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L.C. Kimerling, “Defect Engineering,” MRS Bulletin 16 (12), 42-47 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1557/S0883769400055342
J. Foresi, P. Villeneuve, J. Ferrera, E. R. Thoen, G. Steinmeyer, S. Fan, J. D. Joannopoulos, L.C. Kimerling, H.I. Smith, and E.P. Ippen, “Photonic-bandgap microcavities in optical waveguides,” Nature 390 , 143–145 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/36514
B.E. Little, J.S. Foresi, G. Steinmeyer, E.R. Thoen, S.T. Chu, H.A. Haus, E.P. Ippen, L.C. Kimerling, and W. Greene, “Ultra-compact Si-SiO2 microring resonator optical channel dropping filters,” IEEE Phot Tech Lett 10 (4), 549-551 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1109/68.662590
H.-C. Luan, D.R. Lim, K.K. Lee, K.M. Chen, J.G. Sandland, K. Wada, and L.C. Kimerling, “High-quality Ge epilayers on Si with low threading-dislocation densities,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 75 (19), 2909 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.125187
P. Bermel, C. Luo, L. Zeng, L.C. Kimerling, and J.D. Joannopoulos, “Improving thin-film crystalline silicon solar cell efficiencies with photonic crystals,” Opt. Express 15 (25), 16986-17000 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.15.016986
Mahmoud S. Rasras, Kun-Yii Tu, Douglas M. Gill, Young-Kai Chen, Alice E. White, Sanjay S. Patel, Andrew Pomerene, Daniel Carothers, James Beattie, Mark Beals, Jurgen Michel, and Lionel C. Kimerling, "Demonstration of a Tunable Microwave-Photonic Notch Filter Using Low-Loss Silicon Ring Resonators," J. Lightwave Technol. 27(12), 2105-2110 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2008.2007748
J. Michel, J. Liu, and L.C. Kimerling, “High-performance Ge-on-Si photodetectors,” Nature Photon 4 (7), **** 527–534 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2010.157
J. Liu, X. Sun, R. Camacho-Aguilera, L.C. Kimerling, and J. Michel, “Ge-on-Si laser operating at room temperature,” Opt. Lett. 35 (5), 679-681 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.35.000679
L. Bi, J. Hu, P. Jiang, D.Hun Kim, G.F. Dionne, L.C. Kimerling, and C. A. Ross, “On-chip optical isolation in monolithically integrated non-reciprocal optical resonators,” Nature Photon 5 (11), 758–762 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2011.270
Lionel Kimerling is the Thomas Lord Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT, the founding Director of the MIT Microphotonics Center, and the Executive Director of the AIM Photonics Academy education program. Kim’s industry and academic careers have focused on fundamental studies into the materials properties of semiconductors and their defects, to engineer silicon processing for enhanced photonic device performance. His research includes photonic integrated circuit fabrication, photonic materials and device studies, solar energy conversion, and environmentally benign integrated circuit manufacturing.