Julia W. P. Hsu

EDUCATION:

1985 - 90

Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305

Ph. D. in physics, 1991

Dissertation title: Novel Transport Properties of Two-Dimensional Superconductors

Advisor: A. Kapitulnik

M. S. in physics, 1987

1981-85

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544

B. S. E. summa cum laude in chemical engineering, 1985

Thesis title: Efficiency of He and N2 as Third Body Gases in Cs¹³³-Xe¹²⁹ Systems

Advisor: W. Happer

Program certificate in engineering physics, 1985

EXPERIENCE:

University of Texas at Dallas

2010 - present

Professor, the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

2010 - present

Texas Instruments Distinguished Chair in Nanoelectronics

2018 - present

Director, UTD Materials and Surface Technology Resource (MaSTeR)

2020 - 2022, 2024

Associate Head, Department of Materials Science and Engineering

2019 - 2020

Director, Light Institute of Texas (LIT)

2011- 2016

Associate Head, Department of Materials Science and Engineering

2011- 2016

Graduate Director, Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2023 - 2024

Visiting Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Sandia National Laboratories

2003 - 2010

Principal Member of Technical Staff, Surface & Interface Science

2006 - 2010

Scientist, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies

Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies Inc.

1999 - 2003

Member of Technical Staff, Semiconductor Physics

University of Virginia

1997 - 2001

Associate Professor of Physics (with tenure)

1993 - 1997

Assistant Professor of Physics

AT&T Bell Laboratories

1990 - 1992

Postdoctoral Member of Technical Staff, Supervisor: M. J. Cardillo

HONORS AND AWARDS:

2024 - present

Institute of Physics (IoP) Fellow

2020 - present

Honorary International Chair Professor, Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, Taipei Tech

2023

Simons Foundation Pivot Fellow

2022

Phi Kappa Phi (life member)

2022

Erik Jonsson School of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award

2018

August-Wilhelm Scheer Visiting Professorship - Honorary Fellow of Technische Universität München Institute for Advanced Study

2011

Materials Research Society (MRS) Fellow. Citation: For contributions to understanding relationships between materials structure and electronic properties at the nanoscale via careful experimentation and technique development, and for leadership of the materials research community.

2007

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow

2007

Sandia National Laboratories, Laboratory Directed Research & Development,Award for Excellence, “Nanolithography Directed Materials Growth and Self-assembly"

2005

First Prize, "Science as Art" Competition at 2005 Spring Materials Research Society Meeting

2002

Outstanding Speaker Award, ONR workshop on Extended Defects in Wide Gap Semiconductors

2001

American Physical Society (APS) Fellow. Citation: For pioneering work in applying scanning probe microscopy techniques to elucidate the nanometer scale electronic and optical properties of novel materials, in particular the physics related to defect

1994

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship

1993

National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award

1986

Apker Award from the American Physical Society

1985-90

John and Fannie Hertz Foundation Fellowship

1985-90

Graduate Research Program for Women Grant from AT&T Bell Labs

1985

Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, and Sigma Xi

1985

Allen G. Shenstone Prize in Physics, James Hayes-Edgar Palmer Prize in Engineering, Jeffrey O. Kephart Award in Engineering Physics, Princeton University

1983

Society of Women Engineers Bechtel Corporation Scholarship

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Emergent photovoltaics, e.g. organic, hybrid, perovskite

• Non-thermal, low-temperature thin-film processing with pulsed light

• Solution synthesis of inorganic nanostructures, e.g. ZnO, CuGaO₂, transition metal dichalcogenides

• Interfacial phenomena between dissimilar materials, e.g. metal/organic, oxide/organic, oxide/metal

• Growth and properties of lattice-mismatched semiconductors, e.g. GeSi/Si, GaAs/Ge, GaN/sapphire

• Scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy, e.g. AFM, conducting-tip AFM, NSOM

• Semiconductor defect characterization, e.g. conducting-tip AFM, capacitance spectroscopy

• Oxide catalysts for NO oxidation

• Superconductivity, metal-insulator transition, proximity effect

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:

• American Physical Society

• Materials Research Society

CURRENT PROJECTS:

• High-throughput, Low-temperature Solution-processing of Transparent Conducting Electrodes on Plastic Substrates for Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells

• Indium-based Inorganic Films as Extreme UV Resist

• Bayesian Optimization Applying to Small-dataset Experimental Investigations

• Metal Oxide Transistors and Phototransistors for Short-term Memory Neuromorphic Computing

PhD DISSERTATION SUPERVISED:

