Kono NSF PIRE

Rice University has been awarded $2.2 million by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a five-year project that will offer an integrated approach to international research and education in the area of nanotechnology.

The U.S.-Japan Cooperative Research and Education program, titled “Ultrafast and Nonlinear Optics in 6.1­-Angstrom Semiconductors,” will investigate the optical properties of several group III-V semiconductors, including indium arsenide, gallium antimonide and aluminum antimonide.

Junichiro Kono, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rice, is the program’s principal investigator. His research group will use ultrashort laser pulses to create, manipulate and study a variety of electron quantum states in materials supplied by their Japanese collaborators. The investigations could lead to new, ultrafast information-processing technologies.

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