Each year the IEEE Board of Directors elects no more than 0.1% of the full members to the grade of Fellow. Nominations are made by Senior Members or by Fellows and must be supported by at least six Fellows. After being reviewed and ranked by the appropriate IEEE Society the nominations are passed on to the Fellows Committee of the Board who then recommend a list of candidates for the Board's consideration. The NPSS is pleased that the following members were elected by the Board this year.
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Forrest J. Agee |
Dr. Forrest J. Agee is a member of the Senior Executive Service. He directs the basic research programs in physics and electronics for the Air Force. These programs amount to about $50M per year, and they include a broad spectrum of projects carried out in universities, industry, and the Air Force Research Laboratory.
Dr. Agee was born August 11, 1941 in El Paso, Texas. He graduated with a B. S. in physics from Clemson University in 1963 and from the University of Virginia in 1965 with M. S. and in 1967 with a Ph.D. He began his career working summers for the Navy in Annapolis, Maryland, in acoustics while a graduate student. He taught mathematics at Howard Payne College in Brownwood, Texas. He worked for the Army at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia in research for power generation in the late 1960s and for the Harry Diamond Laboratory in electromagnetics and anti-ballistic missile defense in the 1970s. He worked as a manager for the BDM Corporation for three years doing engineering and planning for NATO and other customers. He was the Director of the AURORA radiation test facility and a branch chief at the Harry Diamond Laboratories from 1982-1990, when he took the lead in the Army High Power Microwave Program. During this time, he conducted a number of initiatives for Desert Shield / Desert Storm including the development of the Shortstop EW System. In 1993, he moved to the Air Force Phillips Laboratory to lead high power microwave source development at Kirtland Air Force Base. In 1998, he moved to Arlington, VA to the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, where he is Director, Physics and Electronics.
Dr. Agee has more than 100 publications and inventions. He is active in the IEEE - an elected member of the Plasma Sciences Applications Committee and chairman of the membership committee. He is a co-chairman of the 2001 ICOPS meeting, and he has been active in the planning of previous ICOPS and NSREC conferences, presenting a short course, serving on organizing committees, and serving as session chair. In 2000, he was elected to the grade of Fellow.
He resides with his wife, Vicky, in Arlington, Virginia. They have two children in college, a son, Forrest Jr. and a daughter, Amber.
Dr. Agee's Fellow citation reads:
Dr. Agee can be reached at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, 801 N. Randolph St., Arlington, VA 22203; Phone: (703) 696-8570; Fax: (703) 696-8481; E-mail: jack.agee@afosr.af.mil.
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Hidenori Akiyama |
Hidenori Akiyama has been a professor at Kumamoto University, Japan since 1994 where he conducted research on pulsed power technologies and plasma physics, with special emphases on development of inductive energy storage pulsed power generators and industrial applications of pulsed power technology. His most significant contributions are the development of a repetitively-operated pulsed power generator and its applications for water treatment, waste disposal, rock fragmentation, exhaust gas treatment, ozone generation and sterilization of bacteria. He has authored and co-authored 150 publications in archival journals and refereed international conferences including two books on High Voltage Pulsed Power Engineering and High Current Plasma Phenomena.
Akiyama obtained a BSEE in 1974 in Electrical Engineering at Kyushu Institute of Technology, and his MSEE and Ph.D. degrees in 1976 and 1979 from Nagoya University, Japan. In 1979 he served on the faculty of Nagoya University. In 1985 he moved to Kumamoto University where he held the position of associate professor before being a professor. He has also served as visiting professor at Texas Tech University, at Old Dominion University, USA and at the National Institute of Fusion Science, Japan, and as a joint researcher in the Institute of Plasma Physics, Forschungszentrum Julich, Germany.
He is currently involved in active collaborative research with ten major industrial companies in Japan relating to pulsed power which testifies to the significance of his work. These include sterilization of food products, rock fragmentation, intense microwave generation, magnetic compression, scrubbing of flue gases, ozone and nitric oxide generation for medical applications, recycling of electrical appliances and growth of mushrooms.
Dr. Akiyama's Fellow citation reads:
Dr. Akiyama can be reached at Kumamoto University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kumamoto 860-8555, Japan; Phone: +81 96-342-3618; Fax: +81 96-342-3630; E-mail: akiyama@eecs.kumamoto-u.ac.jp
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Leonard J. Brillson |
Dr. Leonard J. Brillson is a Professor of Electrical Engineering, Professor of Physics and Center for Materials Research Scholar at The Ohio State University. Prior to moving to academia, he held a number of management positions at Xerox Corporation's Joseph C. Wilson Center for Research and Technology, including directing the Materials Research Laboratory, one of several major research departments in Xerox's Corporate Research Division. He completed his A.B. in Physics at Princeton University in 1967 and his Ph.D. in solid state physics at the University of Pennsylvania in 1972.
