Professor Aris Christou
Department of Materials Science and Engineering | Department of Mechanical Engineering
A. James Clark School of Engineering | Universty of Maryland
SELECTED Conference PRESENTATIONS & Proceedings
David Shahin, and A. Christou, “GaN/Si(111) Device Defects and Degradation Mechanisms,” ECS Transactions, 64(7) 203-211 (2014)
Krishna Shenai, Aris Christou, Michael Dudley, Balaji Ragothamachar and Rajendra Singh, “Crystal Defects in Wide Bandgap Semiconductors,” ECS Transactions, 61(4) 283-293 (2014)
A. Christou, Krishna Shenai and Dimitri Pavlidis, “Crystal Defects in Wide Bandgap Semiconductors and Effects on Device Performance,” Proceedings WOCSDICE, June 2014
Aris Christou, P. McCuskey and A. Dasgupta, “ Physics of Failure and Reliability of Power Electronics Devices”, p. 1926, Proceedings of 224th ECS Meeting, 2013 The Electrochemical Society
A. Christou, “GaN MESFETs and HFETs Processing Technology and Reliability Relationships, and Robust Wide-band gap Power Semiconductor Devices”, Micro-Nanotechnology, Digest of Presentations, 2013
A. Christou and D. Pavlidis, (Keynote Talk) “Control of Surfaces and Interfaces for Enhanced Performance and Reliability of Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Devices” Technical Digest of International Conference on Intergranular and Interphase Boundaries in Materials 2013, Halkidiki Greece, Digest of Presentations
A. Christou. "GaAs and GaN MESFETs and HFETs Processing Technology and Reliability Relationships, A Review" (PDF) Plenary Lecture. Micro- and Nanoelectronics Conference, October 5th, Heraklio, Crete, Greece. (2012)
M. Sawant and A. Christou,"A Bayes Approach and Criticality Analysis for Reliability Prediction of AlGaInP Light Emitting Diodes" (PDF), Reliability Of Compound Semiconductors Workshop (ROCS 2012), April 23, Boston, Mass. (2012)
Zahra Mohaghegh, Mohammad Modarres and Aris Christou, "Physics-Based Common Cause Failure Modeling in Probabilistic Risk Analysis: A Mechanistic Perspective" (PDF), Proceedings of the ASME 2011 Power Conference, POWER2011, July 12-14, Denver, Colorado, USA (2011)
Martin Peckerar, Thomas Martin and Aris Christou, "Flexible Displays With Nanostructured Integrated Power Sources" (PDF), IC4N 2011, June 26-30, Crete, Greece (2011)
Martin Peckerar, Thomas Martin and Aris Christou, "Nanoparticle Technology for Power Integration With Flexible Substrates" (PDF), Proceedings of the IC4N 2011, June 26-30, Crete, Greece (2011)
M. Sawant and A. Christou, "Failure Modes and Effects Criticality Analysis and Accelerated Life Testing of LEDs for Medical Applications" (PDF), ISDRS 2011, December 7-9, College Park, MD (2011)
S. Salemi and A. Christou "Charge Control Analysis of Gallium Nitride Semiconductor Heterostructures and Comparison with GaAs HFET Failure Mechanisms" (PDF), WOCSDICE 2008, May 18-21, Leuven, Belgium (2008)
M. Linnick, Chichang Zhang and A. Christou, “Dielectric Constants for AlGaInAs Quartenary Semiconductor Alloys Grown by MBE for VCSEL Bragg Mirror Applications”, in The Physics and Challenges for Integrated Optics Symposium, MS&T 2005, pp. 23-31
M. Al-Sheikhley, A. Christou, “The Limitations of GaAs/DNA Based Bio-Memory and Sensing Device,” WOCSDICE 2005, pp. 143-148, Cardiff, Wales, UK (2005)
A. Christou, “Advances in Engineering Education: Building alliances With Professional Societies”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Education, ISBN: 1562-3580, July 2005, Gliwice, Poland
Materials Education for the 21st Century Workforce: The 18th Biennial Conference on National Materials Policy. May 24-25, National Academies’ Keck Center, Washington, DC (2004) Dr. Christou chaired the conference–Read his Opening Remarks (PDF)
CC Zhang, P. Yalamanchili, M. Al-Sheikhley and A. Christou, "Metal Migration in Epoxy Encapsulated ECL Devices," 2004, Proceedings ESREF 2004
A. Christou and M. Al-Sheikhley, “Hydridization of DNA on GaAs by VCSEL Source 980nm Photons, MRS 2003 Proceedings Dec 1-3 Boston (2003)
