+90 (312) 290 1021
+90 (312) 266 4365
volkan@bilkent.edu.tr
UNAM Director’s Office
webpage Biography Google Scholar
 Demir Research Group – Device & Sensors Research Labrotary

Professor, Department of Physics
Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Associate Member, Turkish Academy of Science

Nanophotonics, nanocrystal optoeelectronics, devices and sensors, light-emitting diodes, lighting, energy research.

Stanford University, PhD, 2004
Stanford University, MS, 2000
Bilkent University Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, 1998
Ankara Fen Lisesi, 1994

National Research Foundation – NRF Investigatorship Award – 2015
Nanyang Award for Research Excellence – 2013
Elected Associate Member of National Academy of Sciences, Turkey (TUBA) – 2012
IEEE Senior Membership – 2012
The Rank Prize International Scholar, The Rank Prize Funds, UK – 2011
Singapore NRF Fellowship Award – 2009
TUBITAK – TESVIK (Young Scientist) Award – 2009
Parlar Foundation Young Scientist Award – 2008
European Science Foundation European Young Investigator Award (EURYI) – 2007
JCI Worldwide Federation of Young Leaders and Entrepreneurs TOYP Honoree – 2007
TUBA GEBIP – 2006

Patents: >30, SCI Journal publications: >200, Invited talks, seminars, colloquia: >150

• Stable and Low Threshold Optical Gain in CdSe/CdS Quantum Dots: All-Colloidal Frequency Up-Converted Laser
  Advanced Materials, volume 27, page 2678 (2015)
• Lateral Size-Dependent Spontaneous and Stimulated Emission Properties in Colloidal CdSe Nanoplatelets
  ACS Nano, volume 9, page 5041 (2015)
• Continuously Tunable Emission in Inverted Type-I CdS/CdSe Core/Crown Semiconductor Nanoplatelets
  Advanced Functional Materials, volume 25, page 4282 (2015)
• Amplified Spontaneous Emission and Lasing in Colloidal Nanoplatelets
  ACS Nano, volume 8, page 6599 (2014)
• Stacking in colloidal nanoplatelets: excitonic properties
  ACS Nano, volume 8, page 12524 (2014)
• Comparative study of field-dependent carrier dynamics and emission kinetics of InGaN/GaN light-emitting diodes grown on (11-22) semipolar versus (0001) polar planes
  Applied Physics Letters, volume 104, page 143506 (2014)
• Photogeneration of hot plasmonic electrons with metal nanocrystals: Quantum description and potential applications
  Nano Today, volume 9, page 85 (2014) [Invited Paper.]

+90 (312) 290 8026
+90 (312) 266 4365
kasirga@unam.bilkent.edu.tr
UNAM Director’s Office
webpage

Strongly correlated materials, 2D materials

PhD: University of Washington, 2013

• Measurement of a solid-state triple point: the metal-insulator transition in VO2
  Nature, volume 500, page 431 (2013)
• Photoresponse of a strongly correlated material determined by scanning photocurrent microscopy
  Nature Nanotechnology, volume 7, page 723 (2012)
• Microfluidics for reconfigurable electromagnetic metamaterials
  Applied Physics Letters, volume 195, page 214102 (2009)

+90 (312) 290 3477
+90 (312) 266
dtuncel@fen.bilkent.edu.tr
UNAM Director’s Office
webpage

Assoc. Prof., Department of Chemistry

Design and synthesis of novel organic and inorganic/organic hybrid, nanostructured functional materials with potential applications in the areas of photonics, photocatalysis and bionanotechnology

PhD: University of Cambridge and Imperial College

• Cucurbit[7]uril-threaded fluorene–thiophenebased conjugated polyrotaxanes
  RSC Adv., 2016, 6, 98109-98116
• High-Stability, High-Efficiency Organic Monoliths Made of Oligomer Nanoparticles Wrapped in Organic Matrix
  ACS Nano, 2016, 10 (5), 5333–5339
• Construction of multi-layered white emitting organic nanoparticles by clicking polymers
  Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2015, 3, 10277-10284
• High-Stability, High-Efficiency Organic Monoliths Made of Oligomer Nanoparticles Wrapped in Organic Matrix
  ACS Nano, 2016, 10 (5), 5333–5339
• Synthesis and investigation of singlet oxygen production efficiency of photosensitizers based on meso-phenyl-2,5-thienylene linked porphyrin oligomer and polymers
  Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 2015, 13, 330-347
• pH-Responsive Near-Infrared Emitting Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles for Cellular Imaging and Controlled-Drug Delivery
  J. Polym. Sci. A Polym. Chem., 2015, 53, 114-122
• Cucurbituril-based supramolecularly engineered nanostructured materials
  Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 2015, 13, 330-347
• Red Emitting, Cucurbituril-Capped, pH-Responsive Conjugated Oligomer-Based Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery and Cellular Imaging
  Biomacromolecules, 2014, 15, 3366-3374
• Conjugated polymer nanoparticles
  Nanoscale, 2010, 2, 484-494 (Invited Feature Article, 2010-May, June, July, Top Ten articles)

+90 (312) 290 3550
+90 (312) 266 4365
elbuken@unam.bilkent.edu.tr
UNAM105
webpage

Microdroplet-based microfluidic systems, integrated microfluidic systems

PhD: University of Waterloo, 2004-2008
Postdoctoral Associate: University of Waterloo, 2008-2012
Senior Scientist: Abbott Point of Care, 2010-2011
Research Asst. Prof.: Koc University, 2011-2012

• Microfluidic droplet content detection using integrated capacitive sensors
  Sensors and Actuators B, v. 210, pp. 669, 2015
• Passive droplet trafficking at microfluidic junctions under geometric and flow asymmetries
  Lab on a Chip, v. 11, pp. 3727, 2011
• Detection of microdroplet size and speed using capacitive sensors
  Sensors and Actuators A, v. 171, pp. 55, 2011