Yun-Jiang Rao is dean of the School of Communication & Information Engineering, and director of the Key Lab of Optical Fiber Sensing & Communications at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. Prior to joining there, he was a research fellow/senior research fellow at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. He is a fellow of the International Society of Optical Engineering and has been working on fiber-optic Fabry-Perot sensors since he joined the groups of two outstanding pioneers of fiber-optic sensors, Prof. Brian Culshaw and Prof. David Jackson, in the early 1990s. He has authored or co-authored more than 300 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals and international conference proceedings, which gained >2000 citations in Web of Science (H-index of 28) and >6000 citations in Google Scholar (H-index of 38). He serves as an associate editor of IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, and Optics and Laser Technology, and is also the editor-in-chief of Photonic Sensors. Zeng-Ling Ran is an associate professor at the Optical Fiber Technology Research Laboratory of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. Yuan Gong is an associate professor at the Optical Fiber Technology Research Laboratory of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.
""This book strikes a good balance between fundamental materials science and technology developments with diverse topics ranging from epitaxial growth of high-aluminum and high-indium composition III-nitride thin-film and nanostructural materials to development of native GaN substrates, from fundamental understandings of electronic and optical properties to processing techniques which are of central important to improve device performance, and from continued push to new emitter wavelengths to new frontiers in solar cells, intersubband (ISB) optoelectronics, lighting communications, and quantum light emitters…. I believe this book will be a great resource to researchers and engineers, both in academia and industry, to learn and be inspired by the latest developments and potentials of III-nitride materials and devices."" —Shuji Nakamura, 2014 Nobel Laureate in Physics and Professor of Materials, University of California Santa Barbara