Team Members
photonic/semiconductor device group

Mohammad Abu Raihan Miah
Ph.D. Student
Raihan joined Lo Group in Fall 2015 after moving to US for his PhD study. He earned his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 2013 and 2015 respectively. His research focuses on modeling, design, fabrication and characterization of the single photon detector.
List of publications:
Journals:
1. A Physics Based Unified Circuit Model for Single Photon and Analog Detector. (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/6287639/9312710/09540667.pdf)
2. Defect assisted carrier multiplication in amorphous silicon. (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/3/7182271/09069224.pdf)
3. Frequency-and power-dependent photoresponse of a perovskite photodetector down to the single-photon level. (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c00161)
4. Room-temperature long-wave infrared detector with thin double layers of amorphous germanium and amorphous silicon. (https://opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-27-25-37056)
5. Modeling gain mechanisms in amorphous silicon due to efficient carrier multiplication and trap-induced junction modulation. (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=8758185)
6. Single photon detector with a mesoscopic cycling excitation design of dual gain sections and a transport barrier. (https://opg.optica.org/ol/fulltext.cfm?uri=ol-44-7-1746&id=407676).
7. An amorphous silicon photodiode with 2 THz gain‐bandwidth product based on cycling excitation process. (https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.5001170)
Conference Proceedings:
1. A Single Photon Detector with an Amorphous/Crystalline Silicon Heterointerface. (https://opg.optica.org/abstract.cfm?uri=IPRSN-2019-IT3A.4)
2. WS2-CH3NH3PbI3 Perovskite Nanostructure based Bimetallic Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensor with High Sensitivity and High Resolution. (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8858542)
3. A high-efficiency low-noise signal amplification mechanism for photodetectors. (https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/10108/101080X/A-high-efficiency-low-noise-signal-amplification-mechanism-for-photodetectors/10.1117/12.2253792.full?SSO=1)
4. Cycling excitation process for light detection and signal amplification in semiconductors. (https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/9933/99330C/Cycling-excitation-process-for-light-detection-and-signal-amplification-in/10.1117/12.2238585.full)
5. A review on fabrication process of organic light emitting diodes (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6572656)
6. Low cost computer based heart rate monitoring system using fingertip and microphone port (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6572703)
List of publications:
Journals:
1. A Physics Based Unified Circuit Model for Single Photon and Analog Detector. (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/6287639/9312710/09540667.pdf)
2. Defect assisted carrier multiplication in amorphous silicon. (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/3/7182271/09069224.pdf)
3. Frequency-and power-dependent photoresponse of a perovskite photodetector down to the single-photon level. (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c00161)
4. Room-temperature long-wave infrared detector with thin double layers of amorphous germanium and amorphous silicon. (https://opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-27-25-37056)
5. Modeling gain mechanisms in amorphous silicon due to efficient carrier multiplication and trap-induced junction modulation. (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=8758185)
6. Single photon detector with a mesoscopic cycling excitation design of dual gain sections and a transport barrier. (https://opg.optica.org/ol/fulltext.cfm?uri=ol-44-7-1746&id=407676).
7. An amorphous silicon photodiode with 2 THz gain‐bandwidth product based on cycling excitation process. (https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.5001170)
Conference Proceedings:
1. A Single Photon Detector with an Amorphous/Crystalline Silicon Heterointerface. (https://opg.optica.org/abstract.cfm?uri=IPRSN-2019-IT3A.4)
2. WS2-CH3NH3PbI3 Perovskite Nanostructure based Bimetallic Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensor with High Sensitivity and High Resolution. (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8858542)
3. A high-efficiency low-noise signal amplification mechanism for photodetectors. (https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/10108/101080X/A-high-efficiency-low-noise-signal-amplification-mechanism-for-photodetectors/10.1117/12.2253792.full?SSO=1)
4. Cycling excitation process for light detection and signal amplification in semiconductors. (https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/9933/99330C/Cycling-excitation-process-for-light-detection-and-signal-amplification-in/10.1117/12.2238585.full)
5. A review on fabrication process of organic light emitting diodes (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6572656)
6. Low cost computer based heart rate monitoring system using fingertip and microphone port (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6572703)
- Email:mraihanm@eng.ucsd.edu

Shaurya Arya
Ph.D. Student


Yunrui Jiang
Ph.D. Student

Yunrui Jiang
Ph.D. Student
Yunrui Jiang was born in China and she received the B.S. degrees in Optoelectronics from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, in 2019. She was accepted to M.S program in Photonics under Electrical and Computer Engineering department in UCSD, Fall 2019. She is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in Photonics at UCSD.
She joined the Lo Research Group since 2020. Her research interest mainly focuses on semiconductor device design, fabrication, characterization for single photon detection, as well as infrared photodetection base on up-conversion and CMOS integration.
- Phone:858-214-7050
- Email:yuj007@eng.ucsd.edu

Hossein Anabestani
Ph.D. Student

Hossein Anabestani
Ph.D. Student

Brendan Schuster
Ph.D. Student

Brendan Schuster
Ph.D. Student
Brendan grew up in Pittsburgh and earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering at University of Pittsburgh, in 2020. He was accepted to the ECE department at UCSD with a focus on Photonics. Brendan Joined the Lo Research group to focus on semiconductor devices and physics. He is currently working on integrating our own photodetectors with an active quenching circuit. In his spare time, Brendan likes to play basketball, tennis, soccer, hike, surf, and travel.
- Email:bschuste@ucsd.edu

Biomedical device, system, and AI group


Minhong Zhou
Ph.D. Student


Xinyu Chen
Ph.D. Student


Conan Chen
Ph.D. Student
