Kick-off Meeting

The project kick-off meeting is schedule on 10/18 (Friday) at University of Arkansas. Please contact with Prof. Shui-Qing (Fisher) Yu, the PI of the project for more detailed information. If you plan to attend the meeting, it is highly recommended that you plan your trip as early as possible. Due to a home football game in the following day, hotel might be difficult to get.

 

Note for government participants, please indicate at the desk when you register on 10/18 and we will email invoices after the meeting with payment instructions included.

 

 

See location maps below

Thursday October, 17

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1:00pm – 5:30pm

ENRC Fisher Conference Room, Room 3211

Internal research discussion and UA Engineering Research Center lab tour
(Interested PIs, collaborators, and visitors are invited to attend)
Location: ENRC Fisher Conference Room (Room No. 3211)
Address: 700 Research Center Blvd, Fayetteville, AR, 72701
Note: Please enter through lobby door. Parking is free. Lab tour starts at 4:30pm

Note: Please enter through lobby door and register.

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6:00pm – 8:000pm

Dinner at Cheers at OPO (sponsored by UA, all attendee are invited)
Address: 1 West Center Street, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701

Note: Please enter through lobby door and register.

Friday October, 18

Kick-off meeting
Willard J. Walker Hall (WJWH), Hembree Conference Room 203
Address: 191 N. Harmon Avenue, Fayetteville, AR, 72701
Parking in Harmon Garage across the street (Metered parking, please follow the instruction to park at the level for visitor parking)

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8:00am - 8:30am

Registration and breakfast (Hot breakfast buffet through Ozark Catering)

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8:30am - 8:40am

Welcome (Dr. Bob Beitle Jr., Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation, Dr. John English, Dean of College of Engineering)

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8:40am - 9:00am

Opening Remark and DoD/AFOSR perspective for the project, Gernot S. Pomrenke, AFOSR

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9:00am - 9:20am

Project overview for “Understanding and Breaking the Material Barriers of SiGeSn Alloys for Infrared Devices”, Shui-Qing “Fisher” Yu, University of Arkansas

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9:20am - 9:40am

Using Atomic Ordering, Strain, and Nanostructure to Achieve Quality and Stability of MBE grown SiGeSnPb, Gregory Salamo, University of Arkansas

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9:40am - 10:00am

UHV-CVD Growth of SiGeSn, Shui-Qing “Fisher” Yu, University of Arkansas

 

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10:00am - 10:20am

Crystallization and Solid Phase Epitaxy of SiGeSn: mapping the stability of the composition-strain space, Jifeng Liu, Dartmouth College

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10:20am - 10:40am

Break

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10:40am - 11:00am

Photodetector materials: from PbTe, MCT, T2SL, to SiGeSn, Yong-Hang Zhang, Arizona State University

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11:00am -11:20am

Ab initio thermodynamic studies of the stability, defect properties and growth mechanisms of GeSn and SiGeSn alloys, Andrew Chizmeshya, Arizona State University

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11:20am - 11:40am

Atomistic Modeling of SiGeSn, Tianshu Li, George Washington University

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11:40am - 12:00pm

SiGeSn Band Structure and Device Modeling, Greg Sun,  University of Massachusetts Boston

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12:00pm - 1:00pm

Lunch Break (Lunch Provided)

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1:00pm - 1:10pm

Welcome from  UA

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1:10pm - 1:30pm

Advances of Si-CMOS Quantum Imaging Sensor, Jifeng Liu, Dartmouth College

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1:30pm - 1:45pm

MURI team wrap-up, Shui-Qing “Fisher” Yu, University of Arkansas

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1:45pm - 2:15pm

Program manager and government participants comment

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2:15pm - 2:30pm

Break

Guest Speaker Session for Potential Future Directions and Collaborations

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2:30pm - 2:45pm

Terahertz quantum-cascade lasers: are group-IV materials a way forward?  Ben Williams, University of California Los Angles

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2:45pm - 3:00pm

Machine-assisted membrane transfer printing and its potential applications in SiGeSn, Weidong Zhou, University of Texas at Arlington

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3:00pm - 3:15pm

Applications of image grade LiDAR to autonomous driving and V2X, Yimin Li, Innovusion

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3:15pm - 3:30pm

Topological Quantum Materials Integrated Photonics, a vision inspired by the development of SiGeSn and alpha-Sn, Jin Hu, University of Arkansas)

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3:30pm - 3:45pm

Quantum Foundry for Accelerated Development of Optoelectronic Quantum Materials and Devices:  Hugh Churchill, University of Arkansas

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3:45pm - 4:00pm

Open

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4:00pm - 5:30pm

UA Institute of Nanoscale Material Science and Engineering Facility Tour

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6:00pm - 8:00pm

Dinner (On your own, for interested people)
Location: Powerhouse
Address: 112 N University Ave, Fayetteville, AR 72701
Tel: 479 442 8300