List of Publications/Presentations

Lehigh University – COT Faculty/Visiting Scientists

 

Peter Andrekson

Conferences 2006

P. Kylemark, M. Karlsson, T. Torounidis and P.A. Andrekson “Noise statistics of fiber optical parametric amplifiers,” Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC), paper OWT5, Anaheim, USA, March 2006.

 

H. Sunnerud, M. Westlund, and P.A. Andrekson, “High sensitivity all-optical sampling for 40 Gb/s signals,” Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC), paper OWN3, Anaheim, USA, March 2006.

 

B-E. Olsson, T. Torounidis, M. Karlsson, H. Sunnerud, and P.A. Andrekson, “OTDR technique for characterization of fiber optic parametric amplifiers,” Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC), paper OWT3, Anaheim, USA, March, 2006.

 

T. Torounidis, P.A. Andrekson and B-E. Olsson, “Ultrahigh gain fiber optical parametric amplifier,” Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC), paper OFH6, Anaheim, USA, March, 2006.

 

N. Alic, G. C. Papen, R. E. Saperstein, R. Jiang, C. Marki, Y. Fainman, S. Radic, and P.A. Andrekson, “Experimental demonstration of 10 Gb/s NRZ extended dispersion-limited reach over 600km-SMF link without optical dispersion compensation,” Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC), Anaheim, USA, March 2006.

 

P. Kylemark, M. Karlsson, and P.A. Andrekson, “Properties of pump-induced noise in fiber optic parametric amplifiers,” Proc. Optical Amplifiers and their Applications (OAA) and Coherent Optical technologies and Applications (COTA), paper OWA, Whistler, Canada, June 2006.

 

A. Wiberg, B.E. Olsson, P.O. Hedekvist, and P.A. Andrekson “Selective modulation of optical carriers using polarization dependent scheme for dispersion-tolerant millimeter-wave photonic links,” European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), paper We1.6.2, Cannes, France, September, 2006.

 

M. Sköld, B.E. Olsson, M. Karlsson, P.A. Andrekson, T. Swahn,  J. Mårtensson, A. Berntson, and S. Melin, “Field trial of polarization-assisted optical performance monitoring operating in an 820 km WDM system,” European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), paper Th2.5.1, Cannes, France,  September, 2006  (invited paper).

 

P.A. Andrekson, “Fiber optic parametric amplifiers and their applications,” International conference on Advanced Optical Materials and Devices, Vilnius, Lithuania, August, 2006 (invited paper).

 

Papers 2006

P. Kylemark, M. Karlsson, P.A. Andrekson, ”Impact of Phase-Modulation and Filter-characteristics on Dual-pumped Fiber Optical Parametric Amplification” Photonics Technology Letters, v. 18, 439-441, 2006.

 

T. Torounidis, P.A. Andrekson, and B-E. Olsson, “Fiber optical parametric amplifier with 70 dB gain,” IEEE  Phot. Technol. Lett., v. 18, pp.1194-1196, 2006.

 

P. Kylemark, M. Karlsson, and P.A. Andrekson, “Gain and wavelength dependence of the noise figure in fiber optical parametric amplifiers,” IEEE Phot. Technol. Lett., v. 18, pp. 1255-1257, 2006.

 

P. Kylemark, M. Karlsson, P.A. Andrekson, “Semi-analytic saturation theory of fiber optical parametric amplifiers” J. Lightwave Technology, v. 24, September 2006.

 

P. Kylemark, M. Karlsson, and P.A. Andrekson, “Noise statistics in fiber optical parametric amplifiers,” accepted for publication in IEEE Phot. Technol. Lett., 2006.

 

T. Torounidis and P.A. Andrekson, “High gain optical parametric amplifiers in communication systems,” submitted to IEEE Phot. Technol. Lett., 2006.

 

P. Kylemark, J. Ren, Y. Myslivets, N. Alic, S. Radic, P.A. Andrekson, and M. Karlsson, ”Impact of pump phase modulation on bit-error rate in fiber optical parametric amplifier based systems,” submitted to IEEE Phot. Technol. Lett., 2006.

 

P. Kylemark, J. Ren, M. Karlsson, S. Radic, and P.A. Andrekson, ”The noise figure of the dual-pumped fiber optical parametric amplifier: Theory and experiments,” submitted to J. Lightwave Technol. 2006.

 

P. Kylemark, J. Ren, S. Radic, C.J. McKinstrie, M. Karlsson, and P.A. Andrekson, ”Noise in orthogonally pumped fiber optical parametric amplifiers,” submitted to IEEE Phot. Technol. Lett., 2006.

 

T. Torounidis, B.E. Olsson, P.A. Andrekson, E. Sasaoka, M. Hirano, T. Nakanishi, T. Okuno, and M. Tanaka, “Gain and bandwidth characterization in fiber optic parametric amplifiers,” submitted to IEEE Phot. Technol. Lett., 2006.

 

Conferences 2005

M. Westlund, H. Sunnerud and P. A. Andrekson, “Fiber-based all-optical sampling system with simultaneous -17 dBm sensitivity, 1 ps temporal resolution and 60 nm optical bandwidth,” Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC), Anaheim, USA, paper OWJ3, March, 2005.

 

M. Sköld, B-E. Olsson, H. Sunnerud, M. Karlsson, and P.A. Andrekson, “Channel monitoring in WDM systems by utilizing polarization scrambling,” European Conference on Optical Communication, Glasgow, UK, 2005, paper We4.P.109.

 

A. Bogris, D. Syvridis, P. Kylemark, and P.A. Andrekson, “Comparison analysis between the noise properties of single-pump and dual-pump fiber optical parametric amplifiers,” European Conference on Optical Communication, Glasgow, UK, 2005, paper We4.P.134.

 

M. Westlund, P. A. Andrekson, and H. Sunnerud, “High performance all-optical waveform sampling for fiber communication systems,” European Conference on Optical Communication, Glasgow, UK, 2005, paper Th3.2.6 (invited paper).

 

Papers 2005

T. Torounidis, M. Westlund, H. Sunnerud, B.E. Olsson, and P.A. Andrekson, “Signal generation and transmission at 40 Gb/s, 80 Gb/s, and 160 Gb/s using a fiber optical parametric pulse source,” IEEE Phot. Technol. Lett., v. 15, pp. 312-314, 2005

 

M. Gustavsson, P.O. Hedekvist and P.A. Andrekson, “Uni-Travelling-Carrier Photodiode Performance with X-band Modulation at High Optical Power,” IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, v. 15, pp. 297-299, 2005.

