VOLKER J. SORGER · 9/1/2016-8/30/2019, 1.0 mo summer, $620,000 (GWU Portion $310,000). 9. NSF EFRI Supplement, “Exciton Lifetimes in Atomically Layered Materials at Visible Frequencies”,

VOLKER J. SORGER Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Washington University, 800 22nd St. NW

Washington, DC 20052. [email protected] (202) 994-7186 sorger.seas.gwu.edu

PART 1 – PERSONAL EDUCATION PhD (Mech. & Electrical (minor) Engineering) UC Berkeley 2011 MS (Physics) UT Austin 2005 BS (Pre-Diploma, Physics) Uni. Würzburg 2003

EXPERIENCE Associate Professor ECE Department (early promoted) GWU 2017- Assistant Professor ECE Department GWU 2012-17 Postdoctoral Fellow Nanoscale Science & Engineering Center UC Berkeley 2011-12

RESEARCH INTERESTS Devices: Attojoule Optoelectronics, Nanophotonics Devices: Modulator, Laser, Detector, Switch. Photonics: Hybrid Integrated Silicon Photonics and emerging materials (TCO, 2D Materials, Carbon). Quantum: Exciton-Polariton control; energy and bandwidth physics; Cavity QED and Purcell Effect. Computing: Analogue and Neuromorphic Computing; Photonic Neural Networks; Reconfigurable &

Reversible Optical and Photonic Compute Engines and Algorithms; Photonic Algorithms and Information Processing.

AWARDS & HONORS 2018 PECASE - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers: Finalist AFOSR (pending) 2017 Early Career Award, Vice President for Research 2017 Gold Medal, 14th US-Korea Forum on Nanotechnology 2017 Senior Membership Distinction: OSA, SPIE, IEEE 2016 Early Tenure Promotion (GWU) 2016 Hegarty Innovations Prize 2016 Dean’s Outstanding Research Award 2015 Faculty Recognition Award 2014 AFOSR Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award 2014 Venture Competition Winner (2x): Clean-Tech Open South-East, and GWU Business Competition 2014 Annual Faculty Award 2011 Gold Award - Material Research Society 2010 National Academy of Sciences (NAS): Best Annual Paper Award 2011 Newport Travel Grant 2010 1st Price at Berkeley Nanoforum Conference 2009 OSA Emil Wolf Student Competition Winner 2009 BACUS Scholarship 2009 Finalist European Space Agency (ESA) Astronaut Selection (top 0.2%) 2007 Intel Corporation PhD Graduate Fellowship 2008 2x SPIE Scholarship 2006 Intel Corporation CTG Research Award 2005 University of Texas College of Natural Science Fellowship 2005 Hölderlin Stipend 2002 German National Academic Foundation Fellow (by German President) 2000 German Physics Society Award 1998 Winner Science Competition: “Jugend-Forscht” PROFESSIONAL SERVICE & ACTIVITIES Editorships: Editor-in-Chief of Nanophotonics (IF=6.0), Guest Editor Optics Materials Express Leadership: Division Chair ‘Optoelectronics and Photonics’ (OSA); Technical Group Development Chair (OSA); Nanophotonics Technical Group Chair (OSA); Symposia and Scholarship Committee (SPIE); National Photonics Initiative Task Force: Education & Workforce. Conference Co-Chairs: Integrated Photonics Research, Photonics West, Optics & Photonics, MRS Fall, OSA Incubator (2x) on Nanolasers and Nanophotonics. Conference Organization: CLEO, FiO, PW, O&P, IPR, MRS (for complete list see below). Grant Review: NSF, ARO, AFOSR, USAID, Intl. NSF (Czech Republic, Canada, Italy, Israel), Linz Institute

Prof. Volker J. Sorger

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of Technology, UT San Antonio Journal Review: Nature Publishing Group (Nature, Materials, Nanotechnology, Communications); IEEE Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Photonics, Photonics Technology Letters; Optica, Optics Express, Optics Mat. Express, Optics Letters, J. of Lightwave Tech., Nano Letters, ACS Photonics; Applied Physics Lett., J. Applied Physics, Physical Review; Science, Laser & Photonics Reviews, J. New Physics, IOP Nanotech. Memberships: Senior Member Status: OSA, SPIE, IEEE. Fellow of German National Academic Foundat.

PART 2 – RESEARCH

RESEARCH FUNDING (Total~$8M)

A. Awarded 1. AFOSR, SBIR “Toward Ultra-Dense Integrated Plasmonic Circuits -

Phase II” Co-PI, 7/1/2018-6/30/2020, 0.04 mo, $750,000 (GWU Portion $210,000).

2. NASA SBIR, “Monolithically Integrated TCC-VCSELs with Surface-Normal 2D Slow-Light PC Waveguide Arrays, Co-PI, 6/1/2018-12/31/2018, 0.01 mo summer, $100,000 (GWU portion $15,000).

3. NASA SBIR, “Flash Drive Integrated Label Free Silicon Nano-Photonic Bio-Assays for Space Station Bio-Diagnostics, Co-PI, 7/1/2018-8/31/2019, 0.01 mo summer, $100,000 (GWU portion $10,000).

4. NSF, “E2CDA, Type I, Collaborative Research, Nanophotonic Neuromorphic Computing”, PI (lead GWU effort), 9/1/2017-8/31/2020, 1.0 mo summer, $1.330,000 (GW Portion $860,000).

5. AFOSR BAA-0001, “From Direct Optical to Field-Induced Modulation of Photonic Modes Enabled by Novel 2D Materials”, PI, 9/1/2017-8/31/2020, 1.5 mo, $890,000 (GWU Portion $480,000).

6. NSF RAISE, “The Reconfigurable Optical Coprocessor (ROC)”, Co-PI, 1/1/2018S-12/31/2022, 1.0 mo summer, $900,000.

7. AFOSR SBIR Phase I (FA9550-17-P-0014), “Toward Ultra-Dense Integrated Plasmonic Circuits” jointly with Omega Optics Inc., Consultant Phase I, 9/1/2017-5/31/2018, 0.0 mo, $225,000.

8. ARO W911NF-12-R-0011-04, “2D Material-based electro-optic modulation on a Silicon Platform”, PI, 9/1/2016-8/30/2019, 1.0 mo summer, $620,000 (GWU Portion $310,000).

9. NSF EFRI Supplement, “Exciton Lifetimes in Atomically Layered Materials at Visible Frequencies”, 9/30/2016-09/29/2017, Co-PI, 0.0 summer, $30,000.

10. AFOSR BAA-0001, “Dynamically Adaptive Hybrid Nanoplasmonic NoCs”, Co-PI, 9/1/2015-8/31/2018, 1.5 mo, $752,391.

11. NSF I-Corps, “RAPID: Utilizing atomically layered 2D materials for heat-management of coatings”, PI, 3/1/2016-6/30/2016, 0.5 acad. mo, $50,000.

12. NSF DMREF, “Collaborative Research: Theory-Enabled Development of 2D Metal Dichalcogenides as Active Elements of On-Chip Silicon-Integrated Optical Communication”, 09/01/2014-08/31/2017, PI, 1.0 summer, $750,331 (GWU Portion $255,000).

13. AFSOR YIP, “Beyond Classical Photonics: light-matter-interaction enhanced switching devices for atto-joule & THz datalinks” 7/15/2014-7/14/2017, PI, 1.66 mo summer, $360,000.

14. AFOSR BAA-0001 “High-Performance Sub-λ Silicon Plasmonic Modulator”, 9/30/2014-8/31/2017, PI, 1.0 mo summer, $250,000.

15. NSF NUE, “An interdisciplinary Practicum Approach to Nanotechnology Curricula Integration”, 01/15/2015-01/14/2017, Co-PI, 0.25 summer, $199,052.

16. STG Research Award, “Carbon-based Technology for the Internet-of-Things Era”, PI, 9/1/2016-8/31/2017, 0.0 mo, $107,000.

17. ARO, NSF and Thorlaps, “Support of OSA Incubator Meetings: (1) “Nanolasers, from Science to Applications”, and (2) Nanophotonic Roadmapping. 2016 and 2014 in Washington, DC”, PI, $18,000.

18. Small Grants: IBM Watson, GWU University Facilitating Funds and Institute of Nanotechnology, PI, 06/01/2016-05/31/2017, 1.0 mo summer, $85,000.

B. Pending Proposal & White-Papers 19. DARPA, BAA HR0011-16-S-0001, “A GHz-fast Joint Transform Correlator Photonic Processor” PI,

1/1/2019-12/31/2019, 1.0 mo, $490,000. 20. Sony, Faculty Research Award “Towards All-optical Neural Networks” PI, 1/1/2019-12/31/2019, 0.1

mo, $100,000.

Table 1. Sorger secured funding summary


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21. AFOSR, BAA-0001 “RANC: A Residue Arithmetic Nanophotonic Computer” Co-PI, 10/1/2018-9/30/2021, 0.05 mo, $675,000.

22. I-ARPA SuperCables “Capturing and Contrast Enhancement of Cryogenic, Electron-volt Signals using High-Sensitivity Optical Modulators and Thresholders” PI, 1/1/2019-12/31/2020, 0.1 mo, $1,500,000.

23. ARO, DURIP “An Automated Integrated Optoelectronics Device Test System” PI, 9/1/2018-8/30/2019, 0.01 mo, $95,000.

24. AFOSR, DURIP “Developing the first 2D Material Printer: multilayer heterostructure prototyping within minutes” PI, 9/1/2018-8/30/2019, 0.01 mo, $97,000.

25. ARO, Research Instrumentation “An Automated Integrated Optoelectronics Device Test System” PI, 9/1/2018-8/30/2019, 0.01 mo, $100,000.

26. NSA, “A Feasibility Study towards developing a COTS and Nanophotonic-based Modular Multiplier in Fourier Optics, PI, 6/1/2018-9/30/2018, 0.08 mo summer, $50,000.

27. GRO SBIR, “Reliable Ultrafast Signal Acquisition by Novel Hybrid Large Area Receiver with Underwater Energy Harvesting Capability” Co-PI, 10/1/2018-3/31/2019, 0.04 mo, $30,000.

28. AFRL RIPTIDE, “Photonic Convolutional Neural Network Preprocessing of UWB Electronic Signals” Co-PI, 10/1/2018-9/30/2020, 0.5 mo, $1,250,000 (GW Portion $409,335).

29. ONR, “Photonic Information Preprocessing of Ultra-Wide-Band Signals in Sensor-Networks (PIPUS)” PI, 7/1/2018-6/30/2021, 1.0 mo, $450,000.

