 I received my B.S. in Applied Physics (1979) from the California Institute of Technology and an M.S. (1982) and Ph.D. (1984) in Applied Physics and Engineering from Cornell. For graduate work, I received an NSF Fellowship and an IBM Fellowship, and interned for summers at IBM Yorktown Heights and Sandia National Laboratories. After completing graduate work, I joined the faculty in materials Science and Engineering. During the first years of my career, I was the recipient of one of the first IBM Faculty Development Awards, and one of the first Presidential Young Investigator awards from the National Science Foundation. My latest sabbatical was spent at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory developing a technology for silicon electronics on plastic. I joined three colleagues in founding a new company, FlexIC Inc., to develop this technology. Currently, I am a member of the American Physical Society, the Materials Research Society, and the Bshmische Physikalische Gesellschaft. The common theme of my past research has been the application of non-equilibrium thermal processing techniques, especially in semiconductor related materials and devices. Most recently, my group has been involved in understanding and resolving integration issues surrounding the use of pulsed laser induced melting for dopant activation in state-of-the-art silicon circuits.
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