"In the News" of Paul R. Berger

"In The News" of Paul R. Berger, Professor

OSU Research Press Release: "Plastic Diode Could Lead to Flexible, Low Power Computer Circuits, Memory" (November 14, 2005); Electronics News: "Organic Polymer Builds Tunnel Diode" (November 22, 2005); Active and Intelligent Pack News: "Organic polymer diode could lead to cheaper RFID" (December 2005); Wafer News: "Exploring polymer tunnel diodes to enable logic functions" (January 2006); Science and Vie (France's Scientific American): "Plastic diodes promise low cost memory" (July 2006).
OSU Research Press Release: "Sensor Could Detect Concealed Weapons without X-Rays" (August 1, 2005); (August 1, 2005); Science Daily News: "Sensor could detect concealed weapons without x-rays" (August 1, 2005); Science Blog: "Sensor could detect weapons without X-rays" (August 1, 2005); Innovations Report: "Sensor could detect concealed weapons without X-rays" (August 2, 2005); Medical News Today: "Sensor could detect concealed weapons without X-rays" (August 2, 2005); MediLexicon: "Sensor could detect concealed weapons without X-rays" (August 2, 2005); i-Newswire: "Sensor could detect concealed weapons without x-rays" (August 2, 2005); AZoM: "New Sensor Could be Used to Detect Concealed Weapons" (August 2, 2005); NewsWise: "Sensor Could Detect Concealed Weapons without X-rays" (August 3, 2005); ISA: "Reflection sensor generates X-ray vision" (August 3, 2005); Defense Tech: "New Sensor: Naturally Rad" (August 25, 2005).
OSU Research Press Release: "High Peak Current Density Diode Could Lead to Faster, More Efficient Circuits" (October 13, 2003); Innovations Report (October 13, 2003); Science Blog (October 13, 2003); WOSU Newsroom, an National Public Radio affiliate (audio interview) (October 16, 2003); Science Daily: "New Diode Could Enable Faster, More Efficient Electronics" (October 16, 2003); Electronics Weekly: "Tunnel diode in US comeback" (October 22, 2003); OSU onCampus Page 1 Page 1 (October 23, 2003); EE Times: Hybrid tunnel diodes could leapfrog Moore's Law (October 27, 2003); Science: NewsFactor Network "Diehard Diode May Solve Computer Gridlock" (November 3, 2003); The Hindu: "Silicon compatible diode" (November 6, 2003); Columbus Dispatch: "'50's Technology Adapted To New Uses" (November 11, 2003); National Science Foundation News Tip: "Researchers Break Electronics Speed Record" (January 15, 2004).
OSU Research Press Release: Ohio Board of Regents funds $2M Electron Beam Lithography Laboratory (July 17, 2003); OSU Lantern (student newspaper): "OSU's high-tech 'Nan-o-Sketch' will soon open to public" (January 12, 2006).
OSU OnCampus: "NSF Funds Quantum Dot Nanoswitches" (June 21, 2001); EE Times: "NSF Seeks Reliable Quantum Chip-Making Process" (July 4, 2001); DesignTechnica: "Qubit? The Stuff Science Fiction Is Made of," (August 28, 2001); TECHNOLOGIES OF 2001 CD-ROM (vol.1): "QUANTUM CHIPS: Seeking an Assembly Line," (audio interview) (September 2001); Ampcast: ""QUANTUM CHIPS: Seeking an Assembly Line," (audio interview) (September 2001); Micro Magazine: "Connect the Dots," (September 2001); Dr. Dobb's: "Mass Producing Quantum Chips" (October 2001).
DARPA Highlight: World's First Si-based Resonant Interband Tunneling Diodes (May 20, 1998); DARPA Highlight: Improved SiGe RITDs (June 2, 1998); University of Delaware Press Release (October 1, 1998); University of Delaware Press Release: "Future Looks Bright for Tunnel Diodes, Promising Faster, More Efficient Circuits" (October 1, 1998); Wall Street Journal (p. 1): "A Tunnel Vision for Faster Circuitry Nears Reality, Researchers Say" (October 1, 1998); Academic Press/Science's inScight: "Silicon Is Dead: Long Live Silicon" (October 2, 1998); Science Daily: "Future Looks Bright For Tunnel Diodes, Promising Faster, More Efficient Circuits" (October 2, 1998); University of Delaware's UPDATE: "Researcher Confirms 1957 Nobel Discovery" (October 8, 1998); 1998 DARPA Ultra Electronics Program Award of Excellence (October 20, 1998); UD Team Wins DARPA Award (November 19, 1998); Vacuum Solutions, p. 6 (November/December 1998); IEEE Spectrum - Technically Speaking (humorous), p. 17 (December 1998); MRS Bulletin - Research/Researchers, pp. 7-8 (December 1998); Si Tunnel Diode and CMOS/HBT Integration Workshop sponsored by the SRC (December 9, 1999); Minutes of the SRC's Si Tunnel Diode and CMOS/HBT Integration Workshop (December 9, 1999); EE Times Millenium Series (Issue 1093, p. 26): "Tunnel Diodes: the Transistor Killers" (December 27, 1999); Europe's Technology Roadmap for Nanoelectronics (1999 Edition); IEEE Spectrum: "Quantum Transistors: Toward Nanoelectronics" (September 2000); AFOSR Research Highlights: "Resonant Tunneling Diode Research" (November/December 2000).
Fellow of the Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education (May 21, 1998); The Institute's webpage (Summer 1998).
Comments on Sandia's tunneling transistor: Technology News from Wired News: "Transistor Technology Takes a Quantum Leap" (December 8, 1997); Academic Press/Science's inScight: "Quantum Leap for Transistors" (February 7, 1998); Sandia Lab News: "Sandia Scientists Develop First Reproducible Quantum Transistor" (February 13, 1998); Science Daily: "Sandia's Quantum Mechanical Transistor May Increase Computer Speed And Sensor Accuracy" (February 17, 1998); Associated Press (February 28, 1998); Inside Sandia (May 1998).
Si-based GeC photodiodes sensitive to 1.3 micron light: Avtech Electrosystems: "Germanium-Carbon Diodes", (September 1, 1997); University of Delaware's UPDATE: "Research Extends Use of Silicon-Based Devices" (September 11, 1997); EE Times: "Carbon Joins Si-Ge in Novel Diode" (September 22, 1997); "In the News" (November 13, 1997); "In the News" (November 20, 1997); and if you are an IEEE member, check out the IEEE Spectrum May 1998 issue (Innovations section, p. 72).
National Science Foundations's CAREER Award Winner: University of Delaware's Messenger: "Small Department Receives Big Recognition" (Spring 1997); UD's College of Engineering Alumni Magazine (Summer 1998).
Cited in Physics Today (January 1989) as making significant progess in 1988 to the understanding of defect generation and growth nucleation of lattice mismatched strained layer systems.

Last updated July 3, 2006.

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