Agis A. Iliadis and A. Christou, "Design and Development of Short and Long Wavelength Infrared Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers,"(PDF) Invited Paper: 2003 Photonics West, Jan 29-Feb 03, 2003 Paper OE15-29-02
C. Zhang, T. Feng, A. Christou, “Laser Assisted MBE Epitaxy of Compound Semiconductor Buffer Layers and GaN, AlN Structures for HEMTs,” IEEE COMMAD 2002, Syndney Australia (2002)
M. Linnik and A. Christou, “Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser with AlGaInAs/InP Bragg Mirrors Fabricated for Operation at 1.5 mm,” IEEE Transactions on Electron Dev., Vol 48, No. 10, pp. 2228-2237
"Epitaxial Issues and Growth Morphologies of Hetrostructures on non (100) InP Substrates", A. Christou (invited) TMS 2002, 131st Annual Meeting Feb 18-21st, 2002
M. Linnik and A. Christou, "Calculations of Optical Constants for Quartenary Compound Semiconductors," MRS Fall Meeting, Nov 27, Boston Mass, paper H.27 (2001)
M. Linnik and A. Christou, "Calculations of Dielectric Constant for AlGaInAs Quaternary Semiconductor Alloy in the Transparent Region and Above (0.4-4.0eV)," MRS Fall Meeting, Nov 27, Boston Mass (2001)
"Gold Niobium Thin Film Metallizations for GaAs Devices and Circuits," 2001 MRS Fall Meeting, R. Esser and A. Christou, Boston Mass, Nov 27, paper L.23 (2001)
M. Linnik and A. Christou, “Optimization of III-V Compound Semiconductor Heterostructures for Distributed Bragg Reflector Applications in VCSELs”, EXMATEC 2000, May 23-25, Crete, Greece (2000)
M. Linnik and A. Christou, “Highly Reflective Bragg Mirrors for VCSEL Applications at 1.3 and 1.55µm”, SPIE, January 27-29,2000, San Jose, CA.
M. Linnik and A. Christou, “Optical Properties of AlGaAsSb, AlGaInP, AlGaInAs, and GaInAsP for Optoelectronic Applications,” MRS, December 1-3, Boston (1999)
H.-W. Fang, M.C. Shen, U. Cho, J. Tesk and A. Christou and S. M. Hsu, “Generation of Different UHMWPE Particle Shape by Wear through Surface Texturing”, Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting, Apr. 27 - May 2 (1999)
J. Arbiol, F. Peiro, A. Cornet, and A. Christou, “Growth Characterization of InAlAs/InGaAs Structures on InP non_(001) Index Substrates”, MSMC, Oxford, March 22 - 25 (1999)
A. Christou, T. Feng, and A. Georgakilas, “Twins and Stacking Faults in Heteroepitaxial Compound Semiconductor Materials”, TMS/ISAT, San Diego, CA, February 28–March 4 (1999)
J. Arbiol, F. Peiro, A. Cornet, and A. Christou, “Growth Characterization of InAlAs/InGaAs Structures on InP Novel Index Substrates”, 1999 Microscopy Conf., Jan. (1999)
M. Linnik and A. Christou, “GaInSbAs/AsInSbAs Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) for Operations at 1.5µm" (PDF), SPIE, January 27-29, San Jose, CA (1999)
M. Linnik, O. Wilson and A. Christou, “Thick PLZT Films Grown by Sol-gel for Optical Device Applications”, 1998 Materials Research Society Annual Meeting, December (1998)
T. Feng, A. Dimoulas, N. Strifas, and A. Christou, “High Performance Cu-Metallized Ga As HEMTs Processing and Reliability”, MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, Nov. 30–Dec. 5 (1998)
M. Al-Sheikhly, W. L. McLaughlin, A. Christou, and A. Kovacs, “Radiochromic Blue Tetrazolium Dosimeter”, IAEA, Vienna, November 2-5 (1998)
R. H. Esser, A. Dimoulas, N. Strifas, A. Christou and N. Papanicolau, “Materials Interfaces in Flip Chip Interconnects for Optical Components; Performance and Degradation Mechanisms”, ESREF 1998, Copenhagen, Denmark, Oct. 5-9 (1998)
Ting Feng, N. Strifas, and A. Christou, “Degradation of Performance in MESFETs and HEMTs: Simulation and Measurement of Reliability”, ESREF, Denmark, October 5-9 (1998)
M. Linnik and A. Christou, “Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) Structure with Optimized Reflection and Transmission Multilayers for Operation at 1.55µm”, Compound Semic Conference, Kyoto, Japan, September (1998)
M. Shen, S. Hsu, A. Christou, “A Novel Multiaxial Wear Tester for Accelerated Testing of Materials”, 45th Annual Meeting, Orthopaedic Research Society Proceedings, Feb. (1998)
For presentations prior to 1998, please see Professor Christou's C.V. (PDF)
