By Emily Hubbell

Michael Lorek spent his summer researching aspart of the NIST Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship and is now pursuing a PhD at University of California Berkeley. His PhD research involves integrated circuit designs.

As an undergraduate in Dr. Savas Kaya’s group, Lorek designed ring oscillator and mixer integrated circuits using Double Gate MOSFET transistors. These novel DGMOSFETs provide more tunable electronic characteristics and could possibly extend Moore’s Law scaling due to their short channel lengths, he said.

“My research work under Dr. Kaya at OU gave me good intuition about the operation of common circuits, the operation of transistors of different types and the fabrication processes involved in making integral circuits,”he said.

This research also gave him a strong foundation for his work with CMOS circuitry at his NIST fellowship.