Michael S. Shur and Arturas Zukauskas, co-Directors

 

 

NATO Advanced Research Workshop

UV Solid-State Light Emitters and Detectors

 

 

PROGRAM and ABSTRACTS

 

 

 

 

June 17 – 21, 2003, Vilnius, Lithuania

http://www.natoarw-uv.ff.vu.lt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sponsored by NATO

Cosponsored by:      Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, USA

                                    Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of Lithuania

                                    Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Lithuania

                                    Lithuanian State Foundation of Science and Studies

                                    Vilnius University

                                    Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc.

                                    EKSPLA Ltd.

 


PROGRAM

 

 

Chair Z. Zukauskas

 

Tuesday, JUNE 17

 

Guided tour to Vilnius University Library and Old Campus (17:20–18:30)

Meeting Point: City Park hotel lobby, Stuokos-Gucevičiaus Str. 3

 

Get-together party (18:30–20:30)

Vilnius University Café-Bar, Šv. Jono Str. 10

 

Wednesday, JUNE 18

 

Lecture Session I (8:30–12:00)

City Park hotel, Stuokos-Gucevičiaus Str. 3, City Hall

 

8:30–8:40

Valdemaras Sarapinas

State Secretary of the Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of Lithuania

Opening of the NATO ARW

 

 

8:40–10:10

LTC John Carrano

DARPA, U.S. Department of Defense (USA)

Semiconductor Ultraviolet Optical Sources for Biological Agent Detection

 

Discussion leaders:

Stutzmann (1) DeFreez (2) and Munoz (3)

 

Coffee break (10:10–10:30)

 

10:30–12:00

Steve DenBaars

University of California at Santa-Barbara (USA)

AlGaN Based UV LEDs and Photodetectors

 

Discussion leaders: Schowalter (1) and Gaska (2)

 

Lunch (12:00–14:00)

City Park hotel, Stuokos-Gucevičiaus Str. 3, Restaurant Rossini

 

Lecture Session II (14:00–17:20)

City Park hotel, Stuokos-Gucevičiaus Str. 3, City Hall

 

Chair: Carrano

 

 

14:00–15:30

Michael Shur1 and Artūras Žukauskas2

1 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA)

2 Vilnius University (Lithuania)

Basic Device Issues in UV Solid State Emitters and Detectors

 

Discussion leaders: Pichler (1) and Mahlkov (2)

 

 

 

 

Coffee break (15:30–15:50)

 

15:50–17:20

Alexander Usikov

A. F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute of the RAS (Russia)

HVPE-Grown AlN-GaN Based Structures for UV Spectral Region

 

Discussion leaders:

Leschinsky and Koustis

 


 

Chair: Gintas Tamulaitis

Poster session A: Materials Grows and Characterization (17:20–18:20)

City Park hotel, Stuokos-Gucevičiaus Str. 3, City Hall

 

Remis Gaska1, Asif Khan2, and Michael S. Shur3

1 Sensor Electronics Technology, Columbia, SC (USA)

2 University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (USA)

3 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, (USA)

Strain Energy Band Engineering and Innovative Growth Techniques for Nitride-Based UV LEDs and Solar Blind Photodetectors

 

Alexandros Georgakilas
FORTH-IESL and University of Crete, Physics Dept., Microelectronics Research Group (MRG), Heraklion (Greece)

Promising Results of Plasma Assisted MBE for Optoelectronic Applications

 

B. Beaumont, J-P. Faurie, E. Frayssinet, E. Aujol, and P. Gibart

Lumilog, Vallauris (France)

Low Dislocations Density GaN/Sapphire for Optoelectronics Devices

 

Alexander L. Gurskii1,  E. V. Lutsenko1, V. Z. Zubialevich1, V. N. Pavlovskii1, and G. P. Yablonskii1

K. Kazlauskas 2, G. Tamulaitis 2, S. Juršėnas 2, and A. Žukauskas 2

YDikme3, HKalisch3, ASzymakowski3, and R. HJansen3

BSchineller4 and MHeuken4

1) Stepanov Institute of Physics of NAS Belarus, F. Skaryna Ave. 68, 220072 Minsk (Belarus)

2) Institute of Materials Science and Applied Research, Vilnius University (Lithuania)

3) Institut für Theoretische Elektrotechnik, RWTH, Aachen (Germany)

4) AIXTRON AG, Aachen, Germany

Stimulated Emission and Gain in GaN Epilayers Grown on Si

 

Saulius Juršėnas, G. Kurilčik, S. Miasojedovas, and A. Žukauskas

Institute of Materials Science and Applied Research, Vilnius University, Vilnius (Lithuania)

Materials Characterization of Group-III Nitrides under High-Power Photoexcitation

 

Sławomir P. Lepkowski

High Pressure Research Center UNIPRESS, Warsaw (Poland)