As a scientist at Xerox Corporation, Dr. Brillson established the importance of interfacial reactions at metal-semiconductor interfaces and developed atomic-scale techniques to control Schottky barrier formation. Using surface science techniques to monitor interface bonding and composition as contacts are formed, atomic layer by layer, he demonstrated that chemical reactions are a common feature at metal- semiconductor interfaces, even at room temperature, and could be characterized by a thermodynamic parameter - the interface heat of reaction. This work showed that the strength of interface bonding could dramatically alter the extended chemical and dielectric structure and thereby contact rectification. To control Schottky barriers, he then developed the technique of introducing "interlayers", a few atomic layers or less thick, between metal and semiconductor to alter the atomic diffusion and modulate the electronic barriers from ohmic to highly rectifying for a broad class of compound semiconductors. Dr. Brillson also developed the low energy cathodoluminescence spectroscopy technique to probe electronic structure at buried semiconductor interfaces. Using this electron-excited luminescence technique, Professor Brillson's group at Ohio State has established links between ultra-thin film growth and the electronic structure determining nanoscale device performance. This technique now provides a metric to guide growth and processing in minimizing localized states at ultrathin dielectric-Si interfaces for MOS capacitors, at GaN/InGaN quantum well structures for laser diodes, and at AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistor structures for high power devices.
Throughout his career, Dr. Brillson has maintained an interdisciplinary research program directed at the basic understanding and atomic-scale control of semiconductor interfaces and electrical contacts. He is author of over 200 refereed papers, 6 chapters on solid-state physics and surface science, 2 patents, and a Citation Classic monograph, "The Structure and Properties of Metal-Semiconductor Interfaces". He is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Vacuum Society. In 1996, he received a Surface Science Excellence Award and a Xerox Outstanding Achievement Award. Dr. Brillson has provided leadership in several scientific societies, including service as a Director and Trustee of the American Vacuum Society, Chair of the American Physical Society's Forum on Industrial & Applied Physics, Governing Board Member of the American Institute of Physics, and Associate Editor of the IEEE-published Journal of Electronic Materials.
Dr. Brillson's Fellow citation reads:
Dr. Brillson can be reached at The Ohio State University, 205 Dreese Laboratory, 2015 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43210-1272; Phone: (614) 292-8015; Fax: (614) 688-4688; E-mail: Brillson.1@osu.edu.
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Stephen E. Derenzo |
Stephen E. Derenzo is a Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Professor in Residence in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. He is deputy head of the Center for Functional Imaging in the Life Sciences Division and has been responsible for the construction of two high-resolution positron tomographs and the discovery of several new scintillators. He is currently involved in the building of improved positron tomographs and compact gamma cameras for medical imaging, in first-principle calculations of scintillation mechanisms, and in the search for new scintillators. He has authored or co-authored over 150 technical publications. In 1992, he was selected for the annual Merit Award of the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society of IEEE.
His citation reads:
Stephen Derenzo can be reached at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Mail Stop 55-121, Berkeley, CA 94720; Phone: (510) 486-4097; Fax: (510) 486-4768; E-mail: sederenzo@lbl.gov; http://CFI.LBL.gov.
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Brendan B. Godfrey |
Dr. Brendan B. Godfrey, a member of the Senior Executive Service, is Deputy Director of the 311th Human Systems Wing, Brooks Air Force Base, Texas. With the commander, he manages Air Force life support equipment acquisition, aerospace medical education and training, and occupational and environmental health programs, as well as wing and base support functions. The wing has a work force of nearly 2,000 military and civilian employees and an annual budget of $140 million. He also is responsible for management of the Brooks City-Base Project, a Congressionally directed demonstration to enhance the productivity of the base while stimulating local economic growth through partnerships with the community. He assumed his present role in October 1998.
In previous positions with the Air Force, Dr. Godfrey served as Director of Plans and Programs at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Director of the Armstrong Laboratory, Director of Advanced Weapons and Survivability at the Phillips Laboratory, Chief Scientist of the Weapons Laboratory and, much earlier, as an Air Force officer there. From 1979 to 1989, he managed and conducted intense microwave and particle beam research at Mission Research Corporation, rising from Group Leader to Vice President and regional manager. He was responsible for establishing the intense particle beam research program at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the mid-1970s. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University in 1970, and his B.S. in physics from the University of Minnesota in 1967.
