Matthew Eichenfield, Associate Professor, James C. Wyant College Optical Sciences, University of Arizona
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Abstract: Piezoelectricity is a property of a special class of materials that allows coupling between electric fields and strain. In this talk, I will discuss my work in using this property in specially designed microsystems to radically enhance the performance of and enable completely novel functionalities in two very different classes of microsystems. First, I will discuss how piezoelectrically actuated and optomechanically tuned photonic integrated circuits have enabled a flood of novel and highly scalable systems for quantum computing. Then I will discuss how we have coupled together piezoelectric acoustic waves and semiconductors to create systems that may completely revolutionize wireless communications systems.
Bio: Matt Eichenfield is jointly appointed as Associate Professor and the SPIE Endowed Chair in University of Arizona’s College of Optical Sciences and Sandia National Labs’ first Distinguished Faculty Joint Appointee. Prior to joining UA this fall, he was a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff and the founder and group leader of the MEMS-Enabled Quantum Systems group at Sandia National Labs. He received his BS in physics from UNLV in 2004, MS in physics from Caltech in 2007, and his PhD from Caltech in 2010, with his thesis winning the Demitriades Prize for best Caltech thesis in nanoscience. He became the first Kavli Nanoscience Prize Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech in 2010 before joining Sandia as a Harry S. Truman Fellow in 2011.
In-Person only. Refreshments in PAS 218, 2:45PM