Education

• Ph.D., Physics
• University of Illinois at Chicago
• 1987

• M.S., Physics
• University of Illinois at Chicago
• 1984

• M.S., Applied Mathmatics
• Northern Illinois University
• 1982

• B.S., Physics & Mathematics
• Wheaton College
• 1978

Positions

• 2005 - Present | Principal Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories
• 1987 - 2005 | Senior Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories

Awards

• Employee Recognition Award for Meritorious Achievement as Part of the Terahertz Plasmon Detector Team, 2005
• Employee Recognition Award for Meritorious Achievement as Part of the Center for Integrated Technology Team, 2003
• Employee Recognition Award for Individual Technical Excellence, 2002

Publications

• Probing the microscopic structure of bound states in quantum point contacts, Yoon, Y; Mourokh, L; Morimoto, T; Aoki, N; Ochiai, Y; Reno, JL; Bird, JP, Physical Review Letters, 99, September 28, 2009.
• Hot-Electron Thermocouple and the Diffusion Thermopower of Two-Dimensional Electrons in GaAs, Chickering, WE; Eisenstein, JP; Reno, JL, Physical Review Letters, 103, July 24, 2009.
• Detector backaction on the self-consistent bound state in quantum point contacts, Yoon, Y; Kang, MG; Morimoto, T; Mourokh, L; Aoki, N; Reno, JL; Bird, JP; Ochiai, Y, Physical Review B, 79, March 2009.
• Observation of Chiral Heat Transport in the Quantum Hall Regime, Granger, G; Eisenstein, JP; Reno, JL, Physical Review Letters, 102, February 27, 2009.
• Magnetic-field-assisted terahertz quantum cascade laser operating up to 225 K, Wade, A; Fedorov, G; Smirnov, D; Kumar, S; Williams, BS; Hu, Q; Reno, JL, Nature Photonics, 3, January 2009.
• Nonlinear characteristics of the hysteretic magnetoresistance of a hybrid nanomagnetic field-effect transistor, Bae, JU; Lin, TY; Reno, JL; Bird, JP, Applied Physics Letters, 93, October 6, 2008.
• Tunneling spectroscopy of a ballistic quantum wire, Ramamoorthy, A; Mourokh, L; Reno, JL; Bird, JP, Physical Review B, 78, July 2008.
• Terahertz time-domain magnetospectroscopy of a high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas, Wang, XF; Hilton, DJ; Ren, L; Mittleman, DM; Kono, J; Reno, JL, Optics Letters, 332, July 1, 2007.
• Terahertz response of quantum point contacts, Song, JW; Kabir, NA; Kawano, Y; Ishibashi, K; Aizin, GR; Mourokh, L; Reno, JL; Markelz, AG; Bird, JP, Applied Physics Letters, 92, June 2, 2008.
• Surface-emitting distributed feedback terahertz quantum-cascade lasers in metal-metal waveguides, Kumar, S; Williams, BS; Qin, Q; Lee, AWM; Hu, Q; Reno, JL, Optics Express, 15, January 8, 2007.