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Past Seminars

Dr. Randall Feenstra -- February 10, 2012, 1:00PM
Graphene on Silicon Carbide:
Surface Studies of a Material that is "All Surface"

In this talk I will discuss results of surface science investigations of graphene – a single...

Dr. Roman Engel Herbert -- February 03, 2012, 1:00PM
Myths and Facts of High-k/III-V Interfaces Towards MOSFET Technology Beyond Si

The continuous scaling of silicon based metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (MOS

Dr. Zhaohui Zhong -- January 27, 2012, 1:00PM
Nanoelectronics and Nanophotonics

Graphene, single or few sheets of sp2 bonded carbon atoms, offers wonderful opportunities for...

Dr. Masud Mansuripur -- January 20, 2012, 1:00PM
"Solar Sails, Optical Tweezers, and Other Light-Driven Machines"

Electromagnetic waves carry energy, linear momentum, and angular momentum. When light (or...

Dr. Samuel Graham -- April 15, 2011, 2:00PM
Characterization of the Thermal and Mechanical Response of GaN Devices

The high power density in AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility devices (HEMTs) leads intense...

Dr. Clifford King -- April 08, 2011, 2:00PM
High Performance Infrared Imaging for Military & Industrial Applications

Cultivated by the need for a military advantage at night, infrared imaging systems have...

Dr. Henry O. Everitt -- April 01, 2011, 2:00PM
High-Specificity Remote Chemical Sensing Using Infrared/Terahertz Double Resonance Spectroscopy

IR/THz double resonance (DR) spectroscopy was developed as a laboratory tool to characterize...

Dr. John Dallesasse -- March 25, 2011, 2:00PM
III-V Oxidation and Optical Networking:
The Discovery of III-V Oxidation, Its Application, and Future Process Technologies for Photonic Integration

The increasing demand for applications that require both high peak and sustained bandwidth for...

Dr. Thierry Pinguet -- March 11, 2011, 2:00PM
CMOS Photonics:
Successes and Limitations of Monolithic Integration of Photonics into a Standard CMOS Process

In this seminar, we will provide a complete overview of Luxtera’s CMOS Photonics technology...

Dr. Hong Lu -- March 04, 2011, 2:00PM
Semimetal/Semiconductor Nanostructured Composites for Thermoelectrics

Thermoelectrics, a technology for direct thermal to electrical energy conversion, has...

Dr. Seth R. Bank -- February 25, 2011, 2:00PM
Device Applications of Epitaxial Metal:
Semiconductor Nanocomposites (Harnessing Their Electrical, Optical, and Structural Properties)

The epitaxial integration of metals and semiconductors offers tantalizing possibilities for...

Dr. Mary Yvonne Lanzerotti -- February 18, 2011, 2:00PM
Physical Design and Effective Materials Properties of On-Chip Interconnections in High-Performance, Multi-Core Microprocessors

This talk discusses interconnection design and the resulting impact of design decisions on...

Dr. Bharat Jalan -- February 11, 2011, 2:00PM
Realization of high-mobility SrTiO3 via stoichiometry control in MBE

Low-energetic deposition techniques such as molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) allow for conditions...

Dr. Jeffrey W. Elam -- February 04, 2011, 2:00PM
Atomic Layer Deposition Synthesis for Advanced Photovoltaics

Advanced synthesis methods, particularly those that are scalable, can enable the technological...

Dr. Luigi Colombo -- January 28, 2011, 2:00PM
Growth and Characterization of Graphene Grown on Cu by Chemical Vapor Deposition

The successful demonstration and implementation of graphene-based device technology will...

Dr. Jan Kuzmik -- September 27, 2010, 10:30AM
InAlN-based HEMTs

InAlN/GaN HEMTs has demonstrated the record drain current density (up-to 3 A/mm), extreme...

Dr. Siddharth Rajan -- April 23, 2010, 2:00PM
SN-polar Gallium Nitride Devices and Materials

Advanced materials and fabrication techniques available today enable us to design and realize...

Xiuling Li -- April 16, 2010, 2:00PM
Towards High Performance III - V Semiconductor Nanowire FETs and Nano lasers

This talk focuses on two types of III-V compound semiconductor nanotechnology building blocks...

Dr. Paul Berger -- April 09, 2010, 2:00PM
Electrode surface modification for efficient polymer bulk heterojunction photovoltaic devices

Key advantages of polymer bulk heterojunction photovoltaic (PV) technology is that polymer...

