| Welcome and congratulations to the following new IEEE Fellows! The IEEE Board of Directors has recognized these professionals for their outstanding and extraordinary qualifications and experience. Each award is distinguished by the particular contributions made by the recipient.No more than one-tenth of 1% of the total Institute membership may be advanced to Fellow grade in any given year. Of the 248 Senior members advanced in 2000, 23 were members of the Solid-State Circuits Society. The seven introduced in the April issue of the Newsletter were evaluated by the SSCS, rated and ranked by the 26-member IEEE Fellows Committee, and received their Fellow Certificates at the ISSCC last February. The other 16 have also been rated and ranked by the 26-member IEEE Fellows Committee but initiated their nomination process through another of IEEE's many technically related Societies. The contributions of all these professionals has helped to mold and advance our field to the outstanding industry that the world recognizes today. Forms for nominating and recommending Fellows are typically available in late November for an application deadline of the following 15 March. Members may apply for Senior membership, which is a precondition of the Fellow distinction, at any time during the year. URL: www.ieee.org/organizations/rab/md/smforms.htm. |
For development of heterostructure bipolar transistors and applications.
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Peter Asbeck received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Electrical Engineering Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1969 and 1975, re-spectively. He was with the Sarnoff Research Center, Princeton, NJ, and Philips Laboratory, Briarcliff Manor, NY, working in the areas of quantum electronics and GaAlAs/GaAs laser physics and applications. In 1978, he joined Rockwell International Science Center, where he was involved in the development of high-speed devices and circuits based on III-V compounds and heterojunctions. He pioneered the effort to develop heterojunction bipolar transistors based on GaAlAs/GaAs and InAlAs/ InGaAs materials and has contributed widely to the areas of physics, fabrication, and applications of these devices.
In 1991, Dr. Asbeck joined the University of California, San Diego, as Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests are in the development of high-speed heterojunction transistors and optoelectronic devices and their circuit applications.
Dr. Asbeck's research has led to more than 190 publications, 10 book chapters, and 10 patents. He was the General Chairman of the 1996 Device Research Conference. He received the Leonardo Da Vinci award from Rockwell in 1986, and is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Electron Devices Society.
For contributions to the development of microwave semiconductor devices and circuits.
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Werner Bächtold received the diploma and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, in 1964 and 1968, respectively. From 1969 to 1987, he was with the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory. He has contributed to the development of the Gallium-Arsenide MESFET technology; in particular, he investigated the microwave noise properties and demonstrated the first X and Ku-band MESFET amplifiers.
In the area of superconducting devices and circuits, Dr. Bächtold designed logic and memory circuits with Josephson junctions. He demonstrated the first nonlatching Josephson logic circuit. In a project on semiconductor lasers for digital communication, Dr. Bächtold contributed to laser modeling and design. He had several assignments at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY.
Since December 1987, Dr. Bächtold has served as Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich. He is leading the Microwave Electronics Group at the Laboratory for Electromagnetic Fields and Microwave Electronics and teaches on the subjects of microwave techniques and electronics. The research activities of his group are focused on: (1) the design and characterization of monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) based on various technologies, (2) microwave measurement techniques, (3) technology and design of Indium Phospide HEMT (high electron mobility transistors) devices and millimeter-wave integrated circuits, and (4) microwave-optoelectronics.
For contributions to the development and design of multiple valued logic circuits and education in electronic circuits.
Karl Wayne Current received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville, in 1974. He worked as a designer of LSI ECL at TRW Systems Group in Redondo Beach, CA. In 1976, he joined the faculty of the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of California, Davis, where he is now Professor. Since 1977, he has been a licensed Consulting Professional Electrical Engineer in California, serving as a consultant to the electronics industry, a government laboratory, and various government agencies.
