The Grainger College of Engineering
Center for Advanced Semiconductor Chips with Accelerated Performance (ASAP)

Publications

 

2026

  • Afrid, Sheikh Mohd Ta-Seen, He Lin Zhao, Arend M. van der Zande, and Shaloo Rakheja. “Strain-Driven Control of Carrier Injection at Pristine and Defective n- and p-Type Metal-TMD Interfaces.” In 2026 International VLSI Symposium on Technology, Systems and Applications (VLSI-TSA), 1–2. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2026.

  • Truong, Minh S. Q., Yiqiu Sun, Dawei Xiong, Alexander Glass, Abraham Farrell, James A. Bain, L. Richard Carley, and Saugata Ghose. “The Memory Processing Unit: A Generalized Interface for End-to-End In-Memory Execution.” In Proceedings of the 2026 IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 1–16. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2026.

2025

  • Braun, Paul V., and L. Goddard. “Direct Laser Writing of High-Refractive-Index-Contrast Volumetric Photonics.” Paper presented at SPIE Photonics West Conference, San Francisco, CA, January 2025. Paper 13381-22.

  • Samdani, Golam M., Ankit Shukla, and Shaloo Rakheja. “A Custom End-to-End Modeling Suite for Ferroelectric Devices.” Presented at the Device Research Conference (DRC), 2025.

  • Samdani, Golam M., Ankit Shukla, and Shaloo Rakheja. “Switching Dynamics of Multidomain Ferroelectric Devices: Physical Modeling Approaches, Experimental Validation, and Design-Space Exploration.” Presented at IEEE NANO 2025.

2024

  • Feinberg, Ben, Tianyu P. Xiao, Minh S. Q. Truong, Anmol Tyagi, Ryan Wong, Yiqiu Sun, and Saugata Ghose. “Tutorial on Simulation for Processing-Using-Memory Systems.” Presented at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture, Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 30, 2024.

  • Rakheja, Shaloo. “A Materials- and Devices-Centric Approach to Neuromorphic Computing.” Presented at ICCAD 2024.

  • Tunga, Ashwin, Junzhe Kang, Zijing Zhao, Ankit Shukla, Wenjuan Zhu, and Shaloo Rakheja. “Modeling of Content Addressable Memory Using 2D Reconfigurable Transistors.” In Proceedings of the 2024 Device Research Conference (DRC), 1–2. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1109/DRC61706.2024.10605524

2026

  • Afrid, Sheikh Mohd Ta-Seen, Ankan Ghosh Dastider, Arend M. van der Zande, and Shaloo Rakheja. “Physics-Guided Machine Learning of Defect-Tuned Contact Resistance in Metal-TMD Contacts.” Under review at IEDM, 2026.

  • Afrid, Sheikh Mohd Ta-Seen, He Lin Zhao, Arend M. van der Zande, and Shaloo Rakheja. “Strain-Controlled Interfacial Transport Governs Contact Resistance in Top and Edge n/p-Type Metal-TMD Junctions.” Under review at ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2026.

  • Afrid, Sheikh Mohd Ta-Seen, He Lin Zhao, Arend M. van der Zande, and Shaloo Rakheja. “Strain-Tunable Intervalley Scattering Defines Universal Mobility Enhancement in n- and p-Type 2D TMDs.” npj 2D Materials and Applications (2026).

  • He Lin Zhao, Sheikh Mohd Ta-Seen Afrid, Dongyoung Yoon, Zachary Martin, Zakaria Islam, Sihan Chen, Yue Zhang, Pinshane Y. Huang, Shaloo Rakheja, and Arend M. van der Zande. “Enhancing Hole Mobility in Monolayer WSe₂ p-Type Field-Effect Transistors via Process-Induced Compression.” ACS Nano 20, no. 25 (2026): 18252–18262. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.6c03313

  • Jisung Seo, Soo Ho Choi, Qi Chen, Seunghee Park, Il Jeon, and Hyunseok Kim. “Crystal Engineering Pathways Above, Below, and Between 2D Materials.” Advanced Functional Materials (2026): e29607.

