Faculty

B

Semiconductor materials and devices related to optics and thermoelectric-energy conversion

C

Structure, optical and electronic properties in materials

D

Signal and image processing

F

Digital communications, wireless communication system, array processing, adaptive signal processing

G

Fiber sensors for bio-applications, optical fiber communications, volume holographic data storage, liquid crystal displays, nonlinear optics, optical information processing

I

Nano- and microfabrication technology and applications to biomedical and diagnostic devices, nanocharacterization of materials with emphasis on the development of microscopy tools, novel modes of imaging, electron and light optics

K

Low-power. High-speed VLSI circuit design and synthesis, RF circuits, biological circuits, mixed technology, mixed signal CAD

Physics and chemistry of complex functional materials (e.g., coupled organic-inorganic materials, hybrid crystalline-amorphous materials); Group III-V compound semiconductor nanometer-scale structures and related optoelectronic devices; mixed oxide nanometer-scale structures and related electronic devices; tailored nanometer-scale semiconductor structures for energy conversion applications (NECTAR: Nanostructured Energy Conversion Technology and Research)

Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS), adaptive optics (AO), optical-MEMS, bio-MEMS, bio-imaging, AO microscopy

L

HF radar sensing of ocean surface phenomena, autonomous ocean surface vehicles and passive microwave measurements of ocean surface vehicles

Retinal prosthesis, biomimetic systems, integrated neuro-electronics, molecular electronics, CMOS and SOI transveiver design, current mode band limited signaling, microelectronic sensor, timing/clock recovery and optimization, noise characterization and modeling, and computer vision/image processing

M

Statistical signal image/video processing and reconstruction; modeling and inverse problems in imaging; detection and estimation theory; applied mathematics

P

Integrated circuit design for communications, analog electronics, radio frequency integrated circuits, low-phase-noise oscillators, frequency synthesis, VLSI clock distribution, optical communications, high-speed electronics for lightwave systems, devices for ll optical networking and imaging

R

Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs), both in semiconductors and polymer materials

S

Wireless communication systems, coding and information theory, ad hoc and sensor networks

Integrated optics for biomedicine and quantum optics, nano-magneto-optics, single-particle spectroscopy, ultrafast optics.

Quantum electronics, nano and microscale heat and current transport in semiconductor devices, thermoelectric/thermionic energy conversion, renewable energy sources, thermal imaging, micro refrigerators on a chip and optoelectronic integrated circuits

Physical design, reliability and packaging of micro- and optoelectronic systems, materials engineering, applied probability, predictive modeling, nanoengineering

V

HF radar design and construction and observation of ocean surface winds, waves and currents with applications to coastal and deep water ocean processes; project MEDSAT

W

Research interests are control systems, Kalman filtering, system parameter estimation, adaptive optics for large telescopes, and biomedical system modeling