Resumé

Tor A. Fjeldly

UniK – University Graduate Center

NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology

N-2027 Kjeller, Norway

Tel: +47 64 84 47 47, Fax: +47 63 81 81 46, torfj@unik.no

NTNU

(Updated: March, 2007)

Name:                                    Tor A. Fjeldly

Academic Rank:                 Professor, University Graduate Center, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Citizenship:                           Norwegian 

Educational History

Degree

Major

Institution

Year conferred

M.Sc. (Siv. Ing.)

Physics

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

1967

Ph.D.

Physics

Brown University

1972

Employment History

Employer

Location

Position

 Dates

Brown University, Physics Department

Providence, Rhode Island

Teaching Assistant Research Assistant

1967-1968

1968-1971

Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Physics

Stuttgart, Germany

Scientist

1971-1974

ELAB-SINTEF

Trondheim, Norway

Scientist

Senior Scientist

1974-1976

1976-1983

NTNU-Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Trondheim, Norway

Associate professor Full Professor

1983-1986

1986-present

University of Minnesota, Department of Electrical Engineering

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Visiting Scientist

Summers 1988 and 1989

University of Virginia, Department of Electrical Engineering

Charlottesville, Virginia

Visiting Professor

1990-1996

Rensselaer Polytechnic  Institute, Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering Department

Troy, New York

Visiting Professor

1997-present

UniK-University Graduate Center and NTNU

Kjeller, Norway

Professor

1998-present

Oslo University, Department of Informatics

Oslo, Norway

Adjunct Professor

2002-present

 Assignments (selected)

Internal:

- Department Head, Physical Electronics, NTNU (1986-1987, 1989-1993)

- Associate Dean, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (1989-1990)

- Member, Faculty Council (1986-1993)

- Member, Faculty Board (1986-1987, 1989-1993)

- Member, UniK Board (2001-2005)

 

External:

- Co-Editor-in-Chief of International Journal on High Speed Electronics and Systems, World Scientific

   Publishers, Singapore, 1999 - .

- Co-Editor-in-Chief of Selected Topics in Electronics and Systems, a book series by World Scientific Publishers,

   Singapore, 1999 - .

- Member, Steering Committee, Advanced Workshop on Frontiers in Electronics (WOFE), Puerto de la Cruz,

   Spain in 1997, Villard de Lans, France in 1999, and Virgin Island, 2002.

- Chair, International Committee, IEEE International Caracas Conference on Devices, Circuits and Systems,

  2002; member of Technical Committee 2004.

- Co-organizer, Nordic Semiconductor Meeting, Norway, June, 1996. Member of Advisory Committee, Sweden,

   1998, Denmark, 2001.

- European Co-Chair, Member of Organizing and Program Committees, International Semiconductor Device

   Research Symposium (ISDRS), Charlottesville, Virginia, 1991, 1993, 1995.  Member of Organizing Committee,

   1997, 1999.

- Co-organizer and Proceedings Co-Editor, Symposium on Supercomputer Simulation of Semiconductor Devices,

   Minnesota Supercomputer Institute, Univ. of  Minnesota, 1990.

- Co-Organizer, Session on "Advanced Circuit and Device Simulators" and Member of Scientific Committee of

   the International Symposium on Signals, Systems, and Electronics (ISSSE'92) in Paris, Sept. 1992.

- Reviewer for several international scientific journals, conferences and funding agencies.

- Member, International Program Committee, IASTED Int. Conf. On Education and Technology, Calgary, Canada, 2005

- Member, Technical Committee, Workshop on Scientific Computing in Electronics Engeneering/Int. Conf. on

  Computational Science (ICCS), Reading, U.K., 2006.

Grants (recent)

Research Council of Norway

- Partner, about $ 1 Million grant for Fabrication of Mid-IR Diode Laser for Sensor Applications, 1995-2000.

- Partner, Design of ASICs for Microsystems, 2000-2003.

