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99th Faculty Research Lecture
The End of the Semiconductor Roadmap:
The Collision of Physics, Economics, and Sociology
Eli Yablonovitch , Ph.D.
Professor of Electrical Engineering
UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied
Science
October 25, 2005
3:00 - 4:30 PM
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Eli Yablonovitch received his Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics
from Harvard University in 1972. He worked for two years at Bell
Telephone Laboratories, and then became a professor of Applied
Physics at Harvard. In 1979, he joined Exxon to do research on
photovoltaic solar energy. Then in 1984, he joined Bell
Communications Research, where he was a Distinguished Member of
Staff, and also Director of Solid-State Physics Research. In 1992,
he joined the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is a
professor of electrical engineering.
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His work has covered a broad variety of topics: nonlinear optics,
laser-plasma interaction, infrared laser chemistry, photovoltaic
energy conversion, strained-quantum-well lasers, and chemical
modification of semiconductor surfaces. Currently his main interests
are in optoelectronics, high speed optical communications, high
efficiency light-emitting diodes and nano-cavity lasers, photonic
crystals at optical and microwave frequencies, quantum computing and
quantum communication.
He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for
introducing photonic band-gap engineering and applying semiconductor
concepts to electromagnetic waves in artificial periodic structures,
and then to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest
honors that can be accorded a U.S. scientist or engineer.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers, the Optical Society of America, and the American Physical
Society. Yablonovitch is a Life Member of Eta Kappa Nu. He has been
awarded the Adolf Lomb Medal, the W. Streifer Scientific Achievement
Award, the R.W. Wood Prize, and the Julius Springer Prize. His other
honors are listed in the Awards section below.
Yablonovitch was one of the founders of the Photonic and
Electromagnetic Crystal Structures (PECS) workshops organized by
Photonic Crystal International that began in 1999. PECS VI will be
held in Crete in June 2005.
In addition to his other responsibilities at UCLA, Yablonovitch
is director of the Center for Nanoscience Innovation for Defense, a
$20 million, multi-campus project sponsored by the Defense Advanced
Research Project Agency and Defense MicroElectronics Activity,
designed facilitate the rapid transition of research innovations in
the nanosciences into applications for the defense sector. He also
is co-director of the National Science Foundation-sponsored Center
for Scalable and Integrated Nano-Manufacturing, an $18 million
venture that will focus on developing cost-effective
nanomanufacturing technologies by working closely with industry. He
is also an active member of the California NanoSystems
Institute.
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