Professor Charles E. Hunt

Professor Charles E. Hunt

Charles E. Hunt: B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from the University of Utah and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. From 1979 to 1983 he served as Staff Engineer to the VLSI Design Research Group at the Computer Science Department of the University of Utah,. Since 1986, he has been in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of California at Davis, where he is presently Professor, as well as a Staff Consultant for the Engineering Research Division of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He also holds the appointment of Visiting Professor of Electronics in the Faculty of Physics of the University of Barcelona. Professor Hunt teaches IC fabrication technology and semiconductor device physics. His research centers on microfabrication technology and design for electronic materials, electronic devices and circuits, and microstructures. His major research emphasis has been in the areas of field-emission vacuum microelectronics, semiconductor wafer bonding, silicon on insulator (SOI) materials and devices, and CVD epitaxy. Professor Hunt is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and is Author or Co-Author of over one hundred refereed publications, eight books, and holds eleven patents. From 1997-2004 he served as Editor of the journal, Solid-State Electronics. He has Chaired the International Vacuum Microelectronics Conference (2001), and has been Co-Organizer of the Electrochemical Society Symposia on Semiconductor Wafer Bonding.