Invited Talks | Cao Research Lab

“Monolithic 3D integration of complementary single-crystalline silicon transistors,” at the 2026 Center for Advanced Semiconductor Technologies Workshop, Buffalo, NY, August 2026.
“Deterministic three-dimensional neural microcircuits for biological computation,” Keynote lecture at the 6th Advanced Epitaxy for Freestanding Membranes and 2D Materials (AEFM) conference, Singapore, Singapore, June 2026.
“Synthesis, properties, and applications of coal derived 2D carbon nanomaterials,” at 2026 American Ceramic Society Spring Meeting, Seattle, WA, April 2026.
“Electrochemical random-access memory for deep-learning accelerator”, at Materials for Sustainable Development Conference (MATSUS26), Barcelona, Spain, March 2026.

“Monolithic 3D integration of silicon junctionless transistors,” Keynote lecture at the 5th Advanced Epitaxy for Freestanding Membranes and 2D Materials (AEFM) conference, Grenoble, France, June 2025.
“Monolithic three-dimensional integration of complementary single-crystalline silicon transistors”, focus speaker at 2025 Device Research Conference, Durham, NC, June 2025.
“Driving nitride micro-LEDs with thin-film transistors built on solution processable Cu-In-Se ordered defect compound semiconductors,” at MicroLEDs, AR/VR Displays, Micro-Optics: Innovations, Start-Ups, Market Trends, Online conference, March 2025.

“Solution-processable ordered defect compound semiconductors for high-performance electronics,” at 2024 Materials Science & Technology (MS&T) technical meeting and exhibition, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2024.

“Carbon Nanotubes—Unique Properties, Electronic Applications and Challenges,” Tutorial at 2023 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, November 2023.
“Electrochemical Transistor Array for Deep Learning Accelerators” at 2023 Non-Volatile Memory Technology Symposium (NVMTS 2023), Leuven (IMEC), Belgium, August 2023.

“Two-Dimensional Amorphous Carbon Prepared from Solution Precursor As Novel Dielectrics for Nanoelectronics,” at 2022 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, November 2022.
“Two-Dimensional Amorphous Carbon Prepared from Solution Precursor As Novel Dielectrics for Nanoelectronics,” at 241st ECS Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 2022.
“Future Nanoelectronics Based on Carbon Nanomaterials,” at 2022 Sigma Xi Monie Ferst Award Symposium, Atlanta, GA, March 2022.
” Nanocarbon Materials for Future High-Performance Electronics,” at 2022 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Anaheim, CA, February 2022.

“Carbon nanotube transistors for future technology nodes,” at 2021 International Symposium on VLSI Technology, Systems and Applications (VLSI-TSA), Hsinchu, Taiwan, April 2021.

“Replacing Silicon with Carbon Nanotubes in Logic Transistors,” at 2020 International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (IEEE-NEMS), September 2020.
“Expanding the Frontiers of Electronics with Material Innovations,” at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), July 2020.
“Carbon nanotube transistor technology,” at Nano and Functional Materials seminar, University of Manchester, June 2020.
“New materials and devices beyond silicon and field-effect transistors,” at 2020 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition, San Diego, CA, February 2020.
“Carbon nanotube transistor technology: the past, the present, the future,” at the 2020 Lawrence Symposium on Epitaxy, Scottsdale, AZ, February 2020.

“Electronics for the next 50 years,” at Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, October 2019.

“Carbon nanotube transistor technology for extremely-scaled logic devices,” at University of Southern California, Los Angles, CA, November 2018.
“Carbon nanotube transistor technology for extremely-scaled logic devices,” at University of Maryland, College Park, MD, November 2018.

“Carbon nanotube transistor technology for extremely-scaled logic devices,” at Center for Nanoscale Systems, Harvard University, Boston, MA, October 2017.
“Carbon Nanotube for Extremely Scaled Logic Transistors to the End of the Technology Roadmap,” at the 18^th International Conference on the Science and Application of Nanotubes and Low-dimensional Materials, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, June 2017.
“Carbon Nanotube Transistor Technology for the 5 nm Technology Node and Beyond,” at the Nanotech 2017 Conference and Expo, Washington, DC, May 2017.

“Extending Moore’s law with carbon nanotube transistors,” at 2016 TTI/Vanguard [Next] Conference, San Francisco, CA, December 2016.
“High-performance logic electronics based on carbon nanotubes for 5nm technology node and beyond,” at the Materials Research Society 2016 fall Meeting, Boston, MA, November 2016.
“Recent progress on high performance logic electronics based on carbon nanotubes,” at the 2016 Annual Convention of Chinese Institute of Engineers-USA Greater New York Chapter, Flushing, NY October 2016.
“Carbon nanotube transistor technology for scaling beyond Si CMOS,” at the 48^th International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials (SSDM), Tsukuba, Japan, September, 2016.
“Carbon nanotube transistor technology for scaling beyond Si CMOS,” at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, January, 2016.

“The Threshold Voltage Variability of Quasi-Ballistic Carbon Nanotube Transistors,” at the 9th Energy, Materials, and Nanotechnology (EMN) Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, November 2015.

“Ultrahigh density arrays of semiconducting nanotubes for high performance logic electronics,” at the 8th Energy, Materials, and Nanotechnology (EMN) Meeting, Orlando, FL, November 2014.
“High density semiconducting nanotube arrays for high performance electronics” at the 51^st Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of the Engineering Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, October 2014.
“En route toward high performance electronics based on single-walled carbon nanotubes” at the SPIE: Defense + Security, Baltimore, MD, May 2014.

“Full-coverage semiconducting nanotube arrays for high performance electronics” at the 7th International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT13), Singapore, July 2013.
“Carbon nanotubes for high-performance logic electronics”, key note lecture at the Fourteenth International Conference on the Science and Application of Nanotubes (NT13), Helsinki, Finland, June 2013.