 

J. Li, B. E. Olsson, M. Karlsson, and P. A. Andrekson, ‘‘OTDM add-drop multiplexer based on XPM-induced wavelength shifting in highly nonlinear fiber’’, J. Lightwave Technol., v. 23, pp. 2654-2661, 2005.

 

T. Torounidis, B.E. Olsson, H. Sunnerud, M. Karlsson, and P.A. Andrekson, “Fiber optic parametric amplifier in a loop mirror configuration,” IEEE Phot. Technol. Lett., v. 15, pp. 321-323, 2005.

 

P. Kylemark, M. Karlsson, and H. Sunnerud, “Penalties due to the combined effects of amplitude noise and timing-jitter with applications to a 40 Gb/s DM soliton system,” Optical Fiber Technology, v. 11, pp. 20-33, 2005.

 

A. Wiberg, P. Pérez-Millán, M.V. Andrés, P.A. Andrekson and P.O. Hedekvist, “Fiber-optic 40-GHz mm-wave link with 2.5-Gbps data transmission,” Phot. Technol. Lett., v. 17, pp. 1938-1940, 2005.

 

T. Torounidis, M. Karlsson, and P.A. Andrekson, “Fiber optical parametric amplifier pulse source: Theory and experiments,” J. Lightwave Technol., v. 23, pp. 4067- 4073, 2005.

 

A. Bogris D. Syvridis, P. Kylemark, P.A. Andrekson, P.A, “Noise Characteristics of Dual-Pump Fiber-Optic Parametric Amplifiers,” J. Lightwave Technology, v. 23, pp. 2788-2795, 2005.

 

M. Westlund, H. Sunnerud, M. Karlsson, J. Li, and P. A. Andrekson, "Software-synchronized all-optical sampling for fiber communication systems," J. Lightwave Technol., v. 23, pp. 1088-1099, 2005.

 

Ivan Biaggio

Conferences 2006

B. Esembeson, J. C. May, I. Biaggio, T. Michinobu, F. Diederich “Vapor deposited organic thin films with large third order nonlinearities for integrated nonlinear optics,” APS March Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 13–17, 2006.

 

J. C. May, I. Biaggio, T. Michinobu, F. Diederich “Highly efficient third-order optical nonlinearities and their frequency dependence in donor-substituted cyanoethynylethene molecules,” APS March Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 13–17, 2006.

 

H. Najafov, I. Biaggio, V. Podzorov, M. Gershenson, “Picosecond pulsed photoexcitation spectroscopy of excitons and charge-carriers in single crystals and thin films,” ICAM Symposium on Electronic Phenomena in Single-Crystal Organic Semiconductors, Baltimore, MD, March 17-18, 2006.

 

J. C. May, B. Esembeson, I. Biaggio, T. Michinobu, F. Diederich “Large Specific Third Order Polarizabilities in Organic Molecules for Vapor Deposition,” CLEO Long Beach, May 21-26, 2006.

 

H. Najafov, I. Biaggio, H. Jain, “Photo-induced nanosecond and sub-nanosecond relaxation in As-Se chalcogenide glasses,” SPIE Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, Dayton, June 12-16, 2006.

 

J. C. May, B. Esembeson, I. Biaggio, T. Michinobu, F. Diederich, “Optimizing specific third-order polarizabilities and approaching the fundamental limit in donor substituted

cyanoethynylethene (CEE) molecules,” SPIE Optics&Photonics San Diego, August 13-17, 2006.

 

J. C. May, P. R. LaPorta, B. Esembeson, I. Biaggio, T. Michinobu, F. Bures, F. Diederich, “Approaching the fundamental limit for the optical nonlinearity of organic molecules and optimizing their specific third-order polarizability,” International Photorefractive Workshop, Clearwater Beach, August 23-25, 2006.

 

I. Biaggio, “Optical Methods for the Investigation of Fundamental Microscopic Parameters in Polar Dielectrics,” 8th European Conference on Applications of Polar Dielectrics (ECAPD), Metz, France, September 5-8, 2006.

 

Papers 2006

H. Najafov, I. Biaggio, T.-K. Chuang, M. K. Hatalis, “Exciton dissociation by a static electric field followed by nanoscale charge transport in PPV polymer films,” Phys. Rev. B 73(12), (2006).

 

H. Najafov, I. Biaggio, V. Podzorov, M. F. Calhoun, M. E. Gershenson, “Primary Photoexcitations and the Origin of the Photocurrent in Rubrene Single Crystals,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 0566004 (2006).

Conferences 2005

I. Biaggio, “The experimental limits where photorefractivity becomes a simple tool for the study of basic material parameters”, International Photorefractive Workshop, 24-26 August 2005, Charleston, SC.

 

I. Biaggio, “Highly Efficient Third-Order Optical Nonlinearities in Donor-Substituted Cyanoethynylethene Molecules”, International Photorefractive Workshop, 24-26 August 2005, Charleston, SC.

 

Joshua C. May, Jin H. Lim, Ivan Biaggio, Jean Toulouse, Nicolle N. P. Moonen, Tsuyoshi Michinobu, François Diederich, “Robust Organic Molecules with High Optical Nonlinearities and Their Use in Hybrid Microstructured Optical Fibers," CLEO Baltimore, May 23-26, 2005.

 

M. K. Hatalis, T. Afentakis, T. Chuang, M. N. Troccoli, G. Reed, A. Jamshidi  Roudbari, Y. Chang, S. Preis, J. Spirko, K. Klier, R. A. Pearson, I. Biaggio,  A. T. Voutsas, E. W. Forsythe, J. Shi, S. Blomquist, “Active matrix organic light emitting displays on flexible metal foil substrates”, SPIE Defense&Security Symposium, March 28-April 1, 2005.

 

Papers 2005

T. Michinobu, J. C. May, J. H. Lim, C. Boudon, J-P. Gisselbrecht, P. Seiler, M. Gross, I. Biaggio, F. Diederich, “A new class of organic donor–acceptor molecules with large third-order optical nonlinearities,” Chemical Communications  6, 737-739 (2005).      

 

A. Tapponnier, I. Biaggio, P. Günter, “Ultrapure C60 Field-Effect Transistors and the Effects of Oxygen Exposure,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 112114 (2005).  

