UK Semiconductors: Previous Plenary Speakers

2024

  • Richard Warburton (University of Basel) – A Semiconductor Quantum Dot in an Open Microcavity
  • Paul Meredith (Swansea University) – Mind the Gap: the Impact of Trap States on the Photovoltaic Thermodynamics of Molecular and Other Partially Disordered Semiconductors
  • Roman Gorbachev (University of Manchester) – Recent Progress in Ultraclean Assembly of van der Waals Heterostructures
  • Pedro Vianez (University of Cambridge) – IOP Semiconductor Physics Group Thesis Prize Talk – Semiconductor Nanodevices as a Probe of Strong Electron Correlations

2023

  • Sean Redmond (Silicon Catalyst UK) – Photonics Egg and CHIPS
  • Dave Rogers (Nanovation) – The Dawn of the Era of Gallium Oxide Based Space Electronics?
  • Sarah Haigh (University of Manchester) – Probing Surfaces and Twisted Interfaces in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides by Advanced Transmission Electron Microscopy
  • Tom Hopper (PhD Imperial College London) – IOP Semiconductor Physics Group Thesis Prize Talk – Ultrafast photophysics and energy losses in emerging photovoltaic materials and devices

2022

  • Wolfgang Stolz (Phillipps University Marburg) – Novel III/V-based materials and device concepts for laser applications realized by metal organic vapour phase epitaxy (MOVPE)
  • Tina Müller (Toshiba Europe Ltd.) – Quantum dot based devices for telecom wavelength quantum networks
  • Yuichi Oshima (National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan) – Halide vapor phase epitaxy of ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor α-Ga2O3 toward power device applications
  • Eoin O’Reilly (Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork) – Band structure engineering and the quest for ideal semiconductor materials and devices

2019

  • Andras Kis (EPFL) – Exciton Manipulation in Heterostructures of 2D Materials
  • Susanna Thon (Johns Hopkins) – Spectral Engineering of Semiconductor Nanocrystal Films for Next-Generation Photovoltaics
  • Andy Carter (Oclaro Inc. (retired)) – InP-based photonic integrated circuits – a personal perspective on a key technology for telecommunications

2018

  • Eric Tournié (University of Montpellier) “GaSb-based materials and devices: the IR toolbox”
  • Arne Ludwig (Ruhr University Bochum) “Towards low noise semiconductor quantum dots”
  • Amalia Patanè (University of Nottingham) “From epitaxy to science and processing technologies of novel van der Waals crystals”
  • Anna Barnett (University of Sussex) “Advances in Wide Bandgap Compound Semiconductor Radiation Detectors”

2017

  • Joshua Robinson, Penn State University, USA: Graphene and Beyond: Creating and Exploring Atomically-Thin Materials and Heterostructures.
  • Mark Holmes, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Japan: Single photon emission from III-Nitride nanowire QDs.
  • Johann Peter Reithmaier, Institute of Nanostructure Technologies and Analytics, University of Kassel, Germany: 1.5 µm InP-based quantum dot materials for high-performance classical and quantum optical communication
  • Christopher Bower, CTO, X-Celeprint Inc., North Carolina, USA, & Cork, Ireland: Transfer-Printed Microscale Semiconductors: Techniques and Applications

2016

  • Andrea Fiore: (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands) – Nano-opto-electro-mechanical Systems Based on III-V Semiconductors
  • Russell Dupuis: (Georgia Tech, USA) – The Growth and Properties of III-N Wide-Bandgap Semiconductor Devices OR An Anorak’s Guide to the Practical Use of Aluminium, Eka-Aluminium and Noxious Air
  • Anna Fontcuberta i Morral: (EPFL, Switzerland) – III-V Semiconductor Nanowires and Related Heterostructures
  • David Mitzi: (Duke University, USA) – Perovskites Semiconductors: Opportunities for Photovoltaics and Beyond.

2015

  • Kenichi Nishi (QD Laser Inc., Japan) “Realization of superior characteristics in mass-produced quantum dot lasers”
  • Frank Koppens (ICFO, Barcelona, Spain) “Novel ultra-fast and nanoscale opto-electronic phenomena in 2d material heterostructures”
  • Shigefusa Chichibu (Tohoku University, Japan) “Wide bandgap III-nitride semiconductors for short wavelength light emitters”
  • Markus Amann (Technical University of Munich, Germany) “Novel InP- and GaSb-based light sources for the near infrared”

2014

  • Michael Kneissl (Technical University of Berlin, Germany) “UV-LEDs – the long road towards shorter wavelengths”
  • Jerome Faist (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) “Quantum cascade laser combs at mid-infrared and terahertz frequencies”
  • Brian Bennett (Naval Research Laboratories, USA) “Antimonide-based compound semiconductors for low power electronics”
  • Hywel Morgan (University of Southampton, UK) “Common solid state electronics technologies for healthcare”

