Charles E Hunt, Professor

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 a Staff Engineer with the VLSI Design Research Group in the Computer Science Department at the University of Utah. Since 1986, he has been in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of California, Davis, where he is currently a 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, 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.