About the Author

Jiann S. Yuan received both the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees (1984 and 1988) from the University of Florida. He joined the faculty at the University of Central Florida in 1990 after one year of industrial experience at Texas Instruments, Inc., where he was involved with the 16-MB CMOS DRAM circuit design. Currently, he is an associate professor and director of the microelectronics CAD lab at the University of Central Florida.

Dr. Yuan has published more than 120 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings in the area of semiconductor devices and circuits. He has also authored the book Semiconductor Device Physics and Simulation, published by Plenum in 1998. Since 1990 he has conducted many research projects funded by NSF, Motorola, Harris, Lucent Technologies, National Semiconductor, and Enterprise Florida. He has held consulting positions with Harris, NEC, and National Semiconductor. He serves regularly as a reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, IEEE Electron Device Letters, and Solid-State Electronics. He has received many awards. These include the Distinguished Researcher Award, UCF, 1993 and 1996, Outstanding Engineering Educator Award, IEEE Orlando Section and Florida Council, 1993, and Teaching Incentive Program Award. UCF, 1995. He is listed in Who’s Who in American Education and Who’s Who in Science and Engineering.

Dr. Yuan is a senior member of IEEE and a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi. He is the chairman of the Electron ...

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