 

I. Biaggio, “Does Optical Anisotropy Lead to Negative Refraction at an Interface?” arXiv:cond--mat/0502308 (2005).

 

T. K. Chuang, A. Jamshidi Roudbari, M. N. Troccoli, Y. L. Chang, G. Reed, M. Hatalis, J. Spirko, K. Klier, S. Preis, R. Pearson, H. Najafov, I. Biaggio, T. Afentakis, A. Voutsas, E. Forsythe, J. Shi, S. Blomquist, “Active-matrix organic light-emitting displays on flexible metal foils,” Proceedings of SPIE 5801, 234-248 (2005).

 

J. C. May, J. H. Lim, I. Biaggio, N. N. P. Moonen, T. Michinobu, F. Diederich, “Highly Efficient Third-Order Optical Nonlinearities in Donor-Substituted Cyanoethynylethene Molecules,” Opt. Lett. 15, 3057 (2005).         

 

Rick S. Blum

Conference Paper 2006

Jinzhong Yang, James P. Williams, Yiyong Sun, Rick S. Blum, and Chenyang Xu, ``Non-rigid Image Registration Using Geometric Features and Local Salient Region Features'', CVPR 2006.

 

Jinzhong Yang and Rick S. Blum, ``A Region-Based Image Fusion Method Using the Expectation-Maximization Algorithm'', Conference on Information Science and Systems, Princeton, NJ, March 2006.

 

Zhenyu Tu, Tiffany Jing Li and Rick S. Blum, ``On Scalar Quantizer Design with Decoder Side Information'', Conference on Information Science and Systems, Princeton, NJ, March 2006.

 

Zemin Xu, Sana Sfar, and Rick S. Blum, ``On the Importance of Modeling the Mutual Coupling for Antenna Selection for Closely-Spaced Arrays'', Conference on Information Science and Systems,

Princeton, NJ, March 2006.

 

Eugene Perevalov, Rick Blum, Xun Chen, and Anthony Nigara, ``On Route Discovery Success in Ad hoc Networks'', Conference on Information Science and Systems, Princeton, NJ, March 2006.

 

Yang Yang and Rick S. Blum, ``Waveform Design for MIMO Radar Based on Mutual Information and Minimum Mean-Square Error Estimation'', Conference on Information Science and Systems, pp. 111-116, Princeton, NJ, March 2006.

 

K. Kim, H.R. Sadjadpour, R. S. Blum, Y. Lee, ``Low Complexity Design of Space-Time Convolutional Codes with High Spectral Efficiencies,'' IWCMC 2006 Communication and Information Theory.

 

Nikolaus Lehmann, Alex Haimovich, Rick Blum, Dmitry Chizhik, Len Cimini, Reinaldo  Valenzuela,

``MIMO-Radar Application to Moving Target Detection in Homogenous Clutter'' accepted for Adaptive Sensor Array Processing Workshop at MIT Lincoln Laboratory 6-7 June 2006.

 

K. Kim, H.R. Sadjadpour, R. S. Blum, Y. Lee, ``Scalable Design of Space-Time Trellis Code with Low Decoding Complexity,'' IEEE Globecom 2006.

 

Y. Yang and R. S. Blum, ``Radar waveform design using minimum mean-square error and mutual information,'' in Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Sensor Array and Multi-channel Processing (SAM), Boston, MA, July 2006.

 

Nikolaus Lehmann, Alex Haimovich, Rick Blum, Dmitry Chizhik, Len Cimini, Reinaldo  Valenzuela,

``High Resolution MIMO-Radar'', Asilomar, 2006.

 

Papers 2006

R. S. Blum and Zheng Liu, ``Multi-Sensor Image Fusion and Its Applications '', Marcel Dekker/CRC special series on Signal Processing and Communications, 2006.

 

R. S. Blum, ``On Multisensor Image Fusion Performance Limits from an Estimation Theory Perspective'',

Information Fusion Vol. 7, Issue 3, pp. 250-263, 2006.

 

Eran Fishler, Alex Haimovich, Rick Blum, Dmitry Chizhik, Len Cimini, Reinaldo  Valenzuela,  "Spatial Diversity in Radars -Models and Detection Performance", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, pp. 823-838, March 2006  

 

Yang Yang and R. S. Blum, ``Radar waveform design based on MI and MMSE'', accepted to appear in

IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.

 

Nikolaus Lehmann, Eran Fishler, Alex Haimovich, Rick Blum, Dmitry Chizhik, Len Cimini, Reinaldo  Valenzuela,  "Evaluation of transmit diversity in MIMO-radar direction finding", accepted, to appear in IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing.

 

Bin Liu, Biao , and R. S. Blum, ``Minimum error probability cooperative relay design'', accepted,  

to appear in IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing.

 

Anthony Nigara, Mu Qin, and R. S. Blum,`` On the Performance of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Using Cooperative Diversity'', accepted, to appear in IEEE Trans. Wireless.

 

Sigen Ye, R. S. Blum and L. C. Cimini, "Adaptive Modulation for OFDM with channel state errors", accepted, to appear in IEEE Trans. Wireless.

 

Eugene Perevalov, R. S. Blum, and Danny Safi, ``Clustered Ad hoc Networks: How Large is Large?'', accepted, to appear in IEEE Trans. on Communications.

 

J. Luo, R. S. Blum, L. J. Cimini, Jr., L. J. Greenstein, and A. M. Haimovich, ``Decode-and-forward Cooperative Diversity with Power Allocation in Wireless Networks, submitted to IEEE

Trans. Wireless.

 

Eugene Perevalov, Xun Chen, Anthony Nigara and R. S. Blum, ``Effect of Routing on Throughput for Ad Hoc Networks'', submitted to EURASIP JWC.

 

Hamid R. Sadjadpour, Kyungmin Kim, Hongyun Wang, Rick S. Blum, and Yong H. Lee, ``Application of Randomization Techniques to Space-time Convolutional Codes'', submitted to IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing.

 

J. Yang, J. P. Williams, Y. Sun, R. S. Blum, and C. Xu, ``A Robust Hybrid Method for Non-rigid Image Registration,'' Submitted to IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI).

 

Y. Chen, Z. Xue and R. S. Blum, ``Theoretical Analysis of an Information-Based

Quality Measure for Image Fusion'', submitted to Information Fusion.  

 

Zhenyu Tu, Tiffany Jing Li and Rick S. Blum, ``On Scalar Quantizer Design with Decoder Side Information'',  submitted to IEEE Transaction on Information Theory.

