Department of Materials
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
tel: (805) 893-8256
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Weisbuch's research activities deal mainly with optics of semiconductors, and physics and applications of low-dimensional structures such as quantum-well and quantum-dot lasers. His recent research is on fundamental properties of coupled semiconductors and optical fields in microcavities and photonic crystals, as well as applications to new families of high performance light emitters.
Claude Weisbuch is a distinguished professor in the department of
Materials, shool of engieering, UCSB. Weisbuch has been a researcher at the Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée at the Ecole
Polytechnique as a director of research for the Centre National de la
Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) since 1997. He is co-author of Quantum Semiconductor Structures: Physics and
Applications (1991), a widely used, graduate-level text, and co-editor
of five other books: Physics and Fabrication of Microstructures and
Microdevices (1986); Physics, Fabrication and Applications of
Multilayered Structures (1988); Confined Electrons and Photons:
New Physics and Applications (1995); Microcavities and Photonic
Bandgaps (1997), and Confined Photon Systems (1999).
Weisbuch a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1993, he received the 1999 Welker Prize for his fundamental contributions to the understanding of the physics of quantum semiconductor structures and the development of novel optoelectronic device concepts.
- Photonic-crystal GaN light-emitting diodes with tailored guided modes distribution, Appl Phys. Lett., 88, 2006, 061124, Aurélien David, Tetsuo Fujii, Rajat Sharma, Kelly McGroddy, Shuji Nakamura, Steven P. DenBaars, Evelyn L. Hu, Claude Weisbuch, and Henri Benisty.
- “Photonic Crystal-Assisted Light Extraction from a Colloidal Quantum Dot/GaN Hybrid Structure”, Nanoletters, 6 (6), 2006, 1116-1120, Frédéric S. Diana, Aurélien David, Ines Meinel, Rajat Sharma, Claude Weisbuch, Shuji Nakamura, and Pierre M. Petroff.