Arunima K. Singh is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics at Arizona State University and a graduate faculty of the Materials Science and Engineering department at ASU. In the EFRC center, Singh is the co-leader of Thrust 2 and a PI of Thrust 1 and 2. Prior to joining the ASU faculty, Singh was a postdoctoral associate at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in the Materials Project team, from 2017-2018, and at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, in the Materials Genome team, from 2014-2016. She received her doctorate in 2014 from Cornell University. Her research focuses on accelerating materials discovery, synthesis, and application using first-principles computations. She is particularly interested in physical phenomena occurring at surfaces and interfaces of materials.

David Smith is Regents’ Professor of Physics at Arizona State University. He received his Ph.D. in Physics (1978) and D.Sc. (1988) from the University of Melbourne, Australia. He served as Director, Cambridge University High Resolution Electron Microscope (1980 to 1984) and Director, ASU Center for High Resolution Electron Microscopy (1991 to 2006), and he was President of the Microscopy Society of America in 2009. His long-term research interests have centered on the development and applications of atomic-resolution electron microscopy, with recent interest in semiconductor heterostructures and ultrawide-bandgap materials.

Kelly Woo is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University advised by Professor Srabanti Chowdhury in the WBG Lab. She received her M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2020 and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 2018. Her current research interest is in fabricating various high-power electronic devices based in diamond technology. Her involvement in ULTRA will focus on understanding electric breakdown phenomena and high field transport in diamond and other ultra-wide bandgap materials. These include investigating different material breakdown mechanisms, carrier saturation velocities, mobilities, and additional properties through device fabrication and electrical measurements.

Jesse Brown is currently a graduate student at Arizona State University. He received his B.S. degree in Physics at Colorado State University in 2015. His main research work is related to the growth of cubic boron nitride thin films using plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition, and the investigating of interface physics between cubic boron nitride and diamond. 

Franz Alexander Koeck received his M.S. in Physics in 2003 from North Carolina State University where he started working on diamond as electronic material. His expertise lies in the development of plasma chemical vapor deposition systems for electronic grade diamond and characterization of the material and related devices. For the ULTRA project he is involved in studying the growth of doped (phosphorus, boron) diamond.

Franz Alexander Koeck recibió su M.S. en Física en 2003 de la Universidad Estatal de Carolina del Norte, donde comenzó a trabajar en diamantes como material electrónico. Su experiencia radica en el desarrollo de sistemas de deposición de vapor químico por plasma para diamantes de grado electrónico y la caracterización del material y dispositivos relacionados. Para el proyecto ULTRA, participa en el estudio del crecimiento de diamantes dopados (fósforo, boro).

Professor Srabanti Chowdhury (PhD '10, George and Ida Mary Hoover faculty fellow '19, Gabilan Fellow '19, Alfred P. Sloan Fellow in Physics '20) is an associate professor of Electrical Engineering (EE) and Center Fellow, by courtesy, at the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University. Her research focuses on wideband gap (WBG) and ultra wideband gap (UWBG) materials for devices enabling energy efficient and compact system architecture for power and RF applications. While GaN and diamond has been the core of her research, her group is exploring other UWBGs such as Boron Nitride, Aluminum Nitride, as well as oxides for their rich physics and device engineering. She leads the WBG-lab at Stanford with a group of outstanding graduate and student postdocs. 

Srabanti received the DARPA Young Faculty Award, NSF CAREER and AFOSR Young Investigator Program (YIP) in 2015. In 2016, she received the Young Scientist award at the International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors (ISCS). She is a senior member of IEEE and NAE Frontiers of Engineering alumni. To date, her work has produced over 5 book chapters, 85 journal papers, 100 conference presentations, and 30 patents (26 issued). 

Goodnick is the deputy director of ASU Lightworks. Some key research contributions: photovoltaics, global modeling of high frequency devices, fabrication and characterization of nanoscale semiconductor devices.

Nemanich's research group has applied advanced microscopy and spectroscopy techniques to characterize the growth and properties of thin film interfaces and nanostructures.