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W. Dexter Johnston, Jr. |
The Paul Rappaport Award is given each year to honor the author(s) of the best paper that has appeared in an EDS publication in the preceding calendar year. The recipient(s) is awarded a certificate and a check for $2,500, presented at the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM).
The paper entitled, "In (Ga)As/GaAs Self-Organized Quantum Dot Lasers: DC and Small-Signal Modulation Properties" by Pallab Bhattacharya, Kishore K. Kamath, Jasprit Singh, David Klotzkin, Jamie Phillips, Hong-Tao Jiang, Nalini Chervela, Theodore B. Norris, Tom Sosnowski, Joy Laskar, and M. Ramana Murty was recognized as the best paper appearing in an EDS publication in 1999. The paper was published in the May, 1999 issue of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. The 1999 award will be presented at the IEDM on 11 December, 2000 in San Francisco. The following are brief biographies of the eleven winners.
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Pallab Bhattacharya |
Pallab Bhattacharya is the James R. Mellor Professor of Engineering in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Sheffield, U.K., in 1978. His teaching and research interests include molecular beam epitaxy, low-dimensional quantum confined heterostructures, high-speed electronic and optoelectronic devices, and OEICs. He is the author of the textbook Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices (Prentice-Hall). He is an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices and has edited Properties of Lattice-Matched and Strained InGaAs (UK: INSPEC, 1993) and Properties of III-V Quantum Wells and Superlattices (UK: INSPEC, 1996). He has received the John Simon Guggenheim Award and the SPIE Technical Achievement Award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and OSA.
Nalini Chervela No photo or bio available.
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Hongtao Jiang |
Hongtao Jiang received the B. S. degree in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China, P. R. C in 1992, and the M. S. in electrical engineering and Ph. D. in applied physics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1999. His doctoral research was on the strained effect in the InGaAs/GaAs and InGaN/GaN heterostructures. He is currently a design engineer at Newport Communication, Irvine, California.
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Kishore Kamath |
Kishore Kamath received his Bachelors degree from the University of Mysore in 1987. He received masters and Ph.D degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1989 and 1993, respectively. From May 1994 to February 1998, he was with the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, first as a post doctoral fellow and then as a research scientist, where he worked extensively in the area of self-organized quantum dots by MBE and their application in optoelectronic and electronic devices. He is the author/co-author of more than 50 scientific papers in the area of semiconductor optoelectronics. He joined Opto-Electronics Center of Lucent Technologies in March 1998. His current interests are high performance semiconductor lasers such as wavelength stabilized widely tunable lasers, high-speed lasers and electro-absorption modulators. Dr. Kamath is a member of IEEE (EDS, LEOS).
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David Klotzkin |
David Klotzkin was born in Brookline, MA, in 1966. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1988, the M.S. degree in Materials Science from Cornell University in 1994, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1997 and 1998, respectively. His Ph.D. dissertation was on carrier dynamics and modulation characteristics of quantum-well and quantum-dot lasers. He was employed from 1998 to 1999 by Lasertron in Bedford, MA, designing high-speed optoelectronic transmission sources, and is currently a laser chip designer for Lucent Technologies in Breinigsville, PA.
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Joy Laskar |
Joy Laskar received the Ph.D. degree in 1991 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. His research has focused on wide bandwidth characterization and design techniques with applications to MMICs, OEICs, and their integration. Dr. Laskar has published over 100 papers and at Georgia Tech, he is currently the chair for the Electronic Design Automation technical interest group, the Yamacraw Research Leader for Broadband Access Hardware and the Packaging Research Center (PRC) thrust leader for RF and Wireless. He is a 1995 recipient of the ARO's Young Investigator Award, a 1996 recipient of the NSF's CAREER Award, 1997 PRC Faculty of the Year, 1998 NSF PRC Educator of the Year, 2000 Co-Recipient of the 2000 IEEE MTT best paper award and is co-founder and Director of a Broadband Wireless Company: RF Solutions.
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M. Ramana Murty |
M. Ramana Murty obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He conducted research at the Inter-university Microelectronics Centre (IMEC), Leuven, Belgium on High-Efficiency Silicon Solar Cells and III-V Infrared LEDs. In 1995, he joined the School of ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta as a Research Scientist working on InP HEMTs and Circuits. He worked for a short time at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena and National Semiconductor Corporation, Atlanta. Currently he is employed at the SiGe Technology Development Group of IBM Microelectronics. His areas of interest include High-Speed Semiconductor Device Development, Device Physics & Modeling and MMIC design.
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Theodore B. Norris |
Theodore B. Norris is an Associate Professor in the EECS Department and the Center for Ultrafast Optical Science at the University of Michigan. He received his B.A. in Physics (with Highest Honors) from Oberlin College in 1982, and his PhD in Physics from the University of Rochester in 1989. His postdoctoral research was perfomed at Thomson- CSF in France 1989-1990. His research interests include application of femtosecond optical techniques to the physics of semiconductor structures, and in developing new ultrafast optical and optoelectronic measurement techniques, including applications to nanostructures and to biological imaging. He is a member of IEEE and the American Physical Society, and is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America.
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Jamie Phillips |
Jamie Phillips received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1994, 1996, and 1998, respectively. His dissertation research focused on the growth of self-assembled quantum dots by MBE and their use in optoelectronic devices. In 1999, he was a postdoc at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM, where he contributed to research on the growth of a variety of antimony-containing III-V materials by MOCVD. He is currently a research scientist at the Rockwell Science Center in Thousand Oaks, California working on HgCdTe materials for infrared detectors.
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Jasprit Singh |
Jasprit Singh obtained his Ph. D. in solid state physics from the University of Chicago in 1980. He worked in the area of disordered semiconductors for his Ph. D. He then spent 3 years at the University of Southern California, 2 years at Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio and has been at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor since 1985. His area of research is physics and design of semiconductor heterostructure devices. He has worked on electronic and optoelectronic devices based on traditional III-V materials, HgCdTe, SiGe and the nitrides. Recently he is working on exploiting ferroelectric materials within conventional semiconductor devices. Jasprit Singh has written seven textbooks. His recent books are: Modern Physics for Engineers, (Wiley Interscience, 1999) and Semiconductor Devices: Basic Principles, (John Wiley, 2001).
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Tom Sosnowski |
Tom Sosnowski attended undergraduate school at Johns Hopkins University and received a B.S. in electrical engineering in 1991. He attended the University of Michigan for graduate school and received his Ph.D. in 1998. His work at the University of Michigan Center for Ultrafast Optical Science included research on high-repetition-rate femtosecond amplifiers, OPA's, and ultrafast carrier dynamics in semiconductors. He is currently employed by Clark-MXR where his research concentrates on fiber oscillators and fiber optics.
W. Dexter Johnston, Jr.
Lucent Technologies, Inc.
Reading, PA