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Faculty and Staff Participating Faculty HATICE ALTUG
SOUMENDRA N. BASU
Assistant Professor, ECE
Professor, ME; Co-Associate Division Head, MSE
Experimental and theoretical research on nanoplasmonics, nanophotonics and metamaterials for the development of ultrasensitive bionano sensors, ultrasensitive vibrational nanospectroscopy tools and on-chip photonic devices. Novel integration of nanophotonics with nano/microfluidic systems for efficient analyte trapping and manipulation. Novel nanofabrication methods enabling high-throughput, flexible, low cost and large-area fabrication.
Thin films for energy, photonic, electronic, and superconducting applications: thermal barrier and environmental barrier coatings for gas turbine and fuel cell applications, environmental degradation of materials at elevated temperatures, structure and stability of interfaces, and characterization of structure and phase transformations in materials using electron microscopy techniques. • PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989
• PhD, Stanford University, 2007 ENRICO BELLOTTI RICHARD AVERITT
Associate Professor, ECE
Associate Professor, Physics
Computational electronics, semiconductor materials and device simulations, power electronics, parallel computing
Ultrafast Optical Spectroscopy of Materials, Time-Integrated Optical Spectroscopy of Materials, Terahertz (far-infrared) Spectroscopy, Correlated electron materials, metamaterials, and plasmonics • PhD, Rice University, 1998 RAMA BANSIL
Professor, Physics Synthetic and biological macromolecules • PhD, University of Rochester, 1975
• PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1999 LUCA DAL NEGRO
Associate Professor, ECE Optical amplification phenomena and laser physics, optical spectroscopy of semiconductor nanostructures, photonic crystals, anderson light localization and aperiodic dielectrics, nanophotonics and plasmonics • PhD, University of Trento, Italy, 2003
Annual Report 2010–2011