16 April 2011

Quantum Devices Award goes to Notre Dame’s Alan Seabaugh

Professor Alan Seabaugh, who is director of the Midwest Institute for Nanoelectronics Discovery (MIND) and associate director of the Center for Nano Science and Technology (NDnano) at the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Electrical Engineering, has been named as the recipient of the 2011 Quantum Devices Award by the award committee of the 38th International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors (ICSC 2011, to be held 22–26 May in Berlin, Germany).

Picture: Professor Alan Seabaugh, director of the Midwest Institute for Nanoelectronics Discovery and associate director of the Center for Nano Science and Technology at the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Electrical Engineering.

Carrying a $3000 honorarium, the Quantum Devices Award was established in 2000 by Fujitsu Quantum Devices Ltd, and is awarded for “pioneering contributions to the field of compound semiconductor devices and quantum nanostructure devices”.

The citation for Seabaugh’s award recognizes his “Seminal contributions and leadership in semiconductor devices and circuits based on quantum mechanical tunneling such as tunnel-FETs (TFETs) and resonant tunneling transistors (RTTs)”.

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