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| Dr Abbas Haddadi Receives 2016 International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN) Outstanding Researcher Award
2016 IIN Symposium - October 6, 2016
Dr Abbas Haddadi has received 2016 International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN) Outstanding Researcher Award. The award is given to the researchers who have made exceptional contributions to the nanotechnology research effort over the past year. ... [read more]
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| Manijeh Razeghi Receives Jan Czochralski Gold Medal
McCormick Engineering News/ Amanda Morris - September 12, 2016
Northwestern Engineering’s Manijeh Razeghi has received the Jan Czochralski Gold Medal from the European Materials Research Society. The award recognizes her life achievements in the field of advanced materials science.
An expert in quantum devices, Razeghi will be presented with the award and will deliver a plenary talk at the Society’s fall meeting on Wednesday, September 21 in Warsaw, Poland.
“It took decades for the scientific community to recognize the importance of Jan Czochralski’s work,” said Razeghi, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering. “On the 100th anniversary of his discovery, I am particularly proud to receive this award for my contributions to semiconductor quantum materials and devices. We can see the results of Czochralski’s science in almost every electronic and photonic device that we encounter. Even the first light-emitting diode would not have been successful without the high-quality substrates produced with the Czochralski Method.”
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| Widely tunable MIR QCL eyed for spectroscopy, chemical sensing
flhotonlcs Spectra 29 - August 15, 2016
A broadband-tunable IR laser has demonstrated the ability to capture the unique spectral fingerprints of gases. The monolithic laser technology is compact, and is expected to have applications in spectroscopy and chemical sensing.
The laser only has one moving part-a fan for cooling purposes -which Northwestern University professor Manijeh Razeghi cited as a major advantage over existing systems. Most such lasers require mechanical parts to achieve tuning. It operates in the 6.2-to 9.1-µm wavelength range with a single emitting aperture by integrating an 8-laser sampled grating distributed feedback laser array with an on-chip beam combiner, and its gain medium is based on a 5-core heterogeneous quantum cascade laser wafer. ... [read more]
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| Improving Internet with Mid-Wavelength Infrared
McCormick Press Release - July 26, 2016
Razeghi and her team have developed an extremely sensitive mid-wavelength infrared photodetector that has potential to replace near-infrared FSO communications links in many applications. Called a phototransistor, the novel device is a combination of an electronic transistor and optoelectronic photodiode. ... [read more]
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| Top Downloaded Book
Springer Science - July 11, 2016
Professor Manijeh Razeghi's book "Fundamentals of Solid State Engineering" was named one of Springer's top 25% Most downloaded books in 2015. You can download your own copy of this book at the following link:
http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9780387921679#otherversion=9780387921686 ... [read more]
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| Security detection device features stable THz source
Photonics Spectra - July 1, 2016
Razeghi and her team based their system on nonlinear mixing in quantum cascade lasers. The system achieved room temperature CW emission at 3.41 THz with a side-mode suppression ratio of
30 dB and output power up to 14 μW, with a wall-plug efficiency about one order of magnitude higher than previous demonstrations. ... [read more]
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| Top Downloaded Book
Springer Science - June 14, 2016
Professor Manijeh Razeghi's book "Technologies of Quantum Devices" was named one of Springer's top 50% Most downloaded books in 2015. You can download your own copy of this book at the following link:
http://www.springer.com/us/book/9781441910554#otherversion=9781441910561 ... [read more]
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| 2016 EECS Annual Awards Winners: Abbas Haddai Best PhD Dissertation
EECS Department News - June 9, 2016
The accomplishments in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science were celebrated at the 2016 EECS Annual Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, June 7 in Tech L440. The Best Dissertation award was givento Abbas Haddadi (Advisor: Prof. Manijeh Razeghi), for his dissertation entitled "Type-II Antimonide-based Superlattices for High Performance Infrared Detectors and Imagers" ... [read more]
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| Tunable Lasers to Revolutionize Infrared Spectroscopy
McCormick Press Release - June 8, 2016
A new development from Northwestern Engineering’s Manijeh Razeghi could be another tool for protecting our borders.
Supported by the Department of Homeland Security, Razeghi’s lab has created a new, revolutionary, broad-band tunable infrared laser that has major implications for the detection of drugs and explosives. The robust, all solid-state laser can be rapidly tuned to emit in the wavelength range that encompasses the critical “fingerprint” region where most molecular features are absorbed and identified through infrared sensing. In experiments, the laser has demonstrated its ability to capture the unique spectral fingerprint of gases. The initial, patent-pending results have been published in the June 8 issue of Nature Scientific Reports. The research and development of the laser system is the culmination of more than 18 years of quantum cascade laser development work at Northwestern’s Center for Quantum Devices. ... [read more]
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| It's time for terahertz
Physics World - June 6, 2016
Razeghi has been a world leader in semiconductor
devices for several decades. After seeing
the first infrared QCL demonstrated at low temperature and power by Jerome Faist's group at Bell Labsin 1994, she decided to maximize the possibilities for terahertz research. "I immediately tried for a roomtemperature,
continuous-wave terahertz quantum
cascade laser," Razeghi recalls. In 2011 she achieved her dream. While terahertz
QCLs have to work at cryogenic temperatures, midinfrared QCLs have no such limitations because
their band gaps are wioe enough to function at room
temperature. Razeghi and her colleagues therefore
used a technique in which two mid-infrared QCL
beams of marginal frequency difference are mixed
together. When two photons - one from each beam -
annihilate, they spontaneously produce a third photon with a frequency equal to the difference between the two lasers. If the two beams are designed to have a frequency difference between them equal to a terahertz frequency, then a terahertz photon is produced (Appl. Phy. Lett. 99 131106). ... [read more]
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