Faculty Research

Photonics

Photonics at UTA’s Department of Electrical Engineering embodies a wide range of science and engineering topics stemming from solid state physics, theory/modeling of periodic lattices, photonic crystals, metasurfaces, to optical, optoelectronic, optofluidic devices such as lasers, sensors, nonlinear optics, quantum optics, and integrated chips and systems. The research is largely concentrated in the following three application areas: (A) Energy efficient integrated photonics; (B) Information processing and security, and (C) Optical sensing and imaging for biomedical and smart society applications.

Faculty

Dr. Kambiz Alavi. Physics and applications of heterostructures, nonlinear optics, optical imaging.

Dr. Catrina Coleman. Photonic integration, semiconductor optoelectronic devices, diode lasers, mode-locked lasers

Dr. James Coleman. Semiconductor lasers, integrated photonics, quantum nanostructures, nanomaterials, epitaxial growth, compound semiconductors

Dr. Robert Magnusson. Nanophotonics, nanoelectronics, nanoplasmonics, nanolasers, optical bio- and chemical sensors.

Dr. Yuze (Alice) Sun. Photonics, optofluidics, microfluidics, optical biosensing and chemical sensing, lab-on-chip systems, nanomaterials, and global health and environmental sustainability.

Dr. Michael Vasilyev. (Prof. Vasilyev's Research Group) Nonlinear and quantum optics, optical communication systems and devices, nanophotonics.

Dr. Weidong Zhou. (Weidong Zhou's Research Group) Optoelectronic materials and devices, nanophotonics and silicon photonics.

Administration

Dr. Wei-Jen Lee
Professor and Chair
817-272-3934
wlee@uta.edu

Dr. Jonathan Bredow 
Professor & Associate Chair 
817-272-3472
jbredow@uta.edu

Dr. Yuze (Alice) Sun
Professor & Associate Chair
817-272-1317
sun@uta.edu

Undergraduate Applicants

Graduate Applicants