HISHAM Z. MASSOUD
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Contact Information
163 Hudson Hall
919-660-5257 phone
919-660-5293 fax
massoud@ee.duke.edu

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Education

	PhD	Thermal Oxidation of Silicon in Dry Oxygen: Growth Kinetics and Charge Characterization in the Thin Regime, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 1983
	MS	Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 1976
	MSc	Processing of Bipolar Junction Devices Using Spun-on Doped Silicon Layers, Electrical Engineering, Cairo University, 1975
	BSc	Electrical Engineering, Cairo University, 1973

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Experience

	July 2001-2002	Interim Chairman, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC
	Dec 1983-present	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University
	Aug 1990-present	Director, Semiconductor Research Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC
	Jan 1992-June 1992	Sabbatical at the Hewlett-Packard Co., Integrated Circuit Business Division Research and Development, Palo Alto, California.
	1977 and 1980/81	IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY.

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Selected Publications

1. K Mitani, V Lehmann, R Stengl, D Feijoo, U Gösele, HZ Massoud. Causes and Prevention of Temperature-Dependent Bubbles in Silicon Wafer Bonding. Jap. J. Appl. Phys 1991;30:615.
2. JJ Mastrototaro, HZ Massoud, TC Pilkington, RE Ideker. Rigid and Flexible Thin-Film Multielectrode Arrays for Transmural Cardiac Recording. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 1992;39(3):271-279.
3. HZ Massoud, JP Shiely. The Role of Substrate Carrier Generation in Determing the Electric Field in the Oxide of MOS Capacitors Biased in the Fowler-Norheim Tunneling Regime. Microelectronic Engineering 1997;36:263-266.
4. JP Shiely, HZ Massoud. Simulation of the Drain Characteristics of MOSFETs with Ultra-Thin Oxides in the Presence of Direct Tunneling. Microelectronic Engr. 1999;48:101-104.
5. A Shaneware, HZ Massoud, A Acker, VZQ Li, MR Mirabedini, K Henson, JR Hauser, JJ Wortman. The Effects of Ge Content in Poly-Si1-xGex Gate Materials on the Tunneling Barrier in PMOS Devices. Microelectronic Engr. 1999;48:39-42.
   

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Selected Synergistic Activities

• Served as Interim Chair of the ECE department at Duke University, 2001-2002.
• Served as Director of Graduate Studies in the ECE Dept. at Duke University, 1998-2001.
• Active in developing industrial interactions an fostering technology transfer through the Semicondcutor Research Corporation (SRC) and the Tunnel-PISCES project.
• Serving as the lead faculty in charge of the planning process for the Nanofabrication Facility in the new Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering and Applied Sciences, Pratt School of Engineering.

GRADUATE STUDENTS SUPERVISED (PhD):
Shanware; J. Shiely; N. Vasudevan; MR Mirabedini; RK Sampson; RJ Deaton; K Mitani; Y Kim; WB Rogers; R. Subrahmanyan

GRADUATE STUDENTS SUPERVISED (MS):
YJ (Roger) Zhou; N. Vasudevan; JP Shiely; K Min; TW Tsuei; RH Henderson; RR Ward; KA Hunt; W. Locke.

CURRENT GRADUATE STUDENTS:
M. Shen; P. Kolar; J. Jopling

Research Support:
Dr. Massoud currently is PI on 3 active grants funded by Semiconductor Research Corporation.

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Research Interest

Professor Massoud is interested in near-limit CMOS devices and circuits, in post-CMOS nanodevices and nanotechnology. In the center, Professor Massoud is interested in developing a base nano and microtechnology for basic research in biology.

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