William Stanchina -- March 26, 2010, 2:00PM
Tunable Solid State Lighting:
Technologies and Applications

Solid-state lighting through the use of high brightness light emitting diodes (HB-LEDs) is...

Glen Wilk -- March 19, 2010, 2:00PM
The Rapidly Increasing Role of Atomic Layer Deposition in Advanced Logic Devices

Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) is rapidly becoming a widespread technique for enabling device...

Dr. John Schlager -- March 05, 2010, 2:00PM
Optical Characterization of Individual PAMBE-Grown GaN Nanowires

At NIST, we are interested in gallium nitride nanowires for optoelectronic applications in...

Dr. Christian Wetzel -- February 26, 2010, 2:00PM
Reaching for Green – Efficient Light Emitters in Piezoelectric Group III Nitrides

Energy harvesting and conversion efficiency are prime challenges for a sustainable...

Dr. Vincenzo Lordi -- February 19, 2010, 2:00PM
Ab Initio Prediction of Defect-Related Transport in Semiconductors

A first principles computational toolkit for assessing transport properties of realistic...

Dr. Joerg Appenzeller -- February 12, 2010, 2:00PM
Graphene field-effect transistors

My presentation will be divided in two main sections. In the first part of my talk I will...

Dr. Minjoo Larry Lee -- February 05, 2010, 2:00PM
Molecular beam epitaxy of III-phosphide materials:
Some new directions

In this talk, I will present recent results from two projects taking place in my group on III-p

Dr. Jifeng Liu -- January 29, 2010, 2:00PM
Monolithic Ge on Si Lasers for Electronic-Photonic Integration

Electronic-photonic integration on silicon can potentially lead to a breakthrough in the 21st...

Dr. Lisa Porter -- January 22, 2010, 2:00PM
Materials and Electrical Characterization of Contacts for Semiconductor Devices:
Examples from Inorganic and Organic Semiconductors

Contacts to semiconductors are ubiquitous in today's Information Age; they are vital...

Dr. Janet Pan -- December 07, 2009, 2:00PM
ORGANIZED BY THE IEEE CHAPTER AT ND Gallium-Arsenide Deep-Center Laser

The ongoing quest for semiconductor lasers with low threshold current has led to the...

Dr. Andreas Heinrich -- April 24, 2009, 2:00PM
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies of Atomic-Scale Computation

The information technology industry has been able to exponentially shrink the size of...

Dr. Jeffrey Bokor -- April 17, 2009, 2:00PM
Nanomagnet-Based Logic Architecture

Interacting ensembles of ferromagnetic nano-islands can perform basic logic operations and...

Dr. Niti Goel -- April 03, 2009, 2:00PM
Advanced Gate Stack Research and Challenges for Integration in NAND Flash Memory and III-V Logic Devices

After three decades of successful scaling of transistors, the trend is reaching fundamental...

Dr. Aaron Franklin -- March 27, 2009, 2:00PM
Carbon Nanotube Transistors: The Future?

Over the past decade, tremendous progress has been made in the fabrication and...

Dr. Joanna Mirecki Millunchick -- March 20, 2009, 2:00PM
Directing Self Assembly and Defect Formation in Compound Semiconductors

Dr. Libai Huang -- March 06, 2009, 2:00PM
Ultrafast Dynamics of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Ultrafast nonlinear optical spectroscopy was employed to study the optical and electronic...

Dr. Pengcheng Jia -- April 25, 2008, 2:00PM
A New Broadband Amplifier Architecture Using Coaxial Waveguide Spatial Power Combining Technology

CAP Wireless, Inc. develops and manufactures a broad range of RF and microwave amplification...

Dr. David Janes -- April 18, 2008, 2:00PM
Nanowire Devices for Thin-Film Electronics and Sensing

Semiconductor nanowires are interesting as channel materials for transistors as well as chem./b

Dr. Eric Pop -- April 04, 2008, 2:00PM
Power Dissipation in Nanoscale CMOS and Carbon Nanotubes

High power densities are considered a major roadblock in the evolution of nanoelectronics. At...

Mr. Farbod Shafiei -- March 28, 2008, 2:00PM
Measurement of the Separation Dependence of Resonant Energy Transfer between CdSe/ZnS Nanocrystals

A study of the interaction between different sized Nanocrystalline Quantum Dots (NQD) helps to...

