People
Team Lead
Principal Investigator
Dr. Francesca Cavallo
Director, Center for High Technology Materials
Associate Professor, University of New Mexico
Email: fcavallo@unm.edu
LinkedIn: LinkedIn Profile
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering & Information Technology, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany (2009)
B.S./M.S., Electronic Engineering, University of Salerno, Italy (2004)
Dr. Francesca Cavallo brings over twenty years of research experience in the fields of sheet science and technology, nano-origami, flexible electronics, and the integration of highly mismatched materials. Her work focuses on the modeling and characterization of electrical transport, surface and interface science, strain engineering, and bio-device integration.
She currently serves as Associate Director of the Center for High Technology Materials and is an Associate Professor at the University of New Mexico. Prior to this, she was a scientist in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Dr. Cavallo earned her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from the Technical University of Chemnitz in Germany. During her doctoral studies, she conducted research at the Von Klitzing Department of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart and at the Institute for Integrative Nanosciences in Dresden.
DR. FRANCESCA CAVALLO
Research Scientist & Post Docs
DR. EMMA RENTERIA
Current position: Research Assistance (PhD Candidate)
Research Project: Transport properties of Graphene grown on Germanium (investigate lateral charge transport in polycrystalline and single-crystalline graphene/Ge via magneto-transport measurements and maximum entropy mobility spectrum analysis.)
DIVYA J. PRAKASH
Students
Current position: Research Assistant, Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM)
Current Research Project: Synthesis of Screw Dislocations in High-Order Topological Insulators (HOTI)
My research focuses on the MBE growth and characterization of BiSb thin films on GaAs substrates, with the goal of studying screw dislocations in high-order topological insulator materials. I analyze the structural, surface, and compositional properties of the grown films. In addition, I am working on isolating the grown BiSb layers from GaAs and transferring them onto other semiconductor substrates where BiSb is not traditionally grown directly, enabling broader integration with different material platforms.
SAAD MOHAMMAD BHUIYA
Current position: Research Assistance (PhD Candidate)
Research Project: Transport properties of Graphene grown on Germanium (investigate lateral charge transport in polycrystalline and single-crystalline graphene/Ge via magneto-transport measurements and maximum entropy mobility spectrum analysis.)
RUHIN CHOWDHURY
Position: Research Assistant
Project: Spintronic devices based on line defects in widely used semiconductors. So far I've been focused on making devices to measure the spin scattering lifetimes for screw dislocations in different semiconductors.
JORDAN NEELY
Current position: Research Assistant, Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM)
AKM SHAROAR JAHAN CHOYON
NOELLE KANDIGIAN
PETER JONAS ELA
ZACHARY HANDOKLOW
Current position: Undergraduate Student Researcher
COLTON PURDY
Alumni
EMMA RENTERIA
MENGISTIE L. DEBASU
ARNAB K. MAJEE
VIJAY S. MANGU
CARLY STRICKLAND
HASSAN DIBAJI
ANEESHA KONDAPI
NADEEM ABDUL
FAZLI AKRAM
Additional Mentoring Activities
Since 2014, Dr. Cavallo has mentored 35+ undergraduate and high-school students working on a wide range of research projects. Approximately 94% of these students belong to underrepresented groups in science and engineering.