30. AFOSR, “Exotic Silicon Photonics: Heterogeneously Integrated Novel Quantum Topological Photonics on a Silicon Platform”, PI, 8/01/2018-7/31/2021, 1.0 mo, $610,000.

31. DOE EERE, “SMART POWER WINDOW: A low-cost, high-contrast grating-enabled spectrally selective solar concentrator for integrated electrical power generation, building cooling, and natural room lighting” PI, 7/1/2018-6/30/2021, 2.0 mo, $1.475,000.

32. ARPA-E, “SMART POWER WINDOW: A low-cost, high-contrast grating-enabled spectrally selective solar concentrator for integrated electrical power generation, building cooling, and natural room lighting” PI, 7/1/2018-6/30/2021, 2.0 mo, $2.400,000.

33. DARPA MTO, “Photonic FFT on-Chip” PI, 6/1/2018-12/31/2021, 1.0 mo, $500,000. 34. Samsung GRO, “Towards an In-Eye Headup Display Smart Contact Lens for Augmented Reality”.

PUBLICATIONS & IMPACT Dr. Sorger has authored/coauthored about 70 journal and over 100 proceedings publications and delivered about 120 invited talks in universities worldwide and major international conferences. He filed 16 US patents. His publications in referred journals have been cited for about 6700 times. His researches have been featured by general public media such as New York Times, Journal News and ARD. His work has also been reported numerous times by scientific journals and media such as Nature, Nature Photonics, Science, MIT Technology Review, MRS News, Optical and Photonics News, Physorg.com, Physicsworld.com, Optics.org, Photonics.com, Nanotechweb.org, Nanowerk.org, etc.

KEY RESEARCH MILESTONES i) Nanophotonics

ü Word-record low VpL = 0.01V-mm MZI modulator in ITO plasmon Si photonics (2018) ü First 2D material integrated modulator microring resonator modulator and photodetector (2018) ü First ITO-based MZI modulator with VpL = 0.5V-mm (2018) ü Fastest (60 GHz) Graphene modulator (2018) ü Demonstrated100 aJ/bit Graphene Plasmon Modulator in Si Photonics (2017) ü Developed electrically-driven silicon-based plasmon source operating at room temperature (2017) ü Designed 2x2 <10um compact Electro-optic Switch (2015), and NxN crossbar router (2017) ü Demonstrated ENZ and unity index tunability in ITO films (2015) ü Demonstrated first ENZ ITO-plasmon modulator (2012) ü Proposed (2008) and demonstrated (2011) hybrid-photon-plasmon mode ü First semiconductor plasmon laser (2009)

ii) Algorithms and Signal Processing ü Developed all-optical neural network (2018) ü Developed photonic convolutional neural network accelerator (2018) ü Developed high-speed photonic Digital-to-analog converter (DAC) (2018) ü Proposed electrooptic modulation as nonlinear activation function in neural networks (2017) ü Demonstrated identifying mirror symmetry with delay in spiking neural networks (2017) ü First photonic integrated temporal FFT chip, with demonstration currently ongoing (2017) ü Developed a new understanding of the meaning and function of a neuron symmetry (2017)


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ü Developed reconfigurable photonic NP-compete Oracle for Hamiltonian path (2017) ü Developed and analyzed cognitive and DDDAS-based hybrid photonic NoC (2017) ü Developed electronic photonic, plasmonic hybrid NoC (2016)

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (All manuscripts on arXiv are under consideration at peer-review journals)

1. M. Miscuglio, A. Mehrabian, Z. Hu, S.I. Azzam, J.K. George, A.V. Kildishev, M. Pelton, V.J. Sorger, “All-optical Nonlinear Activation Function for Photonic Neural Networks” arXiv: 1810.01216 (2018).

2. J. K. George, R. Armin, B. Shastri, P. Prucnal, T. El-Ghazawi, V. J. Sorger, “Noise and Nonlinearity of Electro-optic Activation Functions in Neuromorphic Compute Systems” arXiv: 1809.03545 (2018).

3. R. Amin, R. Maiti, C. Carfano, Z. Ma, M.H. Tahersima, Y. Lilach, D. Ratnayake, H. Dalir, V.J. Sorger, “0.52 V-mm ITO-based Mach-Zehnder Modulator in Silicon Photonics” arXiv: 1809.03544 (2018).

4. W. Liu, Y. Wang, B. Zheng, M. Hwang, Z. Ji, G. Liu, V. J. Sorger, A. Pan, R. Agarwal. “Observation and active control of a collective polariton mode and polaritonic band gap in few-layer WS2 strongly coupled with plasmonic lattices” arXiv: 1808.06554 (2018).

5. A. Mehrabian, Y. Al-Kabani, V. J. Sorger, T. El-Ghazawi, “PCNNA: A Photonic Convolutional Neural Network Accelerator, arXiv:1807.08792 (2018).

6. R. Maiti, R. Hemnani, R. Amin, L. Bartels, V. J. Sorger, “Microring Resonators Coupling Tunability by Heterogeneous 2D Material Integration” arXiv: 1807.03945 (2018).

7. A. Elikkottil, M. Tahersima, S. Gu, V. J. Sorger, B. Pesala, “A Spectrally-tunable Dielectric Grating based Metasurface for Broadband Planar Light Concentrator” arXiv: 1807.09648 (2018).

8. R. A. Hemnani, C. Carfano, J. P. Tischler, M. H. Tahersima, R. Maiti, L. Bartels, R. Agarwal, V. J. Sorger, “Towards a 2D Printer: A Deterministic Cross Contamination-free Transfer Method for Atomically Layered Materials”, arXiv: 1801.06224 (2018).

9. Goktas, F. Serdar, V. J. Sorger, “Electrical-driven Plasmon Source on Silicon based on Quantum Tunneling”, ACS Photonics: accepted October, (2018).

10. F. Mokhtari-Koushyar, E. Heidari, H. Dalir, C. J. Chung, V. J. Sorger, R. T. Chen “Wideband Multi-Arm Bowtie Antenna on Silicon Substrate for Millimeter Wave Electro-Optic Sensors and Receivers, Journal of Lightwave Technology 36, 16, 3418-3426 (2018).

11. A. Alu, V. Shalaev, M. Loncar, V. J. Sorger, “Metasurfaces – from Science to Applications” Nanophotonics (2018).

12. R. Amin, Z. Ma, R. Maiti, S. Khan, J. B. Khurgin, H. Dalir, V. J. Sorger “Attojoule-Efficient Graphene Optical Modulators”, Applied Optics 57, 18, 1-11 (2018).

13. J. Anderson, E. Kayraklioglu, V. K. Narayana, V. J. Sorger, T. El-Ghazawi, “Energy-Quality Scaling in Analog Mesh Computers” Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, in review (2018).

14. R. Amin, J. B. Khurgin, V. J. Sorger, “Waveguide-based Electroabsorption Modulator Performance”, Optics Express, 26, 11 (2018).

15. V. J. Sorger, R. Amin, J. B. Khurgin, Z. Ma, S. Khan, “Scaling Vectors for Atto-Joule per Bit Modulators” Journal Optics 20, 014012 (2018). (special issue: Emerging Leaders)

16. R. Wang, H. Dalir, F. M. Koushyar, X. Xu, Z. Pan, S. Sun, V. J. Sorger, R. T. Chen, “Atto-Joule, High-Speed and Compact Plasmonic Modulator based on Adiabatic Coupled Waveguides”, Nanophotonics, https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2017-0092 (2018).

17. J. Peng, S. Sun, V. Narayana, V.J. Sorger, T. El-Ghazawi, “Integrated Nanophotonics Arithmetic for Residue Number System Arithmetic”, Optics Letters, 43, 9, 2026-2029 (2018).

18. R. Amin, M. Tahersima, Z. Ma, C. Suer, K. Liu, H. Dalir, V. J. Sorger, “Low-loss Tunable 1-D ITO-slot Photonic Crystal Nanobeam Cavity”, Journal Optics 20, 054003 (2018).

19. Z. Ma, R. Hemnani, L. Bartels. R. Agarwal, V. J. Sorger, “2D Materials in Electro-optic Modulation: energy efficiency, electrostatics, mode overlap, material transfer and integration”, Applied Physics A, 124: 126 (2018).

20. I. Amiri, V. J. Sorger, M. Ariannejad, M. Ghasemi, P. Yupapin, “Channel resolution enhancement through scalability of nano/micro-scale thickness and width of SU-8 polymer based optical channels using UV lithography”, Mircosystems Technologies, 24 (3), 1673-1681 (2018).

21. S. Sun, R. Zhang, J. Peng, V. K. Narayana, H. Dalir, T. El-Ghazawi, V. J. Sorger, “MODetector (MOD): A Dual-Function Transceiver for Optical Communication On-Chip”, Optics Express 57, 18, 130-140 (2018).

Publications #Citations 6660 h Index 27

Table 2. Sorger publication summary. Source: Google Scholar


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22. S. Sun, V. K. Narayana, Ib. Sarpkaya, J. Crandall, R. A. Soref, H. Dalir, T. El-Ghazawi, V. J. Sorger, “Hybrid Photonic-Plasmonic Non-blocking Broadband 5×5 Router for Optical Networks”, IEEE Photonics Journal, 10, 2 (2018).

23. A Mehrabian, S Sun, VK Narayana, J Anderson, J Peng, VJ Sorger, T El-Ghazawi, “D3NoC: a dynamic data-driven hybrid photonic plasmonic NoC” – Proc. 15th ACM Intl. Conf. (2018).

24. I. Amiri, M.M. Ariannejad, M. Tajdidzadeh, V. J. Sorger, X. Ling, P. Yupapin, “Fast and slow light generated by surface plasmon wave and gold grating coupling…”, Indian J. Physics, 1-10 (2018).

25. R. Amin, C. Suer, Z. Ma, J. Khurgin, R. Agarwal, V. J. Sorger, “Active Material, Optical Mode and Cavity Impact on electro-optic Modulation Performance”, Nanophotonics, 7, 2, 455-472 (2017).

26. J. K. George, H. Nejadriahi, V. J. Sorger, "Towards On-Chip Optical FFTs for Convolutional Neural Networks". IEEE International Conference on Rebooting Computing (2017).

27. F. Serdar Gokhan, H. Goktas, V. J. Sorger, “Analytical approach of Brillouin amplification over threshold”, Applied Optics, 57, 4, 607-611 (2018).

