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CENT Distinguished Speaker Series

Speaker: Professor Chennupati Jagadish, Dept. of Electronic Materials Engineering, The Australian National University

Talk Title: Semiconductor Nanowires for Optoelectronic Device Applications

Abstract: Semiconductors have played an important role in the development of information and communications technology, solar cells, solid state lighting. Nanowires are considered as building blocks for the next generation electronics and optoelectronics. In this talk, I will introduce the importance of nanowires and their potential applications and discuss about how these nanowires can be synthesized and how the shape, size and composition of the nanowires influence their structural and optical properties. I will present results on axial and radial heterostructures and how one can engineer the optical properties to obtain high performance optoelectronic devices such as lasers, solar cells. Future prospects of the semiconductor nanowires will be discussed.

Biography: Professor Jagadish is an Australian Laureate Fellow, Distinguished Professor and Head of Semiconductor Optoelectronics and Nanotechnology Group in the Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University. He is also serving as Vice-President and Secretary Physical Sciences, Australian Academy of Science, Convenor of the Australian Nanotechnology Network (more than 1400 members) and Director of Australian National Fabrication Facility, ACT Node. He served as President of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC) during 2008, 2009 and Vice-President of IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) during 2006, 2007 and currently serving as Vice-President of IEEE Photonics Society. Prof. Jagadish is an Editor of IEEE Electron Device Letters, Progress in Quantum Electronics and an Associate Editor of Applied Physics Reviews, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics and Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology and serves on editorial boards of 17 other journals. He has published more than 710 research papers (480 journal papers), holds 5 US patents, co-authored a book, co-edited five books and edited 12 conference proceedings and 10 special issues of journals. He won the 2000 IEEE Millennium Medal and received Distinguished Lecturer awards from IEEE NTC, IEEE LEOS and IEEE Electron Devices Society. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, IEEE, APS, MRS, OSA, AVS, ECS, SPIE, AAAS, IoP (UK), IET (UK), IoN (UK) and the Australian Institute of Physics. He received Peter Baume Award from the ANU in 2006, the Quantum Device Award from ISCS in 2010, IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Service Award in 2010, ANU Top Supervisor Award in 2010, IEEE Nanotechnology Council Distinguished Service Award in 2011 and Electronics and Photonics Division Award of the Electrochemical Society in 2012.

Host: Professor Dan Dapkus

Location: Hedco Neurosciences Building (HNB) - 100

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Eliza Aceves