Materials Webinar | Defective Functional Materials for AI Chips, Next Generation Sensors and Terahertz Electronics
Materials Webinar | Defective Functional Materials for AI Chips, Next Generation Sensors and Terahertz Electronics
Part of the MDPI Materials Webinar Series series
7 November 2025
AI Chips, Neuromorphic Electronics, Defect Engineering, MIM Diodes, THz Electronic, 5G and Beyond
Welcome from the Chair
This webinar explores the cutting-edge frontier of Defective Functional Materials for AI Chips, Next-Generation Sensors, and Terahertz Electronics. This rapidly evolving field is reshaping the future of intelligent systems, sensing technologies, and ultra-high-frequency electronics.
The discussions featured in this session aim to demonstrate how defects in functional materials, often seen as limitations, can be harnessed to enhance performance in AI chips, unlock new sensing modalities, and push the boundaries of terahertz electronics. We’ll explore how these innovations are enabling smarter, faster, and more resilient technologies across disciplines.
Chair: Prof. Dr. Mustafa Yavuz
Date: 7 November 2025
Time: 10:00 am EST
Webinar ID: 895 0150 9028
Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com
Event Chairs
Dr. Mustafa Yavuz is a professor and the Director of Nanotechnology Graduate Program at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Yavuz’s pioneering research has significantly advanced the understanding of nanoscale devices and smart sensor networks. Dr. Yavuz’s work spans the fabrication and functionalization of PECOD sensors, nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS), quantum resonators, and MIM diodes for THz applications.
Keynote Speakers
Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada
Dr. Yimin Wu is currently a Tang Family Chair associate professor in the University of Waterloo Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering. After receiving his DPhil degree in Materials from the University of Oxford in 2013, he won the prestigious a SinBeRise Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In 2014, he joined the Argonne National Laboratory and was a research assistant professor at University of Illinois until 2019. Dr. Wu has authored over 120 papers in top journals, including Nature, Nature Energy, Nature communications and Science Advances.
Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering Dept., University of Waterloo, ON, Canada
Dr. Bersu Bastug Azer is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Bastug-Azer received her doctoral degree in Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering in 2025 at the University of Waterloo in defect engineering of functional perovskites. Dr. Bastug Azer has received many prestigious research awards such as Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) fellowship, and Paul Nissen Teck Award Medal. Dr. Bastug Azer is the world leading scientist in the photo-electro-chemical oxygen demand (PECOD) sensors for industrial applications.
Dr. Mustafa Yavuz is a professor and the Director of Nanotechnology Graduate Program at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Yavuz’s pioneering research has significantly advanced the understanding of nanoscale devices and smart sensor networks. Dr. Yavuz’s work spans the fabrication and functionalization of PECOD sensors, nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS), quantum resonators, and MIM diodes for THz applications.
Registration
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Program
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Speaker/Presentation |
Time in EST |
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Mustafa Yavuz (Chair) Introduction |
10:00am - 10:10am |
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Yimin Wu (Speaker 1) Brain-Inspried Semiconductor-Enabled Memory and Neruomorphic Machine Vision |
10:10am - 10:30am |
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Bersu Bastug Azer (Speaker 2) Tuning Sensor Devices Through Defect Engineering in Functional Materials |
10:30am - 10:50am |
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Mustafa Yavuz (Speaker 3) Functional Materials for Metal-Insulator-Metal (MIM) THz Tunneling Diodes for Ultrafast Electronics |
10:50am - 11:10am |
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Q&A |
11:10am - 11:25am |
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Mustafa Yavuz (Chair) Closing of Webinar |
11:25am - 11:30am |
Relevant Special Issue
Functional Materials for Memristors, Metal-Insulator-Metal (MIM) Tunneling Diodes and Field Effect Transistors (FET)
Special Issue Editor: Prof. Dr. Mustafa Yavuz
Deadline for manuscript submission: 20 December 2025
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