Adjunct Professor

Office:  Engineering 178
Phone:  (719) 333-7102
Email: 
Home Page: http://eceweb.uccs.edu/lu

Biographical Sketch

Dr. Yalin Lu graduated from Nanjing University, P. R. China, with a PhD in Solid State Physics in 1991. He became an Associate Professor in both Physics and Materials Science Departments of Nanjing University in 1992. He joined the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley Chemistry College in 1996 as a Visiting Professor, then Tufts University in 1997 as a Research Assistant Professor in the Electro-Optics Technology Center (EOTC) in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Dr. Lu joined Corning Inc. as Sr. Staff Scientist/Project Manager in the year of 2000 because of a successful business acquisition, and was recruited to Thermo Electron Corp. as Sr. Scientist and R&D Director in its Photonics Division in 2001. In 2003 he joined the US Air Force Academy (USAFA) Physics Department as Senior Research Scientist, and then in 2005 the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS) Adjunct Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.

Research

Dr. Lu's research is in the areas of energy nanomaterials, THz technology and metamaterials, nonlinear optics, electro-optics, and lasers, thin film growth and materials physics of complex oxides, semiconductor and oxide thin film heterostructures, as well as nanodevices. For a full list of Dr. Lu's research projects go to Research

Recent Publications

Dr. Lu has had more than 75 publications in peer-reviewing journals including 'Science', 5 patents and 6 patent nondisclosures. For a full list of Dr. Lu's publications go to Publications

For further details, go to Dr. Lu's Home Page