Eli Yablonovitch

Professor

Research Areas

• Physical Electronics (PHY)
• Optoelectronics, high speed optical communications, nanocavity lasers, photonic crystals at optical and microwave frequencies, quantum computing and communication

Teaching Schedule (Spring 2008)

• EE 236A. Quantum and Optical Electronics, TT 12:30-2p, 299 Cory

Biography

Eli Yablonovitch graduated with the Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics from Harvard University in 1972. He worked for two years at Bell Telephone Laboratories, and then became a professor of Applied Physics at Harvard. In 1979 he joined Exxon to do research on photovoltaic solar energy. Then in 1984, he joined Bell Communications Research, where he was a Distinguished Member of Staff, and also Director of Solid-State Physics Research. In 1992 he joined the University of California, Los Angeles. Then in 2007 he became Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley.

Prof. Yablonovitch's work has covered a broad variety of topics: nonlinear optics, laser-plasma interaction, infrared laser chemistry, photovoltaic energy conversion, strained-quantum-well lasers, and chemical modification of semiconductor surfaces. Currently his main interests are in optoelectronics, high speed optical communications, high efficiency light-emitting diodes and nano-cavity lasers, photonic crystals at optical and microwave frequencies, quantum computing and quantum communication.

Yablonovitch was a Founder of the W/PECS series of Photonic Crystal International Workshops that began in 1999. (PECS VIII will be held in Australia in 2009.)

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the Optical Society of America, and the American Physical Society. Yablonovitch is a Life Member of Eta Kappa Nu, and a Member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences. He has been awarded the Adolf Lomb Medal, the W. Streifer Scientific Achievement Award, the R.W. Wood Prize, and the Julius Springer Prize.

Selected Publications

• E. Yablonovitch, M. Xiao, I. Martin, and H. Jiang, "Electrical Detection of the Spin Resonance of a Single Electron in a Silicon Field-Effect Transistor," Nature, vol. 430, no. 6998, pp. 435-439, July 2004.
• E. Yablonovitch, H. Jiang, H. Kosaka, H. Robinson, D. Rao, and T. Szkopek, "Optoelectronic Quantum Telecommunications Based on Spins in Semiconductors," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 91, no. 5, pp. 761-780, May 2003.
• E. Yablonovitch, H. Kosaka, D. Rao, H. Robinson, P. Bandaru, and K. Makita, "Single Photoelectron Trapping, Storage, and Detection in a Field Effect Transistor," Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials in Physics), vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 45104/1-5, Jan. 2003.
• E. Yablonovitch, "Photonic Crystals: Semiconductors of Light," Scientific American, vol. 285, no. 6, pp. 47-55, Dec. 2001.
• E. Yablonovitch, I. Gontijo, M. Boroditsky, S. Keller, U. Mishra, and S. DenBaars, "Coupling of InGaN Quantum-well Photoluminescence to Silver Surface Plasmons," Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials in Physics), vol. 60, no. 16, pp. 11564-67, Oct. 1999.