28. N. Li, V. J. Sorger, D. Sadana “Nanoscale Light Sources for Optical Interconnects” Journal of Lasers, Optics & Photonics 4, 3 (2017).

29. H. Nejadriahi, D. Hillerkus, J. K. George, V. J. Sorger, “Integrated All-Optical Fast Fourier Transform: Design and Sensitivity Analysis”, arXiv: 1711.02500 (2017).

30. J. K. George, C. Soci, V. J. Sorger, "Identifying Mirror Symmetry with Delay in Spiking Neural Networks" arXiv: 1709.02684 (2017).

31. V. K. Narayana, S. Sun, A. Mehrabian, V. J. Sorger, T. El-Ghazawi, “HyPPI NoC: Bringing Hybrid Plasmonics to an Opto-Electronic Network-on-Chip,” 46th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), Bristol, pp.131-140 (2017).

32. M. H. Tahersima, M. Danang Birowosuto, Z. Ma, W. C. Coley, M. Valentin, I. Lu, K. Liu, Y. Zhou, A. Martinez, I. Liao, B. N. Davis, J. Martinez, S. Naghibi Alvillar, D. Martinez-Ta, A. Guan, A. E. Nguyen, C. Soci, E. Reed, L. Bartels, V. J. Sorger. “Testbeds for Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Photonics: Efficacy of Light Emission Enhancement in Monomer vs. Dimer Nanoscale Antennas”, ACS Photonics, 4, 1713-1721 (2017).

33. R. Amin, C. Suer, Z. Ma, J. Khurgin, R. Agarwal, V. J. Sorger, “A Deterministic Guide for Material and Mode Dependence of On-Chip Electro-Optic Modulator Performance”, Solid-State Electronics, 136, 92-101 (2017).

34. V. K. Narayana, S. Sun, A.-H. Badawya, V. J. Sorger, T. El-Ghazawi, “MorphoNoC: Exploring the Design Space of a Configurable Hybrid NoC using Nanophotonics” Microprocessors and Microsystems, 50, 113-126. (2017).

35. W. Zhu, J. K. George, V. J. Sorger, L. G. Zhang, “3D Printing Scaffold Coupled with Low Level Light Therapy for Neural Tissue Regeneration”. Biofabrication, 9, 025002 (2017).

36. J. Touch, A.H. Badaway, V.J. Sorger, “Optical Computing” Nanophotonics, 6 (3), 503-505 (2017).

37. J. K. George, V. J. Sorger, “Graphene-based Solitons for Spatial Division Multiplexed Switching”, Optics Letters 42, 4, 787-790 (2017).

38. R. Oulton, V. J. Sorger, R.-M. Ma, “Zeroing in Nanolasers”, Optics and Photonics News, 1, (2017).

39. J. K. George, H. Seyed, D. D’Hemecourt, W. Zhu, G. Zhang, V. J. Sorger, “Scattering and Absorption Control in Biocompatible Fibers towards Equalized Photobiomodulation”, Biomedical Optics Express 8(3), 1589-1597 (2017).

40. Z. Ma, M. H. Tahersima, S. Khan and V. J. Sorger, "Two-Dimensional Material-Based Mode Confinement Engineering in Electro-Optic Modulators," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, vol. 23, no. 1, 1-8 (2017).

41. K. Liu, S. Sun, A. Majumdar, V. J. Sorger, “Fundamental Scaling Laws in Nanophotonics” Nature: Scientific Reports, 6, 37419 (2016).

42. S. Sun, V. Narayana, T. El-Ghazawi, V. J. Sorger, “A Universal Multi-Hierarchy Figure-of-Merit for On-chip Computing and Communications”, arXiv:1612.02486 (2016).

43. K. Liu, C. Zhang, S. Mu, S. Wang, V. J. Sorger, “Trench-coupler based Silicon Mach-Zehnder Thermo-optic Switch with Flexible Two-dimensional Design” Optics Express. 24, 14, 15845-15853 (2016).

44. H. Huang, K. Liu, V. J. Sorger, “Re-analysis of Single-mode Condition for Silicon Rib Waveguides at 1550 nm Wavelength”, Journal of Lightwave Technologies, 34, 3811-3817 (2016).

45. S. V Boriskina, M. A Green, K. Catchpole, E. Yablonovitch, M. C Beard, Y. Okada, S. Lany, T. Gershon, A. Zakutayev, M. H Tahersima, V. J Sorger, M. J Naughton, K. Kempa, M. Dagenais, Y. Yao, L. Xu, X. Sheng, N. D Bronstein, J. A Rogers, P. Alivisatos, R. G Nuzzo, J. M Gordon, D. M Wu, M. D Wisser, A. Salleo, J. Dionne, P. Bermel, J. Greffet, I. Celanovic, M. Soljacic, A. Manor, C.l Rotschild, A. Raman, L. Zhu, S. Fan, G. Chen, “Roadmap on optical energy conversion” Journal of Optics, 18, 073004 (2016).


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46. K. Liu, N. Li, D. K. Sadana, V. J. Sorger, “Integrated nano-cavity plasmon light-sources for on-chip optical interconnects” ACS Photonics, 3. 233-242 (2016).

47. A. Fratalocchi, C. M Dodson, R. Zia, P. Genevet, E. Verhagen, H. Altug, V. J. Sorger, “Nano-optics gets practical: Plasmon Modulators”, Nature Nanotechnology, 10, 11-15 (2015).

48. S. Sun, A. Badaway, V. Narayana, T. El-Ghazawi, V. J. Sorger, “Photonic-Plasmonic Hybrid Interconnects: Efficient Links with Low latency, Energy and Footprint”, IEEE Photonics Journal, 7, 6 (2015).

49. V. J. Sorger, "2D Material Nanowatt Threshold Lasing" Nature Asia Materials, 7, e200, (2015).

50. N. Li, K. Liu, D. K. Sadana, V. J. Sorger, “Monolithic III-V on Silicon Nanolaser structure for optical Interconnects”, Nature: Scientific Reports, 5, 14067 (2015).

51. K. Liu, V. J. Sorger, “Electrically-driven Carbon nanotube-based plasmonic laser on Silicon” Optical Materials Express, 5, 1910-1919 (2015).

52. M. Tahersima, V. J. Sorger, “Enhanced Photon Absorption in Spiral Nanostructured Solar Cells using layered 2-D Materials” Institute of Physics (IOP), Nanotechnology, 26, 344005 (2015).

53. C. Ye, K. Liu, R. Soref, V. J. Sorger, “A Compact Plasmonic MOS-based 2x2 Electro-optic Switch” Nanophotonics, 4, 3, 261-268 (2015).

54. Z. Ma, Z. Li, K. Liu, C. Ye, V. J. Sorger, “Indium-Tin-Oxide for High-performance Electro-optic Modulation”, Nanophotonics, 4, 1 198-213 (2015).

55. V. J. Sorger, “Editorial to Special Issue on Emerging Materials for Nanophotonics”, Nanophotonics 4, 1 (2015).

56. K. Liu, V. J. Sorger, “Enhanced interaction strength for a square plasmon resonator embedded in photonic crystal nanobeam cavity” Journal Nanophotonics, 9, 093790 (2015).

57. K. Liu, C.R. Ye, S. Khan, V. J. Sorger, “Review and perspective on ultrafast wavelength-size electro-optic modulators” Laser & Photonics Review, 9, 2, p.172-194 (2015) - Cover

58. C. Ye, S. Khan, Z.R. Li, E. Simsek, V. J. Sorger, “l-Size ITO and Graphene-based Electro-optic Modulators on SOI” IEEE Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 4, 20 (2014).

59. C. Ye, S. Pickus, V. J. Sorger, “Ultra-compact Graphene-based Electro-optic Modulators on a Silicon-on-Insulator Platform” Intl J. M. Eng. (2014).

60. S. K. Pickus, S. Khan, C. Ye, Z. Li, and V. J. Sorger, “Silicon Plasmon Modulators: Breaking Photonic Limits” IEEE Photonic Society, 27, 6 (2013).

61. C. Huang, S. Pickus, R. Lamond, Z. Li, V. J. Sorger, “A Sub-λ Size Modulator Beyond the Efficiency-Loss Limit” IEEE Photonics Journal 5, 4 (2013).

62. R.-M. Ma, X. Yin, R. F. Oulton, V. J. Sorger, and X. Zhang, "Multiplexed and Electrically Modulated Plasmon Laser Circuit", Nano Letters 12, 5396-5402 (2012).

63. V. J. Sorger, D. Kimura, R.-M. Ma and X. Zhang „Ultra-compact Silicon nanophotonic Modulator with broadband Response” Nanophotonics 1, 1, 17-22 (2012).

64. V. J. Sorger, R. F. Oulton, R.-M. Ma, X. Zhang “Toward integrated plasmon circuits” MRS Bulletin 37, 8, 728-738 (2012).

65. R.-M. Ma, R. F. Oulton, V. J. Sorger, X. Zhang "Plasmon lasers: coherent light source at molecular scales", Laser & Photonics Reviews 7, 1-21 (2012).

66. V. J. Sorger and X. Zhang „Spotlight on Plasmon Lasers“ Science 333, 709-710 (2011).

67. V. J. Sorger, N. Pholchai, E. Cubukcu, R. F. Oulton, P. Kolchin, C. Borschel, M. Gnauck et. al “Strongly Enhanced Molecular Fluorescence inside a Nanoscale Waveguide Gap“ Nano Letters 11, 4907-4911 (2011).

68. V. J. Sorger, Z. Ye, R. F. Oulton, G. Bartal, Y. Wang, X. Zhang “Experimental demonstration of low-loss optical waveguiding at deep sub-wavelength scales” Nature Communication 2, 331 (2011).

69. R.-M. Ma, R. F. Oulton, V. J. Sorger, X. Zhang “Room-temperature sub-diffraction-limited plasmon laser by total internal reflection” Nature Materials 10, 110-113 (2010).

70. R. K. Kramer, N. Pholchai, V. J. Sorger, T. J. Yim, R. F. Oulton, X. Zhang “Positioning of quantum dots on metallic structures” Nanotechnology 21 145307 (2010).

71. R. F. Oulton*, V. J. Sorger*, T. Zentgraf*, R.-M. Ma, C. Gladden, L. Dai, G. Bartal, X. Zhang “Plasmon Lasers at Deep Subwavelength Scale” Nature 461, 629-631 (2009). (*equal author contribution)

72. V. J. Sorger, R. F. Oulton, J. Yao, G. Bartal and X. Zhang “Fabry-Perot Plasmonic Nanocavity“ Nano Letters 9, 3489-3493 (2009).

