NanoPATh Group

Nanoelectronics, Plasmas, & Accelerator Technology

Recent News


  • 11/15/2023 Congratulations to Yves Heri for winning the MIPSE Graduate Student Symposium Best Presentation Award!

  • 9/14/2023 Check out our Tutorial/Review seminar on multipactor at GEC-IOPS!

  • 7/19/2023 Yang Zhou will join Argonne National Laboratory as a Postdoctoral Researcher. Congratulations on the new job and Best Wishes for your future work and study, Yang!

  • 6/8/2023 Congratulations to Yang Zhou for winning the Best Poster Award, third prize, at American Vacuum Society (AVS) Michigan Chapter 2023 Spring Symposium!

  • 5/26/2023 The group at ICOPS 2023 in Santa Fe!



























  • 10/31/2022 Congratulations to Yang Zhou for successfully defending his PhD thesis!

  • 8/25/2022 Welcome Lan Jin, Md Wahidur Rahman, Yves Kimbele Heri, and Bingqing Wang joining us as PhD students!

  • 7/21/2022 Congratulations to Dr. Deqi Wen on publishing his work on harmonics generation in multipactor induced ionization plasma breakdown in PRL!

  • 5/5/2022 Dr. Sneha Banerjee's review paper on nanoscale electrical contacts is selected as a Featured Article in JVSTA! Congratulations Sneha!

  • 3/25/2022 Congratulations to Yang Zhou for winning the 2022 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) Graduate Scholarship Award!

  • 3/15/2022 Congratulations to Yang Zhou for winning the 2022 MSU Electrical Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Award, 2nd place!

  • 11/18/2021 Congratulations to Asif Iqbal for winning the MIPSE Graduate Student Symposium Best Presentation Award (again)!

  • 11/8/2021 Dr. Yi Luo's paper on photoemission in a nanogap is selected as a Featured Article in Applied Physics Letters! Congratulations Yi!

  • 8/20/2021 Sneha Banerjee will join Sandia National Labs as a Postdoctoral Researcher. Congratulations on the new job and Best Wishes for your future work and study, Sneha!

  • 8/16/2021 Welcome Ayush Paudel and Md Arifuzzaman Faisal joining us as PhD students!

  • 8/12/2021 Yang Zhou's paper on quantum efficiency of photoemission is selected as a Featured Article in Journal of Applied Physics, and is highlighted in Scilight! Congratulations Yang!

  • 7/1/2021 Yi Luo will join University of Notre Dame as a Postdoctoral Researcher. Congratulations on the new job and Best Wishes for your future work and study, Yi!

  • 5/18/2021 Congratulations to Yi Luo for successfully defending his PhD thesis!

  • 4/19/2021 Congratulations to Yi Luo for becoming a MIPSE Fellow!

  • 3/29/2021 Congratulations to Sneha Banerjee for winning the 2021 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) Graduate Scholarship Award!

  • 3/19/2021 Congratulations to Sneha Banerjee for successfully defending her PhD thesis!

  • 3/1/2021 Congratulations to Sneha Banerjee for winning the 2020-2021 MSU Electrical and Computer Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Award!

  • 2/21/2021 Congratulations to Sneha Banerjee for winning the second place in 2021 Michigan State University Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition!

  • 1/27/2021 Congratulations to Asif Iqbal for successfully defending his PhD thesis!

  • 11/18/2020 Congratulations to Sneha Banerjee for winning the MIPSE Graduate Student Symposium Best Presentation Award!

  • 9/22/2020 Congratulations to Sneha Banerjee for being selected as an MSU Graduate School Writing Fellow for 2020-21!

  • 8/29/2020 We thank IEEE NPSS for the Early Achievement Award!

  • 5/27/2020 Check out our Perspective Article on QED Plasmas, reported at Phys.org, Scitech Daily, Newswise, EurekAlert AAAS, Azooptics, Science Daily, AIP Publihsing News, and Space Daily]

  • 5/20/2020 Congratulations to Asif Iqbal on winning the 2019-2020 MSU Electrical Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Award!

  • 4/24/2020 Congratulations to Yang Zhou for publishing an Editor's Pick article in JAP on a qunatum model on photoemission!

  • 4/16/2020 Congratulations to Sneha Banerjee on becoming a MIPSE Fellow !

  • 4/8/2020 We thank ONR for the Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award!

  • 11/13/2019 Congratulations to Asif Iqbal on winning the MIPSE Graduate Student Symposium Best Presentation Award!

  • 7/22/2019 Check out our group photo taken at PPPS 2019 in Orlando!
















  • 4/23/2019 Congratulations to Asif Iqbal on becoming a MIPSE Fellow !

  • 11/15/2018 Congratulations to Yi Luo on winning the MIPSE Graduate Student Symposium Best Presentation Award!

  • 8/30/2018 Welcome Dr. Patrick Wong joining us as a Postdoctoral Researcher, and Welcome Zizhuo Huang and Yang Zhou joinging us as PhD students!

  • 7/19/2018 Check out our Feature Paper on looped CNT field emitters!

  • 6/21/2018 Congratulations to Dr. Yangyang Fu for publishing an APL Featured Article on gas breakdown with a surface bump!

  • 10/12/2017 We thank AFOSR for the Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award!

  • 8/22/2017 Welcome Yi Luo, Sneha Banerjee, and Asif Iqbal joining us as PhD students!

  • 3/17/2017 Check out our latest Review Paper on 100 years of the physics of diodes.

  • 10/24/2016 Review paper on Ultrafast and Nanoscale Diodes is published!

  • 10/5/2016 Paper on Coupled electrical-thermal condution is published!

  • 10/2/2016 Thinking of becoming an academic descendant of Issac Newton? Join our group! Academic Genealogy

  • 9/22/2016 NanoPATh Group website is launched. Check out! http://www.egr.msu.edu/~pz