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Jean-Pierre Leburton
Born (1949-03-04) March 4, 1949 (age 75)
Liège, Belgium
NationalityAmerican citizen[1]
Alma materUniversity of Liège
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics, Semiconductors, Nanoelectronics and Nanomaterials
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
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Jean-Pierre Leburton ((1949-03-04)March 4, 1949, Liège, Belgium)[2][1] is the Gregory E. Stillman Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and professor of Physics at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign.[3] He is also a full-time faculty member in the Nanoelectronics and Nanomaterials group of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.[4][5] He is known for his work on semiconductor theory and simulation, and on nanoscale quantum devices[1] including quantum wires, quantum dots, and quantum wells. He studies and develops nanoscale materials with potential electronic and biological applications.[6]

Early life and education

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Jean-Pierre Leburton was born on (1949-03-04)March 4, 1949 to Edmond Jules Leburton and Charlotte (Joniaux) Leburton in Liège, Belgium.[2] His father, at one time Prime Minister of Belgium, sparked Jean-Pierre Leburton's interest in physics.[6]

Jean-Pierre Leburton received his Licence (B.Sc.) in Physics in 1971 and his Doctorat (Ph.D.) in 1978 from the University of Liège, Belgium.[7][1]

Career

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Leburton worked as a research scientist at the Siemens AG research laboratory in Munich, Germany from 1979 to 1981.[8][1][9]

From 1981-1983, Leburton worked at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (UIUC) as a visiting assistant professor. In 1983 he joined the faculty as an assistant professor. He became an associate Professor in 1987 and a full professor in 1991. He worked with Karl Hess, co-director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, and became one of the original faculty members at the Beckman Institute in 1989.[6]

He held the Hitachi LTD Chair on Quantum Materials as a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan in 1992. He was also a visiting professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland in 2000.[10]

In 2003, he was named the Gregory E. Stillman Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois.[3] He has been the head of the Computational Electronics group at the Beckman Institute,[11] and is currently a full-time faculty member in the Nanoelectronics and Nanomaterials group at the Beckman Institute.[12] In 2008 he also became a professor of physics at UIUC.[3]

He has published more than 300 papers in technical journals and books.[10] He is first editor of Phonons in semiconductor nanostructures (1993)[13] and co-editor of Contemporary Topics in Semiconductor Spintronics (2017),[14] among others.

Research

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Leburton has consistently been a pioneer, whose investigations of ideas begin at the farthest edges of what is possible.[15] In addition to his own research team and other researchers at the University of Illinois, he collaborates with researchers at other institutions.[16] His work has impact in a wide variety of areas, from computer design[16] to medical diagnosis.[17]

"I develop physical models to understand the behavior and operations on novel nanoscale electronic and optical devices. I also use these models to explore new properties of nanostructures. My field of expertise extends from nanoscale silicon transistor operation to the study of quantum wires and quantum dots with the intimate quantum behavior of charge carriers such as the spin of electrons for applications in quantum information processing. I am also interested in molecular electronics to investigate transport in carbon nanotubes and graphene, and more recently the interface between semiconductors and biological systems." — Leburton, 2009[18]

In the 1980s and 1990s, Leburton began to study quantum wires. He developed simulation tools to study quantum confinement using a combination of solid-state physics principles and device simulation.[19] He was the first to develop a technique for Monte Carlo simulation of non-linear transport in quantum wires.[8][20][21][22][23]

His simulation tools and physical models help to describe behavior of quantum wires, quantum dots,[8][24] and quantum wells.[25] He has studied the optical properties of superlattices and established the index of refraction in superlattices both experimentally and theoretically.[26][27][28]

Techniques for effective and inexpensive DNA sensing and sequencing are important to understanding disease mechanisms, identifying genetically-based conditions, and developing methods for personalized diagnosis and treatment. In 2004, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) defined a set of goals for DNA sensing and sequencing. Leburton participated with Greg Timp and others in the NIH's Revolutionary Genome Sequencing Technologies program, popularly known as the "$1000 genome" project.[29][30] Their goal was to develop a synthetic nanopore for the sequencing of DNA. Leburton developed a novel approach, applying techniques from semiconductor technology to artificial nanopores. By 2006, they were able to create multilayer artificial membranes, using semiconductor materials, and to manipulate their ion flow.[31][32][6] Nanopore sequencing has been classed as a third-generation sequencing technique, and considered one of the most promising approaches to meeting the NIH's "gold standard".[29]

