Volkmar Dierolf

 

Professor

Chair


Department of Physics

Deming Lewis Lab

16 Memorial Drive East


(610)758-3915

vod2@lehigh.edu

Prof Dierolf came to Lehigh in 2000 with a Ph.D in Physics from the University of Utah, and a Habilitation from the University of Paderborn, Germany, He is the current Chair of the Physics Department and holds a Joint appointment with the Materials Science Department. In 2008, he was a Visiting Mercator Professor at the University of Bonn.    He is on the International Committees of both the International and the European Conference on Defect in Insulating Materials (ICDIM, EuroDIM). He has served as a Principal Editor for the Journal of Materials Research and has been Guest Editor for Optical Materials. His  research is focused on the optical spectroscopy and microscopy of insulating and semiconducting materials. His group  exploits  the wealth of information that can be obtained by combining high spatial resolution (down to 50nm) of a near field optical microscope or a SEM instrument with the structural and atomic scale information contained in excitation-emission data, cathodoluminescence and Raman spectra.

Currently funded project include


  1. BulletSite-Selective Optical and Magnetic Properties of Rare Earth Ion Doped Nitrides funded by NSF




  1. BulletMaterials World Network: Novel Material Platforms with Reduced Dimensionality for Next Generation Ferroelectric Photonics, funded by
    NSF. This project includes partners in Germany and offers research exchange with their institutions (U Bonn, HSU Hamburg).


  1. Bullet Multifuncti
    onal Ferroelectric Single-crystal Architecture in Glass: Fabrication, Optical Properties, and Nanoscale Polar Order,  with H. Jain, MS&E) funded by NSF. This project also includes a partner in Japan and offers research exchange with Kyoto University. see also

  2. BulletLaser Fabrication of Active Single-Crystal Architecture in Glass, with Himanshu Jain MS&E) funded by DOE-Office of Science


  1. BulletEnhancement of Radiative Efficiency with Staggered InGaN Quantum Well Light Emitting Diodes with  N. Tansu, ECE;  funded by DOE


  1. BulletDevelopment of Spectroscopic Imaging Optical Bottles for Analysis of Nanoparticles in Confinement with D. Ou-Yang and I. Biaggio, funded by NSF