CATHERINE YUANYUAN LUO

Chemistry Department
City College of City University of New York
138th Street and Convent Avenue, New York 10031
Phone: (212)650-8376/6146
Fax: (212)650-6848
E-mail: zgyl@scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu

EDUCATION:

9/94 - Present: Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry, The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York

9/88 - 7/92: B.S. in Chemical Engineering, East China University of Chemical Technology, Shanghai, P.R. China

RESEARCH:

1. Development of a shadow mask selective area molecular beam epitaxy technique for applications in device processing and integration.

2. Fabrication of Au/CdTe detector array like structure within the UHV growth system for application in in situ processing of HgCdTe Focal Plane Arrays.

3. Integration of red-green-blue light emitters using selective area epitaxy technique.

4. Growth of AlAs/GaAs distributed Bragg reflector with InGaAs/InAlAs multiple quantum wells

PUBLICATION:

1. "Selective area epitaxy of CdTe", Y. Luo, A. Cavus and M.C. Tamargo, J. Electron. Mater., Vol. 26, No. 6, 511, 1997.

2. "Selective area epitaxy of CdTe arrays", Y. Luo, A. Cavus, M.C. Tamargo, J. Wan and F.H. Pollak, J. Vac. Sci. Technol., B16 (3), May/June, 1312, 1998.

3. "In situ device processing using shadow mask selective area epitaxy and in situ metallization", Y. Luo, L. Zeng, W. Lin, B. Yang, M.C. Tamargo, Y.M. Strzhemechny and S.A. Schwarz, submitted to Semicond. Sci. Technol.

4. "Growth and characterization of patterned ZnCdSe structures for application in integrated R-G-B II-VI light emitting diodes", Y. Luo, A. Elmoumni, S. P. Guo, M.C. Tamargo, S. Kelly, H. Ghaemi, V. Asnin, M. Tomkiewicz, F.H. Pollak and Y.C. Chen, submitted to J. Vac. Sci. Technol.

5. "Red-Green-Blue (R-G-B) photo-pumped lasing from ZnCdMgSe/ZnCdSe QW laser structures grown on InP", L. Zeng, A. Cavus, B. X. Yang, W. Lin, Y. Luo, M.C. Tamargo, Y. Guo and Y.C. Chen, Appl. Phys. Lett, Vol. 72(24), 3136, 1998.

6. "Defect reduction of ZnxCdyMg1-x-ySe-based structures grown on InP by using Zn irradiation of the III-V surface", L. Zeng, S.P. Guo, Y. Luo, W. Lin, M.C. Tamargo, H. Xing and G.S. Cargill, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 17(3), May/June, 1255, 1999.

7. "Temperature dependence of the photoluminescence of ZnCdMgSe grown on InP", L Zeng, Y. Luo, W. Lin, M.C. Tamargo, submitted to J. Appl. Phys.

8. "High crystalline quality ZnBeSe grown by molecular beam epitaxy with Be-Zn co-irradiation", S.P. Guo, Y. Luo, W. Lin, O. Maksimov, M.C. Tamargo, I. Kuskovsky, C. Tian and G.F. Neumark, accepted by J. Cryst. Growth.

9. "Full-color light emitting diodes from ZnCdMgSe/ZnCdSe quantum well structures grown on InP substrates", M.C. Tamargo, W. Lin, S.P. Guo, Y. Luo, Y. Guo and Y.C. Chen, accepted by J. Cryst. Growth.

PRESENTATION:

1. "Growth and characterization of patterned ZnCdSe structures for applications in integrated R-G-B II-VI light emitting diodes", Y. Luo, A. Elmoumni, S.P. Guo, M.C. Tamargo, S. Kelly, H. Ghaemi, V. Asnin, M. Tomkiewicz, F.H. Pollak and Y.C. Chen, 18th North American Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy, Oct. 10-13, 1999, Banff, Canada.

2. "An all in situ device processing technique using selective area epitaxy", Y. Luo, W. Lin, L. Zeng, M.C. Tamargo, Y.M. Strzhemechny and S.A. Schwarz, 17th North American Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy, Oct. 4-7, 1998, State College, Pennsylvania.

3. "Shadow masked MBE growth of CdTe arrays", Y. Luo, W. Lin, A. Cavus, M.C. Tamargo, 16th North American Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy, Oct. 5-8, 1997, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

4. "Selective area epitaxy of CdTe arrays", Y. Luo, A. Cavus and M.C. Tamargo, American Physical Society March Meeting, March 17-21, 1997, Kansas City, Missouri.

5. "Selective area epitaxy of CdTe", Y. Luo, A. Cavus and M.C. Tamargo,1996 U.S. Workshop on the Physics and Chemistry of II-VI Materials, Oct. 22-24, 1996, Las Vegas, Nevada.

6. "New Materials for Wide Bandgap II-VI Visible Emitters", M.C. Tamargo, L. Zeng, W. Lin, S.P. Guo, Y. Luo, 2nd International Symposium on Blue Laser and Light Emitting Diodes, Kazusa Akademia Center, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, Sept. 29- Oct.2, 1998.

7. "Defect reduction and degradation studies of ZnCdMgSe-based structures on InP", L. Zeng, S.P. Guo, Y. Luo, W. Lin, M.C. Tamargo, 17th North American Conference on MBE, Oct. 4-7, State College, Pennsylvania

8. "Molecular beam epitaxy of ZnBeSe grown on GaAs with Be-Zn co-irradiation", S.P. Guo, Y. Luo, W. Lin, O. Maksimov, M.C. Tamargo, I. Kuskovsky, C. Tian and G.F. Neumark, 18th North American Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy, Oct. 10-13, 1999, Banff, Canada.

9. "Red-Green-Blue lasers and light emitting diodes", M.C. Tamargo, W. Lin, S.P. Guo, Y. Luo, Y. Guo and Y.C. Chen, 9th International Conference on II-VI Compounds, Nov. 1-5, Kyoto, Japan.