CHTM Directory - Faculty

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Steven R. J. Brueck

CHTM Director

	Steven R. J. Brueck
Title:	Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics and Astronomy; Director, Center for High Technology Materials
Phone:	505-272-7800
Office:	145
Education:	B.S., Columbia University M.S. and Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests:	Nanoscale lithography and nanofabrication with applications to nanophotonics, nanofluidics, and nanoscale epitaxial growth and sources/detectors; tunable infrared lasers; ultra-high resolution optical microscopy.
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Sanjay Krishna

CHTM Associate Director

	Sanjay Krishna
Title:	Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Associate Director, Center for High Technology Materials; UNM Regents' Lecturer
Phone:	505-272-7892
Office:	139
Education:	B.S., Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Bangalore, India M.Sc., Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India M.S., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Research Interests:	Mid-infrared detection using self-organized quantum dots (QDs) and novel antimonide based materials grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy.
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Ganesh Balakrishnan

	Ganesh Balakrishnan
Title:	Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Phone:	505-272-7970
Office:	115A
Education:	B.E. in Electronics and Communications Engineering, University of Madras, India M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Toledo Ph.D. in Optical Sciences and Engineering, University of New Mexico
Research Interests:	Semiconductor device development including epitaxy and characterization, high power vertical external cavity surface emitting lasers and novel semiconductor material development for Mid-Infrared lasers.
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Ralph Dawson

	Ralph Dawson
Title:	Research Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Phone:	505-272-7820
Office:	110C
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Roderick Devine

	Roderick Devine
Title:	Research Professor, NM Tech
Phone:	505-272-7833
Office:	115A
Education:	B.Sc. in Applied Physics, Brighton College of Technology Ph.D. in Solid State Physics, University of Warwick
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Jean-Claude Diels

	Jean-Claude Diels
Title:	Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics and Astronomy
Phone:	505-272-7830
Office:	114B
Education:	M.S., Physics Engineer, University of Brussels Ph.D., Physics, University of Brussels
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Abdel-Rahman A. El-Emawy

	Abdel-Rahman A. El-Emawy
Title:	Research Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Phone:	505-272-7869; 505-272-7930
Office:	115C; Lab 171D
Education:	B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Engineering College, Cairo, Egypt M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
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Peter Eliseev

	Petr Eliseev
Title:	Research Professor Emeritus, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Phone:	505-272-7807
Office:	105C
Education:	Undergraduate work at Moscow State University Ph.D., P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Dr.Sci degree, P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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Evan Evans

	Evan Evans
Title:	Research Professor, Chemical and Nuclear Engineering
Phone:	505-277-5431
Office:	112C
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Frederic Grillot

	Frederic Grillot
Title:	Visiting Research Professor
Phone:	505-272-7845
Office:	105B
Education:	M.Sc. in Physics, Dijon University Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Besançon University
Research Interests:	Optoelectronics, quantum dots, advanced laser diodes for low-cost applications.
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Sang Han

	Sang Han
Title:	Associate Professor, Chemical and Nuclear Engineering
Phone:	505-277-3118; Lab 505-272-7327
Office:	Farris Engineering Center Room 257
Education:	B.S. in Chemical Engineering with Honors, University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
Research Interests:	Selective heteroepitaxy of Ge and III-V compound semiconductors on Si for multijunction solar cells and RF applications Scanning tunneling microscopy of quantum structure and film growth, and organic-inorganic hybrid systems Hybrid micro/nanofluidic systems for advanced bioseparation and analysis, including high-resolution protein separations in nanofluidic FET devices Nanocrystal synthesis, functionalization, and integration for nonlinear optical and biological applications
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Majeed Hayat

	Majeed Hayat
Title:	Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Phone:	505-277-0297
Office:	114D
Education:	B.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research Interests:	Statistical communication theory, signal and image processing, algorithms for infrared spectral sensors and imagers, novel avalanche photodioes, optical communication, cooperative distributed sensing and computing, applied probability and stochastic processes.
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Steve Hersee