Dr. Current is interested in analog and digital electronic circuits, integrated circuit design, multiple valued logic, and computer aided circuit design. He has served as the General Chair of the 1993 IEEE Computer Society International Symposium on Multiple Valued Logic, Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Multiple Valued Logic in 1991 and 1992, Technical Program Chair for the 1983 and 1991 IEEE Computer Society International Symposia on Multiple Valued Logic, Chair of the Sacramento Section of the IEEE Circuits and Systems and Automatic Control Groups in 1979 and 1980, Local Arrangements Chair of the IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems in 1997, Member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE Southwest Symposium on Mixed Signal Design in 1999 and 2000, and is an Associate Editor of Multiple Valued Logic: An International Journal. Dr. Current is also a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and Phi Eta Sigma honorary societies.
For contributions to the development and design of multiple valued logic circuits and education in electronic circuits.
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Michel J. Declercq received the Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. degrees from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, in 1967 and 1971, respectively. In 1973, he was awarded a Senior Fulbright Fellowship and joined Stanford University, Stanford, CA as a Research Associate in the Microelectronics Labs. From 1974 to 1978, he was Research Associate and lecturer at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. In 1978, he joined Tractebel in Brussels, Belgium, where he was Group Leader of the Electronic Systems team.
In 1985, Dr. Declercq joined the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, where he is currently Professor and Director of the Electronics Laboratory. From 1993 to 1995, he served as Chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department. His research activities are related to mixed analog-digital IC design and design methodologies. He is more particularly involved in low-power/low-voltage circuits, high-frequency circuits for telecommunications, fully depleted SOI technology and circuits, and high-voltage circuits for MEMS applications and others. He is author and coauthor of more than 150 scientific publications and two books and holds several patents. Dr. Declercq serves as an expert with the European Commission for scientific research programs in information technologies.
For contributions to high-performance circuit design and VLSI-based synchronous systems.
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Eby G. Friedman received the B.S. degree from Lafayette College, Easton, PA, in 1979, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California at Irvine in 1981 and 1989, respectively.
From 1979 to 1991, Dr. Friedman was with Hughes Aircraft Company, rising to the position of manager of the Signal Processing Design and Test Department, responsible for the design and test of high-performance digital and analog ICs. He has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, since 1991, where he is a Professor and Director of the high-performance VLSI/IC Design and Analysis Laboratory and the Director of the Center for Electronic Imaging Systems. His current research and teaching interests are in high-performance synchronous digital and mixed-signal microelectronic design and analysis with application to high-speed portable processors and low-power wireless communications.
Dr. Friedman is the author of approximately 150 papers and book chapters and is the author or editor of four books in the fields of high-speed and low-power CMOS design techniques, interconnect and substrate noise, pipelining and retiming, and the theory and application of synchronous clock distribution networks. He is a Regional Editor of the Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers; a member of the editorial board of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing and the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing; Chair of the Steering Committee for the IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems; a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE CAS Society; a member of the IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society Board of Governors; CAS liaison to the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society; a member of the technical program committee for a number of conferences; and a Fulbright Scholar.
For contributions to the development of microelectronic system design and education in microelectronics.
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Professor Dr. h. c. Manfred Glesner was born in Saarlouis, Germany in 1943. He received the diploma in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering from Saarland University, Saarbräcken, Germany, in 1969. In 1975, he received the Ph.D. degree from the same university for his research on tolerance optimization techniques in computer aided circuit design.
In 1981, Dr. Glesner became Associate Professor at Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany, where, since 1989, he has been the head of the Institute for Microelectronic Systems. In 1982, he was the first to run a multiproject chip at a German university as a regular course offering. Currently he is director of a Graduate School for Intelligent Systems in Information Technology. He teaches courses in microelectronic circuit design and CAD for microelectronics.
Dr. Glesner has contributed original research in the topics of high-level synthesis and physical design, especially for deep submicron technologies. Moreover, he is responsible for a special research program (Sonderforschungsbereich) of the German National Science Foundation (DFG) for microelectronic system design in mechatronics. He has successfully organized several national and international microelectronic conferences, and he organized and participated in many national and international large-scale research projects. Dr. Glesner has been a project consultant for the European Commission and United Nations Industrial Development Organization. After the political breakdown in Eastern Europe, he built up several microelectronics design centers at universities with support from the European Union based TEMPUS-Program. For his contributions to the field of microelectronics, he has received two honorary causa doctoral degrees as well as one honorary causa professorship.
