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David B. Janes

Contact Information

Address: Birck Nanotechnology Center

                Purdue University   

                1205 West State Street 

                West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057

Tel.: (765) 494-9263     Fax: (765) 494-0811

Email: janes@ecn.purdue.edu

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Affiliation

Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Technical Director, The Institute for Nanoelectronics and Computing

         

 Education:

            Degree                         Date                      School

            B.A. (Physics)                May 1980             Augustana College

            B.S. (Elect. Eng)            Jan. 1980               University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

            M.S. (Elect. Eng)            Aug. 1981             University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

            Ph.D.(Elect. Eng)            May 1989              University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Honorary Society Memberships:

 Eta Kappa Nu

Omicron Delta Kappa

Sigma Pi Sigma

Honors:

RCA Fellowship (1980)

 

Professional Experience:

 June 1981 - Aug. 1985        Research Scientist, Raytheon Company, Lexington, Massachusetts.

Nov. 1985 – May 1989        Engineer, Electronic Decisions, Inc., Urbana, Illinois.

July  1989 - present              School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University

 

 Professional Society Activities

 

Electronic Materials Committee, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), Member -- 2000-2006.

 

Conferences:

 

Co-Chair:     2006 IEEE Nanotechnology Conference.

 

Session Chair: 8th International Conference on Superlattices, Microstructures and Microdevices Cincinnati, OH, Aug. 1995.

 

Session Chair: Electrochemical Society Meeting, Chicago, IL, Oct. 1995.

 

Session Chair:  Symposium on Control of Semiconductor Surfaces and Interfaces, Materials Research Society 1996 Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, Dec. 1996.

 

Program Committee, Session Chair: 41st Electronic Materials Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, June 30 - July 2 1999.

 

Program Committee, Session Chair: 42nd Electronic Materials Conference, Denver, CO, June 21-23, 2000.

 

Session Chair: 27th International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors, Monterey, CA, 2-5 October, 2000.

 

Program Committee, Co-Organizer of Special Topical Session: 43rd Electronic Materials Conference, South Bend, IN, June 2001.

 

Organizer of Special Topical Session:  Great Lakes VLSI Symposium, W. Lafayette, IN, March 2001.

 

 Ph.D. Thesis Supervision Completed

G. L. Chen, “Studies of Coherent Transport Through Quantum-Dot Arrays and Weak Antilocalization in InAs Heterostructures,” May 1994, (Joint with S. Datta).

K. C. Huang, “Modeling of Resonant Tunneling Diodes,” Dec. 1995, (Joint with K. J. Webb).

V. R. Kolagunta, “Study of Conduction in Vertical and Lateral Nanostructures,” May 1997.

E. B. Cohen, “Real Space Transfer Devices,” Aug. 1998, (joint with K. J. Webb)

Haw-Jye Ueng, “Characterization of Nonalloyed Ohmic Contacts” Aug. 2000 (joint with K. J. Webb)

N.-P. Chen, “Modeling of Electronic States in Low-Temperature-Grown Gallium Arsenide and Conduction Properties of Tunneling Based Contact, Aug. 2001  (Physics, administratively supervised by R. Reifenberger)

 M.S. Thesis Supervision Completed

T. S. Laverghetta, “Swept Frequency Measurements of Relative Dielectric Constant in Microwave Laminates,” 1991.

M. S. Carroll,        “Resonant Tunneling Diode Fabrication and DC Characterization,” May, 1992, (Joint with K. J. Webb).

G. E. Starnes, “Resonant Tunneling Diode Impedance Characterization for Oscillator Applications,” August, 1992, (Joint with K. J. Webb).

V. R. Kolaganta, “Nanofabrication Techniques - Development and Application," Dec. 1993.

R. Jazayeri, “Single Electronics and the Modeling of Coulomb Blockade Devices," May 1995.

B. Walsh, “Kelvin Force Microscopy of Carbon Nanotubes,” May 2000.

Nishant Nerurkar, “Electron Beam Lithography Using a Scanning Electron Microscope” Aug. 2000

E. Subramaniam, “Three-Dimensional Circuits”  Dec. 2000   

S. Lodha, "Experimental and Modeling Studies of Schottky Contacts to Low-Temperature-Grown GaAs," Dec. 2001.

Srinivasan Kadathur, May 2002.

 

Undergraduate Student Projects Supervised

[1]   Steven Lerman -- Design of a Microwave Amplifier (1991)

[2]   Albert Loper -- Microstrip Patch Antenna (1991)

[3]   Robert Lyle -- Microwave Wafer Probe (Summer 1992)

[4]   Chris Bahns -- Automation of Hall Effect Measurement (Spring 1993)

[5]  Suresh Sethuraman -- Resonant Tunneling Diode Equivalent Circuit Extraction from Microwave Measurements (Fall 1993)

[6]   Steve Lin -- Noise Figure Characterization (Fall 1994)

[7]  Susan Kim (Stanford (Chem. Eng.) -- Patterning of Nanoscale Metal Cluster Networks using Contact Printing (Summer 1996 -- NSF MRSEC summer intern)

[8]  Sharon West (Stanford, EE) -- Device Applications of Low-Temperature Grown GaAs Surface Layers (Summer 1996 -- NSF MRSEC summer intern) 

[9]  Christopher Wilcox -- Organic Monolayers on Low-Temperature Grown GaAs Surface Layers (Summer - Fall 1997 -- NSF MRSEC intern)

[10]  Ravi Bhat -- Modeling of Multilevel SOI Devices and Circuits (Fall 1997)

[11]  Rejon Sarrazine -- Modeling of Multilevel SOI Devices and Circuits (Fall 1997)

[12]  Saket Rattan -- SOI Device/Circuit Simulation (Spring, Summer 1998)

[13] Elizabeth Peckham (Michigan, Chem. Eng.) -- GaAs Device Patterning by Nanoimprint Lithography (Summer 1998 --  NSF MRSEC summer intern)

[14]  Sinn Wee Lau -- Multilayer silicon SRAM circuit design and layout (Spring 1999)

[15] Eswaran Subramaniam -- Performance Analysis of Multilayer SOI Circuits (Summer 1999).

[16]  Johan Laban -- Design of Contact Structures for Characterization of Carbon Nanotubes (Spring 2000).

[17] Kuet-Liong Fam -- Modeling of Current-Voltage Relationships for Schottky Tunneling Contacts (Summer 2000).

[18] Dennis Sidharta – Scanning Probe Microscopy of Molecular Heterostructures (Summer 2001 -- 21st Century REU)

[19] Franz Kuhlmann (UTEP, EE) –  Electrical Characterization of Metal/Molecule Chemical Sensors (Summer 2001 -- 21st Century REU)

 

 Courses Developed

EE 452         Microwave Measurements and Applications (with K. J. Webb)

EE  695S      High-Frequency Device Characterization (with K. J. Webb)

   

Courses "In Charge of" (1989-1996)  

EE 452         Microwave Measurement and Applications (with K. J. Webb)

EE695S        High-Frequency Device Characterization (with K. J. Webb)

EE441          Distributed Parameter Systems (2000-)

EE557          Integrated Circuit Fabrication Laboratory (2000-)