CHTM RESEARCHERS

This listing shows principal investigators associated with CHTM, their title, affiliation, research interests and current programs. This page is currently being updated (9/12/02).

S.R.J. Brueck || R. Dawson || R. Devine || J.-C. Diels || P. Eliseev || S.D. Hersee || D. Huffaker

R. Jain || R. Kaspi || S. Krishna || L. Lester || K. Malloy || T. Newell || M. Osinski || J. Panitz

E. Rabinovich || A. Stintz || T.Shay || H. Tran || S. Tyo

Director CHTM, Professor - Electrical Engineering and Physics

Center for High Technology Materials

Research Interests:
  • laser-material interactions
  • laser spectroscopy
  • nonlinear optics
  • high-speed detectors
  • Si manufacturing metrology

Current Projects

(Agency)
  • Development of Periodic Pinning Arrays and LPE Growth for Improving Current Carrying Capabilities in Superconductors (DOE HiCrest)
  • Interferometric Lithography for Nanoscale Fabrication (Navy-ARPA)
  • Investigation of Large-Period Gratings by Interferometric Lithography (Cymer)
  • Linewidth Enhancement Factor for Semiconductor Lasers (AFOSR)
  • Manufacturable IR Photonic Crystals Based on Interferometric Lithography (ARO/DARPA)
  • Manufacturable, Multi-Dimensional High Capacity Optoelectronic Interconnects (DARPA)
  • Modeling for Imaging Interferometric Lithography (I-SEMATECH)
  • Optoelectronics Research Center (AFOSR)
Students
David Burckel (EECE).
Yuliya Kuznetsova (P&A).
Seung Chang Lee (EECE).
Dong Li (EECE).
Ying Luo (EECE).
Babar Minhas (EECE) (joint with K Malloy)
Joel Nunes (P&A)
Alex Raub (EECE).
Christian Schwarz (P&A).

Michael Shagam (BS) (EECE).
Ashwani Sharma (EECE)
Craig Smith (P&A)
Svjaloslav Smolev (P&A).
Deying Xia (EECE).
Liang Xue (EECE).
Jingyu Zhang (EECE).
Shuang Zhang (EECE)

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R. Dawson

Center for High Technology Materials
Research Interests:
  •  MBE growth of III-V compounds

Current Projects

(Agency)
  • Manufacturable, Multi-Dimensional High Capacity Optoelectronic Interconnects (DARPA)
  • Optoelectronics Research Center (AFOSR)
Students

Ganesh Balakrishnam (joint)
Ed Pease (joint)
Elena Plis (joint)
Leslie Vaughn (joint)

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Center for High Technology Materials
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Professor - Physics and Electrical Engineering

Physics & Astronomy

Research Interests:
  • ultrafast spectroscopy
  • nonlinear optics

Current Projects

(Agency)
  • Femosecond line-of-sight communication: Feasibility study (EPRI)
  • New Technique for Measurement of Ultrashort Laser Pulses (NSF)
  • Novel Beams for Adaptive Optics: A Feasibility Study (NuCOR - LANL)
  • Temporally and Spatially Resolved Plasma Diagnostic (Subtask of : A Prototype Compact Linear Induction Accelerator) (Allied Signal)
Students

Ladan Arissian (Physics)
Thien Trang Dang (Physics)
Xianmei Meng (Physics)
Martha Navarro (Physics)
Janakiramanan Ramachandran (EECE)
Nai Jin (Jeremy) Yeak (EECE)

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Professor

Center for High Technology Materials

Research Interests:
  • Semiconductor optoelectronics (light-emitting diodes, semiconductor lasers, photoreceivers)
  • New materials and structures for optoelectronics (nitride semiconductors, quantum-dot and quantum-well structures, vertical cavity surface-emitting laser structures)
  • Modeling and simulation of processes and devices, mainly in semiconductor optoelectronics (electro-thermal-optical modeling of laser diodes, current crowding effects, self-focusing effects, etc.).

