Fundamental Study of Defects and Their Reduction

in Type-II Superlattice Materials

Army Research Office MURI Program

Kickoff Meeting

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Location: Georgia Tech Washington

1700 North Moore Street

Suite 1910

Arlington VA 22209

8:30 am – 9:00 am Registration and breakfast

9:00 am – 9:10 am Opening Remarks, Bill Clark, Army Research Office

9:10 am – 10:00 am Speakers from Government Labs:

9:10 am Dave Ting (JPL)

“Type-II Superlattice Long Wavelength Infrared Photodetectors: A Brief Overview”

9:25 am Stefan Svensson (ARL)

“Material Studies of SLS and Binaries Aimed at Finding First Order Lifetime Limiting Mechanisms”

9:40 am Sumith Bandara (NVESD)

“Relation of Lifetime to Current SLS Detector Performance and Importance of Lifetime Dependency on Detector Designing Parameter Space”

10:00 am – 10:15 am Coffee Break

10:15 am – 12:15 am MURI Team Presentations:

10:15 am S. L. Chuang (UIUC)

“Overview of MURI Research”

10:30 am K. C. Hsieh and J. M. Zuo (UIUC)

“Structural Characterization of Defects in Sb-based Semiconductors”

10:45 am David Smith (ASU)

“Advanced TEM Methods for Defect Characterization”

11:00 am Yong Zhang (UNCC)

“Theoretical Modeling and Optical Study of T2SL and Defects”

11:15 am Russel D. Dupuis (GIT)

“InAs/GaSb and InAs/InAsSb Type-II Superlattices Grown by MOCVD”

11:30 am Shane Johnson (ASU)

“Surfactant Mediated Growth During Molecular Beam Epitaxy”

11:45 am Yong-Hang Zhang (ASU)

“MBE Growth of Type-II Superlattice and Defect Reduction”

12:00 am S. L. Chuang (UIUC)

“Device Modeling, Characterization, Passivation, and Correlation with Defects”

12:15 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch, Technical Discussions and Research

Collaboration (Bill Clark)

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Advisory Board Meeting (Government Labs Attendees)

3:00 pm – 3:15 pm Summary/Suggestions for MURI Team Members

3:15pm Adjourn