2013

  • Stephen Forrest (University of Michigan, USA), “High intensity organic emission achieved by engineering excited states in organic thin films”
  • Lucia Sorba (Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR, Pisa, Italy), “Growth of III-V nanowires: from fundamental physics to device application”
  • Pascale Senellart (LPN-CNRS, France) “Cavity quantum electrodynamics with semiconductor quantum dots”
  • Rüdiger Quay (Fraunhofer Institute of Applied Solid-State Physics, Germany) “Gallium Nitride: The Prospects of Efficient Power Conversion for the Green (R)evolution”

2012

  • Jerry Meyer (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) “A New Generation of Interband Cascade Lasers for the 3-6 µm Spectral Band”
  • Jean-Michel Gérard (CEA Grenoble, France) “Quantum Optics in Photonic Wires: Basics and Application to ‘Ultrabright’ Single-Photon Sources”
  • Pallab Bhattacharya (University of Michigan, USA) “Nitride-Based Quantum Dot Visible Lasers and Single Photon Sources”
  • Nir Tessler (Technion Haifa, Israel) “Organic Electronics: An Electrical Engineering Perspective of a Material Driven Field”

2011

  • Thomas Südmeyer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) “The MIXSEL: An Integrated Ultrafast Gigahertz Semiconductor Laser with Multi-Watt Average Output Power”
  • Peter Lohdahl (Technical University of Denmark) “Quantum Electrodynamics with Quantum Dots in Photonic Nanostructures”
  • Karl Leo (TU Dresden, Germany) “Organics – Bad Semiconductors for Good Devices”
  • Hideo Ohno (Tohoku University, Japan) “Manipulating Magnetism in Semiconductors”

2010

  • Diana Huffaker (UCLA, USA) “Growth of III-Sb Diode Lasers on GaAs and Si”
  • Matty Caymax (IMEC, Belgium) “Issues and Solutions for Co-Integration of Ge and III-V MOSFETs for Beyond 22  nm Technology Generation CMOS”
  • Vladimir Bulović (MIT, USA) “Bright and Colourful LEDs Built with Nanostructured Semiconductors”
  • Paul Koenraad (TU Eindhoven, Netherlands) “Probing the Electronic and Magnetic Structure of a Single Impurity in a Semiconductor”

2009

  • Umesh Mishra (UCSB, USA) “The New Face of GaN: Technology and Applications”
  • Takashi Asano (Kyoto University, Japan) “New Trends in Photonic Crystals”
  • Carlo Sirtori (Université Paris-Diderot Paris-7, France) “Unipolar Optoelectronics: Physics and Devices”
  • Thomas Kazior (Raytheon, USA) “Progress and Challenges in the Direct Monolithic Integration of III-V Devices and Si CMOS on Silicon Substrates”
  • Gabriel Bester (Max Planck Institute Stuttgart, Germany) “Atomistic Theory of Nanostructures: New Insights and Perspectives”

2008

  • Mark Erikkson (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) “Spin Blockade and Coherence-Enhanced Transport in a Few-Electron Si/SiGe Double Quantum Dot”
  • Armando Rastelli (Leibniz Institute, Dresden, Germany) “Towards Position- and Wavelength-Controlled Quantum Dots for Single Dot Based Devices”
  • Aristide Lemaitre (CNRS-LPN, Marcoussis, France) “GaMnAs Semimagnetic Semiconductors and Mn-doped Quantum Dots”
  • Harold Gamble (Queens University Belfast, UK) “Post-CMOS Device Structures: Ge on Insulator”
  • Jonathan Finley (TU Munich, Germany) “Tunable Single Dot Nanosystems for Solid-State Cavity-QED”

2007

  • Le-Si Dang (Université J. Fourier, Grenoble, France) “Bose-Einstein Condensation and Photon Lasing in Semiconductor Microcavities”
  • Thomas Ihn (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) “Transport and Noise in AFM-Defined Nanostructures”
  • Mitsuru Sugawara (Fujitsu/QD Laser, Japan) “Self-Assembled InAs Quantum Dot Lasers and Optical Amplifiers for Optical Communication”
  • Wladek Walukiewicz (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, USA) “Highly Mismatched Alloys: A New Class of Compound Semiconductors”

2006

  • Eoin O’Reilly (Tyndall National Institute, Ireland) “Single- and Discrete-Mode Spectral Manipulation in Index-Patterned Fabry-Perot Lasers”
  • Yasuhiko Arakawa (RCAST, University of Tokyo, Japan) “Growth and Physics of GaN-based Quantum Dots for Application to Single Photon Sources”
  • Tomas Jungwirth (Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic) “Electric-Field Controlled Spintronic Devices”
  • Frank Koppens (TU Delft, Netherlands) “Single Electron Spin Resonance in Coupled Quantum Dots”