
Manijeh Razeghi
Director Center for Quantum Devices
Northwestern University
USA
Biography
"Northwestern Engineering’s Manijeh Razeghi has received the 2018 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering from The Franklin Institute, one of the oldest centers for science education and development in the country". Manijeh Razeghi is the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Electrical Engineering at Northwestern University and Director of the Center for Quantum Devices, which she founded in 1991 after a successful 10-year career as the Director of Exploratory Materials at Thomson-CSF, France. She is one of the leading scientists in the field of semiconductor science and technology, having pioneered the development and implementation of major modern epitaxial techniques. Her current research interest is in nanoscale optoelectronic quantum devices from deep-UV up to terahertz. At Northwestern University she has commercialized aluminum-free pump lasers, developed type-II superlattices for next generation infrared imagers (an area in which she holds key patents), and currently holds most of the quantum cascade lasers records for high power and tunability. She has authored 18 books, 31 books chapters, and more than 1000 journal publications. She is editor, associate, and board member of many journals, including Nano Science and Nano technology. Her awards include the IBM Europe Science and Technology Prize, the SWE Lifetime Achievement Award, the R.F. Bunshah Award, the IBM faculty award, Jan Czochralski Gold Medal, and many best paper awards. She is a fellow of SWE, SPIE, IEC, OSA, APS, IOP, IEEE, and MRS.
Research Interest
Quantum Devices
Biography
Ephraim Suhir has his expertise in materials science and engineering, with an emphasis on predictive modeling of the mechanical behavior and performance of electronic materials and systems. He is Life Fellow of the IEEE, the ASME and the SPIE and Fellow of the APS and IoP, UK. Ephraim received numerous professional awards and authored 400+ publications. and co-authored over
Research Interest
Applied Mathematics, Applied and Mathematical Physics, Materials Science and Engineering, Applied Mechanics, Applied Probability, Probabilistic Analyses and Probability-Based Physical Designs of Electron Devices, Probabilistic Methods in Reliability Engineering, Probabilistic Risk Assessment and Management, Analytical (Mathematical) Modeling in Applied Science and Engineering, Photonics, Fiber Optics, Mechanics of Optical Fibers and Systems, Design for Reliability (DfR) of Electronic, Opto-Electronic and Photonic Systems, Composite and “Smart” Materials and Systems, Thin Film Mechanics and Physics, Shock and Vibration Analyses, Shock and Vibration Testing, Dynamic Response of Materials and Structures to Shocks and Vibrations, Thermal Stress Analysis, Prediction and Prevention of Thermal Stress Failures, Solder Materials and Solder Joint Interconnections in Electronic and Optical Engineering, Embedded Systems, Polymeric Materials in Electronics and Photonics, Photovoltaic and Thermo-Electric Modules: Physical Design for Reliability, Nanotechnologies and Nanomaterials, Stretchable (Large Area) Electronics and Photonics: Physical Design for Reliability, Lattice-Misfit Systems: Stress Analysis and Reliability Evaluations, Technical Diagnostics, Prognostics and Health Monitoring (PHM), Vehicular (Automotive, Aerospace, Maritime) Electronics and Photonics: Design for Reliability, “Human-in-the-Loop”: Human-Equipment-Environment Performance and Interaction, Quantification of the Role of the Human Factor in Various Tasks, Missions and Situations, Aerospace Human Psychology
Biography
Dr. Ivoyl P. Koutsaroff is a Principle Engineer working on new acoustic materials targeting improvement of microacoustic device performances by lowering their viscous losses and development of improved new piezoelectric materials suitable for high performance RF front-end components, Technology R&D with Qualcomm Technologies Inc., Maitland, Florida, USA. Prior to joining Qualcomm, he has been working at Qorvo Inc. Since 2005, for a decade, he was working as a Principle Research Engineer at New Technology Center, Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Kyoto, Japan, responsible for ferroelectric thin film research, new functional oxides (oxynitrdes) and electrode materials development, process integration and performance improvement of various RF front-end devices (e.g., BST varactors and piezo-MEMS). He was core member of a national join collaborative project supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) for development of tunable SAW filters combined with BST varactors monolithically integrated on the same chip. Dr. Koutsaroff has given invited lectures at ISIF Symposia, MRS Symposia, FMA, ISAF, Ceramics Society of Japan, ICC3, ISSP, WCAM-2013, WCSM-2015, E-MRS 2015, etc. conferences as well various industrial R&C Centers in Japan, USA, Canada, Germany, France and Switzerland, co-edited proceedings in the ferroelectric thin films field, and he holds more than 40 patents in areas such as high density thin film capacitors, oxynitride perovskites materials and tunable SAW filters. He is a member of the IEEE, the Materials Research Society (MRS), the American Chemical Society (ACS), and the Electrochemical Society (ECS). He also an Editorial Board Member of AU Journal of Technology, Assumption University, Thailand. Regular referee for JAP, APL, APL Materials, J Chem Phys, American Institute of Physics (AIP) publications.
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