Leburton, Klaus Schulten and others studied the structure and behavior of graphene nanoribbons, developing and testing models for hybrid solid-liquid systems.[33][34] A two-dimensional material consisting of a single atomic layer of material, graphene has particularly interesting electronic properties.[15] By manipulating graphene's electrical properties, researchers detected DNA molecules passing through a nanopore in a graphene layer embedded in a solid-state membrane. The electrical sensitivity of the graphene membrane varied depending on its geometry. Researchers could detect both rotational and positional conformation of the DNA strand.[33][34]

Leburton and his colleagues have since developed methods for detecting DNA methylation using nanopore sensors. This approach has important applications for the early detection of cancer.[35][17][36]

Leburton has been involved in ongoing study of spintronics in semiconductor nanostructures,[37] including the movement of electrons through carbon nanotubes and the application of physics to all-carbon, cascaded spintronic circuit design.[38] In a high electric field graphene may behave like a transistor. Leburton and others are studying graphene's behavior in such conditions, examining the possibility of developing biomolecules with nanoelectronic properties.[15]

Awards

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Kalte, Pamela M.; Nemeh, Katherine H. (2003). American men & women of science. Vol. 4 (21 ed.). Detroit: Gale. p. 690. ISBN 978-0787665234.
  2. ^ a b "Chronique de Waremme". Waremme. Archived from the original on 28 January 2018. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Jean-Pierre Leburton Professor of Electrical and Computer Eng". Physics Illinois. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  4. ^ "Jean-Pierre Leburton". Beckman Institute. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  5. ^ Dallas, UT (June 5, 2017). "Researchers Unveil New Spin on Future of Transistors with Novel Design". Beckman Institute. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  6. ^ a b c d McGaughey, Steve (August 22, 2007). "Father's Gift Led Leburton to Science". Beckman Institute. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  7. ^ a b c Zhang, Lingxiao; Melnikov, Dmitriy V.; Leburton, Jean-Pierre (March 2007). "Engineering Exchange Coupling in Double Elliptic Quantum Dots". IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology. 6 (2): 250–255. arXiv:cond-mat/0610281. Bibcode:2007ITNan...6..250Z. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.242.4408. doi:10.1109/TNANO.2007.891832. S2CID 14002512.
  8. ^ a b c d Woo, Jong-Chun, ed. (2003). Compound semiconductors 2004 : proceedings of the Thirty-First International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors held in Seoul, Korea, 12-16 September 2004. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing. pp. ix–x. ISBN 9780750310178. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  9. ^ Leburton, Jean-Pierre (3 November 2015). "Genomics with graphene nanotechnology". SPIE Newsroom. doi:10.1117/2.1201510.006115. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  10. ^ a b "2nd World Biotechnology Congress December 04-05, 2017". Conference Series. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
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  12. ^ a b "Leburton Honored by IEEE". Beckman Bulletin. No. January. 2017. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  13. ^ Leburton, Jean-Pierre; Pascual, Jordi; Torres, Clivia Sotomayor, eds. (1993). Phonons in semiconductor nanostructures. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic. ISBN 9780792322771. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  14. ^ Bandyopadhyay, Supriyo; Cahay, Marc; Leburton, Jean-Pierre (2017). Contemporary Topics in Semiconductor Spintronics. World Scientific. doi:10.1142/10273. ISBN 978-981-314-981-6.
