Steve Blair

Professor

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• Phone: 801-585-6157
• Email: blair@ece.utah.edu
• Office: MEB 3236

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Optics and photonics: physics and applications of resonance phenomena and linear and nonlinear optical phenomena, specifically; resonance enhancement in fluorescence-based molecular transduction, kinetics of bi-molecular interactions, microfabricated optical biosensor array systems, design of periodic and aperiodic systems of artificial resonators, and plasmonics-nanophotonic systems based on metallic structures

Douglas Christensen

Professor

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• Phone: 801-581-7859
• Email: christen@ece.utah.edu
• Office: MEB 2456

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Fiberoptic and guided-wave sensors, especially those applicable to biomedical sensing, such as fluorescent immunosensors; numerical modeling of optical devices using finite-difference time-domain techniques, and ultrasound bioinstrumentation.

Weilu Gao

Assistant Professor

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• Phone: 801-581-7054
• Email: weilu.gao@utah.edu
• Office: MEB 2122

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Photonics, optoelectronics, nanomaterials, and nanostructures

Sriram Krishnamoorthy

Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of California Santa Barbara

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• Email: sriramkrishnamoorthy@ucsb.edu

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Semiconductors-based nanoscale electronic/optoelectronic devices, with focus on material synthesis, electronic transport, design/modeling, nanoscale fabrication, and characterization of devices and materials. Specifically, wide band gap oxide/nitride semiconductor devices for a wide range of applications such as power electronics, ultra-violet optoelectronics, vacuum electronics, and high temperature electronics

Rajesh Menon

USTAR Professor

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• Phone: 801-585-1058
• Email: rmenon@eng.utah.edu
• Office: MEB 2256

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Optics and nanotechnology: absorbance modulation optical lithography, patterning via optical saturable transitions, optical nanoscopy, and ultra-high frequency solar energy via a nanostructured polychromatic concentrator

Mike Scarpulla

Professor

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• Phone: 801-585-1231
• Email: scarpulla@eng.utah.edu
• Office: MEB 2138

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Semiconductors and photovoltaics: earth-abundant, benign compound semiconductors for thin film photovoltaics such as Cu2ZnSnS4. Other sulfide semiconductors for PV, light management for thin film PV, CIGS, laser processing of semiconductors, and the physics of semiconductor alloys and transition metal and rare earth additions to semiconductors.

David Schurig

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Professor

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• Email: david.schurig@utah.edu
• Office: MEB 2274

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Metamaterials: Design, analysis and fabrication of metamaterials in frequency ranges from megahertz to petahertz. Transformation design of devices implementable with metamaterials. Applications include: remote sensing, near-field imaging, biological imaging, implantable devices, electro-mechanical devices and invisibility cloaking.

Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez

Associate Professor

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• Phone: 801-585-5657
• Email: berardi.sensale@utah.edu
• Office: MEB 2134

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EM and optics: terahertz technology, high frequency electronics, two dimensional materials, active metamaterials, plasmonics, and nanophotonics

Gerald Stringfellow

Distinguished Professor

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• Phone: 801-581-8387
• Email: stringfellow@ece.utah.edu
• Office: MEB 3110

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Advanced materials and microelectronics: ceramics, advanced materials, microelectronics, and a broad range of topics related to materials science and electronics

Heayoung Yoon

Associate Professor

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• Phone: 801-585-0334
• Email: heayoung.yoon@utah.edu
• Office: MEB 2136

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Solar energy conversion, NanoEngineering: Engineering micro/nanomaterials to enhance device performance and functionality in the fields of solar energy conversion, advanced nanoelectronics, and 3D hybrid imaging at nanoscale