School of Engineering

James Lu
Associate Professor
http://www.rpi.edu/~luj/

Department Affiliation:

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Department of Electrical, Computer, & Systems Engineering

Education:

Background:

Dr. Lu joined the Rensselaer faculty in 1997 as a research scientist and now serves as an associate research professor. He is a faculty member of the Center for Integrated Electronics (CIE); the Focus Center, New York (FC-NY), Rensselaer: Interconnections for Hyper-Integration; and the Center for Automation Technologies (CAT). Prior to his positions at Rensselaer, Lu worked as a research associate at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. for a year. While a research scientist at the Technical University of Munich, he was a Siemens Scholar for three years and a scholar of the German Academic Exchange Program (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) for two years.

Dr. Lu authored and co-authored about 100 publications, including one third of papers in prestigious journals or conferences. He recently served as session chairs and committee members of international conferences and has been an invited speaker for many conferences, universities, and industrial organizations. He is listed in the special Millennium Edition of Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering and has served as a reviewer for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Transactions on Electron Devices; Applied Physics Letters; Electronics Letters; IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing; IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits; Journal of Applied Physics; and Solid-State Electronics, J. of Vacuum Science and Technology, etc.

Dr. Lu is a Senior Member of IEEE and is involved in: Electron Devices Society (EDS) and its Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology Society (CPMTS). He also is a member of the American Physical Society (APS), Materials Research Society (MRS), Electrochemical Society (ECS) and the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE).

Research Interests:

Dr. Lu's research interests are in the field of semiconductor technology including materials, devices, processing, and system integration. His current research focuses on novel electron devices, interconnect technology for gigascale integration, micro-system integration technology for microelectrical mechanical systems (MEMS), and thee-dimensional (3D) hyper-integration.