Small Internal Fields in Quaternary InAlGaN Heterostructures

 

Wsevolod V. Lundin

A. F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute of the RAS, St. Petersburg (Russia)

MOCVD Growth of AlGaN Epilayers and AlGaN/GaN SLs in a Wide Composition Range

 

Leo J. Schowalter

Physics Dept., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY (USA)

Native Aluminum Nitride Substrates for UV Emitters

 

Natalia M. Shmidt

A. F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute of the RAS, St. Petersburg (Russia)

Optical and Electrical Characteristics of III-Nitrides Device Correlated with the Degree of Order of Mosaic Structure

 

Maris Springis, P. Kulis, and I. Tale

Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

Thermoactivation and Spectroscopy of Charge Localization States in InGaN/GaN Quantum Wells

 

Guided tour to downtown Vilnius (18:30–20:00)

Meeting point: City Park Hotel lobby


Thursday, JUNE 19

 

Chair: Remis Gaska

 

Lecture Session III (8:30–12:00)

Vilnius University, Universiteto Str. 3, Senate Hall, room 20

 

8:30–10:00

Sven Einfeldt, S. Frigge, T. Böttcher, J. Dennemarck, R. Chierchia, and D. Hommel

Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen (Germany)

GaN-Based Laser Diodes: Materials Issues and Device Design

 

Discussion leaders: Yablonsky and Ivanov

 

Coffee break (10:00–10:30)

 

10:30–12:00

Edmundas Kuokštis1 and Gintautas Tamulaitis2

1 University of South Carolina (USA)

2 Institute of Materials Science and Applied Research, Vilnius University (Lithuania)

Quaternary AlGaInN Materials System for UV Optoelectronics

 

Discussion leaders: Lepkowski and Georgakilas

 

Lunch (12:00–13:30)

City Park hotel, Stuokos-Gucevičiaus Str. 3, Restaurant Rossini

 

Lecture Session IV (13:30–17:20)

Vilnius University, Universiteto Str. 3, Senate Hall, room 20

 

Chair: Michael Shur

 

13:30–14:00

Fausto Pedrazzini

PST Programme Director, Public Diplomacy Division (NATO)

The NATO Science Programme: Past, Present and Future

 

14:00–15:30

Remis Gaska1, Asif Khan2, and Michael S. Shur3

1 Sensor Electronics Technology, Columbia, SC (USA)

2 University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (USA)

3 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, (USA)

Epitaxial AlGaN Layers for UV LEDs on Sapphire and Bulk AlN

 

Discussion leaders: Schowalter and Usikov

 

 

Coffee break (15:30–15:50)

 

15:50–17:20

Jean-Luc Reverchon

Thales (France)

UV Metal Semiconductor Metal Detectors

 

Discussion leaders: Munoz and Gaska

 

 

Conference Dinner (18:00–22:00)

Marceliukės Klėtis Restaurant, Tuskulėnų Str. 35

Meeting point: City Park hotel lobby

Friday, JUNE 20

 

 

Chair: Stutzmann

 

Lecture Session V (8:30–12:00)

City Park hotel, Stuokos-Gucevičiaus Str. 3, City Hall

 

 

8:30–10:00

Mike Leszczynski

High Pressure Research Center UNIPRESS (Poland)

Bulk GaN Crystals Grown at High Pressure as Substrates for UV-Emitters Technology

 

Discussion leaders:  Schowalter and Gibart

 

Coffee break (10:00–10:30)

 

10:30–12:00

Kęstutis Jarašiūnas

Institute of Materials Science and Applied Research, Vilnius University (Lithuania)

Characterization of Advanced Materials for Optoelectronics by Using UV Tunable Lasers and Four-Wave Mixing Techniques

 

Discussion leaders:  Koustis and Gursky

 

 

Lunch (12:00–14:00)

City Park hotel, Stuokos-Gucevičiaus Str. 3, Restaurant Rossini

 

Chair: Koustis

 

Lecture Session VI (14:00–17:20)

City Park hotel, Stuokos-Gucevičiaus Str. 3, City Hall

 

 

14:00–15:30 Replaced with Zukauskas

Alexander E. Yunovich

M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia)

State of the Art of White and UV LED Research in Russia

 

Discussion leaders:  Muzukante and Laurenauchis

 

Coffee break (15:0–15:50)

 

15:50–17:20

Arjan P. Vink

Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands)

Quantum Phosphors: Observation of the Photon Cascade Emission Process for Pr3+-doped Phosphors under Vacuum Ultraviolet (VUV) and X-Ray Excitation

 

Discussion leaders; Tamulaitis and Enfeld


Chair: Enfield

Poster session B: Device Issues and Applications (17:20–18:20)

City Park hotel, Stuokos-Gucevičiaus Str. 3, City Hall

 

 

