Electrical and Computer Engineering
TTU Home College of Engineering Electrical and Computer Engineering ECE Faculty

Henryk Temkin, Horn Professor and Maddox Chair

Degrees with fields, institution and date

BS Physics, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1969
MS in Physics, Yeshiva University, 1971
Ph.D. Physics, Stevens Institute of Technology, 1975

Years of Service at Texas Tech University, dates of appointment

9 Years
Professor and Maddox Chair, 1996-present
Horn Professor since 2002

Other related experience—teaching, industrial, etc.

Visitor at Sandia National Laboratory, June 2004
Sabbatical year at Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University 2002-2003
Rockwell-Anderson Professor of Electrical Engineering, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado, 1992-1996
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories, 1977-1992

Consulting, patents, etc.

24 US patents on optoelectronic devices and materials, last disclosure, on “Athermal Design of Arrayed Waveguide Grating Devices,” filed in January 2004
Consultant to Applied Materials, Lucent, Texas Instruments, DARPA
Founder and President of Applied WDM, 2000-2002
Founder and President of Multipass Corporation, 2003-present
Expert witness in cases involving semiconductor lasers

State(s) in which registered

None

Principal Publications of last five years

“Nanofluidic channels by anodic bonding of amophous silicon to glass to study ion-accumulation and ion-depletion effect”, by A. Datta, S. Gangopadhyay, H. Temkin, Q. S. Pu, and S. R. Liu, Talanta 68 , 659-65 (2006)

“Formation of nickel nanodots on GaN ”, by D. Aurongzeb, K. B. Ram, M. Holtz, M. Basavaraj, G. Kipshidze, B. Yavich, S. A. Nickishin, and H. Temkin, Journal of Applied Physics 99, (2006)

“Low-resistance ohmic contacts to digital alloys of n-AlGaN/AlN”, J. Yun, K. Choi, K. Mathur, V. Kuryatkov, B. Borisov, G. Kipshidze, S.A. Nikishin, and H. Temkin, IEEE Electron Device Letters 27, 22-24 (2006)

“Direct space-to-time pulse shaper with reflective arrayed waveguide gratings and phase masks ”, A. Krishnan, L. G. Peralta, V. Kuryatkov, A. A. Bernussi, and H. Temkin, Optics Letters 31, 640-42 (2006)

“Enhanced deep ultraviolet luminescence from AlGaN quantum wells grown in the three-dimensional mode”, B. Borisov, S. A. Nikishin, V. Kuryatkov, A. A. Bernussi, and H. Temkin, Applied Physics Letters, 87, (2005)

“Digital alloys of AlN/AlGaN for deep UV light emitting diodes”, by S. A. Nikishin, M. Holtz, and H. Temkin, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics Part 1-Regular Papers Brief Communications and Review Papers, 44, 7221-26 (2005)

“Depth dependence of defect density and stress in GaN grown on SiC ,” by N, Faleev, I. Ahmad, M. Holtz, Y. Melnik, and H. Temkin, Journal of Applied Physics 98, (2005)

“The influence of interface roughness on electrical transport in nanoscale metallic multilayers”, by D. Aurongzeb, M. Holtz, J.M. Berg, A. Chandolu, and H. Temkin, Journal of Applied Physics 98, (2005)

“High-resolution pulse shaper based on arrays of digital micromirrors”, by M. Knapczyk, A. Krishnan, L.G. de Peralta, A. A. Bernussi, and H. Temkin, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 17 , 2200-202 (2005)

“Metal-organic molecular-beam epitaxy of GaN with trimethylgallium and ammonia: Experiment and modeling”, by I. Gherasoiu, S. A. Nikishin, and H. Temkin, Journal of Applied Physics 98, (2005)

“Si-doped AlxGal - xN(0.56 <= x <= 1) layers grown by molecular beam epitaxy with ammonia”, by B. Borisov, V. Kuryatkov, Y. Kudryavtsev, R. Asomoza, S. A. Nikishin, D. Y. Song, M. Holtz, and H. Temkin, Applied Physics Letters 87, (2005)

“Revonfigurable direct space-40-time pulse-shaper based on arrayed waveguide grating multiplexers and digital micromirrors”, by A. Krishnan, M. Knapczyk, L.G. Peralta, A. A. Bernussi, and H. Temkin, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 17, 1959-61 (2005)

“Reconfigurable optical filter based on digital mirror arrays,” by M. Knapczyk, A. Krishnan, L.G. de Peralta, A. A. Bernussi, and H. Temkin, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 17, 1743-45 (2005)

“Analysis of nonselective plasma etching of AlGaN by CF4/Ar/Cl-2”, by V. Kuryatkov, B. Borisov, J. Saxena, S. A. Nikishin, H. Temkin, S. Patibandla, L. Menon, and M. Holtz, Journal of Applied Physics 97, (2005)

“Self-assembly of faceted Ni nanodots on Si(111)”, D. Aurongzeb, S. Patibandla, M. Holtz, and H. Temkin, Applied Physics Letters 86, ( 2005)

