Patents

Education
PhD: Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Stanford University, 2004
MSc: Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Stanford University, 2000
BSc: Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, 1998

Awards
National Research Foundation – NRF Investigatorship Award – 2015
Nanyang Award for Research Excellence – 2013
Elected Associate Member of National Academy of Sciences, Turkey (TUBA) – 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 – 2007
TUBA GEBIP – 2006

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

Representative Publications

  1. Stable and Low Threshold Optical Gain in CdSe/CdS Quantum Dots: All-Colloidal Frequency Up-Converted Laser
    Advanced Materials, volume 27, page 2678 (2015)
  2. Lateral Size-Dependent Spontaneous and Stimulated Emission Properties in Colloidal CdSe Nanoplatelets
    ACS Nano, volume 9, page 5041 (2015)
  3. Continuously Tunable Emission in Inverted Type-I CdS/CdSe Core/Crown Semiconductor Nanoplatelets
    Advanced Functional Materials, volume 25, page 4282 (2015)
  4. Amplified Spontaneous Emission and Lasing in Colloidal Nanoplatelets
    ACS Nano, volume 8, page 6599 (2014)
  5. Stacking in colloidal nanoplatelets: excitonic properties
    ACS Nano, volume 8, page 12524 (2014)
  6. 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)
  7. Photogeneration of hot plasmonic electrons with metal nanocrystals: Quantum description and potential applications
    Nano Today, volume 9, page 85 (2014) [Invited Paper.]