• Robert T. Piper (2024), Advancing flexible perovskite solar cell manufacturing: exploiting photonic curing for scalable, efficient processing
• Weijie Xu (2023), High-throughput optimizing halide perovskite solar cells processed by photo-irradiation
• Boya Zhang (2022). Organic Photovoltaics for Outdoor and Indoor Applications
• Lakshmi Narayanan Mosur Saravana Murthy (2021), Charge Transport and Device Physics in Fullerene-based Organic Photovoltaics
• Trey B. Daunis (2019), Processing Oxide Thin Films with Light: A Path to High-Throughput Solution-Processed Oxide Electronics
• Sampreetha Thampy (2018), Synthesis, Structure, and Gas-Surface Interaction in RM₂O_5-δ Mullite-Type Oxides as Nitric Oxide (NO) Oxidation Catalysts
• Liang Xu (2017), Charge Dynamics and Device Physics in Bulk-Heterojunction Organic Photovoltaics
• Diego Barrera (2017), Synthesis and Characterization of Transition Metal Oxides and Dichalcogenides and Their Application in Organic Photovoltaics; CIMAV - Monterrey
• Jian Wang (2015), Nanomaterials as Interfacial Contact Layers for Organic Photovoltaics; University of Washington
• Anthony L. Campillo (2001), Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy Studies of Photonic Structures and Materials; Naval Research Laboratory
• Matthew H. Gray (2001), Near-field Photocurrent Studies of Temperature and Polarization Dependence in Relaxed SiGe Films on a Si Substrates; National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Qin Xu (1998), Surface Morphological and Electronic Studies of GaAs Films Grown on Ge and Ge/Si Substrate; Principal Engineer, New Scale Technologies, Inc.
• Eric B. McDaniel (1997), Nanometer Scale Studies of Novel Oxide Materials Using Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy

MS THESIS:

• Gary G. Turner (2023), Properties of Blade-coated Transparent Conducting Oxide Sol-gel Precursor Films on Plastic Substrates
• Michael Womble (2017), Sources of Dielectric Loss in Polypropylene Based Nanocomposites
• Sampreetha Thampy (2014), Synthesis and Characterization of Transition Metal-Mullite Catalysts for Nitric Oxide (NO) Oxidation
• Frederik F. Schrey (2002), A Microscope for Imaging, Spectroscopy, and Lithography at theNanometer Scale: Combination of a Two-photon Laser Scanning Optical Microscope and an Atomic Force Microscope
• Amanda McDaniel (1997), Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy Studies of Cu(In,Ga)Se₂ Solar Cells

SELECTIVE PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

• External Review Committee, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) (2011-present)
• Member, National Academies Panel on Review of the Engineering Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (2020)
• Member, National Academies Technical Assessment Board Panel on Propulsion Sciences at the Army Research Laboratory (2020)
• Member, Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (BESAC), a federally chartered advisory committee that provides advice to the Department of Energy’s Office of Science relative to the Basic Energy Sciences (BES) program (2019-2020)
• Guest Editor, Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991), Special Issue on “Solution Synthesis, Processing, and Applications of Nanomaterials” (2018-2019)
• Advisory panel, Princeton Center for Complex Materials (2009-2020)
• Member, Meeting Quality Subcommittee, Materials Research Society (2012-2017)
• Member, Nomination Committee, of the American Physical Society Division of Materials Physics (2011-2013)
  
• Member, Nomination Committee, of the American Physical Society Division of Condensed Matter Physics (2010)
• Chair, International Relations Committee, Materials Research Society (2010-2011)
  
• External Advisory Committee, U. Massachusetts Energy Frontier Research Center (2009-2014)
• Chair, Program Committee for American Physical Society Workshop on Energy Research for Young Physicists, American Physical Society Topic Group on Energy Research and Applications (2010)
• James C. McGroddy Prize selection committee, American Physical Society (2007-2008)
  
• Member, Program Committee for American Physical Society Workshop on Energy Research for Young Physicists (2008-2009)
• Treasurer and Chair of Operational Oversight Committee, Materials Research Society (2006- 2007)
• Board of Directors, Materials Research Society (2005-2007)
• Member-at-Large in the Executive Committee of the American Physical Society Division of Materials Physics (2004-2007)
• Editorial Board, Solid State Communications (2005-2008)
• Meeting Chair for the 2004 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting
• Member of the Minerals, Metals and Materials (TMS) Society Electronic Materials Committee (2000-2006)
• Invited organizer for 1997-2011 Electronic Materials Conference