For leadership in the development of non-volatile, solid-state memory technologies.
Dr. Daniel C. Guterman re-ceived the B.S.E.E. degree (summa cum laude) from Tufts University, Medford, MA, in 1970, and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, in 1972 and 1976, respectively.
Dr. Guterman is a Fellow of SanDisk Corporation, having joined the company in 1989 as Director of Advanced Technology, leading its pioneering effort in developing SanDisk's revolutionary D2 FLASH multilevel storage "logical scaling" technology. Previously, he was involved in and managed development programs that span a wide range of non-volatile memory technologies, including EPROMs and EAROMs at Texas Instruments and Mostek, followed by NOVRAMs and EPROMs at Xicor, where he invented its workhorse "direct write" EEPROM cell. He is named as inventor in over 30 patents and has coauthored more than 10 technical articles.
For contributions to development and applications of high-speed integrated circuits and devices.
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Lawrence E. Larson received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1979 and the Masters in Engineering degree in 1980, both from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the UCLA in 1986.
Dr. Larson has been involved in the development of ultrahigh frequency compound semiconductor transistor and integrated circuit technology. During the late 1980s he was a key member and leader of the team at Hughes Research Laboratories that developed the first high-reliability InP-based HEMT technology for spaceborne 60-GHz low-noise amplifier applications. These millimeter-wave amplifiers provided a dramatic improvement over prior generations of mmW low-noise amplifiers, dropping receiver noise figure from 12 dB to less than 2.5 dB. In addition, he led the research group that extended InP-based HEMT technology into the integrated circuit area. His group was the first to demonstrate a high-performance InP-based MMIC technology. His research led to a number of "firsts," including the first 44-GHz InP-based HEMT MMIC power amplifiers, with greater than 40% power-added efficiency; a 2-GHz low-noise MMIC amplifier with a noise figure of under 0.5 dB; and the world's fastest room-temperature millimeter-wave integrated circuit: a VCO operating in the fundamental mode in excess of 210 GHz.
Dr. Larson led the research effort in the early 1990s that developed the first microwave and millimeter-wave applications of mi-croelectronic-mechanical (MEMS) technologies, including the first MEMS switches for microwave applications. Dr. Larson holds many of the fundamental patents in this field. He also led the technical effort with a Hughes/IBM alliance for developing commercial applications of Si/SiGe HBT technology. His group was the first to use this technology to demonstrate high-performance, microwave/millimeter-wave (1025 GHz) ICs in silicon-based technology in the early 1990s.
Dr. Larson joined the faculty of the University of California-San Diego in 1996, where he is the inaugural holder of the Communications Industry Chair. He is currently Co-Director of the UCSD Center for Wireless Communications. He was corecipient of the 1996 Lawrence A. Hyland Patent Award of Hughes Electronics for his work on low-noise millimeter-wave HEMTs and the 1999 IBM Microelectronics Excellence Award for his work in Si/SiGe HBT technology. He has published over 120 papers, coauthored and edited two books and holds 21 U.S. patents.
For contributions to the design of FIR digital filters.
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Yong Ching Lim received the A.C.G.I. and B.Sc. degrees in 1977 and the D.I.C. and Ph.D. degrees in 1980, all in electrical engineering, from Imperial College, University of London, U.K.
From 1980 to 1982, he was a National Research Council Research Associate at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA. Since 1982, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering, National University of Singapore, where he is currently a Professor. His research interests include digital signal processing and VLSI circuits and systems design.
Dr. Lim was selected to receive the 1996 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society's Guillemin-Cauer Award, the 1990 IREE (Australia) Norman Hayes Award, the 1977 IEE (U.K.) Prize, and the 1974-77 Siemens Memorial (Imperial College) Award. He served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems from 1991 to 1993 and again since 1999. He has also served as an Associate Editor for Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing from 1993 to 2000. He is the current Chairman of the DSP Technical Committee of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. He served in the Technical Program Committee's DSP Track as the Chairman in ISCAS'97 and ISCAS'00 and as a Cochairman in ISCAS'99.