 

Conference papers 2005

Eugene Perevalov, R. S. Blum, and Danny Safi, ``On the Throughput/Capacity of Ad Hoc Networks with Clustering'', WCNC 2005.

 

Sigen Ye and R. S. Blum, "Some Properties of the Capacity of MIMO Systems with Co-Channel Interference" accepted, ICASSP 2005,  Volume 3,  March 18-23, 2005, pp. 1153-1156.

 

Bin Liu, Biao Chen, and R. S. Blum, "Exploiting the Finite-Alphabet Property for Cooperative Relays", ICASSP 2005,  Volume 3,  March 18-23, 2005 pp. 357 - 360.

 

Anthony Nigara and R. S. Blum, ``Transmission Blocking Probability in Ad Hoc Networks using Cooperatie Diversity'', WirelessComm 2005.

 

H.R. Sadjadpour, K. Kim, H. Wang, R. Blum, Y. Lee, ``Application of Randomization Techniques to Space-Time Convolutional Codes,'' IEEE WirelessCom 2005.

 

J. Luo, R. S. Blum, L. J. Cimini, Jr., L. J. Greenstein, and A. M. Haimovich, ``Link-Failure Probabilities for Practical Cooperative Relay Networks", Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC spring 2005.

 

Mu Qin and R. S. Blum, "Capacity of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks with Cooperative Diversity: A Warning on the Interaction of Relaying and Multi-hop Routing", ICC 2005.

 

Zhenyu Zhu, Hamid R. Sadjadpour, Rick S. Blum, Peter A. Andrekson, Tiffany Jing Li, ``A SIMO Precoder for Polarization Mode Dispersion Compensation'', Asilomar Conference, Nov. 2005.

 

Eugene Perevalov, R. S. Blum, and Danny Safi, ``Threshold effect in the throughput of large clustered ad hoc networks '', Globecom 2005.

 

Eugene Perevalov, R. S. Blum, Anthony Nigara and Xun Chen, ``Route discovery and capacity of ad hoc networks'', Globecom 2005.

 

Jinzhong Yang and R. S. Blum, ``Multiframe Image Fusion Using the Expectation-Maximization Algorithm", Fusion 05.

 

Yin Chen and R. S. Blum, ``Experimental Tests of Image Fusion for Night Vision", Fusion 05.

 

R. S. Blum, `` The Cramer-Rao Bound Applied to Image Fusion", Fusion 05.

 

R. S. Blum, `` Minimax Robust Image Fusion using an Estimation Theory", accepted for Fusion 05.

 

Stephan Bohacek, Rick Blum, Len Cimini, Larry Greenstein and Alex Haimovich,  ``The impact of the timeliness of information on the performance of multihop best-select'', invited paper for Milcom 2005, Atlantic City, NJ.

 

J. Luo, R. S. Blum, L. J. Cimini, Jr., L. J. Greenstein, and A. M. Haimovich, ``Decode-and-Forward Cooperative Diversity with Power Allocation in Wireless Networks'', Globecom 2005.

Papers 2005

Zhenyu Tu, Tiffany Jing Li and Rick Blum, "An Efficient Turbo-binning approach for the Slepian-Wolf Source Coding Problem", Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing, pp. 961-971, May 2005.

 

Matthew Puzio, Zhenyu Zhu, Rick Blum, Peter A. Andrekson, Tiffany Jing Li, and Hamid Sadjadpour, ``Channel Coding for Polarization-Mode Dispersion Limited Optical Fiber Transmission'',

Optics Express, http://www.opticsexpress.org/

 

R. S. Blum, ``Robust Image Fusion using a Statistical Signal Processing Approach'', Information Fusion, Volume 6, Issue 2,  pp. 119-128, June 2005.

 

Zheng Liu, Zhiyun Xue, Prof.Blum and Prof. Laganiere, ``Paper Title: Concealed Weapon Detection and Visualization in a Synthesized Image'', Pattern Analysis and Applications Journal  (http://www.paaonline.net)

 

J. Luo, R. S. Blum, L. J. Cimini, Jr., L. J. Greenstein, and A. M. Haimovich, `` Power Allocation in a Transmit Diversity System with Mean Channel Gain Information, IEEE Communication Letters,  Volume 9,  Issue 7, July 2005, pp. 616-618.

 

R. S. Blum, Zhiyun Xue, and Zhong Zhang, ``An Overview of Image Fusion'', for the book `` Multi-Sensor Image Fusion and Its Applications'', Marcel Dekker/CRC, 2006, Editor: R. Blum.

 

R. S. Blum and Jinzhong Yan, ``A Statistical Signal Processing Approach to Image Fusion using Hidden Markov Models'', for the book `` Multi-Sensor Image Fusion and Its Applications'', Marcel Dekker/CRC, 2006, Editor: R. Blum.

 

G. S. Cargill III

Conferences 2006

G. Wang, H. Zhang, G. S. Cargill III, C.-K. Hu, W. Yang, B. C. Larson, and G. E. Ice, “Thermal and Electromigration-Induced Strains in Copper Conductor Lines:

X-ray Microbeam Measurements and Analysis,” Symposium F: Materials, Technology, and Reliability for Low-k Dielectrics and Cu Interconnects, Spring 2006 MRS Meeting, April 17-21, 2006, San Francisco, CA -- MRS Symp. Proc. 914 (2006), to be published..

 

H. Zhang, G. Wang, and G. S. Cargill III, “Electrical Resistance Anomalies During Electromigration Testing of Cu Conductor Lines: Examples of Local Melting?” Symposium F: Materials, Technology, and Reliability for Low-k Dielectrics and Cu Interconnects, Spring 2006 MRS Meeting, April 17-21, 2006, San Francisco, CA -- MRS Symp. Proc. 914 (2006), to be published.

 

G. S. Cargill III, A. Yu. Nikiforov, and E. M. Campo, “Effects of Internal Charging by Charge Trapping in Electron Beam Characterization of Wide Band Gap Semiconductors and Devices,” DMP Focus Session 2.8.1: Wide Band Gap Semiconductors, March 2006 APS Meeting, Baltimore, MD.

 

S. Tafon Penn, Zack Fleischmann, G. S. Cargill, “Cathodoluminescence Studies of Rare Earth Ions in LiNbO3 and GaN,” DMP Focus Session 3.8.1:  Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides, March 2006 APS Meeting, Baltimore, MD.

 

Papers 2006

G. S. Cargill III and I. M. Robertson, “Design and Accreditation for Materials Programs,” Journal of Materials Education 28, 119 (2006).

