Curriculum Vitae
James
S. Harris
James and Ellenor Chesebrough Professor of
Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics and
Materials Science
Address:
James S. Harris
Department of Electrical Engineering
Center for Integrated Systems 328
Stanford, CA
94305-4075
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics
and Materials Science
Voice: (650)
723-9775
Fax: (650)
723-4659
E-mail: Harris@Snow.Stanford.edu
Prof. Harris's Home Page: http://www-ee.stanford.edu/~harris
Harris Research Group Home Page: http://snow.stanford.edu/
Degrees:
Ph.D. Stanford
University, 1969
M.S. Stanford
University, 1965
B.S. Stanford
University, 1964 (with Great Distinction and Phi Beta Kappa))
Academic
Experience:
1982-present - James and Ellenor Chesebrough Professor of Electrical
Engineering and by courtesy, Applied Physics and Materials Science, Stanford
University - Research on molecular beam epitaxy, nanofabrication technologies,
micromachining, high speed electronic devices, optoelectronic devices, quantum
transport and quantum computation.
Built up laboratory with five MBE systems, complete III-V processing and
high-speed electronics and optoelectronics testing laboratory with 30 Ph.D.
students, post docs and visitors.
1984-1998 Director, Solid State Laboratory, Stanford University -
Responsible for management, appointments and promotions in Solid State Electronics
Laboratory with eight faculty members and ~100 students.
1985-1999 Director, Joint Services Electronics Program - Responsible for coordinating electronics program with 12 faculty and 12-15 graduate students and post docs which is jointly sponsored by Army, Navy and Air Force.
1992-present Principal Investigator Stanford US-Asia Technology Management Center - Responsible for management and appointments for Center program with 4 staff and 8 students studying Asian technology management issues.
Industrial
Experience:
1980-1982 Director
Optoelectronics Research, Rockwell International - Responsible for direction
and management of a technical department of 50 people in areas including: Optical sources and detectors for fiber
optical systems, integrated opto-electronics, GaAs charge coupled devices,
solar cells, electroluminescent displays and ferroelectric and surface acoustic
wave devices. Directed successful transfer of long wavelength laser technology
to Rockwell Long Distance Telecommunications operating division.
1978-1980 Principal
Scientist, Rockwell International - Responsible for technical leadership in
department and initiating new technical efforts. Senior corporate advisor for planning and evaluating all
technical programs in III-V semiconductor devices. Primary individual focus on application of MBE and MO-CVD to
new heterostructure devices and initiated work on heterojunction bipolar
transistors which have become major Rockwell product for Qualcom cellular
telephones.
1972-1978 Manager
Infrared Devices, Rockwell International - Responsible for leadership and
technical direction of 15 technical people in development of III-V Compound
Semiconductor Electro-Optical Devices.
Rockwell group became one of the leaders in III-V devices and included
development of liquid phase epitaxy for long wavelength lasers, initiation of
molecular beam epitaxial growth, development of high speed lasers and avalanche
photodiodes, light emitting diodes, field assisted photo cathodes, solar cells
and high speed charge coupled devices. Developed the highest efficiency GaAs
concentrator solar cells and served as the Principal Investigator for delivery
of a 20kW GaAs concentrator solar array to Sandia Labs for the Department of
Energy.
1969-1972 Member
of Technical Staff, Rockwell International -
Responsible for individual contributions
in development of liquid phase epitaxy and ion implantation in III-V compound
materials and development of new devices.
Developed first successful n-type implantation for GaAs, first ion
implanted MESFETs in semi-insulating GaAs and implant integration technology.
Consulting
Experience:
Varian Associates, Avantek-HP, Intel, Vitesse
Semiconductor, Matsushita Electronics, CBL, Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture
Partners, Novalux, Picarro, General Electric, Wecktech, Litton Systems,
Raychem, Picogiga, Norton, Citicorp, U. S. Department of Justice, Morrison
& Foerster, Berg, Ziegler, Anderson & Parker, Nortel, Hale & Dorr,
Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, Scientific Advisory Boards of Novalux,
Cree, OEpic OptiComp, Lytek, Zia Laser and Semizone, Board of Directors
Focaltron, EiC Corporation, OEpic and Solar Junction
Awards
and Honors:
James and
Ellenor Chesebrough Professor in the School of Engineering, Stanford University
IEEE Morris N.
