Collaborative Interactions

We have extensive scientific interactions and collaborations between our group and other groups around Florida, the United States, and the world. Below is a description of some of the current interactions.

Professor Holloway is the University of Florida representative to a consortium of universities conducting research on luminescent materials, particularly those used for electroluminescent and cathodoluminescent flat panel intelligent displays. This consortium includes Professors Chris Summers and Brent Wagner at Georgia Institute of Technology, Professors John Wager and Tom Plant of Oregon State University, Professor I.C. Khoo of Pennsylvania State University, and Professor Farhat Nabil of the University of Pennsylvania.

We collaborate in this research with Drs. Carl Seager and David Tallant of Sandia National Labs. We also collaborate with several industries including Drs. Sey-Shing Sun, Dick Tunge and Chris King of Planar Systems, Drs. John Penczek and Bill Cummings of Candescent Technologies, and Drs. Gerd Mueller, Regina Mueller-Mach and Troy Trottier of LumiLeds.

Professor Holloway is also Director for the Center for Materials in Sensors and Actuators (MINSA). This is a distributed center, involving participation by fifteen faculty from Materials Science and Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics and Chemistry at the University of Florida. In addition, faculty from Clemson University (Professors Bob Schwartz, John Ballato and David Carroll), University of Arizona (Professor Joseph Simmons), College of William and Mary (Professor Brian Holloway), and Pennsylvania State University (Professor Peter Ecklund) also participate. Scientists from MCNC in North Carolina (Drs. Gary McGuire, Scott Goodwin-Johansson, and David Dausch) and from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Dr. Greg Exarhos) are active in the center. Finally scientists and engineers from Lockheed-Martin, International Technology Corporation, and Non-Volatile Electronics are active in the programs.

In addition to these large multiple institutional projects, smaller research projects are being conducted collaboratively with faculty from the University of Florida and with companies or labs. For example, the research on gallium nitride for LEDs or diode lasers is being conducted with Professors Steve Pearton, Cammy Abernathy, and Fan Ren at UF and with Drs. Brock Alexander and Eric Brettschneider of Uniroyal Optoelectronic. Research into thin film copper indium diselenide solar cells involves four faculty on campus and scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, CO.

Our group over the years has had several visiting scientists and faculty, many of whom we maintain close ties with and conduct collaborative research. Recently, we have had visiting sabbatical faculty members from Tianjin Institute of Technology, Tianjin, China, and from Yeungnam University, Gyongsan, South Korea. We have has a Fulbright Scholar from Universite Abdelmalek Essaadi in Tetouan, Morocco. We have had extended stays by visitors from Finland, Germany, France, South Africa, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Australia, Mexico, Japan, China, and Korea.

We maintain especially close ties to Helsinki University, University of Tampere (Finland), University of the Orange Free State (South Africa), and the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart. Students have come to study in our laboratory from France, Britian, Finland and Korea, in addition to the international students registered at the University of Florida.