- Partner, NOK 17 Million for SMIDA: Smart Microsystems for Diagnostic Imaging in Medicine, 2004- 2008.

DARPA, USA:

- Co-PI, $ 275.000 grant for Computer Aided Design Tools for Mixed Photonic/Electronic VLSI, 1998-2001.

Hewlett Packard Company, USA:

- Co-PI, $ 128.000 equipment grant for A Remote Distance Characterization Laboratory, 1998.

Sandia National Labs, USA:

- Co-PI, $ 70.000 grant for Physics-Based Modeling of Ionizing Radiation Effects in Bipolar Transistors, 1999.

- Co-PI, $ 70.000 grant for Modeling of Neutron Radiation Effects in Bipolar Devices, 2001.

- Co-PI, $ 100.000 grant for Modeling of Radiation Effects in Vertical D-MOSFETs, 2002.

- Co-PI, $ 120.000 grant for Modeling of Radiation Effects in SOI MOSFETs, 2003-2004.

Nordunet2, Nordic Council of Ministers:

- PI, $ 260.000 for Internet Technology in Laboratory Modules for Distance-Learning, 2000-2002

Minerva Socrates, European Commission:

- Partner, € 1.3 Million for eMerge: Educational network structure for dissemination of real laboratory

experiments to support engineering education, 2002-2004.

Network of Excellence, European Commission:

- Partner, € 9.9 Million for SINANO: Silicon-based nano-devices, 2004-2005

Leonardo da Vinci, European Commission:

- Partner, € 0.53 Million for European Remote Radio Laboratory, 2006-2008

Memberships in Professional Societies

Norwegian Academy of Technical Sciences, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Physical Society, European Physical Society, Norwegian Society of Chartered Engineers.

Honors

- Fellow of IEEE

- Elected member of Norwegian Academy of Technical Sciences

Patents, Software

- Co-inventor, Solid State Ion-Selective Sensors (Norwegian patent)

- Co-developer, Circuit simulator AIM-Spice (www.aimspice.com).

- Co-developer of AIM-Lab, a laboratory set-up for remote operation using the Internet and Web, for use in

   engineering education (www.Lab-on-Web.com) (US patent No.: US 6,932,611 B2, 2005).

Publications (see separate list)

- Author and co-author of about 200 scientific and technical publications – including about 170 in international

  scientific journals and conference proceedings, three books and thirteen book chapters. 

- Co-Editor of five books and two conference proceedings.

- Co-Editor-in-Chief of International Journal High Speed Electronics and Systems, World Scientific Publishers,

   Singapore.

- Co-Editor-in-Chief of Selected Topics in Electronics and Systems, a book series by World Scientific Publishers,

   Singapore.

 

Research Interests (recent with key publications)

Device Modeling and Circuit Simulation:

This is research with emphasis on physics-based device modeling for application in circuit simulators such as SPICE.  A unified charge channel approach is used, with inclusion of important non-ideal effects related to reduced dimensions and high fields .  Most of today’s relevant technologies are covered, including CMOS, SOI-CMOS, Si thin-film transistors (a-Si TFTs and poly-Si TFTs), GaAs FETs, GaN-technology.  Most of the models considered have been implemented in our circuit simulator AIM-Spice (see: www.aimspice.com), and some in additional, commercial CAD tools.

 

- Semiconductor Device Modeling for VLSI, Prentice Hall, New Jersey (1993), ISBN 0-13-805656-0

- Introduction to Device Modeling and Circuit Simulation, John Wiley & Sons, New York (1998),

ISBN 0-471-15778-3

CMOS RF Modeling, Characterization and applications, World Scientific Publishing Co. (2002), Singapore. ISBN 981-02-4905-5

-Device Modeling for Analog and RF CMOS Circuit Design, John Wiley & Sons, London, New York (2003).  ISBN 0-471-49869-6

- "Compound–Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors", in Modern Semiconductor Device Physics, M. Sze, editor, 

John Wiley & Sons, New York (1998), ISBN 0-471-15237-4.