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Professor - Electrical Engineering

Center for High Technology Materials

Research Interests:
  • MOCVD growth
  • semiconductor materials
  • microelectronics and optoelectronics devices

Current Projects

(Agency)
  • CVD Growth and evaluation of icosahedral boron compounds for novel energy conversion applications (DARPA/DOE-SNL)
  • Manufacturable, Multi-Dimensional High Capacity Optoelectronic Interconnects: MOCVD fabrication of integrated micro-optics components (DARPA)
  • Optoelectronics Research Center: Nanoheteroepitaxy - eliination of mismatch defects in highly mismatched heterostructures (AFOSR)
  • Epitaxial Growth Of Advanced Laser Structures (Semicon Laser International)
Students Ram Saran Attaluri ((EECE)
Ramana Bommena (EECE)
Mohammed Ferdous (EECE)
Xinyu Sun (EECE)
Xin Wang (EECE)

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Associate Professor - Electrical Engineering and Physics

Center for High Technology Materials

Research Interests:
  • Crystal growth (MBE, MOCVD) and characterization of novel materials for optoelectronic devices.
  • Growth methods and characterization of quantum dots for single photon, single electron based devices.
  • Photonic lattice devices and characterization.
  • Optical interconnects and integrated optoelectronics based on
    nanotechnology.

Current Projects

(Agency)
  • Manufacturable, Multi-Dimensional High Capacity Optoelectronic Interconnects (DARPA)
  • AlGaN Quantum Dots for Ultraviolet Light Emitters (Darpa)
  • Study of Carrier Dynamics within Quantum Confined Energy Levels in Self- Assembled Quantum Dots (DOE)
Students

Ganesh Balakrishna (EECE)
Sandilya Birudavolu (EECE)
Patrick Conlin (undergrad) (EECE)
Shunhong Huang (EECE)
Ping-Show Wong (EECE)
Yongchun Xin (Physics)

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Professor - Electrical Engineering

Center for High Technology Materials

Research Interests:
  • quantum electronics
  • optoelectronics
  • electro-optics
  • experimental solid-state physics
  • ultrafast optics
  • fiber amplifiers

Current Projects

(Agency)
  • Diode Pumped Compact Blue Lasers Using co-Doped ZBLAN Fibers (IFS/NRL (BMDO) STTR)
  • Diode-Pumped High Power Blue Laser Sources Based on Upconversion in Rare-Earth Doped Double-Clad ZBLAN Fibers (ONR)
  • Manufacturable, Multi-Dimensional High Capacity Optoelectronic Interconnects (DARPA)
  • Novel All-Fiber Devices Based on the Electro-Optical Effect in Poled Fused Silica (AFOSR)
  • Optoelectronics Research Center (AFOSR)
Students

Ning Ma (EECE)
Li Wang (EECE)
Zhihai Zhang (EECE)
YanRui Zhao (EECE)
Xiushan Zhu (EECE)

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Senior Research Engineer

Air Force Research Laboratory, (AFRL/DELS)

Research Interests:
  • Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) of III-V heterostructures
  • Antimonide-based mid-infrared lasers
  • Control of chemistry at non-common atom III-V interfaces
  • Desorption and segregation phenomena during alloy growth
  • In-situ monitoring of epitaxy during MBE
  • Modulated-beam deposition of ternary and quaternary III-V layers.

Current Projects
  • Ongoing collaborative work on novel mid-IR active regions with CHTM faculty.
Students

Not applicable

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Associate Professor - Electrical Engineering and Physics

Center for High Technology Materials

Research Interests:
  • Mid-infrared detection using self-organized quantum dots (QDs)
  • Novel antimonide based materials grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Current Projects

(Agency)
  • Study of Carrier Dynamics within Quantum Confined Energy Levels in Self- Assembled Quantum Dots (DOE)
  • Fabrication of Tunable Quantum Well Infrared Photodetectors (QWIPs) Polarization Sensitive QWIPs & Enhanced Coupling Grating Structures (AFRL)
  • Carrier Dynamics in InAs/InGaSb Strain Layer Superlattices and InAs/InGaAs Quantum Dots (ARO)
  • InAs/InGaSb Strain Layer Superlattice Mid-Wave and Long-Wave Infrared Detectors (ARL/ASCTA)
  • Carrier Dynamics in InAs/InGaAs Quantum Dots (Oak Ridge Associated Universities)
  • Development of High Temperature Long Wave Infrared Quantum Dot Detectors For Large Area Focal Plane Arrays (Sandia University Research Program)
Students

Ravi Kalyanam (MS)(EECE)
Rakesh Kumar (EECE)
Elena Plis (EECE)
Sunil Raghavan(EECE)
Paul Rotella (EECE)
Greg Von Winckel (EECE)

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Assistant Professor - Electrical and Engineering

Center for High Technology Materials

Research Interests:

fabrication, design and testing of microwave/millimeter-wave optoelectronic devices and circuits and development of millimeter-wave power HEMT transistors

