SPIE Student Chapter at Lehigh University

Semi-Annual Report

December 15th, 2006

• Chapter founded 24th August, 2006• Currently consists of 21 members• Secured additional funding from other sponsors• Sponsored two events to date• Launched website to promote Chapter and

Lehigh’s Achievements in Optics

2006 Highlights

Fall 2006 Chapter Activities

Email: inspie@lehigh.eduWebsite: www.lehigh.edu/~inspie

Chapter Logistics

Total Members: 21

Catherine Vishton Qiaoqiang Gan Umer IzharChee-Loon Tan Ravi Sekhar Tummidi Vitchanetra Hongpinyo "Dew"

Clara Dimas Rebecca Merola Wenyue Zhang "Lydia"David Negro Renbo Song Yang Wang

HuiKai Cheng "Kai" Ronald Arif Yik Khoon EeJames Dailey Stacy E. Snyder Yun-Hsiang Ding "Alison"

Jie Deng "Thomas" Thirumalesh Bannuru Zhan Fu

Address : 7 Asa DriveSinclair Lab, Rm 226Lehigh UniversityBethlehem, PA 18015

Office Name EmailAdvisor Professor Boon Ooi bsooi@lehigh.eduPresident Yang Wang yaw2@lehigh.eduVice President Clara Dimas ced204@lehigh.eduSecretary Chee-Loon Tan clt206@lehigh.eduCo-Secretary Catherine Vishton ctv204@lehigh.eduUndergrad Coordinator Jie Deng "Thomas" jid204@lehigh.eduTreasurer Yun-Hsiang Ding "Alison" yud205@lehigh.eduCo-Treasurer Vitchanetra Hongpinyo "Dew" vih205@lehigh.edu

Kickoff Meeting

• Announced founding of chapter• Received support and interest from several

faculty and staff members• 14/15 members participated• Recruited 5 of 10 non-member students • Students from Bio-E, MatSci, ECE,

CSE, and Phys

Faculty and Staff AttendanceProf. Ooi Boon-Siew Chapter Advisor Center For Optical Technology

III-V Photonics LabECE

Prof. Filbert Bartoli Department ChairDepartment Chapter Sponsor

Center For Optical Technology ECE

Prof. Alastair McAulay SPIE Fellow Center For Optical Technology ECEProf. H.Daniel Ou-Yang Associate Director, Bioengineering Center For Optical Technology

Soft Condensed Matter LabortoryPhys

Prof. Xiaolei Sharon Huang New Assistant Professor Multi-modality Image Visualizationand Analysis Lab

CSE

Dr. Bill Heffer Center Director Inst. of Material for NewFunctionality of Glass

Mrs. Jill Trodero Department Coordinator ECEMrs. Brianne Lisk Graduate Coordinator ECE

Corning Museum of Glass VisitThirteen student members participated in the excursion from different departments: Electrical, Materials Science and Chemical Engineering. The museum is nearly 215 miles (4 hours) from Lehigh University. We had two tour guides who highlighted the exhibitions, shared experiences of working for Corning as well as tailored our guided tour towards our optical engineering background.

Corning Museum of Glass

Our visit to the museum would have been incomplete without actually experiencing glass blowing first hand and we got just that- an impressive demonstration of glass blowing by a gaffer i.e. a master glassblower.

The museum has been divided into different sections each covering a different era showcasing how glass manufacturing techniques has evolved over time. The history section contained glass from many ancient civilizations like the Egyptian, Roman, Greek etc. A section was also devoted to glass from different geographical regions like India, China, France , Japan etc.

A special collection of glass from India was on display at the time of our visit. The collection was christened Maharaja which means the King of Kings. It had on display the glass from the Indian royalty in the form of thrones, pieces of furniture chandeliers all made of glass.

The Glass Innovation Gallery displayed very informatively approaches and challenges related to laminate glass, ceramics, float glass, lenses, and fiber optics. A narrative story of the invention of fiber optics and its evolution was captured in a very captivating video presentation which was being played at the museum.

