News

March, 2012

Former group member Ibrahim Inanç starts to work as a Faculty Member in the Depaartment of Material Science and Engineering at Ondokuz Mayıs University

 

Ibrahim Inanç graduated from the Material Science and Engineering Ph. D. program at Sabancı University.

August, 2011

Huzeyfe Yılmaz receives full scholarship for Ph.D study in Physics from University of Washington, St. Louis

 

Huzeyfe Yılmaz joins the Ph. D. program at the Department of Physics, University of Washington, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

August, 2011

Former group member Ulas Kemal Ayaz starts to work as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Southern Methodist University

 

Ulas Kemal Ayaz graduated from the Ph. D. program at Southern Methodist University and is continuing as a Postdoc.

July, 2011

Former group member Abdullah Demir joins in Silicon Valley, California, USA.  

 

Abdullah Demir, after obtaining his PhD in Optics from the University of Central Florida joins JDSU.


July, 2011

Former group member Yigit Ozan Yilmaz joinsSilicon Photonics Group, Santa Clara, California, USA.

Yigit Ozan Yılmaz, after obtianing his Ph.D. from University of North Carolina Charlotte , joins the Intel Silicon Photonics group.


March, 2011

Hasan Yılmaz receives full scholarship for Ph.D study in Physics from the

 

Hasan Yılmaz joins the Ph. D. program at the Complex Photonics Systems, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, Department of Science and Technology, University of Twente, The Netherlands.

 

September, 2010

Optics and Photonics Research in Turkey is reviewed in Optics and Photonics News Magazine

The Microphotonics Research Laboratory focuses on silicon microspheres for optical communication applications.

September, 2010

 

Mohammed Sharif Murib receives full scholarship for Ph.D study at the

 

Mohammed Sharif Murib joins the Ph. D. program at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Hasselt, Belgium.


September, 2009

 

Former group member Serkan Küçüksenel joins Middle East Technical University (METU) as an Assistant Professor of Economics

 

Serkan Küçüksenel received his Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology prior to joining METU.


July, 2009

Research efforts with Silicon Micromarbles are published in Optics and Photonics News Magazine

This being the “photonics century” in general, and the “microphotonics century” in special, it is only fair that we moved on to silicon micromarbles, which are pleasantly friendly to electrons as well as photons. By electrically controlling the size and the refractive index of these spherical micromarvels, microphotonic engineers should be able to spectrally shift the MDR’s, and therefore manipulate light creation, transmission and detection in three dimensional volumetric lightwave circuits (VLC’s).

July, 2009

Koç University's efforts in Optics and Photonics are published in Optics and Photonics News Magazine

The Microphotonics Research Laboratory focuses on silicon photonics, microcavity QED, and laser spectroscopy. We are currently working on developing silicon microsphere based near-infrared optoelectronic devices such as filters, modulators, and detectors. Silicon microspheres combine the resonant photonic properties of the spherical microcavity with the semiconducting electronic properties of the silicon, and are ideal building blocks for 3D volumetric lightwave circuits (VLC’s).

 


June, 2009

IEEE Microwave Magazine logo design is selected as runner up in

The Koç University Microphotonics Laboratory Director, Prof. Ali Serpengüzel's logo design for the IEEE Microwave Magazine is selected as runner up.


May, 2009

Emre Yüce receives full scholarship for Ph.D study in Physics at the

 

Emre Yüce joins the Ph. D. program at the Department of Physics of University of Twente, the Netherlands.
March, 2009

KUMRL receives funding from the EOARD

The European Office of Aerospace Research and Development (EOARD) awards a grant to Koç University to sponsor the "Conference on Photonic Materials, Devices, and Applications III."


September, 2008

The PhOREMOST Network of Excellence publishes the Roadmap for Emerging Nanophotonics.

The Emerging Nanophonics Roadmap is an attempt by members of PhOREMOST and guest scientists, to combine their expertise and views on the way the field of Nanophotonics is likely to develop over the next 5 to 15 years.It is hoped that this document and future editions will become invaluable tools for academic and industrial researchers as well as research policy actors, when promoting the need for Nanophotonics research in Europe.

The figure above illustrates a landscape,

mapping the maturity status of concepts,

technologies, materials and application

domain related to the nanophotonics

covered in the roadmap.

April, 2008

KUMRL's collaborative research with Harvard University is reported the Photonics Spectra Magazine

Putting Optical Communications in the Black (Photoluminescence of black silicon could make it suitable for LANs) by Hank Hogan. The computers in an office someday might be networked with light, if recent research on black silicon pans out. A group of researchers from Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., from Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey, and from SiOnyx Inc. in Beverly, Mass., have investigated the photoluminescence of black silicon and have found a broadband that is centered at 630 nm.


March, 2008


Merging Optics & Nanotechnologies (MONA) roadmap is published

“A European roadmap for photonics and nanotechnologies,” The European Commission Project on Merging Optics and Nanotechnologies (MONA) Brussels, Belgium, pp.162 (2008).

September, 2007

Microphotonics Research Laboratory, Koç University, Turkey receives research funding from

The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) awards a grant to Koç University Microphotonics Research Laboratory to conduct research on the "Integration of Optical Monolithic Resonators on Silicon for Photonic Communications."


January 29, 2007

 

Ali Serpengüzel is elected a Fellow by the Board of

Prof. Ali Serpengüzel is elected a Fellow by the Board of the Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers for specific achievements in microphotonics, nanophotonics, biophotonics, ecophotonics, nonlinear optics, and laser diagnostics.

September, 2006
Microphotonics Research Laboratory, Koç University, Turkey receives funding from the EOARD

The European Office of Aerospace Research and Development (EOARD) awards a grant to Koç University to sponsor the "Conference on Photonic Materials, Devices, and Applications II."


