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2026 BETR Symposium: FET 100 Years

2026 BETR Symposium: FET 100 Years

May 20, 2026 – Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley

The 2026 Berkeley Emerging Technologies Research Symposium featured invited research talks on next-generation hardware for AI, data communications, and heterogeneous integration, lightning talks and posters by BETR Center students and postdocs, as well as a fireside chat between Prof. Eli Yablonovitch and Dr. Tahir Ghani celebrating the 100-year anniversary of the Field Effect Transistor. As UC Berkeley’s premier hub for academia-industry collaborations in semiconductor research, the BETR Symposium again brought together attendees from a wide range of industry, national labs, and academia for a day of networking, exchanging ideas, and building partnerships.

Presenters

Fireside Chat

Eli Yablonovitch ›

Professor in the Graduate School, UC Berkeley

Tahir Ghani ›

Senior Intel Fellow & Director of Semiconductor Research, Intel Corporation

Invited Talks 

Boubacar Kante

Boubacar Kanté ›

Chenming Hu endowed Chaired Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley

Iuliana Radu ›

Deputy Director & TSMC Academician, Corporate Research, TSMC

Robert Chau ›

Process Tech Architect, AMD

Meer Sakib ›

Distinguished Engineer & Silicon Photonics Design Lead, NVIDIA

Ramamoorthy Ramesh ›

Purnendu Chatterjee Chair Professor in Materials Science and Physics, UC Berkeley

John Wilson ›

Principal Research Scientist, Circuits Research Group, NVIDIA

Ming C. Wu ›

Nortel Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley

Jan Rabaey ›

Professor Emeritus, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley

Subramanian Iyer ›

Distinguished Professor & Charles P. Reames Endowed Chair, Electrical Engineering, UCLA

BETR Center Student & Postdoc Presenters

I K M Reaz Rahman

I K M Reaz Rahman ›

Carla Benato Milsted ›

Dasom Lee ›

Lucas Lahann ›

Ravanny Komalig ›

Inha Kim ›

Sarah Millen ›

Taehoon Kim ›

Yiyang Zhi ›

Justin Shih ›

Christos Papapanos ›

Dorottya Urmossy ›

Myeongseop Song ›

Julian Maravilla ›

Yun Chi (Zoe) Yang ›

Junghyeon Hwang ›

Nicholas Yama ›

Koushik Das ›

Sirui Tang ›

Lingyu Meng ›

Linhong Chen ›

Kim Pham ›

Presentation Recordings

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Welcome & BETR Overview

Welcome Remarks (Mark Asta, Sayeef Salahuddin, Michael Bartl)

BETR Center Overview (Michael Bartl)

Fireside Chat

Eli Yablonovitch (Berkeley) and Tahir Ghani (Intel) “100-Year Celebration of the Field Effect Transistor” (Fireside Chat)

Invited Talks 

Meer Sakib (NVIDIA) “Scaling AI Clusters: Challenges in Scale-Up and Scale-Out for Future Growth”

Ming C. Wu (Berkeley) “Optical Circuit Switch (OCS) on a Chip for AI Scale Up”

Boubacar Kanté (Berkeley) “BerkSEL: A Scalable Photonic Crystal Laser”

Subramanian Iyer (UCLA) “Packaging! Quo Vadis?”

John Wilson (NVIDIA) “Thermal Challenges in the Era of AI”

Ramamoorthy Ramesh (Berkeley) “Solving Global-Scale Problems with Fundamental Science”

Jan Rabaey (Berkeley) “Human-Sized AI”

Iuliana Radu (TSMC) “Device and Materials for Increasing Energy Efficiency in the AI Era”

Student & Postdoc Lightning Talks

Nicholas Yama (Sipahigil group) “Electro-Optic Microwave-to-Optical Quantum Transduction”

Christos Papapanos (Kanté group) “BerkSEL: A Scalable Photonic Crystal Laser”

Yiyang Zhi (M. Wu group) “Integrated Visible Photonics for Trapped Ions Quantum Computing”

Sirui Tang (M. Wu group) “All-Dielectric Integrated Microlens Couplers for Scalable and Efficient Photonic I/Os”

Junghyeon Hwang (Salahuddin group) “Switching Dynamics and Endurance in Highly Scaled Ferroelectric Capacitors”

Koushik Das (Salahuddin group) “Atomic-Scale Manipulation of Ferroic Order in CMOS-Compatible Binary Oxides on Si and Beyond”

Myeongseop Song (Salahuddin group) “Coordinated Phase and Geometry Engineering of HfO₂–ZrO₂ Dielectrics for High-Capacitance Density and High-Breakdown Voltage”

Dasom Lee (Liu group) “Effects of Aluminum in the Metallic Gate of Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (MOS) Devices with HfO2 Dielectric”

Justin Shih (Khan group) “Back-End-of-Line Compatible Topological Spin-Torque Memory and Thermal Management for Energy Efficient Computing”

Dorottya Urmossy (Javey group) “Tungsten Oxide Adhesion Layer for Low Resistance Hole Contacts to WSe2”

Taehoon Kim (Javey group) “Ultrathin Amorphous p-Type Tellurium Oxide Films Enabled by Cryogenic Deposition”

Inha Kim (Javey group) “Low-Resistance Raised Contacts Enabled by Selective-Area, Low-Temperature Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Growth”

Reaz Rahman (Javey group) “Nanoscale Electronics with Tellurium”

Carla Benato Milsted (Arias group) “Performance and Scalability of Binary and Ternary Blends in Organic Solar Cells”

Yun Chi (Zoe) Yang (Dames group) “Nanoscale Thermometry with SEM: An Experimental Approach”

Sarah Millen (Dames group) “Nanoscale Thermometry with SEM: A Computational Approach”

Linhong Chen (Yao group) “Polarization-Encodable Photonic Memory Cells Using Group IV Monochalcogenides”

Ravanny Komalig (J. Wu group) “Near Junction Thermal Regulation Using Phase Change Material”

Lingyu Meng (Al Balushi group) “Wafer-Scale Epitaxial Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Growth by MOCVD”

Program Chairs

Prof. Eli Yablonovitch

Professor in the Graduate School, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley 

Prof. Asir Khan

Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley 

Executive Chair

Dr. Michael Bartl

Senior Executive Director, Berkeley Emerging Technologies Research Center, University of California, Berkeley

Prof. Zak Al Balushi

Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley 

Event Location

Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall (3rd floor), UC Berkeley campus

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Contact

Michael Bartl
mbartl@berkeley.edu
+1-213-400-5895