73. B. Min, E. Ostby, V. J. Sorger, E. Ulin-Avila, L. Yang, X. Zhang, K. Valhalla "High-Q surface plasmon-polariton whispering-gallery microcavity" Nature 457, 455-458 (2009).


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74. R. F. Oulton, V. J. Sorger, D. F. B. Pile, D. Genov, X. Zhang “Nano-photonic confinement and transport in a hybrid semiconductor-surface plasmon waveguide” Nature Photonics 2, 496-500 (2008).

MANUSCRIPTS IN-PREPARATION 75. CollaborationsH. Dalir, E. Heidari, F. Mokhtari-Koushyar, S. Sun, V. J. Sorger, R. T. Chen “60 GHz

Graphene Optical Modulator based on Bragg Reflector Waveguide” 76. C. Ellis, Z. Ma, M. Meeker, V. J. Sorger, J. Tischler, “Photonic-polariton induced transparency in

Silicon Carbite samples.” 2D Material Devices 77. Z. Ma, R. Maiti, H. Wang, H. Dalir, V. J. Sorger, “Graphene plasmon slot Modulator on Silicon” 78. H. Wang, Z. Ma, R. Maiti, H. Dalir, V. J. Sorger, “TMD exciton plasmon slot Modulator on SOI” 79. K. Kikunaga, Z. Ma, H. Wang, V. J. Sorger, “Plasmon Graphene Waveguide Photodetector”. 80. R. Maiti, Z. Ma, H. Wang, C.J. Lee, V. J. Sorger, “MoS2 Silicon photonics microring resonator based

modulator”. 81. R. Hemnani, R. Maiti, L. Bartels, V. J. Sorger, “Electrical dual-junction 2D Material LED on flexible

Substrate”. Integrated TCO Photonics 82. M. Tahersima, Z. Ma, M. Muscuglio, V. J. Sorger, “ITO-ITO dual-gated Directional Coupler Modulator

on SOI”. 83. Y. Gui, R. Amin, Z. Ma S. Sun, V. J. Sorger, “Effect of oxygen concentration, thickness, and thermal

annealing on ITO films”. 84. R. Amin, M. Tahersima, Z. Ma, V. J. Sorger, “Plasmonic ITO-based Mach-Zehnder Interferometer

modulator in Silicon Photonics”. 85. X. Ma, J. George, Y. Gui, R. Amin, Z. Ma S. Sun, V. J. Sorger, “ITO-based compact Arrayed Waveguide

grating for Beam Steering Optical Information Processing 86. A. Mehrabian, J. George, V. J. Sorger, T. El-Ghazawi, “Coherent Photonics for Convolutional Neural

Networks” 87. J. K. George, Y. Alkabani, T. El-Ghazawi, V. J. Sorger, “4f Photonic Joint Transform Correlators

redesigned”. 88. J. K. George, Z. Hu, J. Meng, S. Sun, V. J. Sorger, “All-optical integrated digital-to-analogue

converter”. 89. J. K. George, C. Soci, V.J. Sorger, “Photonic Integrated NP-Complete Oracle for Hamiltonian Path

Problems”. 90. S. Sun, A. Mehrabian, D. Nagel, T. El-Ghazawi, V.J. Sorger, “Physical Concepts and Characteristics of

Computing Technologies”. 91. S. Sun, R. Wang, H. Dalir, T. El-Ghazawi, V. J. Sorger, “ITO-based Directional-coupler switch based on

Adiabatic Elimination in Silicon Photonics” 92. J. Anderson, E. Kayraklioglu, S. Sun, J. Crandall, Y. Alkabani, V. Narayana, V. J. Sorger. T. El-Ghazawi,

“Reconfigurable Optical Computer for Simulation of Physical Processes”. 93. J. Peng, Y. Alkabani, V. Narayana, V. J. Sorger. T. El-Ghazawi, “DDDAS photonic network on chip”.

PROCEEDINGS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS 94. H. Goektas, F.S. Goekhan, V.J. Sorger, “Electrical-driven plasmon source on silicon based on quantum tunneling”

Proc. SPIE 10734, Quantum Nanophotonics (2018). 95. R Hemnani, R Maiti, C Carfano, MH Tahersima, V. J. Sorger, ““Towards a 2D printer: a deterministic cross

contamination-free transfer method for atomically layered materials”, Proc. SPIE 10730, Fabrication, Properties, Optics, and Devices XV (2018).

96. JK George, C Soci, VJ Sorger , “Identifying mirror symmetry density with delay in spiking neural networks”, Proc. SPIE 10751, Optics and Photonics for Information Processing XII, (2018).

97. J George, T El-Ghazawi, P Prucnal, VJ Sorger, “Attojoule modulators for photonic neuromorphic algorithms”, Proc. SPIE 10751, Active Photonic Platforms X, (2018).

98. MH Tahersima, VJ Sorger, “Reservoir coupling electro-optic modulator on silicon”, Proc. SPIE 10721, Active Photonic Platforms X, (2018).

99. J Peng, S Sun, T El-Ghazawi, VJ Sorger, Residue number system arithmetic based on integrated nanophotonics “, Proc. SPIE 10751 , Optics and Photonics for Information Processing XII, (2018).

100. J. Anderson, E. Kayraklioglu, S. Sun, J. Crandall, V. K. Narayana V. J. Sorger, T. El-Ghazawi, “Reconfigurable Optical Computer for Simulation of Physical Processes” MICRO 2018 (submitted).

101. J. Anderson, E. Kayraklioglu, S. Sun, J. Crandall, V. K. Narayana V. J. Sorger, T. El-Ghazawi, “Optical Computer for Computation of Partial Differential Equations” Supercomputing (2018).

102. R. Hemnani, R. Maiti, V. J. Sorger “Minutes-fast Heterostructure Prototyping via 2D Material Printing: Electrical 2D-LED and Tunnel Junctions”, FIO, paper (2018) (post deadline paper)


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103. R. Maiti, R. Hemnani, A. Rubab, V. J. Sorger, “Integration of TMDCs Layer on a Silicon Micro-ring Resonator for Photonic Applications” FiO, paper JW4A.96 (2018).

104. A. Rubab, M. Tahersima, Z. Ma, C. Suer, K. Liu, R. Maiti, V. J. Sorger, “Purcell Enhancement in 1-D ITO-slot Photonic Crystal Nanobeam Cavity” FiO, paper FW5E.2 (2018).

105. A. Rubab, R. Maiti, C. Carfano, V. J. Sorger, “ITO-based Mach Zehnder Modulator” FiO, paper JTu3A.73 (2018). 106. J. George, A. Mehrabian, A. Rubab, T. El-Ghazawi, P. Prucnal, V. J. Sorger, “Photonic Neural Network Nonlinear

Activation Functions by electrooptic absorption modulators” FiO, paper JW3G.123 (2018). 107. K. Kikunaga, Z. Ma, R. Maiti, V. J. Sorger, “Graphene-based Slot Waveguide Photodetectors for Optical

Communication” FiO, paper JW3A.97 (2018). 108. S. Sun, R. Zhang, J. Peng, H. Dalir, T. El-Ghazawi, V. J. Sorger, “Dual-Function Integrated Modulator-detector for

Optical Communication on-chip” FiO, paper JTu2A.115 (2018). 109. A. Rubab, S. Khan, C. Lee, H. Dalir, V. J. Sorger, “110 Attojoule-per-bit Graphene Plasmon Modulator on Silicon”

IPR, paper IW3B.2 (2018). 110. J. George, A. Rubab S. A. Mehrabian, J. Khurgin, T. El-Ghazawi, P. Prucnal, V. J. Sorger, “Electrooptic Nonlinear

Activation Functions for Vector Matrix Multiplications in Optical Neural Networks” Signal Processing in Communication, paper SpW4G.3 (2018).

111. V. J. Sorger, J. Peng, S. Sun, V. K. Narayana, T. El-Ghazawi, “Integrated Photonic Residue Number System Arithmetic” IPR, paper IW2B.3 (2018).

112. R. Amin, S. Khan, J. Jeon, C. J. Lee, H. Dalir, V. J. Sorger,”110 Attojoule-per-bit Efficient Graphene-based Plasmon Modulator on Silicon” CLEO, paper SM1l.5 (2018).

113. S. Sun, R. Zhang, J. Peng, V. Narayana, H. Dalir, T. El-Ghazawi, V.J. Sorger, “An On-Chip Integrated Dual-Functional Modulator- Detector for Optical Communication” CLEO, paper JW2A.3 (2018).

114. R. Amin, J. B. Khurgin, V. J. Sorger “Electro–Absorption Waveguide Modulator Performance” CLEO, paper FTh4H.2 (2018).

115. S. Sun, R. Zhang, J. Peng, V. K. Narayana, H. Dalir, T. El-Ghazawi, V. J. Sorger “An On-chip Integrated Dual-Functional Modulator-Detector for optical Communication”, CLEO, paper JW2A.3 (2018).

116. R. Amin, Z. Ma, J. B. Khurgin, T. El-Ghazawi, P. R. Prucnal, V. J. Sorger “Attojoule Modulators for Photonic Neuromorphic Algorithms” 47th Winter Colloquium on Physics of the Quantum Electronics (PQE) (2018).

117. I. Zand, H. Dalir, E. Heidari, F. Mokhtari-Koushyar, V. J. Sorger, R. T. Chen, " Ultra-dense ultra-high speed optical waveguides with sub-wavelength spacing", Proc. SPIE 10526, Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices XXVI (2018)

118. F. Mokhtari-Koushyar, E. Heidari, H. Dalir, I. Zand, S. Sun, V. J. Sorger, R. T. Chen, "Low-loss high-speed plasmonic optical modulator based on adiabatic waveguides", Proc. SPIE 10538, Optical Interconnects XVIII, (2018).

119. R. Wang, H. Dalir, S. Sun, V. J. Sorger, R. Chen “Atto-Joule, low-loss, high-Speed Plasmonic Modulator based on Adiabatic Waveguides” OPTO, SPIE Photonics West (2018) (accepted).

120. V. J. Sorger, J. Khurgin, C.J. Lee “Towards atto-joule and THz modulation in nanophotonics”, Proc. SPIE 10530, Ultrafast Phenomena and Nanophotonics XXII, (2018).

121. H. Nejadriahi, V. J. Sorger "On-chip Integrated All-Optical Fast Fourier Transform: Design and Analysis" FIO, paper JW4A.46 (2017).

122. M. H. Tahersima, et al. "Light Emission Enhancement of 2D Materials in Monomer vs. Dimer Nanoantennae" FIO, paper JTu3A.25 (2017).

123. Z. Ma, M. H. Tahersima, R. Amin, S. Khan, V. J. Sorger "Sub-wavelength Plasmonic Graphene-based Slot Electro-optic Modulator" FIO, paper FM2A.3 (2017).

124. S. Khan, Z. Ma, J. Jeon, C. J. Lee, V. J. Sorger "Sub 1-Volt Graphene-based Plasmonic Electroabsorption Modulator on Silicon" FIO, paper FM2A.4 (2017).

125. S. Sun, R. Zhang, J. Peng, V. Narayana, T. EI-Ghazawi, V. J. Sorger "Hybrid Photonic-Plasmonic Directional Coupler Enabled Optical Transceiver" FIO, paper JW4A.55 (2017).

126. K. Liu, S. Sun, A. Majumdar, V. J. Sorger "Fundamental Physical Scaling Laws of Nanophotonics" IPR, paper ITh2C.4 (2017).

127. H Goktas, FS Gökhan, VJ Sorger, “Inelastic-scattering tunnel electrons towards an electrically driven single-photon light source”, Proc. SPIE 10359, Quantum Nanophotonics, (2017).

128. VJ Sorger, “Extra-ordinary modulators with 2D photonic materials”, Proc. SPIE 10345, Active Photonic Platforms IX, (2017).

129. Z Ma, MH Tahersima, S Khan, VJ Sorger, “Graphene-based plasmonic slot electro-optic modulator”, Proc. SPIE 10106, Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XXI, (2017).

130. S. Khan, Z. Ma, J. Jeon, C. Lee, V. J. Sorger "Sub-voltage Graphene-Plasmon Based Electro-absorption Modulator" IPR, paper ITu3A.4 (2017).

131. R. Amin, C. Suer, Z. Ma, I. Sarpkaya, J. B. Khurgin, R. Agarwal, V. J. Sorger "Implications of Active Material and Optical Mode on Nanoscale Electro-Optic Modulation" FIO, paper JW3A.96 (2017).

132. S. Sun, V. Narayana, A. Mehrabian, R. Zhang, T. EI-Ghazawi, V. J. Sorger "Holistic Performance-Cost Metric for Post Moore Era," FIO, paper JTu2A.24 (2017).

133. Z. Ma, S. Khan, M. Tahersima and V. J. Sorger, "Temperature dependence of a sub-wavelength compact graphene plasmon-slot modulator," 2017 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series (SUM), San Juan, 203-204 (2017).

134. K. Liu, A. Majumdar, V. J. Sorger "Fundamental Physical Scaling Laws of Nanophotonics" META (2017). 135. Z. Ma, R. Amin, V. J. Sorger “Towards atto-Joule efficient Electro-optic Modulators” META (2017). 136. V. J. Sorger, K. Liu, S. Su, A. Majumdar, “Opto-electronic Device Scaling for atto-Joule Nanophotonics: Example

Sub-1Volt Modulator” CLEO-PR (2017). 137. S. Sun, V. Narayana, T. El-Ghazawi, at al. "Chasing Moore’s Law with CLEAR” CLEO, paper JW2A.138 (2017). 138. M. Tahersima, et al. "Optical Antenna Enhanced Spontaneous Emission from CVD-Grown Monolayer WS2" CLEO,


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paper JTh2A.44. (2017). 139. V. J. Sorger, “Active 2D and carbon-based materials: physics and devices”, Proc. SPIE 9920, Active Photonic

Materials VIII, (2016). 140. S. Sun, M. Tahersima, V. Sorger, K. Liu "Physical Scaling Laws of Nanophotonics: Case Photon Conversion" Light,

Energy and the Environment, paper PM2B.2 (2016). 141. K. Liu, S. Sun, A. Majumdar, and V. Sorger, "Physical Scaling Laws of Nanophotonics," in Frontiers in Optics 2016,

OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2016), paper FTu3D.1. 142. H. Goktas, V. J. Sorger, "A Tunnel Junction On-chip Light Source" IPR, paper IW1A.4 (2016). 143. S. LeBlanc, V.J. Sorger, E. Shittu, “Nanotechnology Fellows Program: An Interdisciplinary Practicum for

Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education” NSF-AAAS EnFUSE Symposium (2016). 144. S. Sun, A. Badawy, V. Narayana, T. El-Ghazawi, and V. J. Sorger, "Bit Flow Density (BFD): An Effective

Performance FOM for Optical On-chip Interconnects” NETWORKS, paper ITu2B.6 (2016). 145. S. Sun, A. Badawy, V. Narayana, T. El-Ghazawi, and V. J. Sorger, "Bit Flow Density (BFD): An Effective

Performance FOM for Optical On-chip Interconnects," CLEO, paper JW2A.135 (2016). 146. S. Sun, A.-H. A. Badawy, V. Narayana, T. El-Ghazawi, V. J. Sorger, “Low latency, area, and energy efficient

Hybrid Photonic Plasmonic on-chip Interconnects (HyPPI)” Proc. SPIE 9753, 97530A (2016). 147. H. Goktas, V.J. Sorger, “Electroluminescence Enhancement via Grating on a Si-based Plasmonic Metal-Insulator-

Semiconductor Tunnel Junction”, MRS Advances, 23, pp. 1709-1713 (2016). 148. V. J. Sorger, M. Tahersima, and K. Liu, "Strong Light-Matter-Interactions in Nanoscale and 2D Material Systems,"

NOMA, paper NS3B.3 (2015). 149. S. Sun, V. J. Sorger, "Photonic-Plasmonic Hybrid Interconnects: a Low-latency Energy and Footprint Efficient

Link," Advanced Photonics, paper IW2A.1 (2015). 150. M. Tahersima, V.J. Sorger, “Strong photon absorption in 2-D material-based spiral photovoltaic cells” MRS

Advances, F15-2313290 (2015). 151. V. J. Sorger,” 2-D Materials for strong light-matter-interaction and photo conversion devices” Energy Materials

Nanotechnology (2015). 152. C. C. Thompson, et al. “Optimization of Data Center Battery Storage Investments for Microgrid Cost Savings,

Emissions” IEEE IAS, Reduction, and Reliability Enhancement (2015). 153. H. Goktas, V.J. Sorger “Sub-Wavelength Si-based Plasmonic Light Emitting Tunnel Junction”, Proc. SPIE, 9668

(2015). 154. M. Tahersima, V. J. Sorger “Strong Absorption in a Spiral Nanocavity based on 2D Materials” PIERS (2015). 155. V. J. Sorger, “High Performance sub-wavelength Si Plasmonic Modulator”, IEEE Photonics Society Summer

Topical Meeting Series (2015). 156. V. J. Sorger “2D Materials for Photon Conversion and Nanophotonics“ SPIE Proc. (2015). 157. N. Li, K. Liu, V. J. Sorger, D. K. Sadana “Nano III-V Plasmonic Light-Sources for Monolithic Integration on Silicon”

Proc. SPIE (2015). 158. V. J. Sorger “Opto-Electronics Beyond Classical Limits: Lasers & Modulators” IEEE Intl. Phot. (2014) (tutorial). 159. C. Ye, Z. Li, K. Liu, R. Soref, V. Sorger "Strong ITO index Modulation for Switching Devices" IPR, paper JM3B.1

(2014). 160. S. Willis, “Overcoming Limits for Nanophotonic Devices”, Optics & Photonics News, 4, 22-24 (2014). Interview

article with V. J. Sorger and co-hosts of OSA Incubator meeting on nanophotonic devices. 161. Z. Li, C. Ye, K. Liu, R. Soref, V. J. Sorger, “Ultra-Compact Plasmonic MOS-based Electro-optic Switches &

Modulators”, SPIE Photonics West Proc. (2014). 162. C. Ye, Z. Li, K. Liu, R. Soref, V. J. Sorger, “Si-based Plasmonic and Graphene Modulators”, SPIE Euro (2014). 163. C. Ye, Z. Li, R. Soref, V. J. Sorger “A Compact Plasmonic MOS-based Electro-optic Switch” IEEE Microwave

Photonics (2013). 164. X. Zhang, V. J. Sorger, M. Liu, "Plasmonic and Graphene Optical Modulators" FIO, paper FTu2E.2 (2013). 165. V. J. Sorger, N. Lanzillotti-Kimura, R. Ma, C. Huang, Z. Li, M. Liu, X. Zhang "Advancements in Plasmonic and

Graphene-based high-performance Modulators" CLEO, paper FTu2E.1 (2013). 166. V. J. Sorger, R. Ma, C. Huang, Z. Li, M. Liu, X. Zhang "Graphene, Plasmonic and Silicon Optical Modulators" CLEO,

paper CK_3_3 (2013). 167. V. J. Sorger, D. Kimura, R.-M. Ma, et al. “λ-size Silicon-based Modulator” Proc. SPIE, 8629 (2013). 168. V. J. Sorger "Quantifying the Capacity Value and Economics of Distributed Energy Storage for PV" in Renewable

Energy and the Environment Optics and Photonics Congress, paper JM1A.2 (2012). 169. X. Yin, R. Ma, M. Liu, E. Ulin-Avila, R. F. Oulton, V. J. Sorger, T. Zentgraf, X. Zhang “Deep-subwavelength Integrated

Optoelectronics” ACP, paper: AS1B.1 (2012). 170. V. J. Sorger, N. D. Lanzillotti-Kimura, R. Ma, et al."λ-size Silicon Modulator" CLEO, paper CTh5D.1 (2012). 171. V. J. Sorger, N. Lanzillotti-Kimura, R. Ma, et al. "λ-size Silicon Modulator," IPR, paper IW4C.2 (2012). 172. R. Ma, X. Yin, R. Oulton, V. J. Sorger, X. Zhang, "Directionality and Integration of Nanoscale Plasmon Lasers" CLEO,

paper QTh5B.8 (2012). 173. R. Ma, X. Yin, R. Oulton, V. J. Sorger, X. Zhang "Directionally emitting plasmon lasers with multiplexing and electrical

modulation" FIO, paper PDPC7 (2011). (post deadline paper) 174. V. J. Sorger, Z. Ye, N. Pholchai et al. "An Integrated Hybrid Nanophotonics Platform" FIO, paper FWC2 (2011). 175. V. J. Sorger, et al. "Photonics Platform at 1/20th of the Wavelength" MRS Spring (2011), (Gold Medal Winner) 176. R. Oulton, V. J. Sorger, R. Ma, et al. "Lasers beyond the diffraction limit" CLEO, paper JMA2 (2011). 177. V. J. Sorger, R. Oulton, T. Zentgraf, R. Ma, Z. Ye, N. Pholchai, X. Yin, X. Zhang "Integrated Hybrid Nanophotonics"

