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Faculty Directory
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Paul Alivisatos (Chemistry, Material Science and Engineering - UCB) |
| Preparation and properties of semiconductor nanocrystals. Synthesis of crystallites consisting of a few hundred to tens of thousands of atoms. Spectroscopy of the clusters, including: electro-optic effects, photoemission, resonance Raman scattering. Melting in clusters, low temperature thin-film growth. |
| alivis@berkeley.edu |

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David Attwood (Applied Science and Technology/EECS - UCB; Center for X-ray Optics - LBNL) |
| Partially coherent radiation at short wave-lengths, synchrotrons, undulators, x-ray lasers, processes in hot dense plasmas; x-ray optics, microscopes, and holography; application of element specific x-ray microscopy to studies in the life and physical sciences. |
| attwood@eecs.berkeley.edu |

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Charles K. Birdsall (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Plasma Interdisciplinary Committee - UCB) |
| Plasmas; plasma theory and many-particle simulations; applications ranging from fusion plasmas to plasma assisted materials processing to plasma display panels to electric beam driven microwave tubes; current emphasis is on plasma-sheath surface dynamics. |
| birdsall@eecs.berkeley.edu |

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Jeffrey Bokor (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - UCB; Center for X-ray Optics - LBNL) |
| Nanostructure device physics and fabrication, x-ray optics and lithography. |
| jbokor@eecs.berkeley.edu |

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Carlos J. Bustamante (Physics, Molecular and Cell Biology, Chemistry - UCB; Howard Hughes Medical Institute) |
| Thermodynamics of small systems and its applications to both biological and non-biological systems. |
| carlos@alice.berkeley.edu |

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Van P. Carey (Mechanical Engineering - UCB; Applied Science Division - LBNL) |
| Thermophysics of multiphase systems; molecular simulation modeling of microscale transport processes, statistical mechanics of microscale systems. |
| vcarey@me.berkeley.edu |

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C.J. Chang-Hasnain (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - UCB) |
| Semiconductor lasers and optoelectronic devices, III-V compound epitaxy and processing, applications in novel optical systems. |
| cch@eecs.berkeley.edu |

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Daniel Chemla (Physics - UCB; Materials Sciences Division - LBNL) |
| Quantum size effects and optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures, time-resolved scanning tunneling microscopy, near-field optical microscopy. |
| dschemla@lbl.gov |

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Daryl C. Chrzan (Materials Science and Engineering - UCB) |
| Computational materials science, with emphases on dislocation dynamics and the growth of thin films. |
| dcchrzan@berkeley.edu |

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Leon O. Chua (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - UCB) |
| Nonlinear circuits, nonlinear systems, bifurcation theory, chaos, neural networks. CAD and non-linear electronics. |
| chua@eecs.berkeley.edu |

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Paul Concus (Mathematics - UCB; Computing Sciences - LBNL) |
| Mathematical, computational, and experimental study of fluid interfaces under microgravity conditions. |
| concus@lbl.gov |

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Didier de Fontaine (Materials Science and Engineering - UCB; Materials Sciences Division - LBNL) |
| Thermodynamics of solids, quantum and statistical mechanics of alloy phase stability. |
| ddf@berkeley.edu |

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Lutgard C. De Jonghe (Materials Science and Engineering - UCB; Center for Advanced Materials - LBNL) |
| The science of ceramic processing. Particulate composites of ceramics with polymer, metal or ceramic matrix. Microstructure characterization. |
| dejonghe@lbl.gov |

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Oscar Dubon (Materials Science and Engineering - UCB) |
| Electronic materials processing, low-temperature molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), growth and properties of group IV alloys, synthesis of semiconductor nanostructures. |
| oddubon@berkeley.edu |

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Roger W. Falcone (Physics - UCB, Advanced Light Source, LBNL) |
| Quantum electronics and short wavelength coherent light sources, with applications to atomic physics, solid state physics and plasma physics. |
| rwf@physics.berkeley.edu |

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Graham Fleming
(Chemistry Department, UCB; LBNL; QB3 (UCB, UCSF, UCSC)) |
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Conversion of solar energy into chemical energy using hybrid biological nano-structured materials. |
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grfleming@lbl.gov |

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Ronald Gronsky (Materials Science and Engineering - UCB; National Center for Electron Microscopy - LBNL) |
| Identification of atomic structure of interfaces and defects in materials using techniques of electron microscopy. Relationship between atomic structure and properties of metallic alloys, ceramics, semiconductors, and superconductors, including the superconducting oxides with high Tc. |
| rgronsky@berkeley.edu |
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T. Kenneth Gustafson (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Quantum Electronics Group - UCB) |
| Modern optics and quantum electronic techniques; non-linear phenomena; coherence in electronic materials. |
| tkg@eecs.berkeley.edu |

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Eugene E. Haller (Materials Science and Engineering - UCB; Materials Sciences Division - LBNL) |
| Semiconductor thin-film and bulk crystal growth; study of electronic and structural properties of defects, impurities and complexes in elemental and compound semiconductors with optical, electrical and ion beam techniques; and development of advanced low temperature photon and phonon detectors. |
| eehaller@lbl.gov |

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Teresa L. Head-Gordon (Bioengineering - UCB, LBNL) |
| Experimental, theoretical and computational approaches toward problems of protein folding and structure prediction and modeling aqueous hydration. Highly multidisciplinary and collaborative among the areas of structural biology, physical chemistry, physics, computer science and mathematical optimization. |
| tlhead-gordon@lbl.gov |

