Members

Jonathan is an undergraduate Electrical and Computer Engineering major at UT Austin working on automating the digital etching process to increase the reliability and repeatability of regrowth sample preparation.

Kevin was a Physics and Math major interested in condensed matter physics. He was working on the design of semiconductors for nonlinear optics. After graduating, he became a Ph.D. student at the California Institute of Technology.

Nate was an undergraduate at Gonzaga University and a 2012 NNIN REU student studying optimum annealing conditions of highly mismatched alloys in order to maximize optical quality as determined by photoluminescence. He is currently a graduate student at UT-Austin.

Evan was a undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon University who spent Summer 2013 in the group working on software data collection development.

George was an ECE undergraduate at UT-Austin who graduated from UT-Austin with a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2015. He spent the Spring 2014 semester learning cleanroom fabrication processes and etching gallium antimonide. He is currently a Software Engineer at Cerner Corporation.

Ben is currently employed at Cisco. He was an undergraduate researcher in Summer 2008, where he co-developed the group's photoreflectance measurement setup.

Nora is an undergraduate Electrical Engineering student at the University of Texas. She is focsing on photolithography mask design for III-V semiconductor devices.

Alice is an ECE undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2017, she studied the effect of growth conditions on electrical properties in epitaxial bismuth thin films.

Brent is an undergraduate Electrical Engineering student at the University of Texas. He studied the optical properties of III-V semiconductors.

Gavin is currently a MatSE graduate student at Northwestern. He spent the summer of 2010 with the group as an NNIN REU studying the annealing stability of nanoparticle enhanced tunnel junctions.

Eric is an undergraduate Electrical Engineering major working on the fabrication and optical characterization of novel III-V materials.

Robert completed the M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University and is now gainfully employed at Apple. He was an undergraduate researcher from Spring 2007 through Summer 2008, where he studied the optical properties of dilute-nitride materials. He co-developed the group's photoluminescence and photoreflectance measurement setups.

Harold was a Cornell University undergraduate who spent Summer 2015 in the group as an NNIN REU. He studied the optical characteristics of AlInAsSb digital alloys films using photoluminescence and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. After graduating he became a Ph.D. student at the California Institute of Technology (Cal. Tech)

Chris was an undergraduate at the University of Texas at El Paso. Chris was a 2012 Summer Research Academy student studying the optical properties of annealed highly mismatched alloys for photonic device applications.

Joel was an undergraduate ECE student at the University of Texas at Austin. He worked with the LASE group from the Spring 2015 semester through the Spring 2017 semester learning optical materials characterization tools and techniques. After graduating, he joined John Bowers' research group at the University of California, Santa Barbara as a Ph.D. student.

Teddy was a freshman Electrical Engineering and Chemistry major interested in nanotechnology. He worked on the characterization of photonics materials and novel fabrication techniques for 3D devices.

Andres is a 3rd year Aerospace Engineering major at UT Austin interested in propulsion and fluid dynamics, and is branching out and learning about different fields and industries. He is currently working on distributed Bragg Reflector designs and Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition.

Nathaniel is a 3rd year ECE and Physics major with an interest in optoelectronics and photonics. He is currently working on simulating the properties of AlInAsSb digital alloys.

Abigail was an ECE undergraduate at UT-Austin, expecting to graduate with a BS in Computer Engineering in May 2017. She spent the Spring 2014 semester with the LASE group learning cleanroom fabrication processes and depositing silicon nitride. During Summer 2016, she worked as a Software Engineer at IBM.

Ash is a fourth-year Aerospace Engineering major at The University of Texas at Austin. He is currently researching RCWA modeling of Distributed Bragg Reflectors (DBR) designs and improving DBR fabrication techniques. In his free time, he enjoys tinkering with old computers and creating digital art in Adobe Illustrator.

Thomas was an REU student in the group in 2017 where he worked on test station hardware integration. He is currently an ECE graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin.

Ze is an ECE undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin. He worked on test station hardware integration.

Julio was an ECE and Physics undergraduate at UT-Austin who graduated from UT-Austin with a BS in Electrical Engineering and Physics in Fall 2015. He was with the Bank group from Spring 2014 to Spring 2015 and worked on developing cleanroom fabrication processes for III-V optoelectronic devices. In Summer 2015, he interned at Samsung. He was hired in early 2016 as a Process Engineer at Intel.

Iris is an undergraduate ECE major attending Texas State University and is interested in Quantum Information/Computing. Iris spent the summer of 2022 with the LASE group as a MRSEC REU building a photodetector system and examining how various material properties of the III-V semiconductor, InSbBi, may affect photoluminescence.

Iram is an undergraduate Electrical Engineering student at the University of Texas. In Fall 2018, he studied studying the optical properties of III-V semiconductors supported by the Texas Research Experience program,.

McTzviel is an undergraduate aerospace engineering major with an interest in fluid dynamics and materials. He is working on simulation diffraction patterns for mask aligner setup, demonstrating diffraction patterning of photoresist and designing in-situ mounts for optics.

Aamani is a chemical engineering student at the University of Southern California. As a participant in the ECE Next Program, she spent the summer of 2021 studying the effects of annealing InSbBi films for applications in mid- to long-wave infrared photodetectors..

Alonzo is an undergraduate Computer Engineering student at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He is working on the fabrication of materials for 3D optoelectronic devices.

Layne is a senior at Texas State University studying physics. Working as an undergraduate researcher in Dr. Wistey's group, Layne studies optical characterization of highly mismatched alloys. After undergraduate, Layne plans to pursue graduate research in physics.

Sam is an undergraduate Physics student at Williams College in Williamstown, MA. He spent the summer with the LASE group as a NNCI REU studying the effects of doping on optical absorbtion in III-V mixed alloys.

Susan was an ECE undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin. From 2016-2018, she worked on test station design and component integration, and laser device characterization. She later worked on the analysis of magnetotransport data from thin bismuth films grown by MBE. After graduation, she began her Ph.D. studies at Princeton in Fall 2018.

Fernando is an undergraduate at the University of Texas at El Paso expecting to graduate with a BS in Electrical Engineering in May 2017. He was a Summer 2015 REU student through the NASCENT program researching membrane liftoff and transfer. He had an internship at Texas Instruments in Summer 2016.

Akarsh is an undergraduate Electrical Engineering and Physics student at the University of Texas. He is simulated the band structure of III-V materials using a tight binding approach.

Marcoantonio is an undergraduate Electrical and Computer Engineering major at the University of Houston working on characterization of the electronic and optical properties of III-V semiconductors.

In 2011, Thien-An was an NSF REU student studying scanned probe microscopy of ErAs/GaAs tunnel junctions, working jointly with Prof. Ed Yu. He is currently a graduate student at UT-Austin working with Prof. Zheng Wang.