CLEO, paper JMD3 (2011). (award winning paper) 178. N. Pholchai, V. J. Sorger, E. Cubukcu, R. Oulton, P. Kolchin et al. "Coupling Molecular Photoluminescence Into

Deep Sub-Wavelength Plasmon Waveguides" CLEO, paper PDPC10 (2011). (post deadline paper) 179. R.-M. Ma, R.F. Oulton et. al “Room Temperature Semiconductor Plasmon Laser“ SPIE Proc. 8096 (2011). 180. R.-M. Ma, R.F. Oulton, V. J. Sorger et. al „Room Temperature sub-diffractional Plasmon Laser“ MRS, 1343, mrss11-


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1343-w06-04 (2011). (award winning paper) 181. V. J. Sorger, R. F. Oulton, et al. „Semiconductor Plasmon Laser“ SPIE Proc. 7757, (2010). 182. V. J. Sorger, R. Oulton, T. Zentgraf, C. Gladden, G. Bartal, R. Ma, L. Dai, X. Zhang "Sub-� Plasmon Laser" IPR,

paper ITuB2 (2010). (award winning paper) 183. V. J. Sorger “Plasmon Laser – Light from the Nanoworld” SPIE Newsroom (2010). 184. R. Ma, R. Oulton, V. J. Sorger, G. Bartal, X. Zhang "Room Temperature Nano-Square Plasmon Laser" IPR, paper

PDIWI4 (2010). (post deadline paper) 185. V. J. Sorger, R. F. Oulton, T. Zentgraf, R.-M. Ma, al “Sub-� Plasmon Laser”. MRS, 756038 (2010). 186. R. Ma, R. Oulton, V. J. Sorger, G. Bartal, X. Zhang "Room Temperature Plasmon Laser" FIO, (2010) 187. R. Ma, R. Oulton, V. J. Sorger, X. Zhang "Room Temperature Sub-Wavelength Plasmon Laser" CLEO, paper CPDA1

(2010). (post deadline paper) 188. G. Bartal, R. Oulton, V. J. Sorger, T. Zentgraf, X. Zhang "Deep Sub-Wavelength Plasmonic Lasers" Imaging and

Applied Optics Congress, paper MWA2 (2010). 189. V. J. Sorger, R. Oulton, T. Zentgraf, C. Gladden, G. Bartal, R. Ma, L. Dai, X. Zhang "Giant Frequency-Pulling in

Sub-Wavelength Plasmon Lasers” FIO, paper PDPB7 (2009). (post deadline paper) 190. V. J. Sorger, R. Oulton, T. Zentgraf, C. Gladden, G. Bartal, R. Ma, L. Dai, X. Zhang "Plasmonic Nano-Laser below

the Diffraction Limit" FIO paper FTuB2 (2009). 191. V. J. Sorger, R. Oulton, J. Yao et al. "Plasmonic Nano-Cavity with High Q-Factors" CLEO, paper ITuN5 (2009). 192. V. J. Sorger, R. F. Oulton, T. Zentgraf, X. Zhang "Deep Sub-wavelength Plasmon Laser" Stanford Photonic Research

Center Extreme Lasers Conference (2009). 193. B. Min, E. Ostby, V. J. Sorger, E. Ulin-Avila, L. Yang, X. Zhang, K. Vahala "High-Q Surface-Plasmon Whispering-

Gallery Microcavity" CLEO, paper ITuN4 (2009). 194. R. Oulton, V.J. Sorger et al. "Towards Sub-Wavelength Plasmonic Laser Devices" IPR, paper JTuA3.R. (2009). 195. R. Oulton, V.J. Sorger, G. Bartal, X. Zhang "A Hybrid Plasmonic Waveguide for Subwavelength Confinement and

Long Range Propagation" FIO, paper MTuD3 (2008). 196. V. J. Sorger, Z. Yao “Nonvolatile Carbon Nanotube Memory Device with Molecular Charge Storage” MRS 938,

0938-N07-07 (2006).

PATENTS - Legend (ID, Year submitted, Status: A=approved, F=filed, L=licensed)

A. USPTO Full Patent (Awarded and Filed) 1. (#8.509.276, 2009, A&L): Plasmon Lasers at Deep Sub-Wavelength Scale Application (approved)

Licensed for $2,000,000 to a South Korean major electronics manufacturer. Synopsis: sub-diffraction limited nanoscale on-chip laser source for data comm, photonic networks, RF-photonics, lab-on-chip, smart-phones, IoT applications.

2. (#9.529.158, 2014, A): Silicon-Based, Broadband, Waveguide-Integrated Electro-Optical Switch. Synopsis: 2x2 optoelectronic switch for photonic routing and network switching enabling photonic crossbars, and photonic neural networks for machine-learning tasks such as deep-learning.

3. (#14/941.100, 2015, F): Integrated nano-cavity plasmon laser light-sources. (IBM jointly filed). Synopsis: Defect-free III-V laser source heterogeneously on chip for applications in data comm, photonic networks, RF-photonics, lab-on-chip, smart-phones, IoT applications.

4. (#15/194.119, 2015, F): Hybrid Photonic Plasmonic Interconnects with Intrinsic and Extrinsic Modulation Option. Synopsis: Modulation and routing strategy for photonic integrated circuits, network-on-chip, photonic RF-systems etc. enabling high-speed at low-power dissipation.

5. (#15/369.371, 2016, F): The Reconfigurable Optical Co-Processor (ROC). Synopsis: Photonic FPGA-

like photonic accelerator for solving partial differential equations in near real-time. 6. (#15/888.862, 2016, F) Hybrid Photonic Plasmonic Non-blocking Wide Spectrum WDM On-chip

Router. Synopsis: photonic crossbars for routing and network switching enabling applications such as photonic neural networks for machine-learning tasks such as deep-learning.

7. (#15/830.747, 2016, F) All Optical Fast Fourier Transform on Chip with Heating Tunability Design, Simulation, Fabrication, and Performance Analysis. Synopsis: FFT is a universal algorithm in signal processing and computing. We invented a integrated photonic temporal FFT performing the transformation at ultra-high (100 Tbps) with a compact form factor. FFTs are for examples used in OFDM, RF-signal processing, convolutional neural networks, speech & image filtering, and more.

8. (#15/905.167, 2017, F) Graphene Sot-waveguide based Electro-optic Modulator. Synopsis: This

device has a world-record modulation efficiency (100aJ/bit), which is 1,000x more efficient than state-of-the-art modulators. EO modulators are the work-horse of the internet and datacenters.

9. (#16/121.156, 2017, F) Two-Dimensional Material Printer and Transfer System and Method for

Atomically Layered Materials. Synopsis: We developed the first 2D printer-like transfer system. It allows accurate alignment and cross-contamination-free transfers, unlike all other current techniques. 2D Materials hold great promise for electronic and photonic devices for the IoT era due to their functional properties yet compact formfactor.


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B. USPTO Provisional Patent 10. (#62/625.752, 2017, F) Image Symmetry Detection via leaky-firing Spiking Neuromorphic Networks.

Synopsis: Symmetry detection is critical for problem dimension reduction and has even been attributed to be an indicator for intelligence. This invention uses the spiking behavior of neural networks to produce the mirror symmetry (e.g. image or photo), and can thus be used for signal or image processing for many applications from smart phone consumer electronics to military systems.

11. (#62/633.382, 2017, F) Dual Functional Broadband On-Chip Optical Modulator Detector (MODetector) Synopsis: This invention allows for simultaneous transmission and detector of photonic circuitry notes thus significantly increasing the data capacity of photonic networks.

12. (#62/146.590, 2017, F) 2D material-based Spiral Solar Cell. Synopsis: 2D materials absorb light over

proportionally strong relative to their thickness. This invention uses these emerging light-energy-conversion materials in novel solar cells with power-densities comparable to nuclear power plants.

13. (#62/719.988, 2018, F) Transparent Conductive oxide-based Mach-Zehnder Modulator in Silicon

Photonics. Synopsis: We demonstrated an efficient phase-shifter inside Silicon photonic resulting in a modulator quite competitive modulator (VpL = 0.5V-mm). Phase shifting, in general, has many applications such as for LiDAR of autonomous vehicles, matrix multiplication in photonic neural networks, RF and analog signal processing, and data-communication.

14. (#62/696.104, 2018, F) Optical Convolutional Neural Network Accelerator. Synopsis: Convolutional

neural networks (CNN) are one of the most promising technologies in information processing to-date since they enable feature extraction in machine learning tasks such as deep-learning. We developed a photonic CNN which shows 1,000x faster speed, even with the slow front- and backend DAC/ADC.

15. (#62/683.940, 2018, F) Optical Digital Analogue Converter (DAC). Synopsis: With the looming era of

photonic processors (e.g. joint transform correlators, neural networks, reconfigurable compute engines etc.) the main bottleneck for all these optical processors is the limited data I/O. This photonic DAC shows several orders of magnitude better performance in a combined metric (speed/power/area) than current electronic solutions.

16. (#62/634.658, 2017, F) Residue Number System Adder and Multiplier based on Integrated

Nanophotonics. Synopsis: This novel photonic general-purpose computer processes information bases on representing numbers as residues during prime-number factorization. A processor and communication network based on this arithmetic shows a 5-orders of magnitude improvement with respect to electronic network-on-chips.