 

B. D. Newbury, M. R.Notis, B. Stephenson, G. S. Cargill III, and G. B. Stephenson, “The Astrolabe Craftsmen of Lahore and Early Brass Metallurgy,” Annals of Science 63, 201 (2006).

 

Conferences 2005

G. S. Cargill III, L. E. Moyer, G. Wang, H. Zhang, C.-K. Hu, W. Yang, B. C. Larson, and G. E. Ice, “Thermal and Electromigration-Induced Strains in Polycrystalline Films and Conductor Lines: X-ray Microbeam Measurements and Analysis,” Proceedings of Seventh International Workshop on Stress-Induced Phenomena in Metallization, Sept. 12-14, 2005 -- AIP Conf. Proceedings 817, 303 (2006).

 

G. S. Cargill III and I. M. Robertson, “Design and Accreditation of Materials Programs – perspectives of Department Chairs and ABET Evaluators,” Invited Paper Abstract, Symposium PP - Forum on Materials Science Education,” MRS Fall Meeting, November 2005.

 

Papers 2005

A. Yu. Nikiforov, G. S. Cargill III, S. P. Guo and M. C. Tamargo, “Electron Bombardment Induced Enhancement of Luminescence from ZnCdMgSe Quantum Well Light Emitting Diodes,” J. Appl. Phys. 97, 63521 (2005).

 

C. J. Collins, A. V. Sampath, G. A. Garrett, W. L. Sarney, H. Shen, M. Wraback, A. Yu. Nikiforov and G. S. Cargill III, and V. Dierolf,  “Enhanced Room-Temperature Luminescence Efficiency Through Carrier Localization in AlxGa1-xN Alloys,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 31916 (2005).

 

Helen Chan & Richard Vinsi

2006 Presentations

Sreya Dutta, Helen M. Chan and Richard P. Vinci, “Formation of Subsurface Features at the Aluminum-Sapphire Interface during Low Temperature Oxidation,” poster presentation at the  75th Gordon Conference on Solid State Studies in Ceramics: ‘Optimization of Performance through Microstructural Design’, Proctor Academy, Andover, NH, August 13th-18th, 2006.

Jeffrey M. Biser, Jason T. Perkins, Hongwei Li, Helen M. Chan and Richard P. Vinci, “Fabrication and Morphological Stability of Metal Nanostructures en-route to Nanopatterned Sapphire," oral presentation at the 11th International Ceramics Congress, CIMTEC 2006, Acireale, Italy, June 4-9th, 2006.

 

Hongwei Li, Jason T. Perkins, Richard P. Vinci and Helen M. Chan, “Sapphire Patterning for GaN Nanoheteroepitaxy”, poster presentation at 5th Annual COT Open House, Lehigh University, PA, May 18th, 2006.

 

Sreya Dutta, Jeffrey M. Biser, Helen M. Chan and Richard P. Vinci, “Pristine Sapphire Generation and Hillock Suppression for AGOG Sapphire Substrates,” poster presentation at the 5th Annual COT Open House, Lehigh University, PA, May 18th, 2006.

Weisong Wang, Svetlana Tatic-Lucic, Walter Brown, Jason Iceman, Seungmin Hyun, Richard P. Vinci, “Thermal inchworm for precision in-package positioning,” poster presentation at 5th Annual COT Open House, Lehigh University, PA, May 18th, 2006.

 

Jason Iceman, Weisong Wang, Svetlana Tatic-Lucic, Walter Brown, Seungmin Hyun, Richard P. Vinci, “Corrugated thin films for small scale structural applications,” poster presentation at 5th Annual COT Open House, Lehigh University, PA, May 18th, 2006.

 

2005 Presentations

Hyoungjoon Park, Sreya Dutta, Jeffrey Biser, Richard P. Vinci and Helen M. Chan, “Patterned Sapphire Substrates for Nanheteroepitaxial Growth of III-V Nitrides,” poster presentation at CAMN Forum, Lehigh University, March 1-2, 2005.

 

Sreya Dutta, Jeffrey M. Biser, Hyoungjoon Park, Helen M. Chan and Richard P. Vinci, “Process Optimization for Creation of Solid State Converted Sapphire,” oral presentation at the 107th Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society, Baltimore, MD, April 10-13th , 2005.

 

Sreya Dutta, Jeffrey M. Biser, Hyoungjoon Park, Helen M. Chan and Richard P. Vinci, “AGOG: A Novel Process for Nano-patterning of Sapphire,” poster presentation at the 107th Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society, Baltimore, MD, April 10-13th , 2005.

 

Sreya Dutta, “Faceted Hillocks on Solid State Converted Sapphire,” ceramographic poster at the 107th Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society, Baltimore, MD, April 10-13th, 2005.

 

Hyoungjoon Park, Sreya Dutta, Jeffrey M. Biser, Helen M. Chan and Richard P. Vinci, “AGOG: A Novel Process for Nano-patterning of Sapphire,” poster presentation at the 2005 COT Optics ARL Workshop on May 19-20th, 2005 at Lehigh University.

 

Helen M. Chan and Richard P. Vinci, “Wide Bandgap Semiconductors,” oral presentation at the 2005 COT Optics ARL Workshop on May 19-20th, 2005 at Lehigh University.

 

2005 Papers

H. Park, H.M. Chan and R.P. Vinci, “Patterning of Sapphire Substrates Via a Solid State Conversion Process”, J. Mater. Res., 20, pp. 417-423, 2005.

 

J.T. Iceman, R. A. Pearson, R.P. Vinci. And S. Tatic-Lucic, “MEMS Fiber Optic Aligner: Characterization and Engineering”, IMAPS Proceedings of the 2005 International Symposium on Microelectronics, pp. 291-299, 2005.

 

Liang Cheng

Papers 2006
Q. Wang, Y. Zhu, and L. Cheng, "Reprogramming wireless sensor networks: challenges and approaches," IEEE Network, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 48-55, May/June 2006.

Q. Ye and L. Cheng, "A Lightweight Approach to Mobile Multicasting in Wireless Sensor Networks," accepted by the International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing to be published in 2006.

Q. Wang and L. Cheng, "FEAT: improving accuracy in end-to-end available bandwidth measurement," accepted by IEEE GLOBECOM 2006, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 27 -Dec. 1, 2006.

J. Peng, L. Cheng, and B. Sikdar, "A new MAC protocol for wireless packet networks," accepted by IEEE GLOBECOM 2006, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 27 -Dec. 1, 2006.

