 | Janet L. Pan |
Janet L. Pan, newly designated as the Barton L. Weller Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, is working to develop new materials for use in optoelectronics, such as fiber optics.
Pan, who is also affiliated with the Department of Applied Physics, is studying novel compound semiconductor materials and devices and their optical properties, long-wavelength optical emitters and detectors, and the physics of quantum well devices.
By changing the optical properties of the semiconductor material gallium asenide, Pan found a cheaper and faster way to create crystals for optical emitters, which may have uses in fiber optics cables. She has also been involved in projects that have demonstrated deep-level devices exhibiting very large negative resistance and very large room-temperature peak current densities; derived a general theory explaining deep-level optical properties that is applicable in a wide variety of materials; and determined the price amount of radiative transfer from a heat source to an optical device in the near-field regime.
Pan earned B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She came to Yale as assistant professor in 1999 and was promoted to associate professor in 2004. She received the F. Warren Hellman Fellowship for Promising Yale Assistant Professor in 2000 and the Sheffield Distinguished Teaching Award of the Yale Faculty of Engineering in 2005.
She has received numerous other honors in recognition of her work. In September, she was one of 88 engineers nationwide to be invited to participate in the National Academy of Engineering's 11th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, which brings together scientists between the ages of 30 and 45 to learn about techniques and challenges in areas other than their own. In 2004, Pan was one of only 26 applied scientists nationwide to receive an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, and in 2002 the National Science Foundation presented her with an Early Career Award.
Pan is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the IEEE Electron Devices Society, the IEEE Lasers and Electro Optics Society and the American Physical Society.
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