Professor Glenn Solomon

Professor Glenn Solomon's research has pushed the boundaries of our understanding of the interaction of light with semiconductor materials and device structures. His research combines quantum optics techniques and semiconductor crystal growth and processing to investigate semiconductor quantum optics.

Glenn is the inaugural Hicks Chair of Quantum Materials at the University of Adelaide, starting July 2021. He is a Fellow of both the Optical Society (2018) “for pioneering the development of semiconductor quantum dot optical materials and device structures for solid-state quantum optics” and of the American Physical Society (2007) “recognizing extensive contributions to the study of quantum optics with quantum dots”. Before joining the University of Adelaide faculty he was a fellow at the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland in the USA, and a physicist at the US National Institute of Standards. His general interests are the interaction of light in semiconductor materials and devices, semiconductor quantum optics, and quantum device fabrication.

Glenn is one of few scientists in the world who has both fabricated nanostructures of quantum dots and performed quantum optics experiments on devices made from them. He is among the founders in using self-assembled, epitaxial crystal growth techniques to make nanostructures. Glenn’s prolific body of work has not only had an extraordinary impact on Quantum Materials, but he’s also generated 16 patents and founded CBL Technologies Inc., a start-up company that develops flexible hybrid GaN vapor-phase epitaxial growth techniques based in California.

Glenn is leading the University of Adelaide’s world-class quantum materials program, bringing together physicists, engineers, material scientists, and key strategic industry partners, including Silanna and DSTG to identify and provide solutions to variety of near- and long-term problems where quantum materials and solid-state quantum devices can affect impactful change.