  • Jun Young Jeon, Qi Chen, Soo Ho Choi, Yonuk Chong, Il Jeon, and Hyunseok Kim. “Nitride Micro-LEDs Toward Bio-Integrated Platforms: Growth, Integration, and Emerging Applications.” ACS Nano 20, no. 16 (2026): 12107–12140.

  • Lam, Bao, Yung Man Yu, Hyunjun Nam, Hsu-Chih Ni, Shomik Chatterjee, Shaloo Rakheja, Jian-Min Zuo, and Qing Cao. “Monolithic Three-Dimensional Integration of Silicon Transistors.” Nature (2026): 1–8.

  • Qian, Siyuan, and Shaloo Rakheja. “Fokker-Planck Framework for Stochastic Octupole Moment Dynamics in Chiral Antiferromagnet Mn₃Sn.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.08531 (2026). Under review at Physical Review Applied.

  • Tunga, Ashwin, Junzhe Kang, Zijing Zhao, Ankit Shukla, Wenjuan Zhu, and Shaloo Rakheja. “Benchmarking of Emerging Material-Based TCAMs.” IEEE Journal on Exploratory Solid-State Computational Devices and Circuits (2026).

  • Ze-Wei Chen, Qi Chen, Rithwik Rayani, Soo Ho Choi, and Hyunseok Kim. “Emerging Strategies for Controllable Mechanical Exfoliation of Crystalline Thin Films and Nanomembranes.” Nanoscale 18, no. 22 (2026): 11609–11648.

  • Kim, Byungsoo, Soo Ho Choi, Georgii Zograf, Young Jin Yoo, Yongmin Baek, Seokho Kim, Jongchan Kim, Jeehwan Kim, Sang Hoon Chae, Hyunseok Kim, Seunghoon Hong, and Kyusang Lee. “Co-Packaged Optics for High-Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence.” Nature Electronics. In press.

  • Meng, Yuan, Wenbo Mao, Zhihao Xu, Di Jia, Mengxin Lin, Jisung Seo, Bora Kim, Xinyuan Zhang, Eugene Park, Seokje Lee, Jekyung Kim, Sangmoon Han, Ji-Yun Moon, Weijie Xu, Qian Zhang, Xiaoqing He, Mingfeng Chen, Sang Hyun Nam, Jianqi Hu, Justin S. Kim, Sejin Lee, Sanggeun Bae, Soo Ho Choi, Tae Hyung Kim, Yunseok Choi, Seung-Il Kim, Kyubeen Kim, Minho Jin, Chen Jiang, Yiheng Zhang, Young-Hoon Kim, Jae-Hyun Lee, Hobeom Kim, Sheng Ran, Xi Wang, Cheng-Wei Qiu, Frances M. Ross, Jeehwan Kim, Minjoo Larry Lee, Hyunseok Kim, Tobias J. Kippenberg, Lan Yang, and Sang-Hoon Bae. “Heterogeneous van der Waals Integration of Single-Crystalline Photonic Nanomembranes.” Nature. In press.

  • Seo, Jisung, Soo Ho Choi, Qi Chen, Seunghee Park, Il Jeon, and Hyunseok Kim. “Crystal Engineering Pathways Above, Below, and Between 2D Materials.” Advanced Functional Materials (2026): e29607.

  • Jeon, Jun Young, Qi Chen, Soo Ho Choi, Yonuk Chong, Il Jeon, and Hyunseok Kim. “Nitride Micro-LEDs Toward Bio-Integrated Platforms: Growth, Integration, and Emerging Applications.” ACS Nano 20, no. 16 (2026): 12107-12140.

  • Chen, Ze-Wei, Qi Chen, Rithwik Rayani, Soo Ho Choi, and Hyunseok Kim. “Emerging Strategies for Controllable Mechanical Exfoliation of Crystalline Thin Films and Nanomembranes.” Nanoscale 18, no. 22 (2026): 11609-11648.

2025

  • Bolotin, K. I., Arend M. van der Zande, S. M. Wu, and J. S. Bunch. “Editorial for Special Collection: Two-Dimensional Materials and Heterostructures under Strain.” Journal of Applied Physics 137 (2025): 190402.

