Rossin Connection: Lehigh University Engineering
Rossin Connection is a podcast about all things Lehigh Engineering, and comes to you from the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science at Lehigh University. It's a show for students, alumni, faculty, and staff—current, former, and future—and for anyone interested in the many creative ways that engineers are solving the world’s problems.
Rossin Connection: Lehigh University Engineering
Beyond Silicon: The Search for Next-Generation Semiconductors with Siddha Pimputkar
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Growing up, Siddha Pimputkar spent summers with his grandparents, which meant spending lots of time figuring out how to maintain an old house and a large garden. That love of problem solving stayed with him, and he eventually turned it into a career in materials science, the engineering discipline that, he says, connects to all the others in some shape or form. Today, as an associate professor of materials science and engineering, he’s developing new methods to grow cubic boron nitride—a novel semiconductor material that could outperform silicon in high-power electronics, electric vehicles and future energy systems. It’s so promising, he often calls it the “holy grail” of materials.
Guest bio:
Siddha Pimputkar is an associate professor in Lehigh University's Department of Materials Science and Engineering. His research focuses on crystal growth, wide-bandgap and ultra-wide-bandgap semiconductor materials, and advanced manufacturing techniques for next-generation electronics. His laboratory is developing scalable methods to grow cubic boron nitride crystals for applications in power electronics, communications, manufacturing and energy systems.
Rossin Connection is hosted and produced by Christine Fennessy, with support from the Dean's office at the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science.
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