Hilmi Volkan Demir is a Turkish scientist, best known for his works on white light generation.

Biography

Hilmi Volkan Demir was born on July 4, 1976 in Kars,

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...

. He received his B.Sc. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from

Bilkent University Bilkent University ( tr, Bilkent Üniversitesi) is a private university located in Ankara, Turkey. It was founded by Prof. İhsan Doğramacı in 1984, with the aim of creating a center of excellence in higher education and research. It is constan ...

, Ankara, Turkey, in 1998, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University,

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, in 2000 and 2004, respectively. He received his Docent title (Assoc. Prof.) in

Optics Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it. Optics usually describes the behaviour of visible, ultrav ...

and

Photonics Photonics is a branch of optics that involves the application of generation, detection, and manipulation of light in form of photons through emission, transmission, modulation, signal processing, switching, amplification, and sensing. Though ...

from the Turkish Council of Higher Education in 2007. Since September 2004, he has been working as a faculty member at

, where he holds joint appointments at the Department of Physics and at the Department of Electrical and Electronics

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. He is the Associate Director of Nanotechnology Research Center. He also serves as a faculty member of the Advanced Research Laboratory and the Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology. In August 2009, he was assigned as Nanyang Associate

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jointly at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Microelectronics Div.) and the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (Physics and Applied Physics Division) at the Nanyang Technological University,

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Research

At Bilkent, he is the principal investigator of the Devices and

Sensors A sensor is a device that produces an output signal for the purpose of sensing a physical phenomenon. In the broadest definition, a sensor is a device, module, machine, or subsystem that detects events or changes in its environment and sends ...

Research Group. His current research interests and projects include the development and demonstration of innovative hybrid nanophotonic devices, nanocrystal, metal nanoparticle and nanowire embedded nanodevices, high-performance RF and

Optoelectronics Optoelectronics (or optronics) is the study and application of electronic devices and systems that find, detect and control light, usually considered a sub-field of photonics. In this context, ''light'' often includes invisible forms of radiat ...

sensors, III-nitride optoelectronic devices, white LEDs, and photovoltaic devices. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed research articles in major scientific journals and conferences, presented more than 100 invited lectures, seminars, and conference talks around the world, and has more than 10 patents at various stages of the process. He has an overall

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of 34 and

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of 100, as per

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Awards

Dr. Demir is one of the winners of 2007 ESF-EURYI. He is also the recipient of 2008 Prof. M. N. Parlar Young Scientist Award, 2006 TUBA-GEBIP (Turkish National Academy of Sciences Distinguished Young Scientist Award),The Young Scientists Award Programme (TUBA-GEBIP)
/ref> and 2005 European Union Marie Curie Fellowship Award. He is a member of the professional societies such as the

Optical Society Optica (formerly known as The Optical Society (OSA) and before that as the Optical Society of America) is a professional society of individuals and companies with an interest in optics and photonics. It publishes journals and organizes conference ...

IEEE Photonics Society The IEEE Photonics Society, formerly the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS), is a society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), focused on the scientific and engineering knowledge about the field of quantum ele ...

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, and

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and the alumni associations of Stanford University,

, and Ankara Science High School.

References

External links

Personal PageDevices and Sensors Research Group
at Bilkent University
LUMINOUS! Centre of Excellence for Semiconductor Lighting and Displays
at Nanyang Technological University {{DEFAULTSORT:Demir, Hilmi Volkan Turkish physicists Living people 1976 births People from Kağızman Bilkent University alumni Turkish electronics engineers Electrical engineering academics Academic staff of Bilkent University Stanford University School of Engineering alumni Optical engineers Optical physicists Academic staff of Nanyang Technological University Turkish nanotechnologists