W. Ma and L. Cheng, "Network Modeling and Policies for Traffic Groooming in Heterogeneous WDM Grooming Networks," accepted by 2006 International Conference on Telecommunication Systems - Modeling and Analysis, Reading, PA, October 5-8, 2006.

S. Liu and L. Cheng, "Efficient Data Compression in Wireless Sensor Networks for Civil Infrastructure Health Monitoring," accepted by 2006 International Workshop on Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks, New York City, June 2006.

Q. Ye, L. Cheng, M. C. Chuah, and B. D. Davison, "OS-multicast: On-demand Situation-aware Multicasting in Disruption Tolerant Networks," accepted by IEEE VTC2006-Spring, Melbourne, Australia, May 7-10, 2006

M. C. Chuah, P. Yang, B. D. Davison, and L. Cheng, "Store-and-Forward Performance in a DTN," accepted by IEEE VTC2006-Spring, Melbourne, Australia, May 7-10, 2006

L. Frye, L. Cheng, S. Du, and M. W. Bigrigg, "Topology maintenance of wireless sensor networks in node failure-prone environments," in the Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, April 23-25, 2006.

J. Peng and L. Cheng, "Revisiting Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance (CSMA/CA)," in the Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference on Information Science and Systems (CISS'06) at Princeton, New Jersey,  March 2006.

 

Papers 2005
Y. Zhang and L. Cheng, "Robust Routing in Sensor Networks," in Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks, Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 0387254838, December 2005.

Q. Ye and L. Cheng, "Time Synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networks," in Handbook on Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects of Sensor, Ad Hoc Wireless, and Peer-to-Peer Networks, Auerbach Publications, ISBN: 0849328322, August 2005.

Q. Ye, Y. Zhang, and L. Cheng, "A study on the optimal time synchronization accuracy in wireless sensor networks," Computer Networks (Elsevier), Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 549-566, July 2005.

M. C. Chuah, L. Cheng, and B. D. Davison, "Enhanced disruption and fault tolerant network architecture for bundle delivery (EDIFY)," in Proceedings of IEEE Globecom 2005 Advances for Networks & Internet, St. Louis, Missouri, 28 November C 2 December, 2005.

H. Lin and L. Cheng, "Modeling network bandwidth of IEEE 802.11 wireless local area networks," in Proceedings of IEEE SMC 2005: International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, pp. 3563-3568, Hawaii, October 10-12, 2005.

Q. Wang, Q. Ye, and L. Cheng, "An inter-application and inter-client priority-based QoS proxy architecture for heterogeneous networks," in Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2005), pp. 819 - 824, June 27-30, 2005.

Q. Ye, D. Parson, and L. Cheng, "Hybrid open hash tables for network processors," 2005 IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR'05), pp. 113 - 117, Hong Kong, China, May 12-14, 2005.

L. Cheng, "Multi-hop positioning and risk-tolerant robust wireless sensor networks," in the Conference CD Proceedings of Working Together: R&D Partnerships in Homeland Security, Boston, MA, April 27-28, 2005.

Y. Zhang and L. Cheng, "Issues in applying wireless sensor networks to health monitoring of large-scale civil infrastructure systems," ASCE Structure Congress 2005, New York City, New York, April 20-24, 2005.

Q. Ye and L. Cheng, "A study of reconnecting the partitioned wireless sensor networks," Proceedings of 2005 IEEE International Conference on Networking (ICN'05), Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3420, Part I., pp. 561-568, Reunion Island, April 17-21, 2005.

Y. Zhang, L. Cheng, C. Naito, "A study of wireless MEMS accelerometers for civil infrastructure monitoring," Technical Report LU-CSE-05-015, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University, also accepted by IMS 2005 - IEEE International Workshop on Measurement Systems for Homeland Security, Contraband Detection and Personal Safety, Orlando, FL, March 29-30, 2005.

Q. Ye and L. Cheng, "Secure wireless sensor networks with network processors," 2005 Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, The Johns Hopkins University, March 16-18, 2005

Volkmar Dierolf

Conferences 2006:

V. Dierolf, C. Sandmann, P. Capek, S. Tafon Penn, G.S. Cargill III,  “Defects Based Real-Time Diagnostics of Ferroelectric Domain Inversion”, invited Keynote lecture, European Conference on Defect in Insulating materials, July 2006.

 

P. Capek, G. Stone, C. Sandmann, V. Dierolf, C. Althouse, V. Gopolan, “Raman Studies of Ferroelectric Domain Walls in Lithium Tantalate and Niobate”, European Conference on Defect in Insulating materials, July 2006.

 

Z. Fleischman, V. Dierolf,  Z. Dong, Y. Zhang , M. White, R. Pafchek, M. Webster, and T. Koch “Site-selective studies of erbium ion defects in thermally grown silicon oxides”, European Conference on Defect in Insulating materials, July 2006

 

Z. Fleischman, P.S. Tafon, V. Dierolf , C. Munasinghe , and A.J. Steckl, “Identification of defect-trap-related europium sites in gallium nitride”, European Conference on Defect in Insulating materials, July 2006.

V. Dierolf, “Luminescence and Raman based real time imaging of ferroelectric domain walls”, invited talk at March meeting, March 2006.

 

S. Tafon Penn, Z. Fleischmann, G.S. Cargill, V. Dierolf, Cathodoluminescence Studies of Rare Earth Ions in LiNbO3 and GaN, APS-March meeting, March 2006.

 

P. Capek, G. Stone, V. Dierolf, C. Althouse, V. Gopalan, Raman Studies of Ferrolectric Domain Walls in Lithium Tantalate and Niobate, APS-March meeting, March 2006.

 

Z. Fleischman, V. Dierolf, Site-Selective Studies of Er-doped SiO2 /SRO layers, APS-March meeting, March 2006.

 

Seminars and Colloguia 2006

V. Dierolf, “Light induced domain inversion in lithium niobate”, Colloquium, Physics Department, University of Paderborn, June 2006.

 

Publications 2006

V. Dierolf and C. Sandmann, “The role of extrinsic defect on ferroelectric domain inversion in lithium niobate”, Ceramics Transactions, Vol. 196, pp. 143-154 (2006).

 

K. Schepler, V. Gopalan, I. Biaggio, V. Dierolf, “Ferroelectrics”. Chapter in Handbook of Photonics, (in print).

 

V. Dierolf and C. Sandmann, “Combined Excitation Emission Spectroscopy Of Defects For Site-Selective Probing Of Ferroelectric Domain Inversion In Lithium Niobate”, Journal of Lumin. In print.