Patrick Fay -- February 22, 2008, 2:00PM
Sb-Heterostructure Backward Tunnel Diodes for Millimeter-Wave Detection and Imaging

Millimeter-wave detection is becoming an increasingly important technology for avionics...

Dr. Masataka Higashiwaki -- February 08, 2008, 2:00PM
GaN heterostructure field-effect transistor technology for millimeter-wave applications

High-frequency and high-power transmitters utilizing solid-state amplifiers are essential for...

Dr. James Cooper -- February 01, 2008, 2:00PM
Graphene Nanoelectronics

: Graphene is a revolutionary "nano-fabric" consisting of a single sheet of carbon atoms in a...

Dr. J. Brad Boos -- January 25, 2008, 2:00PM
Sb-based Transistors and Diodes for High-Speed, Low-Power Applications

There is an expanding need to reduce power consumption in high-speed analog, digital, and...

Dr. Maja Remskar -- December 07, 2007, 4:00PM
Nanotechnology and Health How do we safely produce and utilize nanoparticles?

Concerns have been raised about exposure to nanoparticles and their potential impact on health...

Scott Howard -- November 19, 2007, 01:00AM
Quantum Cascade Lasers:
High-Performance Semiconductor Lasers for the Mid-Infrared

Quantum cascade (QC) lasers are versatile mid-infrared semiconductor light sources ideal for...

Dr. Chanoch Carmeli -- May 01, 2007, 12:30PM
HIGHLY EFFICIENT HYBRID BIO-SEMICONDUCTOR NANO PHOTO SENSORS AND PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES

The electronic coupling between the photoactive proteins and semiconductors or metals is used...

T.F. Kuech -- April 24, 2007, 12:30PM
The Growth and Characteristics of GaAsSb Based Heterostructures

GaAs-based multiple quantum well heterostructures comprised of metastable alloys, such as...

Dr. Dieter Gruen -- April 17, 2007, 12:30PM
ULTRANANOCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND:
SYNTHESIS, PROPERTIES AND APPLICATIONS

Ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD) films are deposited from microwave plasmas typically...

Dr. Rhonda Drayton -- April 10, 2007, 12:30PM
Use of 3D Design Methods for RF Integrated Packaging and Circuits

The information age emerged from the parallel development of computing and RF communication...

Dr. Debdeep Jena -- March 27, 2007, 12:30PM
Graphene for Electronics:
Can Dirac rescue Moore's Law?

Graphene is the newest carbon-based material that has generated tremendous interest in the...

Dr. Tomas Palacios -- March 20, 2007, 12:30PM
Nitride Electronics:
New ideas at the mm-wave frontier

In the short span of 15 years, nitride-based semiconductors have evolved tremendously from...

Dr. Alan Seabaugh -- February 27, 2007, 12:30PM
Zero-Bias Detectors and Circuits for Energy Harvesting

This talk will consider the requirements for constructing zero-bias detectors and circuits...

Dr. Cengiz Ozkan -- February 26, 2007, 12:30PM
Carbon Nanotube-DNA Nanoarchitectures and Electronic Functionality

Biological molecules such as deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) possess inherent recognition and self-

Dr. Gary Bernstein -- February 20, 2007, 12:30PM
Quilt Packaging

"Quilt Packaging," (QP) a new superconnect paradigm for interchip communication, is presented...

Dr. HsuehChia Chang -- February 13, 2007, 12:30PM
Induced Dipoles and Dielectrophoresis of Nano-Colloids

Induced AC electric dipoles of nano-colloids can be used to manipulate and assemble the beads...

Dr. B. Brar -- February 06, 2007, 12:30PM
Antimonide Based Semiconductors for Low Power Millimeterwave Circuits

Antimonide based compound semiconductors (ABCS) have a bandstructure that make them ideal for...

Dr. Gerhard Klimeck -- January 30, 2007, 12:30PM
Electronic Structure of Si/InAs Composite Channels

Although pure InAs, has a lighter effective mass and higher mobility than Si, an ultra-scaled...

Dr. P.W. Bohn -- January 23, 2007, 12:30PM
Chemical and Biochemical Sensing in Porous GaN Produced by Metal-Assisted Electroless Etching

A great deal of the interest displayed in porous semiconductors in recent years is motivated...

