Bio
Ning Li is an associate professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Materials Research Institute at Penn State University. He was a Research Staff Member at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, from 2010 to 2022. His research experience includes non-volatile memory devices for in-memory computing, optoelectronic devices for communications and interconnects, advanced packaging and heterogeneous integration, high-frequency high-power devices. He was awarded more than 200 US patents, more than a dozen High Value Patent awards, and multiple Master Inventor awards. He published in scientific journals and conferences including Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, OFC, IEDM, VLSI, etc. His work has been featured on Nature Research Highlight, Semiconductor Today, etc.
He received his B.S. and M.S. from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in Electronics Engineering. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in Electrical and Computer Engineering working with Professor Joe Campbell. (See his academic family tree here) He also worked with Professor T. P. Ma at Yale University and Professor Stephen Forrest at University of Michigan.
Selected Recent Publications:
[1] N. Li*, C. Mackin, A. Chen, K. Brew, T. Philip, A. Simon, I. Saraf, J. Han, S. Sarwat, G.W. Burr, M. Rasch, A. Sebastian, V. Narayanan, N. Saulnier, “Optimization of Projected Phase Change Memory for Analog In-Memory Computing Inference,” Advanced Electronic Materials, 2201190, 2023
[2] N. Li*, H. Tsai, V. Narayanan, Malte Rasch* “Impact of Analog Memory Device Failure on In-Memory Computing Inference Accuracy,” APL Machine Learning, 016104, 2023
[3] N. Li*, K. Han, W. Spratt, S. Bedell, J. Ren, O. Gunawan, J. Ott, M. Hopstaken, C. Cabril, Jr., F. Libsch, C. Subramaniam, G. Shaidi, D. Sadana, “Dust-Sized High-Power-Density Photovoltaic Cells on Si and SOI Substrates for Wafer-Level-Packaged Small Edge Computers,” Advanced Materials 32, 2004573, 2020
[4] N. Li*, K. Han, W. Spratt, S. Bedell, J. Ott, M. Hopstaken, F. Libsch, Q. Li, D. Sadana, “Ultra-Low-Power Sub-Photon-Voltage High-Efficiency Light-Emitting Diodes,” Nature Photonics 13, 588, 2019
[5] N. Li*, S. Bedell, H. Hu, S.-J. Han, X. H. Liu, K. Saenger, D. Sadana, “Single Crystal Flexible Electronics Enabled by 3D Spalling,” Advanced Materials 29, 1606638, 2017
[6] N. Li*, K. Liu, V. Sorger, D. Sadana, “Monolithic III-V on Si Plasmonic Nanolaser Structure for Optical Interconnects,” Scientific Reports 5, 14067, 2015
[7] C. Cheng, K. Shiu, N. Li, S. J. Han, L. Shi, D. K. Sadana, “Epitaxial Lift-off Process for Gallium Arsenide Substrate Reuse and Flexible Electronics,” Nature Communications 4, 1577, 2013
[8] N. Li*, S. Oida, G.S. Tulevski, S. Han, J.B. Hannon, D.K. Sadana, T.C. Chen, “Efficient and Bright Organic Light-Emitting Diodes on Single-Layer Graphene Electrode,” Nature Communications 4, 2294, 2013
[9] N. Li, B. E. Lassiter, R. R. Lunt, G. Wei, S.R. Forrest, “Open Circuit Voltage Enhancement due to Reduced Dark Current in Small Molecule Photovoltaic Cells,” Applied Physics Letters 94, 023307, 2009
[10] N. Li*, E. S. Harmon, J. Hyland, D. B. Salzman, T. P. Ma, Y. Xuan, P. D. Ye “Properties of a Simple InAs Field-Effect-Transistor with ALD Al2O3 Gate Dielectric,” Applied Physics Letters 92, 143507, 2008
[11] N. Li, X. Li, S. Demiguel, X. Zheng, J. C. Campbell, D. A. Tulchinsky, K. J. Williams, T.D. Isshiki, G.S. Kinsey, R. Sudharsansan, “High-Saturation-Current Charge-Compensated InGaAs/InP Uni-Traveling-Carrier Photodiode,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 16, 864, 2004
[12] S. Demiguel, N. Li, X. Li, X. Zheng, J. Kim, J. C. Campbell, H. Lu, and K. A. Anselm, “Very High-Responsivity Evanescently-Coupled Photodiodes Integrating a Short Planar Multimode Waveguide for High-Speed Applications,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 15, 1761, 2003
[13] N. Li, R. Sidhu, X. Li, F. Ma, X. Zheng, S. Wang, G. Karve, S. Demiguel, A. L. Holmes, Jr., and J. C. Campbell, “InGaAs/InAlAs Avalanche Photodiode with Undepleted Absorber,” Applied Physics Letters 82, 2175, 2003