Liebmann Memorial Award, 2000
IEEE Third
Millennium Medal, 2000
Fellow Optical
Society of America, 2005
International
Symposium on Compound Semiconductors Award and Heinrich Welker Medal, 2000
Alexander von
Humboldt Foundation Senior Research Prize, 1998
Visiting
Professor, Paul Drude Institute, Berlin, Germany, 1999
Visiting
Professor and Research Fellow, Kochi University of Technology, Japan, 1999-2005
Best Paper
Award, Solid State Devices and Materials Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 1996
Stanford
Associates Alumni Award, 1994
Fellow, American
Physical Society, 1992
Visiting
Professor, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, 1992
Fellow, IEEE,
1988
Best Student
Paper Award, Electronics Materials Conference, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2004
Best Student
Paper Award, North American MBE Conference, 2001, 2003, 2004
Best Student
Paper Award, Materials Research Society Conference, 2003, 2004, 2005
Electronic
Materials Symposium Outstanding Student Award, 1988, 1990, 1993,1997, 2000,
2001, 2003, 2004, 2005
United Nations Visiting Professor, State University Sao Paulo, Campi–as,
Brazil, 1978.
Tektronix Fellowship, Stanford University, 1965-66.
Terman Engineering Award, Stanford University, 1964.
Professional
Societies and Activities:
Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of Lightwave
Technology 2001-present
Divisional Editor, Journal of the Electrochemical
Society 1976-1988
Organizing Committee, International GaAs and Related
Compounds Conference 1976-present
Editorial Board, Solar Cells: Their Science,
Technology, Applications and Economics 1979-87
Member, AdComm, IEEE-Electron Device Society
1980-1996
National Research Council Consultant 1980, 1985,
1987, 1988, 1990, 1992, 2000-2004
Chairman, Technical Committee on Optoelectronic
Devices, IEEE Electron Society 1980-82
Chairman, Technical Committee on Materials-IEEE
Electron Device Society 1982-1996
Organizing Committee, International and US Molecular
Beam Epitaxy Conferences 1982-present
Chairman, International Molecular Beam Epitaxy
Conference Advisory Committee, 1998-2004
Program Committee Chairman, 1987 Molecular Beam
Epitaxy Workshop
Program Committee Chairman 1988 International GaAs
and Related Compounds Conference
Conference Chairman 1993 Molecular Beam Epitaxy
Workshop
Conference Chairman 2002 International Molecular Beam
Epitaxy Conference
Program Committee Proceeding Editor, 1990
International Molecular Beam Epitaxy Conference
Program Committee IEDM, 1980-83
National Research Council Committee - Photovoltaic
Devices for SPS, 1980-81; Challenges in
Compound Semiconductor Processing, 1987-88, Research Associates Program.
2000-04
Fellow, IEEE , American Physical Society and Optical
Society of America
Member, Electrochemical Society, American Vacuum
Society, Materials Research Society
Selected Member, Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi and
Sigma Xi
Current
Research Activities
Research
interests are in the area of new electronic and optoelectronic device
structures created by heterojunctions, quantum wells, superlattices and
engineered materials. Molecular
Beam Epitaxy (MBE) is utilized to prepare artificially structured metastable
materials with atomic layer control and dimensions smaller than the wavelength
of electrons. In this regime,
quantum size effects can be utilized to create entirely new device structures
based upon tunneling and/or transitions between quantum states. Current activities include: MBE growth
of novel optoelectronic materials (GaInNAsSb) for long wavelength lasers;
quantum well structures for surface emitting lasers, high-power lasers, high
speed optical modulators and non-linear optical effects for generation, control
and application of ultra-short optical pulses; Si based photonic devices;
integrated photonic systems for biomedical detection and applications; high
power THz sources and their application to medical imaging; spin based quantum
structures for spintronics and quantum computation; quantum transport and single
electron devices; micromachined structures (MEMS) for tunable
optoelectronic devices.
Ph.D.
Supervision:
Principal dissertation supervisor for 93 Ph.D.
Students, 1982-present
Currently supervising 20 Ph.D. students.
Publications,
Presentations and Patents
Over 850 publications in refereed scientific journals, 12 book chapters, editor of 3 books, holder of 18 issued US patents and over 700 presentations at technical meetings