Dr. Krohn is a research faculty and department head at Penn State’s Applied Research Laboratory. He is a graduate faculty member in the Department of the Materials Science and Engineering in The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University. He is focus on the processing and application of electronic materials and devices. He received his B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Wisconsin- Madison in 1998, and MS and PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Penn State in 2001 and 2004. Dr. Krohn’s graduate work focused on structure-property relationships in silicate glasses. After receiving his PhD, Dr. Krohn spent one year at Bettis Atomic Laboratory in West Mifflin, Pa, working on nuclear reactors for space exploration. He then join General Electric’s, Inspection Technology business unit, where he spent 12 years focused on transitioning new materials and process technologies into commercial applications and ensuring robust production processes. Before leaving GE, he was a Principle Scientists responsible for defining and delivering the multi-generation technology road map for their UT product lines. After leaving GE in 2018, he joined Morgan Advanced Materials, as part of their newly formed Carbon Science and Technology Centre of Excellence (CoE). At the Carbon CoE he focused on delivering new carbon based technologies, processes, and products to Morgan’s global carbon businesses. In 2021 he was promoted to the Carbon CoE lead and Director of New Product Development for the Electrical Carbon business unit. In this role he led the Carbon CoE research team, along with Electrical Carbon’s Global R&D teams and was responsible for developing and delivering a global innovation strategy that aligned to the commercial growth strategy.
Dr. Krohn is interested in the transition of new material technologies into critical and strategic applications. He is focuses on the leveraging fundamental understanding of process/property/performance relationships in electronic materials to define a sustainable path to application. He is interested in a variety of applications and material systems, including wide and ultra wide band gap semiconductors, power electronics, high-frequency electronics, harsh environment sensors and devices, and additive and advanced manufacturing techniques. His group focuses on a vertically integrated approach to the develop of electronic materials and devices, which spans from bulk growth to device fabrication.
- Growth of Wide Bandgap Semiconductors
- Additive and Advanced Manufacturing
- Extreme/Harsh Environment Sensors and Devices