Scientific Program

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Program

Day 1 (Oct. 13th)
Time	Speaker	Title/Activity
08:00 – 09:00 AM		Breakfast
09:00 – 09:30 AM	Seth Ariel Tongay	Opening remark
09:30 – 10:00 AM	Youssry Botros	Leading at the Crossroads of the AI Era in Semiconductors: Structuring Academia–Industry Collaboration for Scalable Innovation
10:00 -10:30 AM	Jason Conrad	ASU: A Leader in Semiconductor R&D
10:30 -10:45 AM		Coffee break at PSF 186
10:45 -11:15 AM	Umberto Celano	The Quest for Scalable Metrology Techniques for Defects Characterization in 2D Materials
11:15 -11:45 AM	Ivan Sanchez Esqueda	Recent developments on 2D materials for microelectronics: transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and beyond
11:45 AM -01:00 PM		Lunch at PSF 186
01:00 – 02:00 PM		Poster Session at PSF 186
02:00 – 02:30 PM	Bin Chen	Solving the Hidden Cost of Efficiency: Stabilizing Passivated Interfaces in Perovskite Solar Cells
02:30 – 03:00 PM	Farida Selim	Recent advances in UWBG Ga2O3 – epitaxial growth and novel approaches in controlling its electronic transport
03:00 – 03:15 PM		Coffee break at PSF 186
04:15 – 04:45 PM	Joe Margetis	Low Temperature Growth for Ultra-low Resistivity Epitaxial Layers
04:45 – 05:15 PM	Hui Cai	Defects, dopants, and phase engineering of quantum materials through chemical vapor deposition
06:00 – 08:00 PM		Buffet at PSF 186

Day 2 (Oct. 14th)
Time	Speaker	Title/Activity
08:30 – 09:30 AM		Breakfast
09:30 – 10:00 AM	Robert Nemanich	Epitaxial growth of c-BN on Diamond, an Ultra-Wide Bandgap Heterostructure
10:00 -10:30 AM	Yunbo Ou	The Hard Ferromagnetism in FePS3 Induced by Non-magnetic Molecular Intercalation
10:30 -10:45 AM		Coffee break at PSF 186
10:45 -11:15 AM	Zafer Mutlu	From Molecules to Logic: Atomically Precise Graphene Nanoribbon Transistors
11:15 -11:45 AM	Huoqiang Fu	Ultrawide Bandgap Oxides and Nitrides for Next-Generation Power Electronics
11:45 AM -12:00 PM	Seth Ariel Tongay	Closing Remark
12:00 – 01:00 PM		Poster Session at PSF 186
12:30 – 01:30 PM		Lunch at PSF 186

Quick Links & Resources

Location and date

• ASU Interactive Map – PSF Building
• Venue Address: 550 E Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ 85287
• Dates: October 13–14, 2025
• Agenda Release: August 31, 2025

Session Highlights

– Emerging materials and device applications showcase
– Keynote talks from leaders in epitaxial growth and semiconductor integration
– Industry-academia collaboration panels