1~2 Ph.D. Student Positions are available at Optoelectronics Research Group, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
Biography of Prof. John E Bowers:
JOHN E. BOWERS holds the Fred Kavli Chair in Nanotechnology and is the Director of the Institute for Energy Efficiency and a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
Dr. Bowers is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the IEEE, OSA and the American Physical Society, and a recipient of the OSA Holonyak Prize, the IEEE LEOS William Streifer Award and the South Coast Business and Technology Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He and coworkers received the ACE Award for Most Promising Technology for the hybrid silicon laser in 2007. Professor Bowers' research interests are in III-V and silicon photonic integrated circuits for the next generation of coherent optical systems.
Research topics:
² Silicon Photonics
Silicon photonics has the potential to create low-cost, high-volume and reliable integrated circuits due to its compatibility with mature CMOS fabrication technology. Bowers group have developed the hybrid silicon platform, which provides a very promising way to integrate active optical components on a silicon chip by coupling light evanescently from bonded III-V active region to silicon waveguide, or vice versa.
² Energy Efficiency (Thermoelectrics)
² Linear Photonic Rf Front-End Technology (PHOR-FRONT)
The goal of PHOR-FRONT is to provide a universal photonic radio frequency front-end that simultaneously achieves high dynamic range and high instantaneous bandwidth (IBW) RF-to-bits receivers.
² Photodetectors: High speed Ge/Si avalanche photodetectors, PIN detectors, etc.
² High Aspect Ratio Transmission Lines Fabricated Using Silicon Micromachining
This project focuses on using MEMS micromachining methods to improve the performance of transmission lines on silicon. The result is a low-loss, high-isolation transmission line platform that has a planar surface.
More information please find in the website: http://optoelectronics.ece.ucsb.edu/
If you (BS and MS graduates by Aug. 2010) are interested, please send your resume and transcript to Dr. Daoxin Dai dxdai@ece.ucsb.edu and Dr. Di Liang dliang@ece.ucsb.edu by Oct. 30, 2009. An on-site face-to-face interview will be conducted on Nov. 5 in Shanghai.
