April S. Brown, John Cocke Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Professor of Center for Biologically Inspired Materials and Material Systems and Sr. Associate Dean for Research

Dr. April Brown recieved her B.S.E.E. from North Carolina State University in 1981, her M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1984 and 1985, respectively. She worked at the Hughes Research Laboratories (now HRL LLC) in Malibu, Ca. from 1986-1993, and spent one year at the Army Research Office in the Physics Division (1988). She joined the Georgia Insitutute of Technology in 1994 as an Associate Professor and was promoted to Professor in 1999. She was Associate Dean in the College of Engineering from 1999-2001 and Executive Assistant to the President from 2001-2002. In addition, she was named Pettit Professor in Microelectronics in 2001. She joined Duke University as Professor and Chair in July 2002. She is currently Sr. Associate Dean for Research in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke

Contact Info:

Office Location:	305 Teer
Office Phone:	(919) 660-5498
Email Address:

Teaching (Fall 2013):

• ECE 546.01, OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES Synopsis

  TBA, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

Education:

M.Sc.	Cornell University	1994
D.Sc	Cornell University	1985
B.Sc.	NC State University	1981

Specialties:

Nanomaterial manufacturing and characterization
Sensing and Sensor Systems
Nanoscale/microscale computing systems
Integrated Nanoscale Systems

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. P. C. Wu and M. Losurdo and T. H. Kim and M. Giangregorio and G. Bruno and H. O. Everitt and A. S. Brown, Plasmonic Gallium Nanoparticles on Polar Semiconductors: Interplay between Nanoparticle Wetting, Localized Surface Plasmon Dynamics, and Interface Charge, Langmuir, vol. 25 no. 2 (January, 2009), pp. 924 -- 930, ISSN 0743-7463  [abs]
2. M. A. Garcia and M. Losurdo and S. D. Wolter and W. V. Lampert and J. Bonaventura and G. Bruno and C. Yi and A. S. Brown, Comparison of Functionalized III-V Semiconductor Response for Nitric Oxide, Sensor Letters, vol. 6 no. 4 (August, 2008), pp. 627 -- 634, ISSN 1546-198X  [abs]
3. M. Losurdo and M. M. Giangregorio and G. Bruno and T. H. Kim and S. Choi and A. S. Brown and G. Pettinari and M. Capizzi and A. Polimeni, Behavior of hydrogen in InN investigated in real time exploiting spectroscopic ellipsometry, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 91 no. 8 (August, 2007), ISSN 0003-6951  [abs]
4. K. S. Mckay and F. P. Lu and J. Kim and C. H. Yi and A. S. Brown and A. R. Hawkins, Band discontinuity measurements of the wafer bonded InGaAs/Si heterojunction, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 90 no. 22 (May, 2007), ISSN 0003-6951  [abs]
5. J. Uhlrich and M. Garcia and S. Wolter and A. S. Brown and T. F. Kuech, Interfacial chemistry and energy band line-up of pentacene with the GaN (0001) surface, Journal Of Crystal Growth, vol. 300 no. 1 (March, 2007), pp. 204 -- 211, ISSN 0022-0248  [abs]