Jan 30, 2017

RE: Extraordinary Ability petition on behalf of Dr. Jan Novak

Dear Madam or Sir,

I write this letter as an expert advisory opinion regarding the immigration petition
of Dr. Jan Novak. Dr. Novak has made many significant and pioneering
contributions to the field of ABC material electronics and is internationally
recognized as a researcher of extraordinary ability in his field.

I am currently an assistant professor in the Physics Department of the Top U.S.

University #4. I am an expert of quantum materials, nanomaterials, materials B and
particularly XXX techniques. My research has been published in 39 international
scientific peer-reviewed journals including Science (6) and Nature (1). I’ve been
invited as a speaker to more than 20 international conferences including meetings
in the USA, Canada, China, Country #1, Country #2, Country #3, and Country #4. I
have been awarded several prizes including the Prize #1 by the Conference #1, the
Prize #2, awarded by the American University, and the Prize #3, awarded by the
Council of Universities. I am a Member of the proposal review panel of the Society
#1 and a member of the Board of Directors of the Society #2.

Dr. Novak was a co-worker during my experience as a postdoctoral researcher at

the University Outside USA where we collaborated on several projects. I keep
following Dr. Novak’s research as a professor at the Top U.S. University #4 given his
excellent production and outstanding results.

In 2015 Dr. Novak and I worked together on a research investigating on the

fundamental properties of material B fundamental elements. Materials B are ABC
materials that combine low manufacturing cost and high electronic performance.
These materials have produced in the recent years highly efficient and low cost
photovoltaic cells, and are therefore very important in the worldwide quest to
produce abundant, low-cost, and environmentally friendly energy. This research
topic has attracted much attention from the scientific community given its
importance for the economy, industry and homeland security. Dr. Novak’s
contributions have been truly groundbreaking. For example, he discovered, for the
first time, that material B fundamental elements exhibit extraordinary electrical
properties, particularly a very high electrical mobility and diffusion length and an
ultra-low density of electronic traps. With this discovery, Dr. Novak revealed to the
scientific community the potential of material B semiconductors as efficient
photovoltaic materials alternative to state-of-the-art technologies such as material
C. Given the significance of the discovery this research was published on the
prestigious scientific journal “Science” and has been cited at least 500 times by
leading researchers all over the world.

The aforementioned research published on Science represents a major discovery in

the field of material B identifying high electrical properties and ultra-low
concentration of electronic traps. Dr. Novak further implemented this research to
finely measure the electrical properties of materials B for both electron and hole
charge carriers and to reveal the energetic distribution of traps within the
forbidden bandgap of these semiconductors. This research is particularly
important since connects the initial discovery published in “Science”, with
engineering problems; thanks to this study Dr. Novak provided the scientific
community with accurate measurements and models useful for the design and the
simulation of actual electronic devices such as, e.g., solar cells, lasers, light
detectors, and light emitting diodes, applications of crucial importance for energy,
industrial, and military applications. This work appeared in the scientific journal
“Top Materials Journal”, a leading internationally-circulated publication in the field
of engineering and material science.

The contribution of Dr. Novak to the material B field included his outstanding work
on the development, fabrication, and characterization of light detectors.
Leveraging on the excellent electronic properties of fundamental element
materials B, Dr. Novak invented a visible-light material B detector combining high
signal amplification and fast response time. This detector exhibited record
performance when compared to previously presented ABC detectors. Light
detectors are ubiquitous in modern electronics being present in devices such as
light sensors, camera, mobile phones, industrial sensor, health monitoring devices.
Dr. Novak’s pioneering work demonstrated materials B as a practical low-cost
efficient alternative to state-of-the-art light detector technology. These works will
lead to the development of a new inexpensive and high-performance
optoelectronics. This research was published in the peer-reviewed scientific
journal “Nature Communication”, one of the most important journal in the field of
applied sciences.

Further studies on material B based light detectors led Dr. Novak to the
development of a material B based transparent ultraviolet (UV) sensor. The UV
spectral range of light frequencies is particularly important for applications such as
fire and missile plume detection, and transparent optoelectronics. To develop such
detector Dr. Novak proposed a material F based material B fundamental element
in contrast with the material G and material H based materials that were
traditionally used. The detector developed by Dr. Novak, again, represented a
major breakthrough for the field. His detector exhibits a very high sensitivity and
fast response time, which is a record for a material B UV detector. This research
was published in the journal “Top Materials Journal”.

Together with this brilliant achievements and results in the field of material B, that
I highlighted given my competence on the subject, Dr. Novak’s original research on
materials A also produced important results and discoveries. Dr. Novak designed a
number of solar cells and infrared (IR) detectors based on material A solids.
Materials A are nanostructured materials exhibiting high optical and electrical
performance combined with ease of fabrication and low-cost of manufacturing.
The IR detectors invented by Dr. Novak, are competitive with state-of-the-art
photodetectors in terms of performance but can be fabricated at a fraction of the
cost. IR detection is particularly important for industrial and military applications
such as object inspection, night vision, and vision through fog. Dr. Novak’s research
focused on solving a major problem affecting material A detector, i.e. the
incapability of producing photodetectors providing at the same time signal
amplification and fast response time. Dr. Novak proposed a photodetector DEF
structure overcoming this problem. This research was published in the peer-
reviewed journal “Top Nanomaterial Journal”, a leading fabrication in the field of
nanotechnologies.

Very notable is also the effort of Dr. Novak in realizing integration between
material A and material C, the material currently leading the electronic industry.
Dr. Novak, for the first time, was able to integrate materials A on material C and,
doing so, adding to material C sensitivity to infrared. This is a major breakthrough
that allows to combine the aforementioned utility of IR detection with state-of-
the-art electronics. Dr. Novak’s research on material C-material A integration was
published in the journal “Top Materials Journal” and in the very prestigious
scientific magazine “Nature”, probably the most important journal for the field of
physics and engineering.

Very notably Dr. Novak collected in a relative small amount of time a very high
number of citations (>1000) to his papers. This is very remarkable and testifies the
tremendous impact his research has on the scientific community. Many
researchers all over the world uses Dr. Novak’s discoveries to carry on their own
research and cite his work in internationally distributed scientific journals.

Dr. Novak is a pioneer researcher in the field of materials B and materials A as

testified from his numerous contributions and breakthroughs published in very
prestigious scientific journals, including “Science” and “Nature”. I am delighted to
support his immigrant petition as an extraordinarily skilled scientist. His abilities,
and his scientific contribution will benefit the U.S. economy and security.

Sincerely,

John F. Doe

Assistant Professor

Dept. of Physics

Top U.S. University #4

Room 123

999 Street Name

Southern City, TX 555 66

Office: 123-456-7890

john.f.doe@topuni4.edu