: Research Scientist at Meta

 

Dr. Steven Noyce

(2020 PhD)
Dissertation: "Mapping Sensitivity of Nanomaterial Field-Effect Transistors"
Currently: Senior Scientist at Bridgestone and CEO at Versametrics

 

Dr. Joseph Andrews

(2019 PhD)
Dissertation: "Printed carbon nanotube thin films for electronic sensing"
Currently: Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin - Madison

 

Dr. Zhihui Cheng

(2019 PhD)
Dissertation: "Modification and scaling of metal contacts to 2D materials using an in-situ argon ion beam"
Currently: Research Engineer at Intel

 

Dr. Kate Price

(2019 PhD)
Dissertation: "On the impact and growth of plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition high-k dielectrics on 2D crystals"
Currently: Research Scientist at Army Research Laboratory (ARL)

 

Dr. Daniel Joh

(2018 PhD, co-advised with A. Chilkoti, BME)
Dissertation: "Molecular and biofunctional modification of conformal POEGMA bottlebrush coatings and applications toward in vitro diagnostics"
Currently: MD resident at Duke

 

Dr. Felicia McGuire

(2018 PhD)
Dissertation: "Two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide negative capacitance field-effect transistors"
Currently: Business Development at Yole Intelligence

Masters Student Alumni

Alexander Mangus

(2022 Masters in ECE)

Hope Meikle

(2022 Masters in MSE)

Shulin Ye

(2021 Masters in ECE)

Postdoc Alumni

Dr. Changyong Cao

(2015-2016 Post Doc)
Currently: Assis. Professor at Michigan State Univ

Undergraduate Student Alumni

Rowena Ge

(2023 REU Student)

Jeiko Pujols

(2023 REU Student)

Eeshta Bhatt

(2022-2023 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Alison Kuo

(2023 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Ashley Lo

(2023 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Ryan Wence

(2021-2023 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Simon Gorbaty

(2021-2022 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Aneesh Karappur

(2021-2022 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Iman Khanani

(2022 REU Student)

Joshua Medway

(2020-2022 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Peter Ballentine

(2018-2022 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Rubimarie Vasquez

(2022 REU Student)

Nathan Choe

(2018-2021 Pratt Research Fellow)

Maya Parekh

(2021 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Brendan Peercy

(2021 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Spencer Schutz

(2021 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Joseph Zhang

(2021 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Matthew Barbano

(2016-2020 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Nathaniel Brooke

(2018-2020 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Joanne Zheng

(2018-2020 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Zoe Fowler

(2019 REU Student)

Cesar Lasalde Ramirez

(2019 REU Student)

Shreya Singh

(2017-2019 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Max Smith

(2018-2019 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Justin Wang

(2018-2019 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Nate Watson

(2017-2019 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Favour Dada

(2018 REU Student)

Chin Jie (CJ) Lim

(2017-2018 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Jugal Mehta

(2017 REU Student)

Jacob Mullett

(2016-2017 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Sophia Upshaw

(2017 REU Student)

Vipin Prajapati

(2016 REU Student)

Kirstin Schauble

(2016 REU Student)

Chuanze (Tom) Wu

(2015-2016 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Abhinay Kumar

(2015 REU Student)

Visiting Researcher Alumni

Jian Guan

(2017-2018 Visiting PhD Student)
Currently: Postdoc at Chongqing CAS

Sina Najmaei

(2015-2016 Visiting Researcher)
Currently: Research Scientist at ARL