“Controlled growth of GaN nanowires by pulsed metalorganic chemical vapor deposition”, by G. Kipshidze, B. Yavich, A. Chandolu, J. Yun, V. Kuryatkov, D. Aurongzeb, M. Holtz, and H. Temkin, Applied Physics Letters 86, (2005)

“Initial growth of interfacial oxide during deposition of HfO2 on silicon”, by K. Choi, H. Harris, S. Gangopadhyay, L. Xie, M. White, and H. Temkin, Applied Physics Letters 85 , 215-17 (2004)

“Growth mechanism of AlN by metal-organic molecular beam epitaxy”, by I. Gherasoiu, S. A. Nikishin, G. Kipshidze, B. Borisov, A. Chandolu, C. Ramkumar, M. Holtz, and H. Temkin, Journal of Applied Physics 96, 6272-76 (2004)

“Control of center wavelength in reflective-arrayed waveguide-grating multiplexers”, by L. G. Peralta, A. A. Bernussi, V. Gorbounov, J. M. Berg, and H. Temkin, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics 40, 1725-31 (2004)

“Mid-ultraviolet light-emitting diode detects dipicolinic acid”, by Q. Y. Li, P. K. Dasgupta, M. H. Crawford, A. J. Fischer, A. A. Allerman, K. H. A. Bogart, S. R. Lee, and H. Temkin, Applied Spectroscopy 58, 1360-63 (2004)

“Short-period superlattices of AlN/Al0.08Ga0.92N grown on AlN substrates”, by S. A. Nikishin, B. Borisov, A. Chandolu, V. Kuryatkov, M. Holtz, E. N. Mokhov, Y. Makarov, H. Helava, and H. Temkin, Applied Physics Letters 85, 4355-57 (2004)

“Reconfigurable sampling of the electric field at the reflecting surface of folded arrayed waveguide grating multiplexers”, by A. A. Bernussi, L. G. de Peralta, M. Knapczyk, R. Gale, and H. Temkin, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 16, 2257-59 (2004)

“Compact high-voltage generator of primary power based on shock wave depolarization of lead zirconate titanate piezoelectric ceramics”, by S. Shkuratov, E. F. Talantsev, L. Menon, J. Baird, L. L. Altgilbers, and H. Temkin, Review of Scientific Instruments 75, 2766-69 ( 2005)

“Optical waveguides with an aqueous coure and a low-index nanoporous cladding”, by W. P. Risk, H. C. Kim, R. D. Miller, S. Gangopadhyay, and H. Temkin, Optics Express 12, 6446-455 (2004)

“Mirror quality and the performance of reflective arrayed-waveguide grating multiplexers”, by A. A. Bernussi, L.G. de Peralta, V. Gorbounov, J. A. Linn, S. Frisbie, R. Gale, and H. Temkin, Journal of Lightwave Technology 22 , 1828-832 (2004)

“Size-dependent surface luminescence in ZnO nanowires”, byI. Shalish, V. Narayanamurti, and H. Temkin, Physical Review B 69, (2004)

“Ion-enrighment and ion-depletion effect of nanochannel structures”, by Q. S. Pu, J. S. Yun, S. R. Liu, and H. Temkin, Nano Letters 4, 1099-103 (2004)

“Ignition studies of Al/Fe2O3 energetic nanocomposites”, by L. Menon, S. Patibandla, K. B. Ram, S. Shkuratov, D. Aurongzeb, M. Holtz, J. Berg, J. Yun, and H. Temkin, Applied Physics Letters 84, 4735-37 (2004)

“Evolution of surface roughness of AlN and GaN induced by inductively coupled Cl-2/Ar plasma etching”, by K. Zhu, V. Kuryatkov, B. Borisov, J. Yun, G. Kipshidze, S. A. Nikishin, D. Aurongzeb, M. Holtz, and H. Temkin, Journal of Applied Physics 95, 4635-41 (2004)

“Temperature-insensitive reflective arrayed-waveguide grating multiplexers”, by L. G. de Peralta, A. A. Bernussi, V. Gorbounov, and H. Temkin, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 16, 831-33 (2004)

Scientific and professional societies of which a member

IEEE
American Physical Society
Optical Society of America

Honors and Awards

Horn Professor since 2002
Fellow of IEEE since 1992
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories, in 1987

Institutional and professional service in the last five years

Founder and Director of the Nano Tech Center at Texas Tech University, 2000
One of the creators of a Program in Semiconductor Product Engineering at Texas Tech, an industry sponsored MS program
Serves as Chair of the PhD program subcommittee of the Electrical Engineering Department
Proposal reviewer and panelist for the National Science Foundation and DARPA
Reviewer for a number of publications, including Applied Physics Letters, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE Journal Of Lightwave Technology, Electronics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics

Professional development activities in the last five years

4-6 Professional Conferences each year.

Email to:

henryk.temkin@ttu.edu