Biography
Wayesh Qarony is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering with a joint appointment in the Department of Physics. Prior to UCF, he was a postdoctoral scholar at University of California Berkeley, jointly with the Molecular Foundry of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. He was also a postdoctoral scholar at University of California Davis.
Qarony received his doctoral degree in applied physics, his master’s degree in electrical engineering, and his bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Jacobs University Bremen (now known as Constructor University) and American International University-Bangladesh, respectively.
His research focuses on nanophotonic design, fabrication and characterization of semiconductor optoelectronic, photonics and quantum devices for ubiquitous energy and sensing applications. He is a co-author of several breakthrough research projects, including the first all-silicon quantum light source, the first scale-invariant single mode semiconductor surface-emitting laser and record photoabsorption in silicon optical sensors that exceed the III-V semiconductor absorption efficiency in the NIR region.
At UCF, he plans to continue his research on semiconductor nano-optical devices, including scalable quantum light sources and single photon sensors for emerging applications in quantum information processing, quantum networks, ubiquitous energy, and high-temperature and harsh environment optical sensing from space to earth.
Publications
- K. Jhuria, S. Ivanov, D. Polley, Y. Zhiyenbayev, W. Liu, A. Persaud, W. Redjem, W. Qarony, P. Parajuli, Q. Ji, A. J. Gonsalves, J. Bokor, L. Z. Tan, B. Kanté, T. Schenkel, “Programmable quantum emitter formation in silicon,” Nature Communications 15, 4497 (2024).
- Z. Jia, W. Qarony, J. Park, S. Hooten, D. Wen, Y. Zhiyenbayev, W. Redjem, E. Yablonovitch, B. Kanté, “Interpretable inverse-designed cavity for on-chip nonlinear photon pair generation,” Optica 10(11), 1529-1534(2023).
- W. Qarony, W. Redjem, Y. zhiyenbayev, S. Ivanov, C. Papapanos, W. Liu, S. Dhuey, A. Schwartzberg, T. Schenkel, L. Z. Tan, B. Kanté, ” All-silicon quantum light source by embedding a single color center in a nanophotonic cavity,” IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) (2023).
- W. Qarony, M.I. Hossain, A. Tamang, V. Jovanov, M. Shahiduzzaman, A. Salleo, Y.H. Tsang, D. Knipp, “On the Potential of Optical Nanoantennas for Visibly Transparent Solar Cells,” ACS Photonics 10 (12), 4205-4214 (2023).
- W. Qarony, A. S. Mayet, E. P. Devine, S. Ghandiparsi, C. Bartolo-Perez, A. Ahamed, A. Rawat, H. H. Mamtaz, T. Yamada, A. F. Elrefaie, S.-Y. Wang, M. S. Islam, “Achieving higher photoabsorption than group III-V semiconductors in ultra-fast thin silicon photodetectors with integrated photon-trapping surface structures,” Advanced Photonics Nexus 2 (5), 056001-056001(2023).
- W. Redjem#, Y. zhiyenbayev#, W. Qarony#, S. Ivanov, C. Papapanos, W. Liu, S. Dhuey, A. Schwartzberg, T. Schenkel, L. Z. Tan, B. Kanté, ” All-silicon quantum light source by embedding an atomic emissive center in a nanophotonic cavity,” Nature Communications 14, 3321 (2023).
- Y. zhiyenbayev, W. Redjem, S. Ivanov, W. Qarony, W. Liu, C. Papapanos, T. Schenkel, L. Z. Tan, B. Kanté, “Scalable manufacturing of quantum emitters in silicon by rapid thermal annealing,” Optics Express 31 (5), 8352-8362 (2023).
- R. Contractor#, W. Noh#, W. Redjem#, W. Qarony, E. Martin, S. Dhuey, A. Schwartzberg, B. Kanté, “Scalable single-mode surface emitting laser via open-Dirac singularities,” Nature 608, 692–698 (2022).
Research Interests
- Quantum materials and devices
- Solid-state quantum technologies
- Single photon detectors
- Nano-optical devices
- Photonic nanostructures for ubiquitous energy