Dr. Godfrey also is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He is known for his contributions to computational plasma physics theory and applications. The Minneapolis native is author of more than 200 publications and reports.
Dr. Godfrey is active in San Antonio community affairs as the Chair of the Southwest Research Consortium, a Trustee of the Texas Research Park Foundation, and a member of several economic development organizations. He and his wife, Kathryn, have three children.
Dr. Godfrey's Fellow Citation reads:
Dr. Godfrey can be reached at the 311th Human Systems Wing, 2510 Kennedy Circle, Suite 116, Brooks AFB, TX 78235-5120; Phone: (210) 536-6080; Fax: (210) 536-2898; E-mail: brendan.godfrey@brooks.af.mil.
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Gregory S. Nusinovich |
Gregory S. Nusinovich received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. (all in radiophysics) from Gorkiy State University, former U.S.S.R., in 1967, 1968 and 1975, respectively. His thesis was devoted to the development of the theory of mode interaction in gyrotron oscillators.
In 1968, he joined the Gorkiy Radiophysical Research Institute and became a member of the group that had just invented gyrotrons. He actively participated in the development of the nonlinear theory, which was widely used for designing the first generations of high-power, millimeter-wave gyrotrons developed for electron cyclotron plasma heating in controlled fusion reactors in the 1970's and early 1980's (tokamaks T-10 and T-15).
From 1977 to 1990, he was a Senior Research Scientist and Head of the Research Group at the newly formed Institute of Applied Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. During this time he actively participated in the development of the theory of relativistic cyclotron resonance masers (including cyclotron auto-resonance masers or CARMs) and in the development of long-pulse gyrotron-based microwave complexes for plasma heating in large-scale tokamaks. His group also developed gyrotrons operating in pulsed magnetic fields (up to 27 Tesla). These tubes generated more than 100 kW peak power at frequencies up to 500 GHz (several tens of kilowatts at frequencies above 600 GHz).
In 1991, he emigrated to the United States, where he joined the research staff at the Institute for Plasma Research, University of Maryland, College Park. His current research interests are focused on the study of high-power electromagnetic radiation from various types of microwave sources. This includes the theory of gyro-amplifiers driven by relativistic electron beams, the theory of frequency-multiplying gyro-amplifiers, the theory of high-power microwave sources of Cherenkov radiation and the theory of plasma-filled microwave tubes. Since 1991 he has also served as a Consultant to Science Applications International Corporation, Physical Sciences Corporation, and Omega-P, Inc. In 1996 he was a Guest Co-Editor of the Sixth Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science on High-Power Microwave Generation. In 1997 he was a Chairman of the Program Committee of the 22nd International Conference on Infrared and Millimeter Waves. In 1999 he was a Guest Co-Editor of the Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science on Cyclotron Resonance Masers and Gyrotrons. He is the author or co-author of more than 120 journal papers.
Dr.Nusinovich was a member of the Scientific Council on Physical Electronics of the
Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of the IEEE
Transactions on Plasma Science.
Dr.Nusinovich's citation reads:
Dr.Nusinovich can be reached at the Institute for Plasma Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742-3511; Phone: (301) 405-4917; Fax: (301) 314-9437; E-mail: gregoryn@glue.umd.edu
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Ronald D. Schrimpf |
Ron Schrimpf received his B.E.E., M.S.E.E., and Ph.D degrees from the University of Minnesota in 1981, 1984, and 1986, respectively. His graduate work dealt with three-dimensional integrated circuits. He joined the University of Arizona in 1986, where he served as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Ron has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Vanderbilt University since 1996. His research focuses on radiation effects and reliability in semiconductor devices, including low-dose-rate effects in CMOS and bipolar integrated circuits, single-event effects in linear integrated circuits and power devices, and development of Technology Computer Aided Design(TCAD) tools for radiation effects.
He has authored or co-authored more than 140 publications in the areas of semiconductor devices, radiation effects, and reliability. Ron served as General Chairman of the 1999 IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference(NSREC) and previously served the NSREC as Technical Program Chairman, Guest Editor, and Session Chairman. He is a three-time recipient of the Outstanding Paper Award at the NSREC and was awarded the 1996 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Early Achievement Award. In addition, he has served on the technical program committees of the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) and the IEEE Bipolar/ BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM). Ron is currently the Principal Investigator of a Multi- Disciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) in the area of Semiconductor Radiation Physics. He lives in Franklin, TN with his wife, Kathy, and his children, Matt and Natalie.