Dr. Steven Ringel -- September 08, 2006, 3:00PM
The Science and Application of Metamorphic Semiconductor Heterostructures:
A New Age of Advanced Device Technologies Reaches Puberty

The past few years have been witness to a grudging but dramatic acceptance of the realization...

Dr. Fred Terry, Jr. -- May 02, 2006, 12:30PM
Micro and Nano Technology at the Michigan Nanofabrication Facility

This seminar will give an overview of micro and nano technologies at the Michigan...

Minghao Qi -- April 25, 2006, 12:30PM
Microcavities in Three-Dimensional Phototonic Crystals

A photonic crystal (PhCs) is typically a composite of a high-dielectric-constant material (e.g...

Dr. Neil Zimmerman -- April 18, 2006, 12:30PM
A Fundamental Standard of Capacitance:
Counting Electrons One-by-One

Solid-state devices based on the Coulomb blockade give us a remarkable ability: we can move...

Dr. Jasprit Singh -- April 11, 2006, 12:30PM
Disorder versus Coherence:
Reaching into the Terrahertz Regime

The terrahertz regime in the electromagnetic spectrum is still a frequency regime that...

Jasprit Singh -- April 11, 2006, 12:30PM
Disorder versus Coherence:
Reaching into the Terrahertz Regime

The terrahertz regime in the electromagnetic spectrum is still a frequency regime that...

Dr. Alexander Efros -- April 04, 2006, 11:00AM
Semiconductor Nanorod Optical Properties

There is growing interest in nanometer-scale crystalline semiconductor structures of various...

Dr. Steven Ringel -- March 28, 2006, 11:00AM
The Science and Application of Metamorphic Semiconductor Heterostructures:
A New Age of Advanced Device Technologies Reaches Puberty

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Dr. Paul Saunier -- March 20, 2006, 11:30AM
The future of AlGaN/GaN HEMT Technology

Assessing the future of the AlGaN/GaN technology is challenging!

On one hand AlGaN/GaN...

Dr. Douglas Hall -- March 14, 2006, 12:30PM
New Uses for “Rust”:
Recent Developments in Compound Semiconductor Oxidation for Optoelectronic and Electronic Devices

The 1990 discovery of the wet-thermal native oxides of AlGaAs at UIUC has led to significant...

Dr. Katherine Liu -- March 07, 2006, 12:30PM
Thermal Strategy Update

Advances in microfabrication processes and ever-increasing demand for faster processing of...

Steve Koester -- February 28, 2006, 12:30PM
SiGe Heterostructures:
One-Hit Wonder or the Next Rolling Stones?

The introduction by IBM of a production SiGe HBT technology in 1998 marked a major milestone...

Deli Wang -- February 21, 2006, 12:30PM
Semiconductor Nanowires for Nanoelectronics

Ms. Michelle Roberts -- February 14, 2006, 12:30PM
Strain Engineering Using Si/SiGe Nanomembranes

Controlling strain in the Si/SiGe hetero-system provides control over band offsets and carrier...

Dr. Xiangyang Li -- February 07, 2006, 12:30PM
Photodetectors:
introduction, its meteorological application in China, and current nanowire based work at Notre Dame

Photodetectors are critical parts in the information technology. It is the eyes of imaging...

Dr. Peter Ye -- January 31, 2006, 12:30PM
III-V MOSFETs: Opportunities and Challenges

Practical GaAs MOSFET, in particular for large-scale integrated circuits or digital...

Dr. Michael Flynn -- January 24, 2006, 12:30PM
Research in Analog Circuits at the University of Michigan

This presentation begins with an overview of the research of the analog group at the...

Dr. Longxia Li -- December 20, 2005, 3:00PM
New Progress in Large-size CdZnTe Single Crystal Growth using a Modified Vertical Bridgeman Technique for Room Temperature Radiation Detectors

Dr. Longxia Li is the president and founder of Yinnel Tech, Incorporated, located in South...

Ilesanmi Adesida -- March 22, 2005, 12:30PM
Processing and Device Issues in GaN and Related Compounds

Over the last decade, significant and rapid advances in the epitaxial growth of gallium...

Leonid Rokhinson -- March 01, 2005, 12:30PM
Spin separation in cyclotron motion

The ability to manipulate spin of charge carries in a controllable fashion is central to the...