Jean-Pierre Leburton

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Education

• PhD, Theoretical Solid State Physics 1978
• Licence, Physics, University Liege (Belgium) 1971

Biography

Current Position:

Gregory Stilllman Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC

Professor of Physics. UIUC

Research Professor, Coordinator Science Laboratory, UIUC

Research Professor, F. Seitz Material Research Laboratory, UIUC

Research Professor, Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, UIUC

Academic Experience:

2008- present Professor of Physics, University of Illinois

2003- present Gregory Stillman Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois

2000 Visiting Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

1992 Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo

1991-present Professor, University of Illinois

1987-1991 Associate Professor, University of Illinois

1983-1987 Assistant Professor, University of Illinois

1981-1983 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois

Academic Positions

• Adjunct Professor, University of Illinois in Chicago, 2011-present
• Research Professor, Frederic Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, 2008-present
• Professor, Physics (0%), 2008-present
• Gregory Stillman Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2003-present
• Visiting Professor, Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (ePFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2000
• Visiting Professor, Hitachi LTD Quantum Materials Chair, University of Tokyo, 1992
• Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1991-Present
• Research Professor, Coordinated Science Laboratory, 1991-Present
• Research Associate Professor, Coordinated Science Laboratory, 1987-1991
• Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, 1987-1991
• Research Assistant Professor, Coordinated Science Laboratory, 1983-87
• Assistant Professor, 1983 to 1987
• Visiting Research Assistant Professor, 1981 to 1983

Other Professional Employment

• Siemens-Associate, Research Laboratory Munich, West-Germany, 1978 to 1981
• E.S.I.S. Fellow, University of Liege, 1978 to 1979
• Teaching Assistant in Experimental Physics, University of Liege, 1971 to 1978
• Student-Assistant in Theoretical & Mathematics Physics, University of Liege, 1970 to 1971

Major Consulting Activities

• Sidley Austin LLP , Washington DC, 20005 (2021-2022)
• Nixon Peabody, LLP, Los Angeles, CA 90071-3151 (2020-2021)
• Oxford Nanopore Technology (2012-2017)
• Director of Defense Research and Engineering (DDRE) Workshop on Future Directions in Physics: A Strategic Vision, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, January 19-21, 2011.
• Reviewer, Research Program of the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), June 15, 2010
• Scitemex Consulting, Merion Station, PA, 19066 (2009-present)

Professional Registrations

• Royal Academy of Science, Fine Arts and Letters (Belgium) (2011)
• The Institute of Physics (IoP) (2008)
• The American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS)1996
• The New York Academy of Science, 1996
• The Electro Chemical Society (ECS) 1994
• The Order of Academic Palms (France) 1993
• The Optical Society of America (OSA) 1990
• The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) 1984
• The American Physical Society (APS) 1979

Continuing Education

• “Semiconductors, Fascinating Materials of the Third Industrial Revolution (and Possibly the Fourth One)”, Zhejiang University-University of Illinois Institute, Haining, China.
• “Merging Nanoelectronics and Biology: Can one sequence DNA electronically? " Belgian Academy of Sciences

Other Instructional Activities

• Has fundamentally revised the required course " Solid State Electronics" to be called ECE 340 to be more accessible to ECE junior students

Research Statement

Jean-Pierre Leburton received his Ph.D. from the University of Liege (Belgium) in 1978. He is a professor in the UIUC Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a research professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory. He is also a full-time faculty member of the Computational Electronics Group in the Beckman Institute.

Professor Leburton's expertise is the theory and simulation of nanoscale semiconductor devices and low-dimensional systems. His research focuses more specifically on transport and optical processes in semiconductor nanostructures such as quantum wells, quantum wires and quantum dots. Current research projects involve electronic properties of self-assembled dots for high performance lasers, single-electron charging and spin effects in quantum dots, modeling of nanocrystal floating gate flash memory devices, nanoscale Si MOSFET's and carbon nanotubes and graphene nanostructures. His research deals also with dissipative mechanisms involving electron-phonon interaction in nanostructures for mid- and far-infrared intra-band lasers. Approaches to these problems involve use of sophisticated numerical techniques such as Monte-Carlo simulation and advanced 3D self-consistent Schroedinger-Poisson model including non-equilibrium transport for full scale nanodevice modeling.In the last 21 years, he turned his interest toward the interaction between living systems and semiconductors to investigate programming and sensing biomolecules with nanoelectronics. 

