Leonard J. Brillson

Departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Physics, CMR Scholar

387 Caldwell

2015 Neil Avenue

614-292-8015

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Professor Brillson established his laboratory at The Ohio State University for research in the properties of advanced electronic material thin films and interfaces, centered on single crystal complex oxides, semiconductors, and polycrystalline photovoltaics at the nanoscale. Current research emphasizes the electronic and chemical structure of state-of-the-art ferroelectrics, ferromagnets, and multiferroics in combination with wide gap semiconductors, especially the influence of local compositional structure and defects on electromagnetic properties, Schottky barrier formation, and heterojunction band offsets. A renaissance has occurred in the crystalline growth of these electronic materials, and they are having a major impact on environmentally-friendly energy creation, next generation solid state lighting, ultrahigh speed communication, and computing. A new initiative in bioelectronic materials and interfaces aims to produce compact, mass-producible sensors for use in sensitive immunological and pathogen detection. Prof. Brillson's group makes use of a wide range of ultrahigh vacuum surface and interface science research facilities, including quantum-scale,UHV low energy electron-excited nanoscale luminescence, Auger electron, and secondary ion mass spectroscopies, electron microscopy, as well as clean room facilities for nanostructure fabrication and processing. This group also has strong interdisciplinary interactions with an extensive electronic materials community on campus. Prof. Brillson is promoting interdisciplinary programs in electronic materials across campus through the Center for Materials Research, now the Institute for Materials Research.