Photonic crystal membrane-reflector vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (MR-VCSEL) for on-chip integration with silicon electronics
Welcome to Dr. Weidong Zhou’s group webpage. The group focuses on the scaling of lasers, detectors, and sensors with extreme performance and novel functionalities for integrated silicon photonics and flexible optoelectronics. Research is funded by DoD, NSF, NIH, etc.
Recent Publication:
Complete 2π phase control by photonic crystal slabs
Opt. Express 29, 40795-40804 (2021)
Photonic Crystal Nanobeam Cavities with Lateral Fins
Nanophotonics (2021)
A Portable Micro-Gas Chromatography with Integrated Photonic Crystal Slab Sensors on Chip
Biosensors (2021)
Controllable finite ultra-narrow quality-factor peak in a perturbed Dirac-cone band structure of a photonic-crystal slab
Appl. Phys. Lett. 119, 031105 (2021)
Design of GaN-Based PCSEL With Temperature-Insensitive Lasing Wavelength
IEEE Photonics Journal 13(4), 1-6 (2021).
Buried InP/Airhole Photonic-Crystal Surface-Emitting Lasers
Phys. Status Solidi A, 218: 2000416 (2021)
BME Frontiers (2021)
More Publications ➜
Recent News:
October 2021
A powerful tool for photonics research
A powerful tool for photonics research. UTA researcher earns grant to purchase equipment for advanced nanophotonics research.
November 2020
Professor Zhou was elected a fellow of OSA
April 2020
Congratulations to PhD student Akhil Kalapala for receiveing prestigious UTA Student Employee Award of Excellence (2019-2020)
February 2020
Invited talk No. 80: W. D. Zhou, “Transfer printing automation for heterogeneous 3D photonic integration (Invited)”, Photonics West, San Francisco
March 2019
UTA researcher working to determine minimum energy use possible in lasers
December 2018
November 2018
UTA researcher developing bioresorbable sensing platform for brain implant
Flexible Transient Optical Waveguides and Surface-Wave Biosensors (Journal Cover)