INVITED TALKS (120+ invited talks) A. Invited Conference Talks: 1. SPIE DCS (Baltimore, MD, USA), 2019 (scheduled). 2. OSA OFC (San Jose, CA, USA), 2019 (scheduled). 3. SPIE Photonics West (San Francisco, CA, USA), 2019 (4x scheduled). 4. NanoP (Rome, Italy), 2018. 5. SPIE Optics&Photonics (San Diego, CA, USA), 2018 (2x). 6. IEEE Summer Topicals, (Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA), 2018. 7. OSA Advanced Photonic Congress (Zurich, Switzerland) 2017. (3x contributed) 8. META (Marseille, France), 2018. 9. OSA CLEO (San Jose, CA, USA) 2018 (scheduled, 2xcontributed). 10. NSF E2CDA, SRC nCORE Meeting (Ashburn, VA, USA), 2018. 11. AFOSR MURI ‘Attojoule Nanooptoelectronics’ Annual Meeting (Austin, Tx, USA) 2018. 12. SPIE Photonics West (San Francisco, CA, USA), 2018. 13. Physics of Quantum Electronics (Snowbird, UT, USA), 2018. 14. SPIE Nanophotonics Australasia, (Melbourne, Australia), 2017. 15. IEEE Rebooting Computing (Washington, DC, USA), 2017. Panelist. 16. IEEE Symposium on Energy Efficient Electronic Systems (Berkeley, CA, USA, 2017 (contributed) 17. OSA Frontiers in Optics (Washington, DC, USA), 2017. 5x presentations for OPEN lab. 18. 14th U.S.-Korea Forum on Nanotechnology: Internet of Things and Neuromorphic Computing (Washington, DC,

USA), 2017 (contributed). – Gold Award Winning Presentation 19. SPIE Optics and Photonics (San Diego, CA, USA), 2017. 2x Presentations. 20. CLEO-PR, Pacific Rim Conference for Laser and Opto-electronics (Singapore) 2017. 21. META (Incheon, South Korea), 2017. 2x Presentations 22. IEEE Summer Topicals ‘Low Energy Integrated Nanophotonics’, (San Juan, USA), 2017. 23. OSA, Integrated Photonics Research (IPR) (New Orleans, LA, USA) 2017. 2x Presentations 24. MRS Spring Meeting, (Phoenix, AZ, USA), 2017. 25. AIM Photonics Spring Meeting, MIT (Cambridge Massachusetts, MA), 2017


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26. AFOSR MURI ‘Attojoule Nanooptoelectronics’ kickoff Meeting (Austin, Tx, USA) 2017. 27. OSA E2 Conference (Leipzig, Germany), 2016. 28. Tutorial: AIM Photonics Fall Meeting, MIT (Cambridge Massachusetts, MA), 2016. 29. OSA Frontiers in Optics (Rochester, NY, USA) 2016. 30. Keynote: IONS 2016 (Tucson, AZ, USA), 2016. 31. OSA Incubator: Nanolasers (Washington, DC, USA), 2016. 32. SPIE Optics and Photonics (San Diego, CA, USA), 2016. 33. Panel: “Careers in optics and photonics”, SPIE Optics&Photonics (San Diego, CA, USA) 2016. 34. OSA, Integrated Photonics Research (IPR) (Boston Vancouver, BC, Canada) 2016. 35. META (Malaga, Spain), 2016. 36. IEEE Summer Topicals (Newport Beach, CA, USA), 2016. 37. SPIE Photonics West (OPTO) (San Francisco, CA, USA) 2016. 3x Presentations. 38. ICSB ASEAN, 3rd Annual SME Meeting (Miri, Malaysia) 2015. 39. Si-EPIC, Active Silicon Photonics (Vancouver, BC, Canada) 2015. 40. SPIE Optics & Photonics (San Diego, CA, USA) 2015. 41. Foundations of Nonlinear Optics (Pullman, PA) 2015. 42. ARPA-E photonics for data-center efficiency workshop, (San Francisco, CA, USA) 2015. 43. IEEE Photonics Summer Topical Meetings Series (Nassau, Bahamas) 2015. 44. PIERS, (Prague, Czech Republic) 2015. 45. OSA, Integrated Photonics Research (IPR) (Boston, MA, USA) 2015. 46. OSA, Novel Optical Materials (NOMA) (Boston, MA, USA) 2015. 47. Energy, Materials, Nanotechnology, (Cancun, Mexico) 2015. 48. National Science Foundation, EFRI Proposal Pitch (Arlington, VA, USA) 2015. 49. Tutorial: IEEE IPC (San Diego, CA, USA, USA) 2014. 50. OSA Incubator Meeting Nanophotonic Devices: Beyond Classical Limits (Washington, DC, USA) 2014. 51. Panel: “Careers in optics and photonics”, SPIE Optics&Photonics (San Diego, CA, USA) 2014. 52. OECC (Melbourne, Australia) 2014. 53. OSA Incubator The Fundamental Limits of Optical Energy Conversion (Washington, DC, USA) 2014. 54. SPIE Europe (Brussels, Belgium) 2014. 55. Photonic West 2014 (San Francisco, CA, USA) 2014. 56. OSA FiO (Orlando, FL, USA) 2013. 57. GFP IEEE (Seoul, South Korea) 2013. 58. OSA CLEO (San Jose, CA, USA) 2013. 59. Korea University Research Symposium (Seoul, Korea) 2013. 60. Photonics West (San Francisco, CA, USA) 2013. 61. OSA Renewable Energy Conference (Leiden Netherlands) 2012. 62. OSA IPR (Colorado Springs, CO, USA) 2012. 63. MRS Spring Meeting (San Francisco, CA, USA) 2011. 64. IEEE Photonics / OSA Winter Photonics (Keystone, CO, USA) 2011. 65. Naval Post Graduate School (Monterey, CA, USA) 2010. 66. OSA IPR (Monterey, CA, USA) 2010. 67. Molecular Foundry, DOE, User Meeting (Berkeley, CA, USA) 2010. 68. SPIE Optics & Photonics (San Diego, CA, USA) 2010. 69. Molecular Foundry, DOE, User Meeting (Berkeley, CA, USA) 2010. 70. Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (Quebec, Canada) 2009. 71. Stanford Photonic Research Center (Palo Alto, CA, USA) 2009. 72. Physics Congress Duisburg (Duisburg, GER) 1999.

B. Invited Seminar/Colloquium Talks: 73. Colloquium: University of California San Diego, (San Diego, CA, USA), 2018. 74. Colloquium: Virginia Commonwealth University, (Richmond, VA, USA), 2017. 75. Colloquium: DoD Basic Research Forum, (Ballston, VA, USA), 2017. 76. Seminar: WOW-Talks, (Washington, DC, USA), 2017. 77. Seminar: AFOSR Mid-Atlantic Student Research Day, (Arlington, VA, USA), 2017. 78. AFRL: DDDAS Review Meeting, (Dayton, OH, USA), 2017. 79. Colloquium: University of California, Santa Barbara, (Santa Barbara, CA, USA), 2017. 80. Colloquium: Arizona State University, (Phoenix, AZ, USA), 2017. 81. Seminar: Air Force Laboratory, (Dayton, OH, USA), 2017. 82. Seminar: Naval Research Laboratory, (Maryland, MD, USA), 2017. 83. Colloquium: University of Arkansas, (Fayetteville, AR, USA), 2017. 84. Colloquium: University of Texas, (Austin, Tx, USA), 2017. 85. Colloquium: University of Michigan, (Ann Arbor, MI, USA), 2016. 86. Colloquium: University of Pennsylvania, (Philadelphia, PA, USA), 2016. 87. Colloquium: Norfolk State University, (Norfolk, VA, USA), 2016. 88. Distinguished Lecture Series: Johns Hopkins University, (Baltimore, MD, USA), 2016. 89. Korea-GW Research Symposium, (Seoul, South Korea), 2016. 90. Seminar: Army Research Lab, (Bethesda, Maryland, USA), 2016. 91. TED-like Talk: IEEE Annual Banquette (Washington, DC, USA), 2016. 92. Colloquium: TU Delft (Delft, Netherlands), 2016. 93. Colloquium: Minnesota University (Indianapolis, USA), 2016. 94. Colloquium: Korea University, Electrical Engineering Dept. (Seoul), 2015.


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95. Colloquium: Nanyang Technological University, Revolutionary Photonic Center (Singapore), 2015. 96. Colloquium: UC Riverside (Riverside, CA, USA), 2015. 97. Seminar: Navy Research Laboratory (Maryland, MD, USA) 2015. 98. AFOSR, YIP Review Meeting (Arlington, VA, USA) 2015. 99. Nanophotonics: physics and roadmapping to merger of electronics and photonics, National IEEE Chapter

(Washington, DC), 2015. 100. Scalable Multi-functional and reconfigurable Technologies, NSF EFRI pitch (Ballston, VA, USA), 2015. 101. Colloquium: Green@GW, Leaders in Energy (Washington, DC, USA) 2015. 102. Colloquium: Physics Department, Imperial College London (London, UK), 2014 103. Career Panel at SPIE Optics & Photonics (San Diego, USA), 2014 104. Colloquium: Physics Department, University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia), 2014 105. Seminar: the School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, GWU (GWU, DC, USA) 2014 106. AFOSR, YIP Review Meeting (Arlington, VA, USA) 2014. 107. GW Office of Technology Transfer (finalist): “Optical Computing”, GWU (GWU, DC, USA) 2014 108. Korea Uni./GW Research Symposium: “Nanophotonics @ GW”, GWU (Seoul, South Korea) 2013 109. SEH Development Showcase: “Nanophotonics @ GW”, GWU (GWU, DC, USA) 2013 110. Colloquium at Physics Department, Georgetown (Georgetown, DC, USA), 2013 111. GW Office of Technology Transfer (finalist): “Optical Transistor”, GWU (GWU, DC, USA) 2013 112. Colonial Inauguration: “Nanotechnology: The future of Technology”, GWU (GWU, DC, USA) 2013 113. Seminar: the School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, GWU (GWU, DC, USA) 2013 114. Panel, New Faculty Orientation, GWU (Washington, DC, USA) 2013 115. Seminar: IFCO, (Barcelona, Spain), 2012 116. Colloquium: Physics Department, University of Leipzig (Leipzig, GER), 2012 117. Colloquium: Electrical Engineering Department, UC Riverside (Riverside, CA, USA), 2012 118. Colloquium: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, GWU (Washington, DC, USA), 2012 119. Colloquium: Physics Department, University of Washington St. Louis (St. Louis, MO, USA), 2012 120. Colloquium: Material Science Department, Stanford (Palo Alto, CA, USA), 2012 121. Colloquium: Electrical Engineering Department, Utah (Salk Lake City, UT, USA), 2011 122. Colloquium: Material Science Department, UC Berkeley (Berkeley, CA, USA) 2011 123. Colloquium: Electrical Device Meeting, UC Berkeley (Berkeley, CA, USA) 2010 124. Seminar: Electrical Engineering Department, Portland State University (Portland, OR, USA) 2006 125. Seminar: Physics Department, UT Austin (Austin, TX, USA) 2005 126. Seminar: Physics Department, Würzburg (Würzburg, Germany) 2004 127. Showcase: representing Germany, (Toulouse, France) 1999 128. Showcase“Jugend-Forscht” National Championships, TU Munich (Munich, Germany) 1998

PART 3 – TEACHING & STUDENT MENTONRING STUDENT ADVISING & STUDENT DEVELOPMENT Doctorial Dissertation and Masters Thesis Supervised

• Advised a total of 8x PhD students and 10x MS students. • Graduated 2x PhD (C. Thompson. M. Tahersima) and 6x MS thesis students (Z. Ma, R. Hemnani,

H. Nejadrahi, H. Wang, J. Crandall, R. Wang) as of 10-2018. • Supervised 5 post-doctorial research fellows.

Undergraduate and Non-Thesis M.S. Students Advising

• Supervised a total of 45. 15 were MS (non-Thesis) and 25 were undergraduates. • Managed Nanofellows program (NSF sponsored). Supervised a total of ~30 undergraduate

students • Advised 12 female STEM students.