- “A GaAs MESFET Small-Signal Equivalent Circuit Including Transmission Line Effects", IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, 36, 1557 (1989)

-"Threshold Voltage Modeling and the Subthreshold Regime of Operation of Short-Channel MOSFETs", IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, ED-40, pp. 137-145, Jan. (1993).

-"A New Approach for Modeling of Current Degradation in Hot-Electron Damaged LDD NMOSFETs", IEEE Trans. Electron Devices , ED-42, pp. 362-365 (1995)

-"Enhanced GaAs MESFET CAD Model for a Wide Range of Temperatures", IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, ED-42, pp. 1724-1734, Oct. (1995).

-"Unified Physical I–V Model of Fully Depleted SOI/MOSFETs for Analog/digital Circuit Design", Solid State Electronics , 39, No. 5, pp. 721-730 (1996)

-"Unified Physical I-V Model Including Self-Heating Effect for Fully Depleted SOI/MOSFETs", IEEE Trans. Electron Devices , ED- 43, No. 8, pp. 1291-1296 (1996).

-"Device Modeling Issues in Deep-Submicron MOSFETs", Semiconductor International, pp. 131-142, June (1996).

-"Unified Substrate Current Model for MOSFETs", Solid-State Electronics, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 87-94 (1997).

-"A New Charge Conserving Capacitance Model for GaAs MESFETs", IEEE Trans. Electron Devices , ED-44, No. 11, pp. 1813-1821 (1997).

-"Thermal, Self-Heating and Kink Effects in a-Si:H Thin Film Transistors", IEDM Technical Digest, IEEE Catalog No. 98CH36712, pp. 32.7.1-32.7.4 (1998).

-"Unified Model for Short-Channel Poly-Si TFTs," Solid-State Electronics, Vol. 43, No. 11, pp. 1821-1831 (1999).

-"Two-Channel AlGaN/GaN HFET for High Power Applications", J. Appl. Phys., Vol. 85, No. 5, pp. 3009-3011 (1999)

-"Enhanced Heterostructure Field Effect transistor model Suitable for Simulation of Mixed Mode Circuits", IEEE Trans. Electron Devices Devices, ED- 46, No. 8, pp. 1577-1588 (1999).

-"Self-heating and Kink Effects in a-Si:H Thin Film Transistors", IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices, , Vol. ED- 47, No. 2, pp. 387-397  (2000)

-"Transistor Modeling for the VDSM Era", invited paper, Proc. 1st Int. Symp. on Quality of Electronic Design (ISQED IEEE 2000), San Jose, CA, pp. 37-43 (2000)

-“SPICE Modeling of Neutron Radiation Displacement Damage and Annealing Effects in Bipolar Junction Transistors”, IEEE Trans. Nucl. Science, Vol. 50, No 6, Dec. (2003)

- “Physics and Modeling of Poly, Micro, and Nano Crystalline TFTs” in Thin Film Materials and Processes, vol. 2, Poly-Si Thin Film Transistors, Y. Kuo, Editor, Kluwer Publishers Co., Boston (2003). ISBN 1-4020-7504-9

- “Analysis of the Anomalous Drain Current Characteristics of Halo MOSFETs”, Solid-State Electronics, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 99-106, January (2003)

-“Closed-form 2D Modeling of Sub-100nm MOSFETs in the Subthreshold Regime”, invited paper, J. Telecom. and Information Techn., ISSN 1509-4553, Vol. 1/2004, pp. 70-79, January 2004

 

Electronic-Photonic Circuits:

Research of direct relevance for System-on-Chip technology, with multi-signal/multi-technology emphasis. The long-term objective is to develop CAD tools for handling such technologies The study of radiation-effects on circuits relates to cosmic radiation photoeffect and damage in space electronics, and also concerns solar cell issues.

