School of Engineering

Michael S. Shur
Professor
(Patricia W. and C. Sheldon Roberts '48 Professor of Solid State Electronics), Director, Center for Broadband Data Transport Science and Technology, and Acting Director of the Center for Integrated Electronics http://nina.ecse.rpi.edu/shur

Department Affiliation:

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

Education:

Background:

Michael Shur received MSEE. degree (with honors) from St. Petersburg Electrotechnical Institute, and PhD. and Dr. Sc. from A. F. Ioffe Institute. He worked at Ioffe, Cornell, Oakland University, University of Minnesota, and UVa. He is now Roberts Professor, Director of Broadband Center, Director of the RPI site of the NSF I/UCRC Connection One and Acting Director of Center for Integrated Electronics. He is Fellow of IEEE, APS, ECS, IET, WIF, Electromagnetic Academy,and AAAS, and member of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, MRS, ASEE, Member, former Chair of Commission D and Member of NRC of US URSI, life member of IEEE MTT, Sigma Xi, and Humboldt Society. Dr. Shur is Editor-in-Chief of IJHSES and related book series, Regional Editor of physica status solidi, Member of the Honorary Board of Solid State Electronics and JSTS International Advisory Committee, Vice-President for Publications of the IEEE Sensor Council, Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE EDS, former Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE MTT and, and former Associate Editor of IEEE ED Transactions. He is co-founder and VP of Sensor Electronics Technology, Inc. He published many technical papers and books and has over 35 patents. His awards include an Honorary Doctorate, IEEE Donald Fink Best Paper Award, IEEE Kirchmayer Award, the Gold Medal of the Russian Education Ministry, several Best Paper awards, van der Ziel Award, Senior Humboldt Research Award, Pioneer Award from Compound Semi, RPI Engineering Research Award, and Commendation for Excellence in Technical Communications. Dr. Shur is listed by the Institute of Scientific Information as Highly Cited Researcher.

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Research Interests:

Shur is primarily involved with semiconductor devices and integrated circuits. His research interests include novel devices, such as those using wide band gap semiconductors. Examples would be high power transistors, visible and ultra violet light emitting diodes, and acousto-optic devices. Potential applications of this technology are in solid-state lighting that will result in dramatic energy savings, better living and working conditions, and medical applications. He is also working on the theory and experimental investigations of ballistic transport in semiconductors, on new emerging plasma wave electronics devices, and on electronics on flexible substrates. Many new device models developed by Shur and his colleagues have been implemented in AIM-Spice, a program accessed by tens of thousands of users on the Internet. It is located at http://www.aimspice.com.

Shur and his team also are developing new technologies for remote experimentation and distance learning. Their approach to remote experimentation technology is demonstrated by AIM-Lab, which allows users to perform measurements on semiconductor devices via the Internet. The program is accessible from Shur's web page.