Sending report ...In Search of the Perfect Semiconductor Photon Detector
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| Contributor(s) | Peter Y. Yu University of California, Berkeley |
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| Abstract | Photon detectors have many important applications, such as in heat sensing, digital cameras, solar cells and x-ray and gamma-ray detection. So far, the most common detectors are based on elemental semiconductors , such as Si and Ge. However, they are by no means perfect in tackling some of the important problems facing the modern society. For example, thin films solar cells are not yet as economical as coal/gas fired power generators. For homeland security applications, high energy radiation detectors are too bulky and require cryogenic cooling.
In this talk I shall describe a joint effort between theorists and experimentalists at Berkeley to look for new semiconductor detectors with better performance than existing detectors. On the experimental side, combinatorial techniques are utilized to allow for fast growth and characterization of a large library of new semiconductors synthesized by laser ablation. On the theory front, computational techniques are developed to allow for the prediction of all the properties of semiconductors relevant to photon detection. By “all”, we mean electronic, optical, vibrational, transport, magnetic and defect properties. While this ambitious project is still in progress, I shall describe some new and interesting results we have found in the well-studied zincblende- and wurtzite-type semiconductors. We have obtained new insights into the effects of transition and rare-earth metal dopants, such as Cu and Gd, on the transport and magnetic properties of the host semiconductor. |
| Biography | 
Peter Yu received his B.Sc from the Univ. of Hong Kong in 1967 and the Ph.D. in Physics from Brown in 1972. After doing postdoctoral work at Berkeley between 1971-73, he joined the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center as a research staff member. He returned to Berkeley as a faculty member in 1979. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and has been a Guggenheim Fellow and Miller Professor. |
| Sponsored by | Department of Physics: Condensed Matter and Biological Physics Seminar, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN |
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| Date posted | 19 May, 2008 |
| Time | 03:30 PM, April 18, 2008 |
| Location | Physics 223, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN |
| Type | Online Presentations |
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