  • Kang, Junzhe, Hanwool Lee, Ashwin Tunga, Xiaotong Xu, Ye Lin, Zijing Zhao, Hojoon Ryu, et al. “Non-Volatile Reconfigurable Four-Mode van der Waals Transistors and Transformable Logic Circuits.” ACS Nano 19, no. 13 (2025): 12948–12959. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.4c16862.

  • Qian, Siyuan, Ankit Shukla, and Shaloo Rakheja. “Influence of Thermal Noise on the Field-Driven Dynamics of the Non-Collinear Antiferromagnet Mn₃Sn.” Applied Physics Letters 127, no. 20 (2025).

  • Yuan Meng, Wenbo Mao, Zhihao Xu, Di Jia, Mengxin Lin, Jisung Seo, Bora Kim, et al. “Heterogeneous van der Waals Integration of Single-Crystalline Photonic Nanomembranes.” Nature, in press.

2024

  • Chen, S., Yue Zhang, William P. King, Rashid Bashir, and Arend M. van der Zande. “Edge-Passivated Monolayer WSe₂ Nanoribbon Transistors.” Advanced Materials (2024): 2313694.

  • Chen, S., Yue Zhang, William P. King, Rashid Bashir, and Arend M. van der Zande. “Extension Doping with Low-Resistance Contacts for p-Type Monolayer WSe₂ Field-Effect Transistors.” Advanced Electronic Materials (2024): 2400843. https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.202400843

  • Kim, H., K. Zhao, and Arend M. van der Zande. “Stretchable Thin-Film Transistors Based on Wrinkled Graphene/MoS₂ Heterostructures.” Nano Letters 24, no. 4 (2024): 1454–1461.

  • Kim, J., D. Moon, H. Kim, Arend M. van der Zande, and G.-H. Lee. “Ultrathin and Deformable Etch Mask for Fabrication of 3D Microstructures.” ACS Nano 18, no. 19 (2024): 12325–12332.

  • Zhang, Yue, He Lin Zhao, S. Huang, Mohammad Abir Hossain, and Arend M. van der Zande. “Enhancing Carrier Mobility in Monolayer MoS₂ Transistors with Process-Induced Strain.” ACS Nano 18, no. 19 (2024): 12377–12385.

  • Zhang, Yue, Mohammad Abir Hossain, K. J. Hwang, J. Maduzia, T. Pena, S. Wu, E. Ertekin, and Arend M. van der Zande. “Patternable Process-Induced Strain in 2D Monolayers and Heterobilayers.” ACS Nano 18, no. 5 (2024): 4205–4215.

  • Zhao, Zijing, Junzhe Kang, Ashwin Tunga, Hojoon Ryu, Ankit Shukla, Shaloo Rakheja, and Wenjuan Zhu. “Content-Addressable Memories and Transformable Logic Circuits Based on Ferroelectric Reconfigurable Transistors for In-Memory Computing.” ACS Nano 18, no. 4 (2024): 2763–2771.

2026

  • Golam M. Samdani, J. Mangeri, A. Ghoreyshi, P. Czoschke, and Shaloo Rakheja. “A Multiphysics Study of Performance and Scaling Limits in Thin-Film BaTiO₃ Ferroelectric Memory.” Under review at IEDM, 2026.

2025

  • H. L. Zhao, S. M. T.-S. Afrid, Z. Martin, S. Chen, Y. Zhang, P. Y. Huang, Shaloo Rakheja, and Arend M. van der Zande. “Enhancing Hole Mobility via Process-Induced Compressive Strain in Monolayer WSe₂ FETs.” Under review at IEDM, 2025.

  • Ajiboye, D., O. Alfaro, E. Fabian, E. Khan, O. Funke, J. Ocampo, J. Huang, N. Duggar, D. Espiritu, and L. Goddard. “STEM Research Traineeship Experiences: Impacting Undergraduate STEM Students and Supporting Semiconductor Workforce Talent.” Manuscript in preparation.

