Diana Huffaker is an American physicist working in compound semiconductors optical devices. She is the current Electrical Engineering Department Chair at the University of Texas at Arlington. Previously, she served as the Sêr Cymru Chair in Advanced Engineering and Materials and as Science Director of the Institute of Compound Semiconductors at Cardiff University. Her work includes compound semiconductor epitaxy, lasers, solar cells, optoelectronic devices, plasmonics, and Quantum dot and nanostructured materials.
Research and career Prior to moving to Cardiff University in 2015, Huffaker was Professor in Electrical Engineering and Director of the Integrated Nanomaterials Laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Highly cited papers Huffaker, D. L., Deppe, D. G., Kumar, K., & Rogers, T. J. (1994). Native-oxide defined ring contact for low threshold vertical-cavity lasers. Applied Physics Letters, 65(1), 97–99. doi:10.1063/1.113087 Huffaker, D. L., & Deppe, D. G. (1998). Electroluminescence efficiency of 1.3 μm wavelength InGaAs/GaAs quantum dots. Applied Physics Letters, 73(4), 520–522. doi:10.1063/1.121920 Huffaker, D. L., Park, G., Zou, Z., Shchekin, O. B., & Deppe, D. G. (1998). 1.3 μm room-temperature GaAs-based quantum-dot laser. Applied Physics Letters, 73(18), 2564–2566. doi:10.1063/1.122534 Gyoungwon Park, Shchekin, O. B., Huffaker, D. L., & Deppe, D. G. (2000). Low-threshold oxide-confined 1.3-μm quantum-dot laser. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 12(3), 230–232. doi:10.1109/68.826897 Huang, S. H., Balakrishnan, G., Khoshakhlagh, A., Jallipalli, A., Dawson, L. R., & Huffaker, D. L. (2006). Strain relief by periodic misfit arrays for low defect density GaSb on GaAs. Applied Physics Letters, 88(13), 131911. doi:10.1063/1.2172742 Laghumavarapu, R. B., Moscho, A., Khoshakhlagh, A., El-Emawy, M., Lester, L. F., & Huffaker, D. L. (2007). GaSb/GaAs type II quantum dot solar cells for enhanced infrared spectral response. Applied Physics Letters, 90(17), 173125. doi:10.1063/1.2734492
Awards and honours The Optical Society, Fellow, 2014 SPIE, Nanoengineering Pioneer Award, 2010 Creative Awards, Most Valuable Patent, 2009 DoD, National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow (NSSEFF), 2008 IEEE, Fellow, 2008 Alexander Von Humboldt Fellowship, 2004
External links Diana Huffaker: Home Page Archived 2019-03-26 at the Wayback Machine, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University Diana Huffaker: Home Page, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCLA
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