Research Interests

• Bio-Nano-Electronics.
• Transport in Two-Dimensional (2D) Materials and Carbon-based Nanostructures.
• Spin Effects in Nanostructures.
• Single Electronics and Spintronics in Quantum Dots and Nanocrystals.
• Electronic and Optical Properties of Quantum Wells, Quantum Wires and Quantum dots
• Modeling and Simulation of Nanostructures.
• Computational Nanotechnology and Theory of Nanoscale Semiconductor Devices.
• Theory of Semiconductor Devices, Modeling and Simulation of Nanostructures, Electronic and Optical Properties of Heterostructures and Low Dimensional Systems, Transport in Quantum Structures and Carbon-based nanostructures, Electronic Properties, Charging Effects in Quantum Dots and Nanocrystals, Spin Effects in Nanostructures, Quantum computation and Quantum Information Processing, Nano-biotechnology.

Books Edited or Co-Edited (Original Editions)

• Jean-Pierre Leburton “Physical Models for Quantum Wires, Nanotubes and Nanoribbons” Jenny Stanford Publishing, Singapore (2021)
• Jean-Pierre Leburton “Physical Models for Quantum Dots” Jenny Stanford Publishing, Singapore (2021)
• S. Bandyopadhyay, M. Cahay and J.P. Leburton "“Contemporary Topics in Semiconductor Spintronics” , World Scientific Publishing Co, Singapore (2017)
• M. Cahay, M. Urquidi-Macdonald, S. Bandyopadhyay, P. Guo, H. Hasegawa, N. Koshida, J.P. Leburton, D.J. Lockwood, S. Seal, and A. Stella Proceedings of the International Symposium on “Nanoscale Devices, Materials, and Biological Systems: Fundamentals and Applicattions”, 206th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Honolulu, PV 2004-13, Publ. Electrochemical Society.
• M. Cahay, J.P. Leburton, D. J. Lockwood, S. Bandyopadhyay, N. Koshida, and M. Zacharias "Advanced Luminescent Materials and Quantum Confinement II," PV 2002-2009, Publisher Electochemical Society, 2002.
• M. Cahay, J.P. Leburton, D.J. Lockwood, S. Bandyopadhyay,and J.S. Harris, Quantum Confinement VI: Nanostructured Materials and Devices, with PV 2001-19, Publisher Electrochemical Society, 2001.
• M. Cahay, S. Bandyopadhyay, J.P. Leburton, D. J. Lockwood, N. Koshida, M. Meyyapan and T. Sakamoto "Advanced Luminescent Materials and Quantum Confinement" with PV 99-22, Publisher Electrochemical Society, 1999.
• M. Cahay, D. Lockwood, J.P. Leburton and S. Bandyopadhyay, 5th International Symposium on Quantum Confinement: Nanostructures, Publisher Electrochemical Society, 1998.
• M. Cahay, J. Leburton, D. Lockwood, and S. Bandyopadhyay, 4th International Symposium on Quantum Confinement: Nanoscale Materials, Devices and Systems, PV 97-11, Publisher Electrochemical Society, 1997.
• G. Abstreiter, A. Aydinli, and J. Leburton, Optical Spectroscopy of Low Dimensional Semiconductors, NATO ASI, Series E, 344 Ankara, Turkey, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.
• K. Ismail, S. Bandyopadhyay, and J. Leburton, Quantum Devices and Circuits, World Scientific, Singapore, 1996.
• K. Hess, J.P. Leburton and U. Ravaiol, Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Hot Carriers in Semiconductors (HCIS-9), Chicago, IL, 1995. Plenum 1996.
• S. Bandyopadhyay, M. Cahay, J.P. Leburton and M. Razeghi,Proceedings of the "3rd International Symposium on Quantum Confinement: Quantum Wires and Dots," 188th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Chicago, 1995, PV 95-17, Publ. Electrochemical Society. (1996)
• M. Cahay, S. Bandyopadhyay, J.P. Leburton, A. W. Kleinsasser and M. A. Osman, Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Quantum Confinement: Physics and Applications, 185th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, San Francisco, CA, 1994.
• J. Leburton, J. Pascual, and C. Sotomayor-Torres , Phonons in Semiconductor Nanostructures, NATO ARW, Kluwer Publishing Company, 1993.
• K. Hess, U. Ravaioli, and J. Leburton, Computational Electronics Kluwer Publishing Company, 1990.

Journal Editorships

• - Editorial Board of Nanotechnology (IoP) (2022-2024)