Student Honors & Awards

• SPIE Scholarship: M. Tahersima (PhD student), 2017. • NSF 2D Materials Summer School, Travel Grant: Z. Ma (PhD) student, 2017 • SEAS R&D Showcase (Annual Poster Competition): J. Peng (2nd Prize 2018), S. Sun (2nd Prize

2018), S. Sun (Innovation Prize 2016 & 2017). Sarah Pickus (2nd Prize 2015). • GW Research Day (Annual Poster Competition): S. Sun (PhD student) 2017. • Innovation Competition of Office of Tech Transfer GWU Prize: S. Sun (PhD student), 2017. • IEEE Student Chapter Competition Prize (Maryland University): H. Nejadriahi (MS Student) 2017. • NSF EASPI Award: M. Tahersima (PhD student), 2016.

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2017 Innovation-&-Entrepreneurship: SEAS-wide program initiation, and summer school. 2015- NSF Grant Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) Program, Role Co-PI. 2015- Founded OSA and SPIE student chapter at GWU. Chapter advisor role. 2014-16 Facilitator: SPIE student chapter leadership workshop (San Diego, CA, USA) (3x). 2014-15 Taught Science Communication and Design-Thinking workshops at GWU (2x). 2014-15 Taught Design-Thinking workshops at GWU (4x) 2014 Undergraduate Class outreach: organized & conducted a field trip to DC Fablab. 2013 Graduate Class outreach: organized & conducted a field trip to Georgetown Univ. Labs. 2013 Graduate Class outreach: organized & conducted a field trip to NIST’s Cleanroom.

TEACHING & COURSE DEVELOPMENT

Teaching, Outreach, and Student Supervision • ECE 6030: Device Electronics (core class) • ECE 6221: Physical Electronics • ECE 6765: Photonics & Fiber Optics • ECE 6245: Nano- and Microfabrication • ECE 2120: Professional Preparation for Engineers (Sophomore level) • SEAS 4800: Nanotechnology Seminar • SEAS 6100: Innovation & Entrepreneurship (cross-linked).

Courses and Curriculum Developed • Course Developments: Developed 3 graduate and 2 undergraduate courses at GWU, namely

ECE ECE 4145/6245, 6765, SEAS 4800/6100. • Nano-Fabrication: Developed 1st hands-on course modules in nanomanufacturing at GWU. • Founder: Course Innovation and Technology course (SEAS 6100). Founded Innovation &

Entrepreneurship Minor/Cohort, SEAS-wide. • STEM Teaching Publications: 2x in NSF-AAAS EnFUSE Symposium • ABET Accreditation: Supported successful passing of accreditation assessment.

Teaching Awards and Recognition Selected as Faculty-of-the-year for ECE in 2014 by graduating senior class based on student engagements. 2013- Coached students to present posters at GWU’s poster competition

PART 4 – PROFESSIONAL SERVICES PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 2018- Division Chair Photonics & Optoelectronics OSA 2018 Guest Editor Special Issue for J. Opt.Mat. Exp. OSA 2017- Editor-in-chief Nanophotonics (IF=6.0) Publisher, DeGruyter 2016-17 Chair TG Development Board-of-Meetings Member OSA 2015- Symposia Committee Member SPIE 2015- Scholarship Committee Member SPIE 2015 Inter Activity Foundation Panel Member Task Force 2014-15 National Photonics Initiative Task Force: Education & Workforce OSA/SPIE 2013- Symposium Organizer (40x) CLEO, FiO, PW, O&P, IPR, MRS Fall, OSA/SPIE/MRS/IEEE

CONFERENCE COMMITTEES

• SPIE Optics and Photonics for Information Processing (Committee) 2018. • SPIE Optics & Photonics: Active Photonic Platforms (Committee) 2016, 2017. • OSA Integrated Photonics Research, Subcommittee: integrated High-precision Photonic Devices

(Member) 2017. • OSA Integrated Photonics Research, Subcommittee: Novel Materials for Photonic Devices (Chair)

2015/16/17. • OSA PR CLEO: Advanced 2D Materials for Photonics, (Committee) 2017. • SPIE Photonics West: Ultrafast Phenomena and Nanophotonics (Committee) 2015/16/17. • SPIE Symposia Committee (Member), 2017-2020.


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• Member of the OSA Board-of-Meetings (Member), 2016-2018. • OSA Development Lead for all Technical Groups of the organization 2016-2018. • OSA Incubator on “Science and Application for Nanolasers” (Chair) 2016. • OSA CLEO: FS6 Nanophotonics & Plasmonics (Committee) 2016. • Nano@GW Symposium: Organization & coordination of event (Chair), 2013/14/15/16 • OSA/SPIE National Photonics Initiative (NPI): Taskforce for Education and Workforce Development.

Contributed to 3x advisory letters send to OSTP (Member), 2014-2015. • Quantum Photonics Center, Symposium (Committee), 2015. • SPIE, Micro+Nano+Materials+Devices and Applications (Committee) 2015. • MRS Fall meeting: Symposium organization: Novel Materials for Opto-Electronics (Chair) 2015. • IEEE Group Four Photonics, (Committee) 2015. • Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS): Manipulating and Control of light-

matter interactions of 2-D materials and meta-materials. (Co-Chair) 2015. • Guest Editor Lead for Nanophotonics: special issue on “Emerging materials for Nanophotonics”. • American Energy Engineers (AEE) GWU chapter (Advisor & Chair) 2014-. • OSA Incubator on “Nanophotonics – A roadmap for photonic computing” (Chair) 2014. • OSA Technical Group ‘Nanophotonics’ Executive Lead (Chair), 2014-2016. • OSA Integrated Photonics Research (IRP), annual conference, Sub-committee (Committee) 2014. • MRS Annual Fall meeting: Symposium organization & management (Chair) 2013. • Intl. Semiconductor Device Research Symposium (Co-Chair) 2013. • SPIE Photomask Technology (Committee) 2009.

GRANT REVIEWER NSF, ARO, AFOSR, USAID, Intl. NSF (Canada, Italy, Israel), The Royal Society, Linz Institute of Tech.

JOURNAL REVIEWER

• Nature Publishing Group: Nature, Photonics, Materials, Nanotechnology, Communications, LSA. • IEEE: Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Photonics, Photonics Technology Letters. • OSA: Optica, Optics Express, Optics Express Materials, Optics Letters, JLT.. • ACS: Nano Letters, Photonics, Nano. • AIP & APS: Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, Physical Review. • Various: Science, Laser & Photonics Reviews, Advanced Materials, Journal of New Physics, IOP

Nanotechnology, DeGruyter Nanophotonics, various conferences from IEEE, OSA, and SPIE.

SERVICES AT GWU ECE Department Service • ECE Laboratory Committee (Chair): F 2016 - S 2018; responsible for ECE Labs & Cleanroom. • ECE Research Committee (Chair): F 2015 - S 2016 • ECE Colloquia Committee (Chair): F 2015 - S 2016 • ECE Lab Laboratory Manager Search Committee (Chair): 2016 • ECE Distinguished Lecture Committee (Member): S/F 2017- • ECE Executive Lead Hire Committee (Member): F 2015 - S 2016 • ECE Executive Strategy Committee (Member) F 2015 - S 2016 • ECE Admission Committee (Member): S 2014 – S 2016 • ECE Undergraduate Recruitment (Member): F 2015, S 2016-current • ECE Faculty Hiring Search Committee (Member): F 2015, 2016-2018 • ECE By-Laws Committee (Member): S 2015, F 2016 • ECE Operations Manager Search Committee (Member): S/F 2015, S 2016 • ECE Nano Teaching Lab Development: proposal and role-in plan execution, S 2016-2017 • ECE Undergraduate Curriculum (Member): 2013-15 • ECE Graduate Curriculum Committee (Member): 2013-15 • ECE Research Committee (Member): F 2012, (Co-Chair): 2013-15, F 2016, S/F 2017


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SEAS School Service • New SEAS’ Dean Search Committee (Member), 2018/19. • SEAS Innovation Challenge Competition (Judge), 2017-18. • Innovation Judge: Pelton Competition (2014-16), Siemens (2014-15), R&D Showcase (2013-18) • SEAS Dean’s Umbrella Task-Force: Making Innovation & Entrepreneurship an integral part of the

SEAS curriculum (Member): 2015-16 • SEAS Task Force: Clean-room Equipment (Member): 2014-2015 • SEAS Recruiting: Presented ‘The World of Nanotechnology’ at Colonial Inauguration and SEAS

Recruiting events: 2013-current (5x) • Dean’s Task-Force: Strengthening ECE department. Responsible for synchronizing innovation

curriculum and crosslinking courses with the Business school at GW (Member): 2014 • Dean’s Task-Force: Strengthening ECE dpt. Responsible for enrollment strategy (Member): 2014 • World-Bank & SEAS Sustainable Action for the Future, (invited speaker), 2016. • Korea University-GWU Research Symposium (presenter): 2013-2017 (5x) • SEAS Commencement Floor Marshall: 2014-current (4x), SEAS Student Get-Away Facilitator (2014) • Student Development Activities founded and executed: Founded and advised OSA and SPIE

student chapter at GWU. Held Design-Thinking workshops at GWU (4x). GWU-wide Service • GWU Business Plan & New-Venture Competition (Judge): 2014-2018 (5x) • Founder of ‘Nano@GW’ annual meeting (4x managed). Sponsored by NSF, ARO, AFOSR, Industry. • “Pitch-George” Elevator Business pitch judge: 2016.

Documents

VOLKER J. SORGER · 9/1/2016-8/30/2019, 1.0 mo summer, $620,000 (GWU Portion $310,000). 9. NSF EFRI Supplement, “Exciton Lifetimes in Atomically Layered Materials at Visible Frequencies”,