Daniel Gall, professor of materials science and engineering, has received the 2019 IBM Faculty Award, part of a competitive worldwide program aimed at fostering collaboration in research and promoting curriculum innovation.

With the award, Gall receives $40,000 to support his work in the area of post-Cu metallization. 

This honor is further recognition of the research by Gall’s group that seeks new metals that could outperform copper as nanoscale wires in future silicon chips.  

In the fall of 2018, LAM Research recognized him with the Unlock Ideas Faculty Award, including a $25,000 research grant. 

Erik Milosevic, a graduate student working with Gall, has also recently won the S.C. Sun Best Student Paper Award for his paper titled "Validity and Application of the TCR Method to MOL Contacts." He will receive this award at the IEEE International Interconnect Technology Conference in Brussels this June. 

Milosevic will graduate in the summer of 2019. This most recent award comes after 12 other previous awards recognizing his poster and paper presentations.