Penn State and Ohio State physicists and engineers are collaborating on a $1 million Department of Energy grant to find a replacement for gallium nitride, exports of which are limited, for semiconductor manufacturing. Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin, professor of physics and co-director of the Center for Quantum Information Science and Engineering, is the Ohio State lead for the project. His lab will fabricate devices built up from one-atom-thick layers of boron nitride and explore a process called electron tunneling. 

You can read more about this project on the Penn State website.

Congratulations, Professor Johnston-Halperin!