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I was born in Seattle but quickly moved to Los Altos, California, which I consider my hometown. Then, Los Altos was miles and miles of apricot orchards with a few houses. Now, known as the "Silicon Valley," it is miles and miles of houses and businesses with a few apricot trees. I headed south to Pasadena to get my B.S. at Caltech in 1968. There (in a physics lecture hall) I also met my wife, Kris. We both headed north to Stanford in 1972 where I received my M.S. and Ph.D. in 1974 and 1976. The degrees were all in Applied Physics, but much of the work, including my thesis project, was in an Electrical Engineering Department (the thesis was on "Ion Implantation in Cadmium Telluride"). Upon graduating from Stanford in 1976, we felt it was time for us to leave California for awhile and I took a position at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey. There, in the Solid State Electronics Lab, I developed Silicon Molecular Beam Epitaxy and grew the 1st practical GeSi/Si heterostructures and devices (paper). Outside of work I co-produced two children, Emily and Jeff. |
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In 1986 I became head of the Semiconductor Materials Department. For the next five years, the department remained focused on developing and applying new materials. Then, as AT&T faltered, we were redirected to work with its ailing optoelectronics manufacturing unit. In this demanding but stimulating environment, I learned how difficult it could be to transform a research idea into profitable production (paper). This experience fundamentally altered my appreciation of engineering, and I now draw heavily on that experience in the classroom. The divested AT&T decided to trivest itself and liquidate much of its research equipment in 1996. This made it possible to act on a long time plan to one day return and teach at a university. So, with two full sized moving vans stuffed full of MBE equipment, I joined the University of Virginia's Department of Electrical Engineering in January 1997. As to outside interests, as a teen I
got hooked on cross-country and I still try to run for an
hour on the forest trails west of grounds every other day.
On weekends I am generally building something. If it isn't
working on a house with Habitat for Humanity, it is
"landscaping" my yard (more accurately: moving tons of
Virginia rock, clay, or dirt to new locations). ECE 303 and ECE 663: Solid state devices at both the undergraduate and graduate levels Academia has allowed also allowed me to pursue broader research interests. Funded projects have included: "Virtual Integrated Processing of GMR Materials" - a DARPA program to harness computer modeling of deposition processes to produce improved production tools Career Bullets: 1984 - Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Research Division of Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ 1985 - Head, Materials Science Research Department, Bell Labs 1986 - Elected to the Bohmische Physical Society (honor society of ion beam researchers) 1991 - Elected Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 1997 - J.M. Money Chaired Professorship, UVA 1998 - Founding Director, University of Virginia Institute for Microelectronics 1999-2002 President's "2020" Commission on Science and Technology (developing a master plan for the beginning of UVA's third century). 2000 - Associate Director, NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) 2001 - Chairman, School of Engineering and Applied Science's Promotion and Tenure Committee 2003 - List of most "Highly Cited Authors in Materials Science" - Institute of Scientific Information (publisher of Science Citation Index) 2003: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Award for Teaching Innovation 2004: University of Virginia: "All University Teaching Award" 2004 - List of most "Highly Cited Researchers" - Institute of Scientific Information / Science Citation Index: "250 preeminent individual researchers in each of 21 subject categories who have demonstrated great influence in their field as measured by citations to their work."
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