Annual Lecture:
Dr. Evelyn Hu: Michelangelo's Laser
Date: November 11, 2010
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Location: Rockefeller Hall
(Physics) 301
Michelangelo's Laser will focus on some of the design,
art and tools used in shaping semiconductor materials to achieve the
desired scientific or technological performance. In the
masterpieces of form and sound that most delight us, we are willing
believers that the artists who shape those works have a clear vision
beforehand of the ultimate form that will emerge out of the starting
material. Perhaps surprisingly, the same vision applies to the
'artists' who shape
structures out of materials like semiconductors, where the resulting
creations can be used to control the behavior and interactions of
electrons and photons, vital agents of information that define our
day-to-day technology. This talk will focus on some of the techniques
that semiconductor artists use to sculpt nanoscale forms into their
materials, and discuss how the appropriately sculpted form can provide
exceptional function.
Evelyn Hu currently serves as the Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics and
of Electrical Engineering at Harvard University. She received her B.A.
from Barnard College in 1969 and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia
University in 1971 and 1975, respectively. She was employed at
AT&T's Bell Laboratories from 1975 to 1984, when she joined UCSB as
a full professor. She served UCSB's Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering as vice chair from 1989 to 1992 and as chair from
1992 to 1994. Dr. Hu has made major contributions to
nanotechnology by designing and creating complex nanostructures. Her
work has focused on nanoscale devices made from compound semiconductors
and on novel devices made by integrating various materials, both
organic and inorganic. She has also created nanophotonic
structures that might someday facilitate quantum computing. Dr. Hu's
seminal work in nanofabrication has included high-resolution patterning
and high-resolution etching of circuits onto nanoscale materials.
She has also developed biological approaches to nanotechnology, using
biological assembly pathways to control the composition and structure
of novel devices. Some of her research ideas led to her
co-founding of Cambridge, Mass.-based Cambrios Technology, a start-up
that is developing new, cost-effective materials of importance for
electronic device applications. At UCSB, she has led the Institute for
Quantum Engineering, Science and Technology, the National Science
Foundation-funded Center for Quantized Electronic Structures and Center
for Robotic Systems in
Microelectronics, and the UCSB component of the NSF National
Nanofabrication Users Network. Dr. Hu's honors include election
as a fellow of the IEEE, formerly the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (1994), the American Physical Society (1995), and
the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1998).
Dr. Hu was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2002 and
to the National Academy of Sciences in 2008.
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