Update – Thank you to everyone involved in making this a fun and thought-provoking evening! Screenshot:

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I’m excited to be moderating a panel discussion titled Why New Semiconductors? at the 2021 Spring MRS, with panelists Hideo Hosono, George Nolas, Zhimei Sun and Andriy Zakutayev. Event description follows below and at these links (may require MRS account or event registration). It begins at 9:20p eastern time on Friday, April 23. See you there!

Link 1, MRS website       Link 2, event planner

EL03.08.03: Panel Discussion: Why New Semiconductors?

Panelists: Hideo Hosono, Tokyo Institute of Technology; George Nolas, University of South Florida; Andriy Zakutayev, National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Shengbai Zheng, Rensselear Polytechnic University

Moderated by Rafael Jaramillo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Recent decades have seen exciting explosions of research into new and lesser-studied semiconductors, including such broad categories as complex halides, nitrides, and chalcogenides, and layered and two-dimensional materials. Even so, silicon has further consolidated its position as the leading material for computing, solar energy conversion, and even for some optoelectronics. In light of this friendly but often overmatched competition with silicon, we will ask four of the world’s leading researchers what motivates them to continue work on new semiconductor materials.