Graduates in Recent 10 Years

MS and Ph.D. completed (Primary Advisor). All graduates found jobs in an area related to thesis research immediately after thesis defense.

1. Jianhui Zhang, Ph.D. thesis on Design and fabrication of 4H-SiC Power BJTs, May, 2006. Joined United Silicon Carbide, Inc. as Sr. Research Engineer

2. Gokul Ramamani, M.S. thesis on Effects of Passivation and Annealing on the Performance of 4H-SiC MPS diodes, May 2006.

3. Leonid Fursin, Ph.D. thesis on Design and fabrication of a high-voltage normally-off planar 4H-SiC VJFET, May, 2005. Joined United Silicon Carbide, Inc. as Sr. Research Engineer

4. Xueqing Li, Ph.D. thesis on Design and simulation of high voltage 4H-SiC power devices, May ,2005. Joined United Silicon Carbide, Inc. as Sr. Research Engineer

5. Yanbin Luo, Ph.D. thesis on SiC Power Bipolar Junction Transistors, June 25, 2004. Joined Intel R&D Center.

6. Feng Yan, Ph.D. thesis on 4H-SiC Avalanche Photodiodes, May 2003. Joined NASA/Raytheon.

7. Kiyoshi Tone, Ph.D. Thesis on SiC Vertical Junction Field-effect Transistors, Oct. 2002. Joined Intel R&D Center.

8. Thomas Koscica, Ph.D. thesis on "A new type of semiconductor device: the field effect real space transfer transistor", graduated May 1998. Joined Exogen.

9. Yan Shi, Ph.D. thesis on "Tunable photodetectors based on MBE grown strain compensated multi-quantum well AIGaAsSbjInGaAsSb", graduated May, 1998. Joined Alcatel-Lucent Technology.

10. Christi Madsen, Ph.D. thesis on "The first planar optical waveguide filter architecture and demonstration", graduated 5/1996 and Joined Bell Lab. Now with Texas A&M.

11. Walter B. Buchwald, Ph.D. thesis on "InGaAsP /InP Optothyristors", graduated 5/1996. Joined Raytheon

12. Terry Burke, Ph.D. thesis on "Deep traps and their effects on the performance of high power GaAs photoconductive switches", graduated 5/1993. Now with US TACOM.

13. Jutao Chen, M.S. thesis on "Effect of laser polarization on optical fiber communication", graduated 10/1997. Now with All-Tech.

14. Gregory Lorezon, M.S. thesis on "Computer modeling of SiC thyristors", graduated 5/1995. Now with US CECOM.

15. James Wang, M.S. Thesis title" A compact GaAs tuner IC for direct broadcast satellite", graduated in May, 1991. With Anadigics.

16. Robert Lis, M.S. student, Thesis title: "A novel InP based optothyristor for pulsed high power . switching applications", graduated in May, 1992. Joined GE.

17. John T. Bayruns, M.S. student, research project: "A C-band integrated circuit image rejection block converter using novel phase-shift circuit designs", graduate in January, 1992. With Anadigics, Inc.