Zbigniew Wasilewski

Zbig Wasilewski is an Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor cross-appointed to the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo. He is internationally renowned for his contributions to the field of Molecular Beam Epitaxy, quantum-dot and quantum-well photonic devices, as well as quantum structures and devices based on high mobility 2D electron gases.

Professor Wasilewski’s research interests include Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) and nanofabrication of III-V semiconductor structures for quantum optics, nano-photonics, nano-electronics and quantum computing applications. The MBE laboratory, led by Professor Wasilewski, has demonstrated the world’s highest operating temperatures for GaAs/AlGaAs-based THz Quantum Cascade Lasers. These devices are among the most complex man-made quantum structures. In addition, the MBE laboratory also originally developed the In-flush method, which is the best technique for creating and fine-tuning MBE-grown InAs/GaAs quantum dots (QDs) systems.

Professor Wasilewski is a co-author of close to 500 refereed journal articles and conference proceedings with some of the highest citation records in the field (close to 15,000 citations to his work with an h-index of 61). In 2012, Professor Wasilewski was awarded the title of Professor of Physics by the President of Poland, in recognition of his exceptional track record of international standing research and his role in developing the field of GaN-based optoelectronics in Poland.

• Sensors and devices
• Nano-electronics
• Nano-materials
• photonics
• Molecular Beam Epitaxy
• Nanofabrication
• Nanotechnology
• Self-assembled nanostructures
• Quantum Cascade Lasers and related devices
• Advanced Manufacturing

• 1986, Doctorate, Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• 1979, Master of Science, Physics, University of Warsaw
• 1978, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics, University of Warsaw

• ECE 633 - Nanoelectronics
  • Taught in 2017
• NANO 701 - Fundamentals of Nanotechnology
  • Taught in 2018, 2020, 2021
• NANO 702 - Nanotechnology Tools
  • Taught in 2018, 2020, 2021
• NE 202 - Nanomaterials and Environmental Impact; Nanotechnology Engineering Practice
  • Taught in 2017
• NE 471 - Nano-electronics
  • Taught in 2017, 2019, 2020

• Ban, Dayan and Wen, Boyu and Dhar, Rudra Sankar and Razavipour, Seyed Ghasem and Xu, Chao and Wang, Xueren and Wasilewski, Zbig and Dixon-Warren, Sinjin, Electrical scanning probe microscopy of electronic and photonic devices: connecting internal mechanisms with external measures, Nanotechnology Reviews, 5(3), 2016, 279 - 300
• Golasa, K and Molas, MR and Goryca, M and Kazimierczuk, T and Smoleński, T and Golnik, A and Kossacki, P and Nicolet, AAL and Potemski, M and others, Excitonic complexes in natural InAs/GaAs quantum dots, Physical Review B, 91(8), 2015
• Anna Szerling, Kamil Kosiel, Michal Szymanski, Zbig Wasilewski, Krystyna Golaszewska, Adam Laszcz, Mariusz Pluska, Artur Trajnerowicz, Maciej Sakowicz, Michal Walczakowski, Norbert Palka, Rafal Jakiela, Anna Piotrowska, Processing of AlGaAs/GaAs quantum-cascade structures for terahertz laser, Journal of Nanophotonics, 9(1), 2015, 093079 - 093079
• Muziol, G and Turski, H and Siekacz, M and Wolny, P and Sawicka, M and Grzanka, S and Perlin, P and Suski, T and Wasilewski, ZR and Grzegory, I and others, True-blue laser diodes grown by plasma-assisted MBE on bulk GaN substrates, physica status solidi (c), 11(3-4), 2014, 666 - 669
• Czesław Skierbiszewski, Henryk Turski, Grzegorz Muziol, Paweł Wolny, Grzegorz Cywiński, Szymon Grzanka, Julita Smalc-Koziorowska, Marta Sawicka, Piotr Perlin, Zbig R Wasilewski, Sylwester Porowski, AlGaN cladding-free 482 nm continuous wave nitride laser diodes grown by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy, Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B, 32(2), 2014

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