For contributions to design methodologies for analog signal processing integrated circuits.
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Jaime Ramírez-Angulo received the B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. de-grees from the National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City, Mexico, and the Ph.D. degree in engineering from the University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, in 1974, 1976, and 1982, respectively.
Dr. Ramírez-Angulo is Professor and Director of the VLSI laboratory at the Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Mexico State University (NMSU), Las Cruces. He also serves as Director of the NASA Center for Autonomous Control Engineering at NMSU. His research is related to VLSI circuit design: mixed-mode test techniques, low-voltage, BiCMOS, neuro-fuzzy analog circuits and special purpose analog coprocessors, Wideband Amplifier Design, High Frequency Filters and Current-Mode signal processing. He was the Technical Chairman of the 26th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems in Puebla, Mexico, in 1983, and the General Chairman of the 42nd Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems in Las Cruces, NM, in August 1999. From 1982 to 1984, he was a researcher at the National Institute for Astrophysics Optics and Electronics (INAOE) in Mexico. From 1984 to 1990, he was Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University, College Station.
Dr. Ramírez-Angulo is a member of the Analog Signal Processing Committee of the IEEE CAS Society and a member of the Steering Committee of the Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems. He has published 176 technical papers and has received funding from prestigious sources such as NSF, Sandia National Labs, NASA/ACE, Texas Instruments, and the AFOSR. He has held numerous invited and plenary presentations.
For contributions to the understanding and the modeling of physical mechanisms governing the response of semiconductor devices to radiation exposure.
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Ronald D. Schrimpf received the B.E.E., M.S.E.E., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in 1981, 1984, and 1986, re-spectively. His graduate work dealt with three-dimensional integrated circuits. He joined the University of Arizona, Tucson, in 1986, where he served as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, since 1996.
Dr. Schrimpf's 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 coauthored more than 140 publications in the areas of semiconductor devices, radiation effects, and reliability.
Dr. Schrimpf served as General Chairman of the 1999 IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) and previously served the NSREC as Technical Program Chairperson, Guest Editor, and Session Chairperson. 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 Devices Meeting (IEDM) and the IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM). He is currently the Principal Investigator of a Multi-Disciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) in the area of Semiconductor Radiation Physics.
For contributions to mixed analog-digital system design-for-test.
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Mani Soma received the B.S.E.E. degree from California State University, Fresno, in 1975, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1977 and 1980, respectively.
From 1980 to 1982, Dr. Soma was with the General Electric Research and Development Center (Schenectady, NY), working on design and test methodologies for VLSI integrated circuits and systems. He then joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, and has been a Professor since 1988. He was the Associate Director of the NSF Center for Design of Analog-Digital ICs from 1989 to1994.
Dr. Soma founded and chaired the IEEE Mixed-Signal Test Bus Standard Working Group (1149.4) from 1991 to 1995 and remains active in standard development. He was Technical Program Chair for ISCAS 1995 and helped originate the Pacific Northwest Test Workshop, which has become the annual IEEE International Mixed-Signal Testing Workshop. He received the IEEE Computer Society Meritorious Service Award (1995) and the IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Award (1997). He has published papers in electronic design, test, and reliability; and has more recently focused on research in mixed analog-digital system design and test.
For contributions and leadership in semiconductor manufacturing.
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Costas J. Spanos received the Electrical Engineering Diploma from the NTUIA, Greece, in 1980, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, in 1981 and 1985, respectively.
From 1985 to 1988, Dr. Spanos was with Digital Equipment Corporation. He joined the University of California at Berkeley in 1988, where he is now a Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Director of the Berkeley Microfabrication Laboratory.
His current work focuses on Novel sensor, flexible manufacturing systems, and statistical design techniques for ICs.
For contributions to advanced CMOS technology.
Jack Y. C. Sun received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana, in 1983.
