We synthesize and characterize nanoscale materials (primarily graphene and TMDs), investigate their properties, and develop innovative applications. Our strengths are in chemical vapor deposition (CVD), Raman spectroscopy, and time-domain terahertz spectroscopy.
Department of Electrical Engineering
Department of Materials Design and Innovation
Presently on leave from UB
Course description: This course will provide a microscale, atomistic and quantum mechanical description of the electronic, optical, and magnetic properties of materials. The course study will involve metals, alloys, and semiconductors, as well as non-traditional electronic and optical materials such as polymers and ceramics. Special emphasis is given to emerging technology applications of electronic and optoelectronic materials, especially through the use of databases. This course will help students to develop both a quantitative and a qualitative understanding of the properties of functional materials.
Course description: This course introduces the properties of electronic materials, with an emphasis on understanding those properties that are important for modern microelectronics. The course begins with a review of concepts from classical physics and quantum mechanics before going on to present essentials of crystal structure, reciprocal space, the free-electron theory of metals, and the band theory of solids. This leads to the introduction of the concept of a semiconductor, followed by carrier statistics, doping, and bandstructure. The course concludes with the theory of optical properties, and some examples of applications of semiconductors to electronic and photonic technologies.
Course description: This course provides an overview of the different modalities of imaging and spectroscopy in materials science with an emphasis on signal and data analytics; linked to the physics of the instrumentation and the interpretation of the spectrum or image. A selection of laboratory components will be offered to be tailored to the student's research interests (e.g., X-ray, Raman, TEM AFM Atom probe and field ion microscopy).
Course description: This course will provide a unified perspective of inorganic/macromolecular and hybrid bonded materials with a focus on quantifying structure-property relationships. This course provides an overview of the role of chemical bonding and electronic structure on defining properties from an electronic structure perspective.
Course description: This course is intended to develop an understanding of the fundamental concepts of electromagnetic fields, with an emphasis on experience for the students in the lab. Topics covered include: electrostatics; magnetostatics; Maxwell's equations; electromagnetic waves in vacuum; plane waves; monochromatic waves; wave polarization; electromagnetic waves at the interface between two media; geometrical optics; guided waves and transmission lines; radiation and antennas; electromagnetic waves in anisotropic, gyrotropic and optically active media.
Course description: The goal of this course is to familiarize students with a variety of materials synthesis and characterization methods that are likely to be useful to (or encountered by) those pursuing experimental research in electrical engineering and/or solid-state materials science. Ideally, students would take this course just before or shortly after undertaking experimental laboratory research, i.e., as a senior undergraduate or first-year grad student.
This course begins with an introduction to various methods commonly used to synthesize metal and semiconductor thin-films. Physical and chemical deposition methods will be the dominant themes here. The focus will then shift to characterization of materials, first by microscopy and then by spectroscopy. Spectroscopic methods discussed will span most of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Engineer at ASML
PhD program at UB
Postdoc at LLNL
Research Scientist at UES
Adjunct Professor at UB
Postdoc at OIST
Engineer at Annapolis Micro Systems
Engineer at Micron Technology
Grad program at Arizona State
PhD program at UB
Engineer at Infratek Solutions
PhD program at SUTD
Grad program at Boston University
PhD program at RPI