On November 17, 2017, according to the IEEE distinguished lecturer program, Professor Lorenzo Faraone from the University of Western Australia was invited to Qingdao University to give a lecture entitled as "Optical MEMS Technologies for Infrared Spectroscopy". More than 50 audience from College of Physics and college of Electronic & Information Information participated the lecture, including professors and graduate students. The seminar was hosted by Professor Fukai Shan, the vice dean of the college of Electronic & Information Engineering.
Professor Faraone first introduced the natural landscape and local customs in Western Australia. After that he made an introduction about the University of Western Australia and his research direction, which focused on the infrared spectroscopy technology application in national defense security, biomedicine, food safety, etc. Afterwards, he made a detailed explanation of the structure design, working principle, remote sensing and imaging of the optical Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) in the infrared spectrum technology. In addition, he also introduced the future direction of this field and the difficulties which need to be solved. At the end of the seminar, he had made a detailed answer to the questions raised by the audience. Furthermore, he also put forward lots of valuable suggestions for the future scientific research work for graduate students.
Professor Faraone is a Member of the Order of Australia (AM), and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (FIEEE), Australian Academy of Science (FAA) and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE). He has published more than 250 international journal papers on his research work, and supervised more than 35 PhD student completions. He is currently Head of the Microelectronics Research Group (MRG) at The University of Western Australia (UWA), and Director of the WA Centre for Semiconductor Optoelectronics and Microsystems (WACSOM). Prior to joining UWA in 1987, he worked primarily in the area of silicon CMOS-based microelectronics and non-volatile memory technology with RCA Labs in Princeton, NJ, USA. Since joining UWA he has worked on compound semiconductor materials and devices, including AlGaN/GaN HEMTs, HgCdTe-based infrared sensor technology and MBE growth, as well as optical MEMS technologies for infrared spectroscopy and imaging applications. His research activities also include mobility spectrum analysis techniques for magneto-transport studies, which allow the transport properties and mobility distributions of individual carriers in multi-layer/multi-carrier semiconductor systems to be determined.