	Steve Hersee
Title:	Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Phone:	505-272-7823
Office:	112B
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Research Interests:	GaN-based nanowire devices and nanostructures; advanced semiconductor materials and devices.
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Mani Hossein-Zadeh

	Mani Hossein-Zadeh
Title:	Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Phone:	505-272-7845
Office:	116A
Education:	PhD in Electrical Engineering, Viterbi School, University of Southern California MS in Electrical Engineering, Viterbi School, University of Southern California MS in Physics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran BS in Applied Physics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Research Interests:	Electro-optics, microwave-photonic devices and systems, ultra high-Q optical microresonators, optomechanical interaction in UH-Q optical resonators, optical communication, photonic sensors, optofluidics and plasmonics.
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Ravi Jain

	Ravi Jain
Title:	Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Phone:	505-272-7842
Office:	115B
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Research Interests:	Quantum electronics, optoelectronics, electro-optics, experimental solid-state physics.
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Ken Jungling

	Ken Jungling
Title:	Professor Emeritus, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Office:	114E
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Don Kendall

	Don Kendall
Title:	Professor Emeritus, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Office:	114E
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Steven Koch

	Steven Koch
Title:	Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy
Phone:	505-272-7822
Office:	112A
Education:	B.S. in Physics, University of Michigan M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics/Biophysics, Cornell University
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Luke Lester

	Luke Lester
Title:	Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Microelectronics Endowed Chair
Phone:	505-272-7805
Office:	105B
Education:	B.S. in Engineering Physics, Cornell University Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Cornell University
Research Interests:	High speed and high power semiconductor lasers. High temperature electronics, microwave devices, tunable lasers, III-V semiconductor devices.
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Kevin Malloy

	Kevin Malloy
Title:	Associate Dean, School of Engineering; Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Phone:	505-272-7855
Office:	114A
Education:	B.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Research Interests:	Semiconductor physics, device physics.
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Marek Osinski

	Marek Osinski
Title:	Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Phone:	505-272-7812
Office:	108B
Education:	M.Sc. in Physics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland Ph.D. in Physical Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Research Interests:	Nanotechnology, biomedical applications of colloidal nanocrystals, nanoscintillators for nuclear radiation detection, optoelectronic integrated circuits, semiconductor lasers, light-emitting diodes, group-III nitrides, degradation mechanisms and reliability, computer simulation.
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Elena Plis

	Elena Plis
Title:	Research Assistant Professor, Center for High Technology Materials
Phone:	505-272-7852
Office:	118C
Education:	Engineering diploma (M.S. equivalent), Kovrov State Tech Academy, Russia M.S. and Ph.D., University of New Mexico Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for High Tech Materials, University of New Mexico
Research Interests:	Growth, fabrication and characterization of type-II InAs/(In,Ga)Sb Strained Layer Superlattice (SLS) IR detectors for MWIR and LWIR spectral regions; Chemistry of GaSb-based materials; Biomedical applications of IR detectors, such as early detection of skin cancer.

Tom Rotter

	Tom Rotter
Title:	Research Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Phone:	505-272-7848
Office:	116C
Education:	Diploma in Physics (M.S. equivalent), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany Ph.D., University of New Mexico Post Doctoral fellow and Research Scientist, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Interests:	Epitaxy, processing and characterization of semiconductor devices for optical applications, crystal growth of arsenides, antimonides and phosphides including highly mismatched materials, high power surface emitting lasers, self organized quantum dots and dashes, quantum well saturable absorbers

Yagya Sharma

	Yagya Sharma
Title:	Research Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Phone:	505-272-7946
Office:	118C
Education:	M.S., Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India Ph.D., University of Delhi, Delhi, India Post Doctoral Position, Electronics Engineering Department, University of Osaka, Japan
Research Interests:	Novel GaAs based materials grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy, fabrication and characterization of self-organized quantum dots (QDs) IR detectors for MWIR and LWIR spectral regions.