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Geoff W. Taylor
Professor
Office: ITE 459
Phone: (860) 486-2666
Email: gwt@engr.uconn.edu

Education:

• B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Queens University, Kingston, Ont., 1966
• M.A.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., 1968 
• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., 1972

Research Interests:
Background in the areas of materials, devices and circuits for microelectronics. Early work in material defects, MOS device modeling, and circuit performance of Si based VLSI technology. Interests in the device limitations, the circuit configurations and the systems problems associated with VLSI. Translation of Si inversion channel device concepts to III-V systems for optoelectronics. Development of FET and bipolar devices in heterostructure systems. Research on optoelectronic devices includes detectors, lasers, amplifiers, modulators and passive optical devices. Current interest is in the implementation of optoelectronic integrated circuits ?IC? that combines the functions of optical and electronic devices in a single chip, infrared imaging and THz detection. Applications are circuits and subsystems for optical interconnect, optical computing, optical signal processors, and RF analog photonic systems such as phased array radars and wireless communication systems. Particular emphasis on the development of optoelectronic switches for new circuit functions such as high speed AD and DA, VCO, PLL and logic blocks. Targeted applications are DWDM systems for metro access, photonic switching systems for packet switching and optoelectronic interfaces for high speed memories, processors and networks.

Modeling of laser diodes, Vertical Cavity Lasers, intersubband absorption, photoluminecence. ultra high speed electronic devices, rare earth doped lasers, THz device physics. 

Memberships:

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Optical Society of America (OSA)
• Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS)
• SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering

Recent Publications:
Archival Technical Journal Publications:

• ” A Thyristor-Based Photoreceiver Based on the Dual-Channel Double-Heterostructure Optoelectronic Switch, ” (with H. Opper), IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Vol. 40, pp. 1074-1086, 2004.
• ” Characterization of the Switching Parameters in the Dual-Channel Double Heterostructure Optoelectronic Switch, ” (with H. Opper, J. Cai, R. B. Garber and R. Basilica), IEEE Transactions on Electronic Devices, Vol. 51, pp. 1091-1094, 2004.
• ” Derivation of the Switch-On Parameters in the Dual Channel Double Heterostructure Optoelectronic Switch, ” (with H. Opper, J. Cai, R. B. Garber and R. Basilica), Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 96, pp. 7612-7624, 2004.
• ” Correlation of Theory with Experimental SOA’s, ” (with W. Zheng), IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Vol. , No. , pp. , May, 2005.
• “Microwave Magnetic Properties of Co50/(SiO2)50 Nanoparticles,” (with M. Wu, Y.D. Zhang, S. Hui, T.D. Xiao, S. Ge and J.I. Budnick), Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 80. No. 23, pp. 4404-4406, June 10, 2002.