Scalable, economical and stable sequestration of agricultural fixed carbon
Speaker: Professor Eli Yablonovitch, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley
PNAS Paper: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2217695120
Press Coverage: https://phys.org/news/2023-04-salting-biomass-crops-dry-landfills.html
Biography: Eli Yablonovitch is regarded as one of the fathers of photonics, and coined the term "photonic crystal". He introduced the idea that strained semiconductor lasers have superior performance due to reduced valence band (hole) effective mass, enabling efficient lasers for the internet and optical telecommunications. In his photovoltaic research, Eli introduced the 4n2 (“Yablonovitch Limit”) light-trapping factor that is in worldwide use for most commercial solar panels.
Eli received his PhD in Applied Physics from Harvard University in 1972. He worked for two years at Bell Telephone Laboratories, and then became a Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard and later worked at Exxon, Bell Communications, and UCLA, before becoming Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley, where he is the James & Katherine Lau Chair Emeritus in Engineering. He has founded numerous successful start-up companies, and was elected as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Inventors, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and is a Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London. He has been awarded the OSA Ives-Quinn Medal, the Benjamin Franklin Medal, the IEEE Edison Medal, the Isaac Newton Medal of the UK Institute of Physics, the Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society, the IEEE W.R. Cherry solar cell award, the Rank Prize (UK), the Harvey Prize (Israel), the IEEE Photonics Award, the IET Mountbatten Medal (UK), the Julius Springer Prize (Germany), the R.W. Wood Prize, the W. Streifer Scientific Achievement Award, and the Adolf Lomb Medal. He also has an honorary PhD from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, & McGill University, and is honorary Professor at Nanjing University.
Talk 11am to 12pm followed by lunch from 12pm to 1pm
All welcome, especially those from underrepresented groups.