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 Xuejun Lu

Title:

Professor

Phone:

(978)934-3359

 

Office:

Ball 413

 

E-mail:

xuejun_lu@uml.edu

 

Website:

http://faculty.uml.edu/xlu/

 

Education

  • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 2001

  • M.S. in Electrical Engineering,  University of Texas at Austin, 1999
  • B.S. in Chemistry, Peking (Beijing) University, China, 1992

Research

  • Longwave infrared (LWIR) quantum dot detector, LWIR focal plane array (FPA)

  • Flexible electronics, Nanoelectronics 

  • Silicon Nanophotonics

  • Nonlinear thresholding optical gates 

  • Optical Interconnects

  • Ultra high-speed transceiver interface

Grant

  • Xuejun Lu (PI), "Low noise LWIR infrared photodetector and FPA," AFOSR, 04/2009 - 05/2012.
  • Xuejun Lu (PI), "Transparent flexible electrodes," AFOSR, 03/2008 - 02/2011.
  • Xuejun Lu (PI), "LWIR FPA," Raytheon, 04/01/07-03/31/08
  • Xuejun Lu (PI), "Flexible electronics," NSF STTR, 07/01/07-06/30/08
  • Xuejun Lu (PI), "High sensitivity LWIR quantum dot infrared photodetectors," AFRL, 04/01/06-1/31/07
  • Xuejun Lu (PI), "A Room-temperature High-speed Quantum Dot Infrared Photodetector with High Photodetectivity," NASA, GSFC, 01/01/2005-12/31/2005.
  • Xuejun Lu (PI), "Development of Techniques for On-chip Optical Interconnect Bus," Crystal Research Inc., 07/01/04-12/31/04
  • Xuejun Lu (PI), "Development of 32-channel variable optical attenuator (VOA) drivers for phased-array antenna," Crystal Research Inc., 03/01/04-06/31/04

Recent Publications

2011:

  • Guiru Gu, Yunfeng Ling, Runyu Liu, Puminun Vasinajindakaw, Xuejun Lu, Carissa S. Jones, Wu-Sheng Shih, Vijaya Kayastha, Nick L. Downing, Xuliang Han, Harish Subbaraman, Dan Pham, Ray T. Chen, Maggie Yihong Chen, Urs Berger and Mike Renn, “All-Printed Thin-film Transistor (TFT) based on Purified Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes (SWCNT) with Linear Response,” Journal of Nanotechnology vol. 2011, Article ID 823680, (2011).

  • Xuejun Lu and Ray T. Chen “Polymeric Optical Code-Division Multiple-Access (CDMA) Encoder and Decoder Modules,” special issue: Polymers for Optical Applications, accepted for publication (2011).

  • Jarrod Vaillancourt and Xuejun Lu “A High Operating Temperature (HOT) Middle Wave Infrared (MWIR) Quantum-Dot Photodetector,” Optics and Photonics Letters, accepted for publication (2011).

  • Puminun Vasinajindakaw, Jarrod Vaillancourt, Guiru Gu, Runyu Liu, Yunfeng Ling, and Xuejun Lu, " A Fano-type interference enhanced quantum dot infrared photodetector," Appl. Phys. Lett. Vol. 98, pp. 211111 (2011).

  • Xuejun Lu and Jarrod Vaillancourt "Quantitative analysis of carrier activation and redistribution in self-assembled quantum dot (QD) heterostructures using rate equations," Semiconductor Science and Technology, Vol. 26 045013, (2011).

2010:

  • Xuejun Lu, Jarrod Vaillancourt, and Hong Wen “Temperature-dependent energy gap variation in InAs/GaAs quantum dots," Applied Physics Letters 96, 173105 (2010), selected for the May 10, 2010 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.  The Virtual Journal, which is published by the American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society in cooperation with numerous other societies and publishers, is an edited compilation of links to articles from participating publishers, covering a focused area of frontier research.

  • Carissa S. Jones, Xuejun Lu, Mike Renn, Mike Stroder and Wu-Sheng Shih, “Aerosol-jet-printed, high-speed, flexible thin-film transistor made using single-walled carbon nanotube solution,” Microelectronic Engineering Volume 87, Issue 3, March 2010, Pages 434-437.

2009:

  • Jarrod Vaillancourt, Puminun Vasinajindakaw, Xuejun Lu, Andreas Stintz, Jason Bundas, Robert Cook, Douglas Burrows, Kelly Patnaude, Richard Dennis, Axel Reisinger, Mani Sundaram, “A voltage-tunable multi-spectral 320x256 InAs/GaAs quantum-dot infrared focal plane array (FPA),” Accepted for publication, Semiconductor Science and Technology (2009).

  • Jarrod Vaillancourt, Andreas Stintz, Mark J. Meisner, and Xuejun Lu, “Low-bias, high-temperature operation of an InAs-InGaAs quantum-dot infrared photodetector with peak-detection wavelength of 11.7 µm,” Infrared Physics and Technologies, Vol. 52, Issue 1, Pages 22-24. (2009).

2008:

  • Jarrod Vaillancourt, Haiyan Zhang, Puminun Vasinajindakaw, Haitao Xia, Xuejun Lu, Xuliang Han , Daniel Janzen , Wu-Sheng Shih , Carissa Jones , Mike Stroder , Maggie (Yihong) Chen , Harish Subbaraman , Ray Chen , Urs Berger , Michael Renn, “All Ink-Jet-Printed Carbon Nanotube (CNT) Thin-Film Transistor on a Polyimide Substrate with an Ultra-high Operating Frequency of over 5 GHz,”  Applied Physics Letters Vol. 93, No. 24, pp. 243301(2008). Selected for Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology. The Virtual Journal, which is published by the American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society in cooperation with numerous other societies and publishers, is an edited compilation of links to articles from participating publishers, covering a focused area of frontier research..

  • Jarrod Vaillancourt, Andreas Stintz, Mark J. Meisner, and Xuejun Lu, “Low-bias, high-temperature operation of an InAs-InGaAs quantum-dot infrared photodetector with peak-detection wavelength of 11.7 µm,” Accepted for publication, Infrared physics and technology (2008).

  • Mark J. Meisner, Jarrod Vaillancourt, and Xuejun Lu, “Voltage-tunable dual-band InAs quantum-dot infrared photodetectors based on InAs quantum dots with different capping layers,” Semiconductor Science and Technology, Vol. 23, pp. 095016 (2008).

 

 

 

 

Students
  • Puminun Vasinajindakaw (PhD candidate)
  • Guiru Gu, (PhD candidate)
  • Runyu Liu (PhD candidate)
  • Yunfeng Ling (PhD candidate)
  • Hang Yin (MS candidate)
  • Lei Zheng (Graduated, MSEE)
  • Rohit Samarth (Graduated, MS Physics)
  • Jarrod Vaillancourt (Graduated, MSEE)
  • Haiyan Zhang (Graduated, MSEE)

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