Yagya D. Sharma

Yagya D. Sharma (SM'01) received the Master of Philosophy degree in material science from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India, in 1992, and the Ph.D. degree in electronics science from the University of Delhi, New Delhi, India, in 2003. He was with the Department of Electronics Engineering, University of Osaka, Osaka, Japan, from 2004 to 2006, under the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Japanese Government Research Fellowship, where he was engaged in research on integrated distributed feedback semiconductor lasers. He is with the Center for High Technology Materials, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, where he is engaged in research on strain layer superlattice and quantum dot infrared detectors. He has authored or co-authored more than 65 papers published in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences. His current research interests include metamaterial and plasmonic structure, GaSb and GaAs-based infrared detectors, and focal plane arrays. Dr. Sharma is a Senior Member of the Lasers and Electro-Optics Society. He is also a member of the International Society for Optical Engineers, the Optical Society of America, the Materials Research Society, and is a Life Member of the Semiconductor Society of India.