Jerry M. Woodall

Jerry M. Woodall (born around 1938 in Takoma Park , Maryland ) is an American solid-state physicist and materials scientist at the University of California, Davis . He made an outstanding contribution to the development of various semiconductor materials .

Career

Wodall grew up in Takoma Park , Maryland , a suburb of Washington, DC His family was a member of a Seventh-day Adventist Church . He earned a Masters in Metallurgy from Morris Cohen at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1960 and a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1982. in electrical engineering . From 1960 he worked for Clevite Transistor Products , in 1962 he moved to the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM in Yorktown Heights , New York , where he made a career due to his successful technical developments. Since 1993 he was a professor at Purdue University in West Lafayette , Indiana , interrupted by a professorship at Yale University (1999-2004) before moving to the University of California, Davis in 2012 .

research

Numerous innovations in semiconductor technology can be traced back to Woodall , including the liquid-phase epitaxy of gallium arsenide ( infrared diodes ) and aluminum gallium arsenide as well as the heterojunction of these materials (bright LEDs, solar cells , mobile radio transistors) and " pseudomorphic " high-electron mobility transistors with various inexpensive Material properties. He researched the Schottky barrier , ohmic contact and photoelectrochemical techniques for the production of components and for the passivation of surfaces. Further work dealt with the chemistry of effusion cells during the growth of epitaxial layers in the context of molecular beam epitaxy .

Woodall has more than 350 scientific publications and holds more than 85 patents. It has (as of April 2018) an h-index of 64.

Awards (selection)

• 1982 Fellow of the American Physical Society
• 1984 Jack A. Morton Award
• 1985 IBM Fellow
• 1988 Welker Award from the International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors
• 1989 member of the National Academy of Engineering
• 1990 Medard W. Welch Award from the American Vacuum Society
• 1990/91 President of the Electrochemical Society
• 1998 Edward Goodrich Acheson Award from the Electrochemical Society
• 1998 President of the American Vacuum Society (AVS)
• 2001 National Medal of Technology and Innovation
• 2005 IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• 2007 honorary member of the Electrochemical Society
• 2017 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Web links

• Jerry M. Woodall in nndb (English)
• Jerry Woodall - Oral History Interviews at the American Institute of Physics (aip.org)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jerry Woodall - Google Scholar Citations. In: scholar.google.de. Retrieved April 29, 2018 . 
2. ^ IBM Fellows. In: ibm.com. Accessed April 29, 2018 . 
3. ↑ CSW 2017 – Welker Award. In: csw2017.org. Accessed April 29, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Professor Jerry M. Woodall. In: nae.edu. Retrieved April 29, 2018 . 
5. ^ AVS - Medard W. Welch Award. In: avs.org. Accessed April 29, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Jerry M. Woodall - ECS. In: electrochem.org. Accessed April 30, 2018 . 
7. ^ Edward Goodrich Acheson Award. In: electrochem.org. Accessed April 29, 2018 . 
8. ↑ NSTMF. In: nationalmedals.org. January 2, 2017. Retrieved April 29, 2018 . 
9. ^ IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal Recipients. In: ieee.org. Retrieved April 29, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Woodall, Jerry M. In: aaas.org. November 30, 2017, accessed April 29, 2018 .