Erick Koontz
University of Central Florida
5 Papers
7 Citations
Erick Koontz is an academic researcher from University of Central Florida. The author has contributed to research in topics: Thin film & Chalcogenide glass. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 5 publications. Previous affiliations of Erick Koontz include University of Delaware.
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Papers
Impact of Stoichiometry on Structural and Optical Properties of Sputter Deposited Multicomponent Tellurite Glass Films
Okechukwu Ogbuu,Qingyang Du,Hongtao Lin,Lan Li,Yi Zou,Erick Koontz,Charmayne Smith,Sylvain Danto,Kathleen Richardson,Juejun Hu +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, multicomponent TeO2-Bi2O3-ZnO (TBZ) glass thin films were prepared using RF magnetron sputtering under different oxygen flow rates.
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High-Q Mid-Infrared Chalcogenide Glass Resonators for Chemical Sensing
Hongtao Lin,Yang Xiang,Lan Li,Kati McLaughlin,Yangchen Liu,Yeshwant Chillakuru,Erick Koontz,J. David Musgraves,Kathleen Richardson,Chaoying Ni,Juejun Hu +10 more
- 14 Jul 2014
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors fabricated chalcogenide glass on CaF2 resonators with a record intrinsic quality factor of 6 × 105 and applied these devices to demonstrate cavity enhanced chemical sensing near 5.2 μm wavelength.
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Substrate-blind photonic integration based on high-index glass materials
Hongtao Lin,Lan Li,Yi Zou,Qingyang Du,Okechukwu Ogbuu,Charmayne Smith,Erick Koontz,David Musgraves,Kathleen Richardson,Juejun Hu,Juejun Hu +10 more
- 13 Nov 2014
TL;DR: In this paper, high-index glass film deposition and device fabrication can be performed at low temperatures without compromising their low loss characteristics, and is thus fully compatible with monolithic integration on a broad range of substrates including semiconductors, plastics, textiles, and metals.
Optimization of manufacturability of chalcogenide materials for mid-infrared optical components
Kathleen Richardson,Charmayne Smith,Erick Koontz,Karima Chamma,Benn Gleason,J. David Musgraves,Peter Wachtel +6 more
- 22 Jun 2014
TL;DR: In this article, trade-offs in the optimization of spectral-specific optical functions for manufacturability are discussed, and the trade-off between spectral properties and manufacturing performance is discussed.
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Substrate-blind Photonic Integration
Hongtao Lin,Lan Li,Yi Zou,Qingyang Du,Okechukwu Ogbuu,Juejun Hu,Charmayne Smith,Erick Koontz,Kathleen Richardson +8 more
- 27 Jun 2015
TL;DR: Using high-index glasses as the backbone optical material, photonic devices with record performance were successfully integrated on a wide variety of substrates including semiconductors, glasses, infrared crystals, polymers, and graphene as discussed by the authors.