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Michael Jordan (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Statistics - UCB) |
| Statistical machine learning, with specialization in probabilistic graphical models, nonparametric Bayesian methods, and kernel methods, with application interests in signal processing, genomics and proteomics. |
| jordan@cs.berkeley.edu |

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Alexander Katz (Chemical Engineering - UCB) |
| Design and synthesis of novel nano-scale materials using templating-based strategies to create solids with unique electronic and catalytic properties. |
| katz@cchem.berkeley.edu |

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Tsu-Jae King (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - UCB) |
| Integrated circuit devices and thin-film technology for larger area electronics; microelectromechanical devices (MEMS). |
| tking@eecs.berkeley.edu |

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Luke P. Lee (Bioengineering, Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center - UCB) |
| Biophotonics, BioePOEMS for nanoscale and microscale biological sciences and medicine, BioMEMS, Biomimetic Nanostructures and Devices, Nerual Interfaces, and Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) for MEG and MCG. During 2006-07, Professor Lee will be on leave at ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). |
| lplee@berkeley.edu |

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Shaofan Li
(Civil and Enviromental Engineering, UCB) |
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Computational statistical mechanics, nano-mechanics, mechanics of soft matter, micromechanics. |
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shaofan@berkeley.edu |

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Allan J. Lichtenberg (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics Group, Interdisciplinary Plasma Committee - UCB) |
| Nonlinear dynamics, and plasma discharges for materials processing. |
| ajl@eecs.berkeley.edu |

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Michael A. Lieberman (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - UCB) |
| Interdisciplinary Plasma Committee (UCB). Plasma-assisted materials processing and processing discharges, with applications to integrated circuit fabrication. |
| lieber@eecs.berkeley.edu |

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Arunava Majumdar (Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering - UCB) |
| Nanoscale Diagnostics (Scanning Probe Microscopy); Energy Conversion and Transport in Nanostructures; Optomechanical Microdevices; Nano-Biomolecular Engineering. |
| majumdar@me.berkeley.edu |

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Philip S. Marcus (Mechanical Engineering, Nonlinear Dynamics Group - UCB) |
| Bifurcations and development of chaotic flows, numerical simulation of three- dimensional fluid flow, vortex dynamics, numerical algorithms for large Reynolds number flows, applications to astrophysics and geophysics. |
| pmarcus@me.berkeley.edu |

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Sara McMains (Mechanical Engineering - UCB) |
| Geometric and sold modeling, CAD/CAM/CAPP, layered manufacturing, computer graphics and visualization, virtual prototyping, virtual reality. |
| mcmains@me.berkeley.edu |

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Mohammed R. K. Mofrad (Bioengineering - UCB) |
| Multi-scale/multi-physics approaches for understanding the mechanobiology of cardiovascular disease, and the use of MEMS technology for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. |
| mofrad@berkeley.edu |

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Ramamoorthy Ramesh (Materials Science Engineering, Physics - UCB) |
| Complex oxide thin films, heterostructures and nanostructures; highly correlated oxide materials; scanned probes and transmission electron microscopy; nonvolatile memory and MEMS devices. |
| rramesh@berkeley.edu |

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Omer Savas (Mechanical Engineering - UCB) |
| Aircraft wake vortices, biofluid mechanics, boundary layers, instrumentation, rotating flows, transient aerodynamics, turbulent flows, vortex dynamics. |
| savas@me.berkeley.edu |

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Rachel Segalman (Chemical Engineering - UCB) |
| The fundamental relationship between the structure and electronic properties of conducting polymers for application in organic optoelectronics. |
| segalman@berkeley.edu |

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Charles V. Shank (Chemistry, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Physics - UCB; Director - LBNL) |
| Investigation of ultrafast phenomena in physics, chemistry and biology using femtosecond optical pulse techniques. |
| cvshank@lbl.gov |

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Yuri Suzuki (Materials Science and Engineering) |
| Magnetics, in particular magnetic oxide thin films, devices and nanostructures and junction devices and photonic badgap materials. |
| ysuzuki@berkeley.edu |

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Richard M. White (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - UCB) |
| Ultrasonics, micromachined sensing and actuation devices for physical, chemical, and biological applications. |
| rwhite@eecs.berkeley.edu |

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Junqiao Wu (Materials Science and Engineering - UCB; Materials Science Division (LBNL)) |
| Nanomaterials for applications in electronics, photovoltaics, and photonics. |
| wuj@berkeley.edu |

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Ming Wu (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - UCB) |
| Micro and nano technologies, optical MEMS, nanophotonics, optoelectronics, biophotonics. |
| wu@eecs.berkeley.edu |

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Eli Yablonovitch
(Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UCB) |
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Silicon nano-photonics, nano-electronics, plasmonics, and the development of components for quantum information processing technology. |
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eliy@eecs.berkeley.edu |

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Peidong Yang (Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering - UCB) |
| Low-dimensional nanoscopic building blocks are used to assemble complex architectures with novel electronic and photonic properties. |
| p_yang@berkeley.edu |

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Peter Yu (Physics - UCB, LBNL) |
| Device application of semiconductors such as defects, electron-phonon interactions and effects on these as a result of quantum confinement. |
| pyyu@lbl.gov |

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Xiang Zhang (Mechanical Engineering, Director: NSF Nano-Scale Science and Engineering Center - UCB) |
| Applied physics, nano-photonics, nano-devices engineering, and novel nano-scale fabrication. |
| xiang@me.berkeley.edu |
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