Dr. Sun is presently Director of Logic Technology Division at TSMC. Until mid-1997, he was senior-level manager at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, and SRDC. From 1988 to 1992, he managed the bipolar technology group, which set a number of records in Si BJT npn and pnp devices, including, in 1989-1990, the demonstration of a 75-GHz SiGe HBT and sub-25-ps Si and SiGe ECL circuits. He is cited for contributions to advanced CMOS technology and was the first to develop dual-poly (n+/p+) 0.5-µm room- and low-temperature CMOS technology and to overcome boron penetration problems. He played a key role in the identification and understanding of polysilicon depletion and boron penetration effects in <0.25-µm thin-oxide CMOS technologies. Together with Drs. C. T. Sah and J. Tzou, in 1981-1983, he was the first to identify the hydrogenation of boron acceptors during hot carrier injection in MOS structures. In the area of SOI, in 1995-1996 he led the work in clarifying the floating-body effects in SOI devices and circuits and the development of a pulse-IV technique to overcome heating problems. He has authored or coauthored over 200 papers and many invited papers on CMOS, SiGe bipolar, BiCMOS, and SOI. He also holds a key patent on SOI transistor structure with high-mobility SiGe channels, and seven U.S. patents. He is a coinventor of a self-aligned SiGe HBT structure. He was also the key integration architect/driver of high-performance self-aligned SiGe ECL-CMOS and BiCMOS processes at IBM.
For contributions and leadership in technologies and international standards for optical and wireless communications.
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Federico Tosco received the Doctorate of Engineering degree from the Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, in 1964.
In 1965, he joined CSELT, the R&D laboratories of the Telecom Italia Group (then SIP), where he held various positions. Since 1991, he has been responsible for the Mobile Services division. Previously he spent many years managing several R&D projects in the optical communications field, including the project that led to the first installation of an optical cable in the Italian telecommunication network. He is author or coauthor of some 60 papers, including several invited papers.
Since 1968, Dr. Tosco has been active in international standardization, holding various important positions. In particular, from 1989 to 1996 he was Chairman of the Optical Communications Working Party of the ITU-T Study Group 15 (Transmission Systems and Equipment). He is now Vice-Chairman of ITU-T Study-Group 16 (Multimedia Services and Systems) and Chairman of the working party in charge for multimedia communication, in particular over the Internet. He is active in the IEEE Communications Society, where he is Vice-President of Society Relations. Recently, he was Cochair of the MMT'99 (Multi-Access Mobility and Teletraffic for Wireless Communications) workshop and was a main organizer of the ICUPC'98 (International Conference on Wireless Personal Communications) conference.
For contributions to industrial electronics and static induction devices.
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Bogdan M. Wilamowski received the M.S. degree in computer engineering and the Ph.D. degrees in neural computing and integrated circuit design in 1966, 1970, and 1977, respectively, from the Technical University of Gdansk, Poland.
He received the title of Professor from the President of Poland in 1987. He was the Director of the Institute of Electronics (1979Ð1981) and the Chair of the Solid State Electronics Department (1987-1989) at the Technical University. Since 1989, he has been with the University of Wyoming, Laramie. From 1968-1970, he was with the Nishizawa Laboratory at Tohoku University, Japan, and spent one year at the Semiconductor Research Institute, Sendai, Japan as a JSPS Fellow (1975-1976). He was a Visiting Scholar at Auburn University, Auburn, AL (1981-1982 and 1995-1996), and a Visiting Professor at the University of Arizona, Tucson (1982-1984). He is the author of four textbooks, more than 200 refereed publications, and 27 patents. His main areas of interest are digital hardware, electronics, CAD development, VLSI, network programming, and neuro-fuzzy systems.
Dr. Wilamowski has been, and currently is, a member of orga-nizing/technical committees of several IEEE International Conferences: ICIPS'98 (Australia), ISIE'98 (South Africa), ISIE'99 (Slovenia), IECON'99 (U.S.), ICRAM'99 (Turkey), ICIT'00 (India), IECON'00 (Japan), IIZUKA'00 (Japan), ICMNFBS'00 (France), ISIE'01 (Korea), and IECON'02 (Spain). He serves also as the General Chair of IECON2001 in Denver, CO. He is the treasurer of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society and a member of the IEEE Neural Network Council. He is Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, the IEEE Transactions on Education, and the IEEE Industrial Electronics Newsletter.