  • Golam M. Samdani, Ankit Shukla, and Shaloo Rakheja. “Switching Dynamics of Multidomain Ferroelectric Devices.” Under review at IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology.

2024

  • Souqui, L., T. Huynh, Gregory S. Girolami, and John R. Abelson. “Superconformal CVD of TiN Films by Adsorption Competition Between TDMAT and NH₃.” Manuscript in preparation.

2026

  • MaRIMBA: A Framework to Manage Processing-Using-Memory Architectures at Scale. Submitted to ASPLOS 2026.

  • MASTODON: A Cross-Stack, Cycle-Accurate Simulator for Processing-Using-Memory Platforms. Submitted to ISCA 2026.

  • Rapid, Accurate Chip-Scale Simulation of Digital Compute Using Emerging Memory Devices. Submitted to DATE 2026.

  • Supporting End-to-End Application Execution With a Generalized Interface for Processing-Using-Memory. Submitted to HPCA 2026.

2025

  • RACER: Scalable In-Memory Computing Using Small Memory Tiles. Submitted to ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization, 2025.

  • Wong, Ryan, Ben Feinberg, and Saugata Ghose. “DARTH-PUM: A Hybrid Processing-Using-Memory Architecture.” In Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, vol. 2, 563–582. 2026.

2026

  • Ashwin Tunga. Modeling and simulation of emerging material devices and circuits for next-generation electronics, 2026

  • Dajie Xie. ENGINEERING 3D STRUCTURED PHOTONIC MATERIALS FOR ADVANCED LIGHT MANIPULATION AND PASSIVE THERMAL REGULATION, 2026

  • N. Duggar, "Heterogeneous Integration and Environmental Sensitivity of Volumetric Photonic Integrated Circuits," Ph. D dissertation, Elec. and Comp. Eng., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2026

2025

  • Wong, Ryan, Ben Feinberg, and Saugata Ghose. “DARTH-PUM: A Hybrid Processing-Using-Memory Architecture.” In Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, vol. 2, 563–582. 2026.

  • Kim, Hyunchul. The Impact of Strain and Chemical Functionalization on Two-Dimensional Materials. PhD dissertation, 2025. Unpublished.

  • Lee, Hanwool. Expanding Electronics Beyond Silicon with Wide-Bandgap, 2D, and Ferroelectric Materials. PhD dissertation, 2025.

  • Nahid, Shahriar M. Emergent Functionalities in van der Waals Ferroelectrics: Photovoltaics, Electromechanical Coupling, and Domain Wall Conductivity. PhD dissertation, 2025. Unpublished.

  • Wang, Robert. Selective Area Formation of Porous Silicon Using N-Type Doping. BS thesis, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, May 2025.

  • Zhang, Yue. Process-Induced Strain in Two-Dimensional Semiconductors. PhD dissertation, 2025. Unpublished.

  • Chen, Ziyan. Investigation of the STT-MTJ Switching Behavior using a SPICE Compact Model, 2025.

2024

  • Duggar, Nikita. Volumetric Thermo-Optical Photonic Integrated Circuits. MS thesis, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, May 2024.

  • Kang, Junzhe. Enhancing Nanoscale Electronics: From Novel Channels to Reconfigurable Logic Circuits. PhD dissertation, 2024.

  • Lastowski, R. Joseph. Transition Metal and Actinide Complexes with Unsymmetrical Alkyl Chelates. PhD dissertation, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2024. https://hdl.handle.net/2142/125716.

  • Pulugurtha, Sridevi. Spin Relaxation in Strained Graphene-TMD Heterostructures using Ab Initio Method (Best Student Presentation Award). 2024

2023

  • Ferrari, Paolo Furlanetto. Novel Nanoelectromechanical Systems for Probing and Exploiting Nanomaterial Properties. PhD dissertation, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2023. https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/129127.

  • Hossain, Mohammad Abir. Deformable Two-Dimensional Materials: From Strain Engineerable Properties to Strain Resilient Electronics. PhD diss., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2023. https://hdl.handle.net/2142/120490.

  • Zhu, Wilson. Modeling and simulating voltage controlled magnetic anisotropy magnetic memory devices. 2022