The Center for Advanced Semiconductor Materials and Devices (CASMAD) is focused on advancing the semiconductor research, technology, workforce training and policies promoting these developments at SUNY Polytechnic Institute. By leveraging existing SUNY Poly expertise in the field of semiconductor materials and devices and collaborations with other academic institutions and industry the center serves to create a thriving environment for transformative research in the advanced materials and devices field, with multidisciplinary ramifications leading to innovations in areas that are of significance for the society. The center activity is focused on areas of expertise that include material science and new device architectures with applications for Power Electronics, Renewable Energy, Sensors and Optoelectronics, Energy Storage and Conversion and Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS). The research aims to develop new materials, devices and processing technologies with an emphasis on wide and ultrawide bandgap materials, metal-oxide semiconductors for low-power complementary architectures, photo-electrochemical materials and devices, 2-dimenssional materials and technologies for defect-free material synthesis, etc.
