Semiconductors: 21st Century Gold
Tried to purchase a car lately? Or a new dishwasher or refrigerator? Then you may have been told of supply-chain difficulties, arising from a global shortage of “semiconductor chips”. What are these “semiconductor” materials and why are they so important? In my presentation, I will briefly review the extent to which semiconductors have permeated almost every aspect of modern society, before going on to describe why these materials are important and what they are used for. Finally, I will touch on the recent emergence of new semiconductor materials that are no more than a few atomic layers thick, and will describe our own research here at Buffalo that seeks to understand the properties of these fascinating materials.
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- Date: 05 Oct 2021
- Time: 06:30 PM to 08:30 PM
- All times are (GMT-05:00) US/Eastern
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- SUNYAB
- Amherst, New York
- United States
- Building: Norton
- Room Number: 112
- Starts 22 September 2021 01:27 PM
- Ends 05 October 2021 06:30 PM
- All times are (GMT-05:00) US/Eastern
- No Admission Charge
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Jonathan Bird joined the faculty of the UB Department of Electrical Engineering as Professor in Fall 2004. More recently, since July 2017, he has been serving in the role of Chair of that Department. He also holds an Adjunct Professor position in the Department of Physics at UB, and is a Visiting Professor at Chiba University in Japan. Jonathan obtained his B.Sc. (First-Class Honors) and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from the University of Sussex (United Kingdom) in 1986 and 1990, respectively. He was a JSPS Visiting Fellow at the University of Tsukuba (Japan) from 1991 - 1992, after which he joined the Frontier Research Program of the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN, also in Japan). In 1997, he was appointed as Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University, where he spent seven years before joining UB. Prof. Bird's research is in the area of nanoelectronics. He is the co-author of more than 300 peer reviewed publications, which have been cited almost 8500 times for an h-index of 41, and of undergraduate and graduate texts. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and was NYSTAR Distinguished Professor of 2003. His research is currently supported by the the National Science Foundation, the Semiconductor Research Corporation and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
HONORS & AWARDS
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Visiting Research Fellow (1991)
- Fellow: Institute of Physics (2002)
- Senior Member: IEEE (2002)
- NYSTAR Distinguished Professor of 2003
- Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Chiba University, Japan (2008)
- UB Exceptional Scholar: Sustained Achievement Award (2008)
- SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship & Creative Activities (2012)