Title: Semiconductor Nanowires for Optoelectronic Device Applications

Speaker: Professor Chennupati Jagadish (The Australian National University)

Time: 15:00pm, Oct. 17, 2012

Venue: Academic Salon Room, Institute of Semiconductors, CAS

 

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 optoelectonic devices such as lasers, photodetectors and solar cells. Future prospects of the semiconductor nanowires will be discussed.

 

Biography: Professor Jagadish was born and educated in India (BSc, Nagarjuna Univ, MSc(Tech), Andhra University, MPhil, PhD, University of Delhi) and worked in India (S.V. College, New Delhi) and Canada (Queen’s University, Kingston, Ont), prior to moving to Australia in 1990. He is currently 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 holds honorary positions at University of Tokyo, Anna University, Nanjing University and UESTC-Chengdu. He serves as Vice-President of IEEE Photonics Society currently. Prof. Jagadish is an Editor of IEEE Electron Device Letters, Progress in Quantum Electronics and an Associate Editor of Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics and Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology and serves on editorial boards of 18 other journals. He has published more than 700 research papers (470 journal papers), holds 5 US patents, co-authored a book, co-edited 4 books and edited 12 conference proceedings and 12 special issues of journals. He is a Fellow of the AAS, ATSE, IEEE, APS, MRS, OSA, ECS, SPIE, AVS, AAAS, IoP, IET, ION and AIP.