Current Projects

(Agency)
  • Advanced Sensors (Lockheed-Sanders)
  • GaS Passivated Laser Diodes (Gallia)
  • Manufacturable, Multi-Dimensional High Capacity Optoelectronic Interconnects (DARPA)
  • Optoelectronics Research Center (AFOSR)
  • The Development of Group-III Nitride LED's and Lasers (NSF)
Students

Ed Pease (P&A)
Hui Su (EECE)
Leslie Vaughn (EECE)
Yongchun Xin (Physics)

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Professor - Electrical and Computer Engineering

Associate Director - Center for High Technology Materials

Research Interests:
  • Nanostructures
  • Waves in periodic media

Current Projects

(Agency)
  • Manufacturable, Multi-Dimensional High Capacity Optoelectronic Interconnects (DARPA)
  • Optoelectronics Research Center (AFOSR)
  • Ultralow Threshold Semiconductor Lasers Based on Gain Without Inversion (AFOSR)
  • GaSb Wafer for 4 micron laser (Lockheed-Martin)
  • Advanced Structural and Optical Microscopies of Quantum Dots (AFOSR)
Students

Alex Albrecht (Physics)
Jing Chen (MS) (EECE)
Giovanni Donati (Physics)
Babar Minhas (EECE)
Paul Dan Popescu
Thomas Rotter (Physics)
Alexander Ukhanov (Physics)
Chi Yang (EECE)

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T. Newell

Center for High Technology Materials

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Professor - Electrical Engineering, Physics, and Computer Science

Center for High Technology Materials

Research Interests:
  • optoelectronic devices and materials
  • wide-bandgap and dilute group-III nitrides
  • optoelectronic integrated circuits
  • semiconductor lasers
  • ring lasers
  • quantum well intermixing
  • electrical-thermal-optical simulation of VCSELs and edge-emitting lasers

Current Projects

(Agency)
  • Pressure-Tuned Laser Diodes and Their Applications (NATO)
  • Monolithically Integrated Semiconductor Ring Laser Gyro for Space Applications (NASA)
  • Semiconductor-Ring-Laser-Based Rotation Sensors (NASA)
Students

Marcita Benavidez (MS) (EECE)
Hongjun Cao (EECE)
Hui Deng (MS) (EECE)
Yongyi Feng (MS) (CS)
Yan Li (Optical Science and Engineering)
Jinhyun Lee (EECE)
Hai Ling (Optical Science and Engineering)
Chiyu Liu (EECE)
Min Lu (MS) (CS)
Maria del Carmen Melendez-Leon (MS) (Computer Engineering)
Ying Ning (MS) (CS)
Noppadon Nuntawong (Optical Science and Engineering)
Vladimir Smagley (PhD) (Physics)
Yule Zhang (MS) (Optical Science and Engineering)
Edward Zhmayev (EECE)

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J. Panitz

 Professor - Physics

Center for High Technology Materials

Research Interests:

field-emission spectroscopy, solid-solid and liquid-solid interfaces, high-resolution scanning microscopy

Current Projects

(Agency)
  • Microfabricated Cathode Investigations (Ion Diagnostics)
Students  

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Center for High Technology Materials

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A. Stintz

Center for High Technology Materials
Research Interests:
Molecular Beam Epitaxy of III-V compound semiconductors: Growth of quantum
dots and quantum wires ("dashes") and their application in optoelectronic
and electronic devices, metamorphic growth, selective growth on patterned
substrates, regrowth, low temperature growth. III-V materials and device
characterization, processing, testing.

Current Projects
(Agency)
Quantum dot and quantum well VCSELs and edge emitting lasers, quantum dot
mid-IR detectors, high power eye-safe lasers, saturable absorbers.
Students  

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Center for High Technology Materials
Research Interests:
  • Free-space optical communications
  • Nonlinear optics
  • Fiber lasers
  • Quantum Information

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Students
Vanessa Berg (Physics)
Barbara Gilbert (Physics)
Rakech Kumar (EECE)
John MacCannell (EECE)

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Assistant Professor

 Electrical Engineering
Research Interests:
  • Precision Engineering Metrology
  • Control Systems Electromechanical Systems (aka mechatronics)
  • Advanced Manufacturing, especially applications in: Semiconductor lithography Electro-optics Ultraprecision machine tools and instruments

Current Projects
(Agency)
Students
Ajit Borundia (ME)
Xiaoming Lu (ME)

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Assistant Professor

 Electrical Engineering
Research Interests:
  • Ultra Wideband Antennas and Radiation
  • Optical and Microwave Remote Sensing
  • Hyperspectral and Polarimetric Imagery
  • Metamaterials and Artificial Dielectrics

Current Projects
(Agency)
Students
Peng Li (EECE)

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