August 30, 2006

 

Ulas Kemal Ayaz receives full scholarship for Ph.D. study in Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering from

Ulas Kemal Ayaz joins the Ph. D. program in the Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering Department of the Polytechnic University.

August 16, 2006
 KUMRL receives state-of-the-art research equipment as gift from Yale University

The special gift of Yale University comprising of high quality state-of-the-art optical and optoelectronic research equipment boosts the capabilities of the Koç University, Microphotonics Research Laboratory.

July 27, 2006

Ulas Kemal Ayaz receives full scholarship for Ph.D study in Microelectronics Engineering from

Ulas Kemal Ayaz gets accepted with full scholarship to the  Ph. D. program in Microelectronics Engineering of the Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey.


June 13, 2005
Former group member Senol Isçi marries Dilek Demirel

Dilek and Senol had a beautiful wedding at Beykoz, Istanbul on June 13, 2005. We wish the newlyweds a bright future together.


 March, 2005

Abdullah Demir receives full scholarship for Ph.D study in Optics from University of Central Florida

Abdullah Demir joins the  Ph. D. program in Optical Science and Engineering of the University of Central Florida (UCF), School of Optics and the Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL)

January, 2005

KUMRL research is listed twice in "Optical Communications 2005" of

The recent paper by A. Serpengüzel, A. Kurt, T. Bilici, S. Isci, and Y. O. Yilmaz, “Resonant Channel Dropping Filter with Integrated Detector System based on Optical Fiber Coupler and Microsphere,” Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 43, 5878-5881 (2004). doi:10.1143/JJAP.43.5878 is listed twice (optical fibers and applications) in the Optical Communications 2005 issue of IEE INSPEC.


October, 2004

Microphotonics Research Laboratory receives research funding from European Commission
 

    The European Commission (EC), FP6-IST 511616,

      Network of Excellence

      NanoPHOtonics to REalize MOlecular Scale Technologies (PHOREMOST)



October, 2004

Microphotonics Research Laboratory receives research funding from European Commission
   The European Commission (EC), FP6-IST 003887,

    Network of Excellence on

    Micro Optics (NEMO) 
 

October, 2004

KUMRL receives state-of-the-art research equipment as gift from Lucent Technologies                                 

The special gift of Lucent Technologies comprising of high quality state-of-the-art optical and optoelectronic research equipment boosts the capabilities of the Koç University, Microphotonics Research Laboratory.


August, 2004

Ibrahim Inanç receives full scholarship for Ph.D study in Material Sci. and Eng. from

Ibrahim Inanç joins the  Ph. D. program in Materials Science and Engineering of the Sabanci University.

June, 2004
Ali Serpengüzel visits Harvard University

Dr. Ali Serpengüzel visits Harvard University, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Department of Physics as a Vehbi Koç Scholar. Dr. Serpengüzel collaborates with the research group of Prof. Eric Mazur on black silicon and silica nanowires.


April, 2004


Yigit Ozan Yilmaz receives full scholarship for Ph.D study in Optics from University of Central Florida

Yigit Ozan Yilmaz joins the  Ph. D. program in Optical Science and Engineering of the University of Central Florida (UCF), School of Optics and the Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL).

 

April, 2004
Ismail Emre Özkumur receives full scholarship for Ph.D. study from Boston University

Ismail Emre Özkumur gets accepted with full scholarship to the Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. program of Boston University, Photonics Center.

June, 2004

Temel Bilici joins

Temel Bilici joins the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) as a Researcher at National  Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology.

 

June, 2003

Senol Isci joins

 

Senol Isci joins the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) as a Researcher at National  Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology.

 

April, 2003

 

Ali Serpengüzel makes a presentation on Photonics & OptoElectronics Microdevices (POEM).

The presentation took place at the Framework 6 Information Day at Lütfi Kirdar Convention Center, Istanbul on April 24, 2003.

September, 2002
KUMRL receives research funding from the EOARD 

The European Office of Aerospace Research and Development (EOARD) awards a research grant to Koç University Microphotonics Research Laboratory to conduct research on "Amorphous, Porous, and Black Silicon for Photonic Applications."


July, 2002

Ali Serpengüzel receives the Werner von Siemens Excellence Award in Science & Innovation from SIEMENS Aktiengesellschaft

The Werner von Siemens Excellence Award for Science and Innovation of the Siemens Aktiengesellschaft is given with the principal goal to reward and encourage innovative scholarly endeavors that add significant value to the institution and enrich the intellectual and educational experiences of the Koç University community.

December, 2001
 KUMRL receives state-of-the-art research equipment as gift from Yale University

The special gift of Yale University comprising of high quality state-of-the-art optical and optoelectronic research equipment boosts the capabilities of the Koç University Microphotonics Research Laboratory.

September, 2001
KUMRL receives research funding from the EOARD 

The European Office of Aerospace Research and Development (EOARD) awards a research grant to Koç University Microphotonics Research Laboratory to conduct research on "Amorphous Silicon Photonic Microcavities."


September, 2001
 

KUMRL receives research funding from

The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) awards a grant to Koç University Microphotonics Research Laboratory to conduct research on the "Investigation of the tool, workpiece and chip temperatures in computer numerical control machine tools by a high resolution infrared thermal camera."


June, 2001
 Ali Serpengüzel visits Harvard University

Dr. Ali Serpengüzel visits Harvard University, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Department of Physics as a Vehbi Koç Scholar. Dr. Serpengüzel collaborates with the research group of Prof. Eric Mazur on black silicon.
September 30, 2000
Ali Serpengüzel is elected to the grade of a Senior Member by the Board of IEEE

Dr. Ali Serpengüzel is elected to the grade of Senior Member by the Board of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. for his contributions to optoelectronics.