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  18. ^ "Jean-Pierre Leburton Featured Expert". ECE Illinois. Retrieved August 1, 2009.
  19. ^ Leburton, J. P. (15 November 1984). "Size effects on polar optical phonon scattering of 1-D and 2-D electron gas in synthetic semiconductors". Journal of Applied Physics. 56 (10): 2850–2855. Bibcode:1984JAP....56.2850L. doi:10.1063/1.333820.
  20. ^ Andoa, Yuji; Cappy, Alain (15 September 1993). "Ensemble Monte Carlo simulation for electron transport in quantum wire structures" (PDF). Journal of Applied Physics. 74 (6): 3983. Bibcode:1993JAP....74.3983A. doi:10.1063/1.354441. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  21. ^ Briggs, S.; Leburton, J. P. (15 October 1988). "Size effects in multisubband quantum wire structures". Physical Review B. 38 (12): 8163–8170. Bibcode:1988PhRvB..38.8163B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.38.8163. PMID 9945568.
  22. ^ Jovanovic, D.; Leburton, J.P. (January 1992). "Electron-phonon interaction and velocity oscillations in quantum wire structures". Superlattices and Microstructures. 11 (2): 141–143. Bibcode:1992SuMi...11..141J. doi:10.1016/0749-6036(92)90238-Z.
  23. ^ Jovanovic, D; Leburton, J P; Ismail, K (1 May 1994). "Evidence of resonant intersubband optical phonon scattering in quantum wires". Semiconductor Science and Technology. 9 (5S): 882–885. Bibcode:1994SeScT...9..882J. doi:10.1088/0268-1242/9/5S/130.
  24. ^ Leburton, Jean-Pierre; Nagaraja, Satyadev; Matagne, Philippe; Martin, Richard M. (May 2003). "Spintronics and exchange engineering in coupled quantum dots". Microelectronics Journal. 34 (5–8): 485–489. doi:10.1016/S0026-2692(03)00080-6. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  25. ^ Hickernell, Robert K.; Christensen, David H.; Pellegrino, Joseph G.; Wang, Jin; Leburton, Jean-Pierre (15 March 1994). "Determination of the complex refractive index of individual quantum wells from distributed reflectance". Journal of Applied Physics. 75 (6): 3056–3059. Bibcode:1994JAP....75.3056H. doi:10.1063/1.356153.
  26. ^ Ivchenko, Eougenious L.; Pikus, Grigory (1995). Superlattices and Other Heterostructures Symmetry and Optical Phenomena. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3642975899.
  27. ^ Leburton, J. P.; Hess, K.; Holonyak, N.; Coleman, J. J.; Camras, M. (July 1983). "Index of refraction of AlAs-GaAs superlattices". Journal of Applied Physics. 54 (7): 4230–4231. Bibcode:1983JAP....54.4230L. doi:10.1063/1.332526. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  28. ^ Kahen, K. B.; Leburton, J. P. (15 April 1986). "Optical constants of GaAs-As superlattices and multiple quantum wells". Physical Review B. 33 (8): 5465–5472. Bibcode:1986PhRvB..33.5465K. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.33.5465. PMID 9939051.
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  31. ^ "Developing Semiconductor Membranes for Bio-molecule Control in Nanopores" (PDF). Beckman Institute Annual Report 2006-2007. p. 20. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  32. ^ Kloeppel, James E. (July 12, 2007). "Semiconductor membrane mimics biological behavior of ion channels". Illinois News Bureau. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  33. ^ a b Dambrot, Stuart Mason (October 30, 2013). "Through a nanopore, ionically: Graphene quantum transistor for next-generation DNA sensing". Phys.org. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  34. ^ a b Sathe, Chaitanya; Zou, Xueqing; Leburton, Jean-Pierre; Schulten, Klaus (22 November 2011). "Computational Investigation of DNA Detection Using Graphene Nanopores". ACS Nano. 5 (11): 8842–8851. doi:10.1021/nn202989w. PMC 3222720. PMID 21981556.
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  36. ^ Qiu, Hu; Sarathy, Aditya; Schulten, Klaus; Leburton, Jean-Pierre (11 April 2017). "Detection and mapping of DNA methylation with 2D material nanopores". npj 2D Materials and Applications. 1 (1). doi:10.1038/s41699-017-0005-7. PMC 5794036. PMID 29399640.
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