 

V. Dierolf,  C. Sandmann,  and P. Capek, “Defect Based Real-Time Diagnostics of Ferroelectric Domain Wall Motion”, Phys. Stat. Sol C. in print.

 

Z. Fleischman, V. Dierolf,  Z. Dong, Y. Zhang , M. White, R. Pafchek, M. Webster, and T. Koch “Site-selective studies of erbium ion defects in thermally grown silicon oxides”, Phys. Stat. Sol C. in print.

 

Z. Fleischman, P.S. Tafon, V. Dierolf , C. Munasinghe , and A.J. Steckl, “Identification of defect-trap-related europium sites in gallium nitride”, Phys. Stat. Sol C. in print.

 

Conferences 2005

V. Dierolf, “The role of extrinsic defects in ferroelectric domain inversion of lithium niobate”, invited talk, 6th Pacific Rim Conference, PacRim6 organized by the American Ceramic Society, Maui Hawaii, Sept. 2005

C. Sandmann, S. Tafon Penn, and V. Dierolf, “Real-time diagnostic of the defect-domain wall interaction in LiNbO3 during domain inversion”, CLEO 2005.

 

V. Dierolf, Z. Fleischman*, C. Sandmann*, C. Munasinghe, A. Steckl,  “Combined Excitation Emission Spectroscopy of Europium Ions in GaN and AlGaN films”, MRS meeting Spring 2005.

 

Z. Fleischman, Chr. Sandmann, V. Dierolf,  M. White, Y. Zhao, J. Michel, M.A. Stolfi, L. Dal Negro, “Multistep resonant excitation of Erbium Ions in Thin Silicon Oxide Layers”, MRS meeting Spring 2005.

 

Y. Zhang, Y. Zhao, I. Wildeson, M. H. White,  Z. Fleischman, V. Dierolf, “A Silicon-based Light Emitter”, International Semiconductor Device Research symposium, ISDRS 2005.

 

C. Munasinghe, A. Steckl, Ei Ei Nyein, U. Hömmerich, H. Peng and H. Everitt, Z. Fleischman, V. Dierolf, J. Zavada, “Interrupted Growth Epitaxy: Thin Film Growth and Electroluminescent Devices”, MRS meeting Spring 2005.

 

C. Sandmann, S.P. Tafon, V. Dierolf, “In-situ Spectroscopy on Erbium doped Lithium Niobate during Domain Inversion”, APS meeting, March 2005.

 

Z. Fleischman, Chr. Sandmann, V. Dierolf,  M. White, Y. Zhao, J. Michel, M.A. Stolfi, L. Dal Negro,  Site-Selective Spectroscopy of Er-ions in Si/SiO2 films: SiO2 vs Si-nanocrystals, APS meeting, March 2005.

 

V. Dierolf, Z. Fleischman, C. Sandmann, C. Munasinghe, A. Steckl, Combined Excitation Emission Spectroscopy of Eu ions in GaN. APS march meeting.

 

C. Sandmann, S. Tafon Penn, and V. Dierolf  “In-situ Observation of Domain Wall Motion In Lithium Niobate Using Confocal Luminescence Microscopy”, European Conference on Integr. Optics ECIO 2005. Grenoble 2005.

 

V. Dierolf, Z. Fleischman, and C. Sandmann, C. Munasinghe and A. Steckl, “Site Selective Spectroscopy of Eu-doped GaN”, CLEO Baltimore 2005.

 

C. Sandmann, S. Tafon Penn, and V. Dierolf, “Real-time diagnostic of the defect-domain wall interaction in LiNbO3 during domain inversion”, CLEO Baltimore 2005.

 

V. Dierolf, Z. Fleischman, and C. Sandmann, Ch. Munasinghe and A. Steckl, “Combined Excitation Emission Spectroscopy of Eu-doped GaN”, CLEOEurope  Munich 2005.

 

C. Sandmann, S. Tafon Penn, and V. Dierolf, “In-situ confocal luminescence microscopy study of lithium niobate during domain inversion”, CLEOEurope  Munich 2005.

 

Seminars and Colloguia 2005

V. Dierolf, “PL in rare earth-doped GaN”, Seminar in Electrical Engineering Dept., Univ. Illinois, April 2005.

 

V. Dierolf, “Confocal Luminescence Microscopy and its Application to Optoelectronic and Integrated Optical Devices”, Physics Colloquium, Lehigh University, March 2005.

 

V. Dierolf, “Optical Methods in Investigation of Point Defects and Their Application to Integrated Optics”, in the lectures series for REU students, Lehigh, July 2005.

 

V. Dierolf, “Light induced domain patterning of lithium niobate for nonlinear devices”, University Bonn, Physics Seminar, January 2005.

 

V. Dierolf, “Luminescence based techniques for real time diagnostics and light induced writing of ferroelectric domain pattern”, University Paderborn, May 2005.

 

Publications 2005

M. Yoshida-Dierolf, V. Dierolf, “Determination of birefringence configuration in Single-Mode Fiber Systems through Backscattering Signal Analysis”, J. Optical Communication, 26, no 4, pp. 171-7  (2005).

 

B.K. Das, W.Sohler, and V. Dierolf, “Internal fluorescence induced refreshment of thermally fixed photorefractive grating in Ti:Fe:Er:LiNbO3 “, Electronics Letters  41, no. 11, pp. 646-7 (2005).

 

C. J. Collins, A. V. Sampath, G. A. Garrett, W. L. Sarney, H. Shen, M. Wraback A. Yu. Nikiforov and G. S. Cargill, III, and V. Dierolf, “Enhanced Room-Temperature Luminescence Efficiency Through Carrier Localization in AlxGa1–xN Alloys”, Appl. Phys. Lett.,86, pp31916-8 (2005).

 

C. Sandmann, V. Dierolf, “The role of defects in light induced domain inversion in lithium niobate”, Physica Status Solidi C 2, pp. 136-139 (2005).