 

-"Photoresponse of GaAs MESFET Inverters by Pulsed Laser Illumination", Microwave  and Optical Techn. Letters, 2, 244-247, (1989)

-"CAD Tools and Optical Device Models for Mixed Electronic/Photonic VLSI", Frontiers in Electronics: From Materials to Systems, Y S Park, S Luryi, M S Shur, J M Xu and A Zaslavsky, editors, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore (2000), pp. 299-308, ISBN 981-02-4361-8

-"Modeling of Transient High Dose-Rate Ionizing Radiation Effects in Bipolar Devices”, IEEE Trans. Nucl. Science, Vol. 48, No. 5, pp. 1721-1730, Oct. (2001)

 

Remote Internet Lab:

This work concerns the development of remotely operated laboratory modules utilizing advanced Internet and Web technology.  The objectives are to make such modules available as part of a remote engineering education strategy, but also for use in studio and classroom settings.  So far we have developed systems based on TCP/IP and Java Applets, LabVIEW, and ActiveX technology (ISAPI or COM+ solutions).  We have positive experience with the lab in courses on device and circuit technology (see: http://www.lab-on-web.com/).

 

- LAB on the WEB, Running Real Electronics Experiments via the Internet, John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY (2003).  ISBN: 0-471-41375-5

-"Conducting Laboratory Experiments over the Internet", IEEE Trans. on Education, 42, No. 3, pp. 180-185 (1999).

- "AIM-Lab: A System for ­Remote Characterization of Electronic Devices and Circuits over the Internet ", Proc.  3rd  IEEE Int. Caracas Conf. on Devices, Circuits and Systems (ICCDCS-2000), Cancun, Mexico, IEEE Catalog No. 00TH8474C, pp. I43.1 –I43.6 (2000)

- “Advanced Solutions for Performing Laboratory Experiments over the Internet”, in Engineering Education and Research – 2001, A Chronicle of Worldwide Innovations, W. Aung, P. Hicks, L. Scavarda, V. Roubicek, C-H. Wei, editors, iNEER in cooperation with Begell House Publishers (2002), pp. 135-146, ISBN 1-56700-186-6

-“eMerge, a European Educational Network for Dissemination of Online Laboratory Experiments”, in Engineering Education and Research – 2003, A Chronicle of Worldwide Innovations, W. Aung, T. Cermak, R. King, L. M. Sanchez Ruiz, editors, iNEER in cooperation with Begell House Publishers (2004)

- "Internet Laboratory with Web Services Accessibility", Advances in Technology-Based Education: Towards a Knowledge-Based Society, Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. on Multimedia ICTs in Education (m-ICTE2003), Badojas, Spain, Dec. 2003), A. M. Vilas, J. A. M. Gonzalez, and J. M. Gonzalez, Editors, Vol. 3, pp. 1700-1704, ISBN 84-96212-09-2

   - “Remote Educational Laboratory System Based on Web Services Standards”, in Engineering Education and Research – 2004, A Chronicle of Worldwide Innovations, W. Aung, R. King, J. Moscinski, S.-H. Ou, L. M. Sanchez Ruiz, editors, iNEER in cooperation with Begell House Publishers (2005)

 

 

MEMS:

This activity includes an activity on the modeling of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) for sensors/actuators and for radio-frequency (RF) circuit applications.

 

- “Dynamical Equivalent-Circuit Modeling of MEMS with Squeezed Gas Film Damping”, Physica Scripta, Vol. T101, pp. 192-195 (2002).

- “Nonlinear Analytical Reduced-Order Models for MEMS”, Proc. 5th Int. Conf. on Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems, San Juan, Puerto Rico, ISBN 0-9708275-7-1, pp. 150-153, April, 2002

-“Modelling of Charging Effects Caused by Anodic Bonding in Packaged MOS Devices”, Electronics Letters, Vol. 38, No. 24, pp. 1596-1597, 21. Nov. (2002)

- "Modeling and Simulation of High Capacitance Ratio RF MEMS Shunt Switch", Proc. 3rd IASTED Int. Conf. Circuits, Signals and Systems, CSS 2005, Marina del Rey, Ca, USA, paper 493-115, Oct.  2005.