Alec
Sobany
, Ph.D.
- U.S. Patent Agent
- English
- Farsi
Dr. Alec Sobany prosecutes foreign and domestic patents. Dr. Sobany’s deep knowledge about U.S. patent law and broad technical knowledge helps clients to protect their inventions. Dr. Sobany is a professional electrical engineer with experience in academic and industrial research in electrical engineering, nanotechnology, device fabrication, optics, nanophotonics, and spectroscopy.
Prior to joining Osha Bergman Watanabe & Burton LLP (OBWB), Dr. Sobany worked as an R&D scientist at Cree Inc., which is a pioneer in developing and manufacturing blue/white LEDs, power electronics, and RF devices.
- Rice University, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, 2016
- Rice University, M.Sc., Electrical Engineering, 2014
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- First-author, “Narrowband Photodetection in the Near-infrared with a Plasmon-induced Hot Electron Device.” Nature communications. (2013)
- Co-author, “Embedding Plasmonic Nanostructure Diodes Enhances Hot Electron Emission.” Nano letters. (2013)
- First-author, “Enhancing the Photocurrent and Photoluminescence of Single Crystal Monolayer MoS2 with Resonant Plasmonic Nanoshells.” Applied Physics Letters. (2014)
- First-author, “Pronounced Linewidth Narrowing of an Aluminum Nanoparticle Plasmon Resonance by Interaction with an Aluminum Metallic Film.” Nano letters (2015)
- Co-author, “Substrate-mediated Charge Transfer Plasmons in Simple and Complex Nanoparticle Clusters. (2013)
- Co-author, “Towards UltraThin Layered Photodetectors and Photovoltaic Devices.” Advanced Materials. (2014)
- Co-author, “Layer engineering of 2D semiconductor junctions.” Advanced Materials. (2016)
- Co-author, “Imaging Through Plasmonic Nanoparticles.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (2016)
- Co-author, “Absorption-induced Image Resolution Enhancement in Scattering Media.” ACS Photonics. (2016)
- Co-author, “Combining Plasmonic Hot Carrier Generation with Free Carrier Absorption for High-performance Near-infrared Silicon-based Photodetection.” ACS Photonics 5. (2018)