 

V. Dierolf, Z. Fleischman, C. Sandmann, C. Munasinghe, A. Steckl, “Combined Excitation Emission Spectroscopy of Europium Ions in GaN and AlGaN films”, MRS-Symp. Proc., Vol 866 pp. 67-70. (2005)

 

Z. Fleischman*, Chr. Sandmann, V. Dierolf,  M. White, Y. Zhao, J. Michel, M.A. Stolfi, L. Dal Negro, “Multistep resonant excitation of Erbium Ions in Thin Silicon Oxide Layers”, MRS-Symp. Proc., Vol 866, pp. 25-28 (2005)

 

C. Munasinghe, A. Steckl, Ei Ei Nyein, U. Hömmerich, H. Peng and H. Everitt, Z. Fleischman*, V. Dierolf, “Interrupted Growth Epitaxy: Thin Film Growth and Electroluminescent Devices “, J. Zavada, MRS-Symp. Proc., Vol 866, pp. 41-44 (2005).

 

Yujie Ding

Conference 2006

Y. J. Ding, “Solid-State-Laser-Pumped THz Parametric Generation and Detection and Applications,” LEOS 2006, ThL1, Montreal, Canada, Oct. 29 – Nov. 2, 2006 (tutorial).

 

X. Mu, Y. J. Ding, K. Wang, D. Jena, and J. B. Khurgin, “Observation of strong many-body effects in thin InN films grown on GaN buffer layers,” LEOS 2006, MC5, Montreal, Canada, Oct. 29 – Nov. 2, 2006 (refereed).

 

Y. J. Ding and X. Mu, “Power scaling of widely-tunable monochromatic and quasi-single-cycle THz sources,” IRMMW-THz 2006, September 18-22, Shanghai, China (refereed).

 

Y. J. Ding, “Efficient generation and sensitive detection of widely-tunable monochromatic THz wave based on parametric processes,” 3rd Intern. Symp. Ultrafast Phenomena & THz Wave, Purple Mountain Observatory, Nanjing, China, Sep. 25-27, 2006 (invited).

 

Y. J. Ding, “Investigation of carrier dynamics from type-II InAs/GaSb quantum wells to InAs quantum dots embedded in quantum well,” LPHYS’06, July 24-28, Lausanne, Switzlander (invited).

 

N. C. Fernelius, W. Shi, Y. J. Ding, and F. K. Hopkins, “A detection scheme usable with THz waves based on upconversion,” Quantum Optics, Advance Spectroscopy, and Terahertz Technology,” Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, 12-16 June 2006, Dayton Convention Center, Dayton, OH (invited).

 

W. Shi and Y. J. Ding, “Observation of Phase-Matched Frequency Mixing of THz and Near-Infrared Laser Pulses in a ZnGeP2 Crystal,” CLEO/QELS, May 21-26, 2006, Long Beach, CA, Paper QWF5 (refereed).

 

X. Mu, W. Shi, and Y. J. Ding, “Efficient Generation of Broadband Terahertz Pulses Based on Bulk Parametric Interaction in 2-cm-Thick GaP Crystal,” CLEO/QELS, May 21-26, 2006, Long Beach, CA, Paper QWF4 (refereed).

 

Y. J. Ding, W. Shi, Y. B. Zotova, and X. Xu, “Phase-matched THz Frequency Upconversion in a GaP Crystal,” CLEO/QELS, May 21-26, 2006, Long Beach, CA, Paper CTuL3 (refereed).

 

R. Song, Y. J. Ding, and Y. B. Zotova, “Fingerprinting Human Insulin and Insulin Lispro Based on Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy in the range from Mid-IR to THz,” CLEO/QELS, May 21-26, 2006, Long Beach, CA, Paper CTuO6 (refereed).

 

H. Sun, Y. J. Ding, and Y. B. Zotova, “Spectra of Rotational Transitions for Diatomic and Triatomic Molecules Measured Using Widely-Tunable Monochromatic THz Source,” CLEO/QELS, May 21-26, 2006, Long Beach, CA, Paper JThC85 (refereed).

 

X. Mu, Y. J. Ding, J. W. Little, and S. P. Svensson, “Evidence of Laser-induced Lattice Cooling Based on Phonon-assisted Up-conversion of Photoluminescence in InAs/GaSb Type-II Quantum Wells,” CLEO/QELS, May 21-26, 2006, Long Beach, CA, Paper JTUD30 (refereed).

 

H. Sun, Y. J. Ding, and Y. B. Zotova, “Spectra of rotational transitions for diatomic and triatomic molecules in the THz region,” Conf. THz for Military and Security Applications IV, SPIE Defense & Security Symposium, Apr. 17 – 21, Orlando, FL.

 

H. Sun and Y. J. Ding, “Transmission spectra of diatomic and triatomic molecules at high pressures in the mid-infrared and THz regions,” Laser Applications to Chemical, Security, and Environmental Analysis Meeting, LACSEA 2006, Incline Village, NV, Feb. 5-9, 2006 (refereed).

 

Y. J. Ding, “A novel scheme for THz detection at room temperature,” SPIE Photonics West’06, Conference on “Terahertz and Gigahertz Electronics and Photonics V”, San Jose, CA, Jan. 21-26, 2006 (invited).

 

Y. J. Ding, “Backward parametric interactions,” SPIE Photonics West’06, Conference on “Nonlinear Frequency Generation and Conversion: Materials, Devices, and Applications V”, San Jose, CA, Jan. 21-26, 2006 (invited).

 

X. Mu, Y. J. Ding, and J. Little, “Investigation of anomalously large band-filling effect in type-II InAs/GaSb superlattices,” SPIE Photonics West’06, Conference on “Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices XIV”, San Jose, CA, Jan. 21-26, 2006.

 

Papers 2006

Y. J. Ding and W. Shi, “Phase-matched frequency mixing of THz and near-infrared laser pulses in a ZnGeP2 crystal,” to appear in Opt. Exp. (2006).

 

Y. J. Ding and W. Shi, “Efficient THz generation and frequency upconversion in GaP crystals,” Sol. State Electron., vol. 50, pp. 1128-1136, 2006.

 

Y. J. Ding, “Terahertz parametric converters by use of novel metallic-dielectric hybrid waveguides,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, vol. 23, No. 7, pp. 1354-1359, July 2006; the July 2006 issue of Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science.

 

Y. J. Ding and W. Shi, “From backward THz difference-frequency generation to parametric oscillation,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics on Nonlinear Optics, vol. 12, no. 3, May/June 2006, pp. 352-359.

 

W. Shi, Y. J. Ding, N. Fernelius, and F. K. Hopkins, “Observation of difference-frequency generation by mixing of terahertz and near-infrared laser beams in a GaSe crystal,” Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 88, no. 10, pp. 101101/1-3 (2006); Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science April 2006 issue.