B. Boratynski and M. Tlaczala

Faculty of Microsystem Electronics and Photonics, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw (Poland)

GaN Schottky Barriers and MSM UV Photodetectors

 

Daumantas Čiplys1,3, A. Sereika1, R. Rimeika1, R. Gaska2, M. Shur3, J. Yang4, and M. Asif Khan4

1 Dept. of Radiophysics, Vilnius University, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2 Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc., Columbia, SC (USA)

3 Dept. of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY (USA)

4 Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (USA)

III-Nitride Based Ultraviolet Surface Acoustic Wave Sensors

 

Vitalii Yu. Ivanov

Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw (Poland)

Optically Pumped Lasing in InGaN/GaN/AlGaN MQW Laser Structures

 

Adrian Mahlkow

Optotransmitter Umweltschutz Technologie e.V. (OUT e.V.), Berlin (Germany)

High-Power LED and its Thermal Management

 

O. Neilands1, Inta Muzikante2, E. Fonavs2, L. Gerca2, S. Jursenas3, R. Valiokas3, R. Karpicz4, L. Valkunas5

1 Riga Technical University, Riga (Latvia)

2 Institute of Physical Energetics, Riga (Latvia)

3 Institute of Materials Science and Applied Research, Vililnius University, LT-2040 Vilnius, Lithuania

4 Institute of Technology, Linköpings University, Linköping (Sweden)

5Institute of Physics, Vilnius\(Lithuania)

Detection of Blue Light by Self-Assembled Monolayer of Dipolar Molecules

 

Goran Pichler

Institute of Physics, Zagreb (Croatia)

Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy with UV and Visible Superbright LEDs

 

A. Ramanavičienė, A. Finkelšteinas, and Arūnas Ramanavičius

Faculty of Chemistry, Vilnius University, Vilnius (Lithuania)

Towards the Hybrid Biosensors Based on Biocompatible p-p Conjugated Polymers

 

Andrius Urba and K. Kvietkus

Institute of Physics, Vilnius (Lithuania)

UV Absorption Spectroscopy Applied for the Environmental Mercury Detection

 

Gennadii P. Yablonskii, A. L. Gurskii1,  E. V. Lutsenko1, V. Z. Zubialevich1, V. N. Pavlovskii1, A. S. Anufryuk, YDikme2, HKalisch2, R. HJansen2, BSchineller4, and MHeuken4

1 Stepanov Institute of Physics of NAS Belarus, Minsk (Belarus)

2 Institut für Theoretische Elektrotechnik, RWTH, Aachen (Germany)

3 AIXTRON AG, Aachen (Germany)

Optically Pumped UV-Blue Lasers Based on InGaN/GaN/Al2O3 and on InGaN/GaN/Si Heterostructures


Saturday, JUNE 21

 

Departure to Trakai (8:00)

Meeting point: City Park hotel lobby

 

Chair: Lezchinsk

 

Lecture Session VII (9:00–12:30)

Apvalus Stalas Club, Trakai

 

9:00–10:30

Martin Stutzmann

Walter Schottky Institute, Technische Universität München (Germany)

Novel Heterostructures for UV LEDs and Biosensors

 

Discussion leaders: DeFreeze and Ramanavichous

 

Coffee break (10:30–11:00)

 

11:00–12:30

Elias Muñoz

Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain)

Nitride Photodetectors in UV Biological Effect Studies

 

Discussion Leaders: Reverchon and Baratynski

 

 

 

Lunch (12:30–14:00)

Apvalus Stalas Club, Trakai

 

Chair: Usikov

Lecture Session VIII (14:00–17:30)

Apvalus Stalas Club, Trakai

 

14:00–15:30

Valdas Laurinavičius

Institute of Biochemistry (Lithuania)

Biosensors

 

Discussion Leaders: Urchenoz and Munoz

 

Coffee break (15:30–16:00)

 

16:00–17:30

Richard DeFreez

Pacific Scientific Instruments (USA)

Detection of Hazardous Biological Agents Using UV Diode Lasers

 

Discussion Leaders: Carrano and Stutzmann

 

 

Guided Tour to the Trakai Island Castle (18:00–19:00)

Meeting point: The Main Gate of the Castle on the Island

 

Concert of Ancient Music (19:00–20:00)

Trakai Castle on the Island

 

 

Dinner (20:00–22:00)

Apvalus Stalas Club, Trakai

 

Departure to Vilnius (22:00)


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ABSTRACTS

 

 


Roadmap for Solid State UV Emitters for Detection of Hazardous Biological Agents

 

LTC John C. Carrano, PhD

Program Manager, DARPA/MTO, USA

jcarrano@darpa.mil

 

In this talk we will provide a roadmap for developing a revolutionary class of new ultraviolet light sources capable of performing optical spectroscopy on biological agents.  A well known techni