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Professor Mauro F Pereira
Theory of Semiconductor Materials and Optics
Phone 0114 225 5312
E-mail m.pereira@shu.ac.uk
Expertise
Nonlinear and quantum optics, exciton and polariton effects, band structure engineering, many-body effects, semiconductor lasers including quantum cascade structures, nonequilibrium Greens functions and numerical methods. The results are aimed at fundamental understanding and as input for the design and simulation of novel optical and electrooptical devices.
Biography
Mauro Pereira was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and received the BSc in Physics at PUC/RJ in 1983 and the MSc in Physics in 1985. He completed the PhD in Optical Sciences at the Optical Sciences Center in Tucson/AZ in 1992 and received an equivalent Dr. Sci. degree in Physics from UFRJ in 1993. He was a Research Associate at PUC/RJ, CBPF, Uni-Rostock, and the TU-Berlin, an Invited Lecturer in Bremen, an Associate Professor at UFBA and a Senior Researcher at Tyndall National Institute before joining the Materials and Electrical Engineering Research Institute of Sheffield Hallam University as a Professor. He has over 70 journal and proceedings publications.
Lecture title(s)
Introduction to Semiconductor Optics
This lecture starts from a very simple classical oscillator model, and evolves to basic semiconductor band structure and optical transitions for both bulk and quantum well devices. More advanced treatment for semiconductor materials (semiconductor Bloch equations and nonequilibrium Greens Functions) and the basic physics governing light emission in Light Emitting Diodes and Semiconductor Lasers are also discussed. A clear connection between simple models and the more advanced simulation methods currently used are given as well as ample reference to simulation software available in the market are given. Examples from our the semiconductor material simulation capabilities at MERI and how our codes have been used for recent device development and characterization in Europe are provided.
International conference on 'Semiconductor Materials and Optics' (SMMO '08)
International workshop 'THz Radiation: Basic Research and Applications' (TERA 2008)
International workshop on 'Terahertz and Mid Infrared Radiation: Basic Research and Applications' (TERA-MIR 2009)
Selected publications since 2001
M.F. Pereira Jr., Intervalence transverse-electric mode terahertz lasing without population inversion, editorially accepted for publication at Phys. Rev. B. (2008).
M.F. Pereira, The influence of dephasing in the coupling of light with intersubband transitions, editorially accepted for publication at Microelectronics Journal (2008).
M.F. Pereira, Interband vs intersubband polaritons and the relevance of quantum confinement, accepted for publication in physica status solidi c (2008).
T. Schmielau and M.F. Pereira, Impact of Momentum Dependent Matrix Elements on Scattering Effects in Quantum Cascade Lasers, editorially accepted for publication in physica status solidi b (2008).
M.F. Pereira, Intersubband vs Interband-Light Coupling in Semiconductors, Opt. Quant. Electron 40, 325 (2008).
M.F. Pereira, Intersubband Antipolaritons in Quantum Cascade Laser Structures, Acta Physica Polonica A 113, 783 (2008).
T. Schmielau and M.F. Pereira, A dielectric theory for the coupling of light with multiple inter-subband transitions, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials 10, 55 (2008).
M.F. Pereira Jr., Intersubband antipolaritons: Microscopic approach, Phys Rev B75, 195301 (2007).
R. Nelander, A. Wacker, M.F. Pereira Jr., D.G. Revin, M.R.Soulby, L.R. Wilson, J.W. Cockburn, A.B. Krysa, J.S. Roberts, and R.J. Airey, Fingerprints of spatial charge transfer in quantum cascade lasers, Journal of Applied Physics 102, 113104 (2007).
M.F. Pereira Jr. and A. Wacker, Microscopic theory for intersubband spontaneous emission, phys. stat. sol. (c) 4, 356 (2007).
M.F. Pereira Jr, R. Nelander, A. Wacker, D.G. Revin, M.R.Soulby, L.R. Wilson, J.W. Cockburn, A.B. Krysa, J.S. Roberts, and R.J. Airey, Characterization of Intersubband Devices Combining a Nonequilibrium Many Body Theory with Transmission Spectroscopy Experiments, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics 18, 689 (2007).
M.F. Pereira Jr., S.-C. Lee, and A. Wacker, Effect of Coulomb corrections and mean field on gain and absorption in quantum cascade lasers, phys. stat. sol. (c) 2, 3027 (2005).
M.F. Pereira Jr., and H. Wenzel, Microscopy theory for the valence intersubband absorption of quantum wells, Microelectronic Engineering 81, 510 (2005).
M.F. Pereira Jr. and H. Wenzel, Interplay of Coulomb and nonparabolicity effects in the intersubband absorption of electrons and holes in quantum wells, Phys. Rev. B70, 205331 (2004). Selected for Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, December 6, 2004 Volume 10, Issue 23.
M.F. Pereira Jr., S.-C. Lee, and A. Wacker, Controlling many-body effects in the midinfrared gain and terahertz absorption of quantum cascade laser structures, Phys. Rev. B69, 205310 (2004). Selected for Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, May 31, 2004 Volume 9, Issue 21.
M.F. Pereira Jr., Photon Green's functions theory for Coulomb correlated quantum well lasers, Semiconductor Physics, Quantum Electronics & Optoelectronics 7, 138 (2004).
T. Schmielau, M.F. Pereira Jr., and K. Henneberger, A T-matrix many-particle theory for coherently coupled superlattice optics, Semiconductor Physics, Quantum Electronics & Optoelectronics 7, 141 (2004).
M.F. Pereira Jr., Many Particle and intersubband effects in quantum well optics, Semiconductor Physics, Quantum Electronics & Optoelectronics 6, 316 (2003).
M.F. Pereira Jr., and H. Wenzel, The Influence of Many Body and Electron Nonparabolicity Effects in the Intersubband Optical Spectra of III-V Quantum Wells, Microelectronic Engineering 69, 261 (2003).
M.F. Pereira Jr., Coulomb and Bandstructure Effects in the Intersubband Optical Spectra of III-V Quantum Wells, Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 6, 149 (2003).
M.F. Pereira Jr., S.-C.Lee, and A. Wacker, Many-Body Theory for Multiple Intersubband Absorption in Heterostructures Physica E17, 618 (2003).
A. Wacker, S.-C. Lee, M.F. Pereira Jr., Simulation of Transport and Gain in Quantum Cascade Lasers in Advances in Solid State Physics Vol. 43, pp 369-380 edited by B. Kramer (Springer, Berlin 2003).
M.F. Pereira Jr., M. Prado and R. Sampaio,Many-Body Theory of All Optical Quantum Well Logic Gates, Semiconductor Physics, Quantum Electronics and Optoelectronics 5, 312 (2002).
M.F. Pereira Jr., Many Particle Theory for Luminescence in Quantum Wells, Brazilian Journal of Physics, 32/4, 940 (2002).
M.F. Pereira Jr. and H. Wenzel, The influence of many body and bandstructure effects in the design of high power diode lasers}, phys. stat. sol. (b) 232, 134 (2002).
M.F. Pereira Jr., A.A. Bernussi, W. Carvalho Jr., M.T. Furtado, A.L. Gobi, Many Particle Theory for the Luminescence, Characterization and Simulation of Quantum Well Laser Structures, Brazilian Journal of Physics, 32/2A, 386 (2002).
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