Prof. Abdennaceur Karoui

• Solid State Physics (e-h, excitons, photons, phonon, solid state processes, and dynamics of photogenerated careers)
• Device Physics, with focus on photovoltaic devices and biochemical sensors
• Physics of nanomaterials; i.e., quantum dots, and 2D quantum wells
• Transport in coherently coupled quantum systems
• Nanosensors operating at the quantum frontiers (a new field that I developed)
• Photon energy down-conversion and up-conversion.

     Materials Science

• Defect Science, with focus on column-IV semiconductors and alloys
• Fabrication of functional materials (for microelectronic, sensor, and photovoltaics) and devices
• Multiscale modeling of micro- naon-scale and atomic defects in materials.

Secondary Field of Expertise:

• Photovoltaic system design and simulation
• Solar Energy Systems and Technologies.

Research Tools and Methods:

• Multiscale modeling of materials and devices using High Performance Computing
• Molecular Dynamics/DFT Machine Learning for optoelectronic and solar materials and nanomaterials
• Atomic and nanoprobe characterization and spectroscopic analysis of semiconductor nanomaterials
• MEMS and NEMS design, and nanofabrication
• Additive Manufacturing, 3D printing Materials, and CAD
• Laser Ablation for Subtractive Manufacturing.