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    This page last updated on May 1, 2006
 


Solid State Seminars

Tuesdays, 12:30 to 1:30   Location: DeBartolo 208

The solid state seminar series this year comprises of talks spanning a wide range of topics in electronic and optical materials, devices, and nanoscience and technology. Speakers are drawn from various universities, research laboratories, and industry. The speaker list, and seminar topics will be updated as the semester progresses.
Senior graduate students might want to meet and talk to the speakers for possible career opportunities (jobs, post doctoral positions, etc).

No. Date Speaker/
Affiliation
Topic    Bio/
Abstract
1
1/17/06
Introduction
Introduction
 2 1/24/06 Michael Flynn
U. Michigan
Mems  .pdf
3 1/31/06  Peter Ye
Purdue
Advance Dielectric by Atomic Layer Deposition and Related Devices .pdf 
 2/7/06 Xianyang Li
Inst. of Tech. Phys
Photodetectors  .pdf
5
2/14/06 

Michelle Roberts
U. Wisconsin-Madison

Growth of Mismatched Materials-SiGe on Si

 .pdf
2/21/06 DebDeep Jena
Grace Xing
Univ. of Notre Dame
The Current Status on III-Nitride Research at Notre Dame  
7
2/28/06  Steve Koester 
IBM
 SiGe Based Photodetectors .pdf 
8
3/07/06  Katherine Liu
ND (Mech. Eng.)  
 Thermal Conduction in Nanomaterials .pdf 
3/14/06
Doug Hall
ND (EE)
New Uses for “Rust”: Recent Developments in Compound Semiconductor Oxidation for Optoelectronic and Electronic Devices
(Spring break week) (Fitzpatrick 356)
10
3/20/06
Paul Saunier
Triquint
The Future of AlGaN/GaN HEMT Technology
(11:30 in Fitzpatrick 258)
11
3/28/06
Steve Ringel
Ohio State
Cancelled: Heterogeneous Integration of Materials
and all that
12
4/04/06
Alexander Efros
NRL
Understanding Semiconductor Nanostructures
13
4/11/06
Jasprit Singh
U Michigan
Disorder and Coherence: Reaching into the Terrahertz Regime
14
4/18/06
Neil Zimmerman
NIST
A Fundamental Standard of Capacitance:
Counting Electrons One-by-One
.pdf 
15
4/25/06
Minghao Qi
Purdue  
Microcavities in Three-Dimensional Photonic Crystals
16
5/2/06
Fred Terry, Jr.
Univ. of Michigan
Ann Arbor
Micro and Nano Technology at the Michigan Nanofabrication Facility
 .pdf