Ted Kamins

Ted Kamins is a Principal Scientist in the Quantum Science Research group at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California, where he is focusing on advanced nanostructured electronic materials and devices.

Recent areas of research include self-assembled nanostructures formed by lattice-mismatched epitaxial deposition and self-assembled nanowires grown by catalytically enhanced chemical vapor deposition.  He is also a Consulting Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Stanford University.

Kamins received his BS, MS and PhD degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.  He then joined the Research and Development Laboratory of Fairchild Semiconductor, where he performed early work contributing to the understanding of the then-emerging field of polycrystalline silicon and also contributed to device applications of epitaxial silicon.

He moved to Hewlett-Packard in 1974. At HP, Kamins has worked in a number of materials and device-related areas, beginning with the development of UV-sensitive photodiodes, which are enabling devices for spectrophotometers -- instruments in production for more than 20 years, first by HP and now by Agilent Technologies (spun off from HP in 1999).

He then contributed to the emerging areas of silicon-on-insulator and rapid thermal processing. Subsequent work dealt with advanced epitaxy and device technology for the silicon-germanium, heterojunction bipolar transistor, which is currently becoming widely used for wireless communications.

Kamins is co-author with R. S. Muller of the textbook "Device Electronics for Integrated Circuits" and is author of the book "Polycrystalline Silicon for Integrated Circuits and Displays."

He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society.  He received the 1989 Electronics Division Award of the Electrochemical Society. He has written or co-authored approximately 140 papers and holds 20 patents.

Kamins has also been an acting assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught at Stanford University and been an adjunct professor at Santa Clara University.

He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices and has presented short courses for the University of California, Oxford University, the IEEE, the American Vacuum Society and Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI). He also is helping to guide research supported by the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC).