UCSB Engineering

Faculty

Evelyn Hu

Professor

Electrical & Computer Engineering
Materials

Evelyn Hu

Contacts

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

tel: (805) 893-2368
fax: (805) 893-6132
hu@ece.ucsb.edu

Personal web site

Biography

She received her B.A. in Physics from Barnard College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Physics from Columbia University. From 1975-81, Dr. Hu worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories, developing microfabrication and nanofabrication techniques for high performance superconducting and semiconducting devices and circuits. In 1984 she joined UCSB as a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). She currently holds joint appointments in ECE and Materials. Her research focuses on high-resolution fabrication of compound semiconductor electronic and optoelectronic devices, candidate structures for the realization of quantum computation schemes, and on novel device structures formed through the heterogeneous integration of materials. Recently her work has involved the interaction of quantum dots in high Q microdisk and photonic crystal cavities. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the Academica Sinica of Taiwan, a recipient of an NSF Distinguished Teaching Fellow award, an AAAS Lifetime Mentor Award, a Fellow of the IEEE, APS, and the AAAS, and holds an honorary Doctorate of Engineering from the University of Glasgow. She was selected UCSB Faculty Research Lecturer in 2005.


Awards/Honors

  • NSF Distinguished Teaching Scholar, 2005
  • UCSB Faculty Research Lecturer, 2005
  • Academica Sinica of Taiwan, 2004
  • National Academy of Engineering, 2002
  • AAAS Lifetime Mentor Award, 2000
  • Honorary D. Eng. Glasgow University, 1995

Selected Publications

  • Room temperature continuous-wave lasing in GaN/InGaN microdisks, Nature Photonics, 1, 2007, 64-67, A. Tamboli, E.Haberer, R.Sharma, K.H. Lee, S. Nakamura,E.L.Hu, web link
  • ‘Deterministic Coupling of Single Quantum Dots to Single Nanocavity Modes’, Science, 308, 2005, 1158-1161, Antonio Badolato, Kevin Hennessy, Mete Atatüre, Jan Dreiser, Evelyn Hu, Pierre M. Petroff, Atac Imamoğlu, web link
  • ‘Increase in the extraction efficiency of GaN-based light-emitting diodes via surface roughening’,, Applied Physics Letters, 84, 2004, 855-858, T. Fujii, Y. Gao, R. Sharma, E.L. Hu, S.P. DenBaars, S. Nakamura, web link
  • Selection of peptides with semiconductor binding specificity for directed nanocrystal assembly., Nature, 405, 2000, 665-668, S.W. Whaley, D. English, E.L. Hu, P.F. Barbara, A.M. Belcher, web link
  • ‘A quantum dot single-photon turnstile device’, Science, 209, 2000, 2282-2285, P. Michler, A. Kiraz, C. Becher, W.V. Schoenfeld, P.M. Petroff, L.D. Zhang, E.L. Hu, A. Imamoglu, web link
  • “Room-temperature photoenhanced wet etching of GaN”, Applied Physics Letters, 68, 1996, 1531-1533, M.S. Minsky, M. White, E.L. Hu, web link