Ron's citation reads:
Ron Schrimpf can be reached at Vanderbilt University, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Box 1608, Station B, Nashville, TN 37235; Phone: (615) 343-0507; Fax: (615) 343-0601; E-mail: ron.schrimpf@vanderbilt.edu.
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Peter J. Turchi |
Peter Turchi became involved with electrical engineering and applied physics at an early age thanks to an even earlier enthusiasm for space flight and rocket propulsion. In high school, he worked on concepts to accelerate electrically neutral matter to high speeds by means of non-uniform electric fields. In 1963, this led him to Princeton University, where he received bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences, while conducting research there in the Plasma Propulsion Laboratory. For his undergraduate thesis, he studied the electromagnetic structure of a large-radius, Z-pinch implosion. Shortly after entering active duty in 1970, as an officer at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM, he applied this experience to create (with W.L. Baker) the SHIVA program for generation of megajoules of soft X-radiation by Z-pinch implosion of high atomic number plasma liners. The need for economical sources of very high currents and energies, as part of this program, directed him into the world of magnetic flux compression generators (MCGs) and megagauss magnetic fields. To solve the problem of achieving coaxial sources of high current with simple explosive systems, he created a disk generator concept for multi-module MCGs.
Peter left the Air Force in 1972 to work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, where interest had developed in using imploding liners to achieve controlled thermonuclear fusion at megagauss magnetic field levels. This activity allowed him to pursue a large number of schemes for generating high currents in economical ways involving homopolar generators, inductive energy storage and opening switch techniques. He also led the Imploding Liner Group through a succession of liner implosion systems, including electromagnetic implosion of rotationally stabilized, liquid sodium-potassium liners. This work culminated in demonstration of completely stabilized liquid liner implosions capable of the cyclic operation needed for pulsed fusion reactors at megagauss field levels. In parallel with these efforts, Peter founded and led the NRL Plasma Technology Branch, which comprised high-energy, pulsed electrical power (inertial/inductive storage and switching), pulsed intense, charged-particle beams (Gamble I and II generators) and the various imploding liner systems. He also re-established the International Conference on Megagauss Magnetic Field Generation and Related Topics, which continues today as the principal forum for such science and technology.
A transition to private industry at R & D Associates, Inc., allowed him to continue activities in pulsed power and plasma systems. Peter created the company's Washington Research Laboratory, and led the development of the plasma flow switch for inductive storage and switching above ten megamperes. This device, in conjunction with the SHIVA Star capacitor bank at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory, powered plasma liner implosions to generate over a megajoule of soft X-radiation, which was a record during the mid-80's. The same system, without the implosion load, also provided charge-neutral, ion beams at megavolt and megampere (equivalent-current) levels. During his time at RDA, Peter served as Technical Program Chair and General Chair, respectively, of the fifth and sixth IEEE Pulsed Power Conferences. He also began several terms as International Chair of AIAA Electric Propulsion Conferences.
An offer of a tenured, full-professorship lured him to The Ohio State University, where he taught aerospace engineering for the past decade. This allowed him to return to studies of electric propulsion and controlled fusion. At Ohio State, Peter and his students built the 1.8 MJ gigawatt-level pulseline, known as Godzilla, designed for experimental simulation of nuclear fission and fusion rockets. He also worked with his students at the other end of the energy scale on pulsed plasma microthrusters at the few joule level. As part of his electric propulsion activities, Peter chaired the AIAA Technical Committee on Electric Propulsion and became President of the Electric Rocket Propulsion Society. During this time period, he also worked with friends in the Air Force at Kirtland AFB, including a sabbatical year as visiting Chief Scientist for Advanced Weapons and Survivability at the USAF Phillips Laboratory.
Just before leaving academia for Los Alamos National Laboratory, Peter received the Erwin Marx Award "for outstanding contributions to pulsed power technology over an extended period of time". This was presented at the 1999 IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference, where he delivered the Marx Lecture on prospects for pulsed power above ten megamperes. At Los Alamos, he continues to work on pulsed power and hydrodynamics, including activities in controlled fusion and advanced space propulsion. He presently serves as Chair of the IEEE NPSS Standing Committee on Pulsed Power Science and Technology.
Peter's Fellow citation reads:
Peter Turchi can be reached at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, P-22 Hydrodynamics & X-Ray Physics, MS D410, Los Alamos, NM 87545; Phone: (505) 665-0906; Fax: (505) 667-7684; E-mail: turchi@lanl.gov.