Areas
of Expertise
Optoelectronic materials devices
Nanophotonics and Silicon Photonics
Background
Dr. Zhou graduated from the University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor in 2001, with a Ph.D. degree in Electrical
Engineering. He worked on optical transceivers for
optical communication systems at CIENA Corporation,
before joining University of Texas at Arlington in
2004.
Dr.
Zhou’s nanophotonic device research group is carrying
out various active research projects in the areas of
photonic crystal infrared photodetectors, silicon
based detectors, sources, and modulators, cost
effective solar cells, etc, based on photonic
crystals, semiconductor nanomembranes, quantum dots,
and other nanoscale structure. The group works on all
aspects of device research, including design,
simulation, fabrication, and characterization. The
research funding support comes from NSF, AFRL, AFOSR,
ONR, CONTACT, SBIR, UT TIF, DARPA, and DoD MURI etc.
Dr.
Zhou has authored and co-authored over 110 journal
publications and conference presentations, including
over a dozen invited conference talks. He has also
delivered many invited seminar talks in various
universities and industrial labs and companies. He
holds one issued US patent, with three more pending
patent disclosures. Dr. Zhou’s major awards include
Research Excellence Awards from UTA College of
Engineering (2007, 2008), Research Enhancement Program
award from UTA (2005), Rackham Predoctoral Fellow
award (Univ. of Michigan, 2000-2001), IEEE/LEOS
Graduate Student Fellowship award (IEEE/LEOS, 2000),
Outstanding Graduates Award (Tsinghua Univ., Gold
medal, 1993), and Outstanding Student of Beijing City
(Beijing, 1992), etc.
Dr.
Zhou is a member of IEEE, LEOS, EDS, OSA, SPIE, MRS,
and ECS. He was the founding chair of IEEE LEOS Fort
Worth Chapter. He served in various conference
committees, and currently serves as a member of SPIE
Membership Committee.
