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Faculty in Physical and Wave Electronics

Robert Candler, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Stanford University, 2006

MEMS and NEMS devices, micro/nanoscale technology development, and the interface of physical microsystems with biology.

Office: 6731H Boelter, Phone: 310.825.4161, Email

M.C. Frank Chang, Professor

Ph.D., National Chiao-Tung University, 1979

CMOS RF design, high speed analog integrated circuit design, data conversion, and other techniques of analog signal processing.

Fellow, IEEE, 1996

Office: 56-147M Engr. IV, Phone: 310.794.1633, Email

Chi On Chui, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Stanford University, 2004

Heterostructure semiconductor devices and technology involving the application of novel device concepts and fabrication techniques to explore the quantum and strain effects at the nanoscale.

Office: 6730B Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.267.4786, Email

Warren Grundfest, Professor

M.D., Columbia University, 1980

Lasers for minimally invasive surgery, magnetic resonance-guided interventional procedures, laser lithotripsy, micro-endoscopy, spectroscopy, photodynamic therapy, optical technology, biologic feedback control mechanisms.

Fellow, SPIE, 1996
Fellow, American Institute of Medical & Biologic Engineers, 1996

Office: 7532 Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.795.5550, Email

Diana Huffaker, Associate Professor

Ph.D., UT Austin, 1994

Directed and self-assembled nanostructure solid-state epitaxy, optoelectronic devices including solar cells and III-V/Si photonics.

Office: 66-127A Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.9786, Email

Tatsuo Itoh, Professor

Ph.D., UI Urbana-Champaign, 1969

Microwave and millimeter wave electronics, guided wave structures, low power wireless electronics, integrated passive components and antennas.

National Academy of Engineering, 2003
Fellow, IEEE, 1982

Office: 66-147A Engr. IV, Phone: 310.206.4820, Email

Bahram Jalali, Professor

Ph.D., Columbia University, 1989

RF photonics, fiber optic integrated circuits, and Datacom systems.

Fellow, Optical Society of America, 2004
Fellow, IEEE, 2003

Office: 68-109 Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.9655, Email

Chandrashekar Joshi, Professor

Ph.D., Hull University, England, 1979

Laser fusion, laser acceleration of particles, nonlinear optics, high-power lasers, plasma physics.

Fellow, IEEE, 1993
Fellow, Institute of Physics (U.K.), 1998
Fellow, American Physical Society, 1990

Office: 66-147D Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.7279, Email

Jack W. Judy, Professor

Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1996

MEMS, microsensors, micro-actuators, microsystems and micromachining; magnetism and magnetic materials; neuro-engineering and neuro-silicon interfaces; distributed sensors, actuators, and information.

Office: 6731E Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.206.1371, Email

Jia-Ming Liu, Professor

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1982

Nonlinear optics, ultrafast optics, semiconductor lasers, photonic devices, optical wave propagation, nonlinear laser dynamics, chaotic communications, chaotic radar, nanophotonic imaging, and biophotonics.

Fellow, IEEE, 2008
Guggenheim Fellow, 2006
Fellow, American Physical Society, 2003
Fellow, Optical Society of America, 1990

Office: 66-147K Engr. IV, Phone: 310.206.2097, Email

Warren Mori, Professor

Ph.D., UC Los Angeles, 1987

Laser plasma interactions, advanced accelerator concepts, advanced light sources.

Fellow, IEEE, 2007
Fellow, American Physical Society, 1995

Office: 66-127L Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.6709, Email

Christoph Niemann, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Technology, Darmsstadt, 2002

Laser-plasma interactions, high-energy density physics, and inertial confinement fusion.

Office: 6730D Boelter, Phone: 310.794.4251, Email

Aydogan Ozcan, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Stanford University, 2005

Photonics and its applications to nano and bio-technology.

Office: 66-127D Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.0915, Email

C. Kumar Patel, Professor

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1961

Condensed matter physics, especially the structure and dynamics of "interesting systems", broadly defined; spectroscopic techniques and detection methods; development of new laser systems.

National Medal of Science, 1996
National Academy of Engineering, 1978
Fellow, IEEE, 1975
National Academy of Sciences, 1974

Office: 6-130H Knudsen Hall, Phone: 310.794.1613, Email

Yahya Rahmat-Samii, Professor

Ph.D., UI Urbana-Champaign, 1975

Satellite, personal communications, microstrip, fractal, remote sensing, and radio astronomy antennas; electromagnetic bandgap structures; computational and optimization techniques, measurement and diagnostic techniques.

Fellow, IEEE, 1985

Office: 6731K Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.206.2275, Email

Oscar M. Stafsudd, Professor

Ph.D., UC Los Angeles, 1967

Quantum electronics, especially IR lasers and nonlinear optics; solid-state IR detectors.

Office: 58-113 Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.4360, Email

Kang L. Wang, Professor

Ph.D., MIT, 1970

Nanoelectronics and optoelectronics, MBE and superlattices, microwave and millimeter electronics/optoelectronics, quantum computing.

Fellow, IEEE, 1992

Office:66-147B Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.1609, Email

Yuanxun (Ethan) Wang, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., UT Austin, 1999

High performance antenna array and microwave amplifier systems for wireless communication and radar; numerical modeling techniques; fusion of signal processing and circuit techniques in microwave system design.

Office: 56-147K Engr. IV, Phone: 310.206.5670, Email

Benjamin Williams, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., MIT, 2003

Quantum cascade lasers in the terahertz frequency range, and the development of terahertz components based on subwavelength dimension for use in beam control, sensing, and imaging. Development of inter-subband and inter-sublevel based devices in low-dimensional nanostructures for electronic and optoelectronic applications.

Office: 68-117 Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.6961, Email

Jason C.S. Woo, Professor and Area Director

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1987

Solid state technology, CMOS and bipolar device/circuit optimization, novel device design, modeling of integrated circuits, VLSI fabrication.

Fellow, IEEE, 2005

Office: 56-147J Engr. IV, Phone: 310.206.3279, Email