Current Position

Bettex Collegiate Chair and Professor, Electrical Engineering

Education

Ph.D., Physics, North Carolina State University
B.S., Physics, North Carolina State University

Research Interests

Prof. Hinkle's interdisciplinary research focuses on the growth, characterization, and device physics of semiconductor materials and interfaces for use in a wide variety of devices. He is particularly interested in the heterogeneous integration of conventional and quantum materials for applications related to advanced CMOS and power devices, quantum computing, energy harvesting, and energy storage. His research is supported by the NSF, NIST, DARPA, the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), Intel, Texas Instruments, Tokyo Electron, and Applied Materials.

Relevant Energy Publications

1. Kramer, Aaron, Maarten L. Van de Put, Christopher L. Hinkle, and William G. Vandenberghe. "Tellurium as a successor of silicon for extremely scaled nanowires: a first-principles study." npj 2D Materials and Applications 4, no. 1 (2020): 1-8.
2. Smyth, Christopher M., Rafik Addou, Christopher L. Hinkle, and Robert M. Wallace. "Origins of Fermi level pinning between tungsten dichalcogenides (WS2, WTe2) and bulk metal contacts: Interface chemistry and band alignment." The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 124, no. 27 (2020): 14550-14563.
3. Chaves, A., J. G. Azadani, Hussain Alsalman, Diego Rabelo da Costa, R. Frisenda, A. J. Chaves, Seung Hyun Song et al. "Bandgap engineering of two-dimensional semiconductor materials." npj 2D Materials and Applications 4, no. 1 (2020): 1-21.
4. Briggs, Natalie, Shruti Subramanian, Zhong Lin, Xufan Li, Xiaotian Zhang, Kehao Zhang, Kai Xiao et al. "A roadmap for electronic grade 2D materials." 2D Materials 6, no. 2 (2019): 022001.

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