Thomas Wunderer Email & Phone Number

Thomas is a Senior Scientist and Principal Investigator at SRI’s Hardware Research and Technology Lab. He is an expert in the field of wide/ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor optical emitters and laser technology. He is credited with numerous innovations in the development of optical emitter concepts and device demonstrators, with breakthrough laser prototypes in both vertical and edge-type emitter configurations. For example, he demonstrated the brightest semipolar InGaN LED in 2006, he developed the shortest wavelength (λ = 236.5nm) UV AlGaN-based optically pumped laser and the first in-well pumped InGaN VECSEL. More recently, Dr. Wunderer was PARC's PI under DARPA's LUSTER program that demonstrated high-power electron-beam pumped UV light sources and lasers, and he is the technical lead for the development of Watt-level III-N laser diodes. Most recently, Dr. Wunderer has been leading the technical team at PARC and SRI to develop III-N Integrated Photonics with the successful demonstration of single-frequency laser emission at record short wavelength. Prior to joining PARC, Thomas worked at Fraunhofer USA, Lansing, MI where he studied the thermal conductivity of diamond thin films.Thomas received a Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) in Electrical Engineering from Ulm University, Germany in 2010 where his research focused on semipolar InGaN / GaN LEDs and laser structures. He holds more than 30 patents, has authored and co-authored over 100 technical papers, and has delivered more than 50 international and national conference presentations.

Listed skills include Thin Films, Characterization, Materials Science, Electronics, and 6 others.

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  Ulm University

  Electrical Engineering