Website I

Website II

SPIE Meeting ParticipationSPIE Optics and Photonics 2006

INFRARED AND PHOTOELECTRONIC IMAGERS AND DETECTOR DEVICES IIModeling and characterization of GaN p-i-n photodiodes, J. Deng, S. Halder, J. C. M. Hwang, Lehigh Univ.; B. Hertog, J. Xie, A. M. Dabiran, A. Osinsky, SVT Associates Inc. [6294-27]

SPIE Photonics West 2007

PHYSICS AND SIMULATION OF OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES XVQuantum-confined Stark effects in interdiffused semiconductor quantum dots, Y. Wang, D. E. Negro, H. S. Djie, B.-S. Ooi, Lehigh Univ. [6468-17]

Design analysis of lattice-matched AlInGaN-GaN quantum wells for optimized intersubband absorption in the mid-IR regime, R. S. Tummidi, R. A. Arif, Y. Ee, N. Tansu, Lehigh Univ. [6468-44]

Quantum 3D finite-difference-time-domain (Q-FDTD) analysis of InGaAs-GaAsP and InN-GaN quantum-dot nanostructures, Y. Ee, Y. P. Gupta, R. A. Arif, N. Tansu, Lehigh Univ. [6468-18]

INTEGRATED OPTICS: DEVICES, MATERIALS, AND TECHNOLOGIES XIBroadband, low ripple 860nm GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well superluminescent diode, C. E. Dimas, R. A. Merola, C. T. Vishton, H. S. Djie, B. Ooi, Lehigh Univ. [6475-48]

QUANTUM DOTS, PARTICLES, AND NANOCLUSTERS IVPhotoabsorption spectroscopy of InAs/InGaAlAs/InP quantum-dash-in-well laser structure, D. E. Negro, Y. Wang, H. S. Djie, B. S. Ooi, Lehigh Univ.; V. Donchev, T. Ivanov, Sofia Univ. (Bulgaria) [6481-13]

RELIABILITY, PACKAGING, TESTING, AND CHARACTERIZATION OF MEMS/MOEMS VIEffects of V additions on the mechanical behavior of Au thin films for MEMS contact switches, T. Bannuru, W. L. Brown, R. P. Vinci, Lehigh Univ.; S. Narksitipan, Chiang Mai Univ. (Thailand) [6463-05]

* BOLDED Underlined names denote members

Financial Report

Date Funding Source Event/Activities Incoming Expense Description

14-Sep Kickoff Meeting ($55.00) Pizza Lunch

28-OctElectrical and ComputerScience Engineering Dept. $500.00 Student Chapter Activity Grant

3-Nov SPIE $700.00 Student Chapter Activity Grant4-Nov ($200.25) Transportation

($97.50) Tickets for 13 people15-Nov Graduate Student Senate $200.00 Starting Funding for a new club20-Nov Office Supplies ($15.57) Stamp for SPIE library books

1-Dec Subtotal $1,400.00 ($368.32)

1-Dec Balance $1,031.68

Corning GlassMuseum Trip

Future ActivitiesSpeakers- In-house, multidisciplinary, and industry speakers

Website- Finalize website framework and long term maintenance plans

Outreach- Recruit Volunteers for Center for Optical Technology OptoCamp and SWE CHOICE Program- Workout how to utilize SPIE mini-optics kits

Industry Visit- Local industry visit with speaker

End of the Year Networking Event- Highlight past and future events, hold elections, and acknowledge sponsors and member contributions

Sponsors• SPIE• Lehigh University Electrical and Computer Engineering Department• Lehigh Graduate Student Senate

Guidance• Dirk Fabian - SPIE Student Services Coordinator• Jason Hamman - SPIE Student Activities Coordinator• Professor Ooi - ECE Associate Professor / Chapter Advisor• Professor Bartoli - ECE Department Chair who approved Chapter

Lehigh SPIE Chapter• All officers and members

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