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NC State ECE is proud to announce the addition of a new professor of electrical and computer engineering, Jon Wierer, to its distinguished faculty this Fall\u2014joining the Wolfpack to lend his experience and expertise to our students and researchers.<\/p>\n
Wierer received his B.S. (1994), M.S. (1995), and Ph.D. (1999) from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, all in electrical engineering. His research interests are semiconductor physics, devices, and materials. From 1999-2008, he worked at Hewlett Packard, which later became Lumileds Lighting, researching novel III-nitride light-emitting diodes (LEDs). At Lumiled’s Advanced Laboratories, his research highlights include developing the first high-power (1 Watt) flip-chip III-nitride LED that is arguably the light source that began solid-state lighting. He also produced seminal work on III-nitride photonic crystal LEDs.<\/p>\n
In 2008 he joined Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. His most notable work at Sandia is his ground-breaking proposal to use laser diodes as an ultra-efficient light source for solid-state lighting. From 2015-2021, he was an Associate Professor at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Center for Photonics and Nanoelectronics. His group’s<\/a> focus was on long-wavelength, visible (green to red) InGaN LEDs and III-nitride power devices.<\/p>\n Wierer has authored or co-authored<\/a> over 180 journal publications and conference presentations and holds 42 patents, predominately related to III-nitride devices. He is an associate editor for the IEEE Photonics Technology Letters journal<\/a>. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Optical Society of America, and a member of the Illumination Engineering Society and the International Society for Optics and Photonics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ECE is proud to announce the addition of a new member of our faculty to bolster the stellar research and teaching going on in the department\u2014welcome to the Pack!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2510,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/2510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}