Keynote Speakers

Field-Effect Transistor Theory (A Summary of Recent Advances) Chih-Tang SAH
Professor of Physics and Professor of Electrical Engineering Univesity of Florida, Gainesville, USA

Chih-Tang Sah received the BS degrees in Physics (1953) and in Electrical Engineering (1953) from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, and the MS (1954) and PhD (1956) degrees from Stanford. He apprenticed with Shockley (1956-1959) and joined Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation (1959-1964) where he helped hire, direct and manage the 64-member Fairchild Physics department which was responsible in the development of the first generation manufacturing technologies for volume production of silicon bipolar and MOS transistors and integrated circuits. He was appointed a professor of physics and a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) for 25 years (1962-1988) and an Eminent Scholar and a Graduate Research Professor at the University of Florida (UFL) for 20 years (1988-2008) which is continuing. He wrote a three-volume textbook titled Fundamentals of Solid-State Electronics (1991 FSSE) , FSSE- Study Guide (1993) and FSSE- Solution Manual (1996), the latter included a 100-page exposition on Transistor Reliability. FSSE was translated into Chinese (2003). He was the Founding Editor (1991) of the International Series on the Advances in Solid State Electronics and Technology (ASSET) which published three titles by invited authors (1990's) and is currently publishing six monographs (2007-8) by invited authors on compact modeling of devices for computer-aided design of integrated circuits, all with the World Scientific Publication Company. He was named a world's 1000 most cited scientist during 1963 to 1978 by the Institute of Scientific Information. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, the American Physical Society and the Franklin Institute, and a Fellow of American Association of the Advancement of Science. Dr. Sah was appointed an Honorary Professor of Peking (2002), Tsinghua (2003) and Xiamen (2004) Universities of China and received the Doctorem Honoris Causa from the Katholiche Universteit de Leuven, Belgium (1975) and the Honorary Doctorate from Chiaotung University, Taiwan (2004). His semiconductor research and teaching contributions were recognized thrice by the IRE-IEEE: the Browder J. Thompson Prize (IRE-1962) for the best paper published by an author under thirty, and the IEEE J. J. Ebers (1981) and Jack Morton (1989) Awards; twice by the semiconductor industry, the co-recipient with Morris Chang the First Achievement Award in High Technology of the Asian-American Manufacturing Association in San Jose, California (1984), and the Fourth annual University Research Award of the Semiconductor Industry Association (1998). He was the co-recipient in integrated circuit technology, with Yung-Cheng Fung in bioengineering, of the first Pioneer Recognition Award of the Committee-of-100 (a Chinese-American-citizen organization). He was the second annual Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award of the Asian-American Engineer of the Year sponsored by the Chinese Institute of Engineerings/USA (2003). Professor Sah was elected an Academician of the US National Academy of Engineering (1986), the Academia Sinica in Taipei (1998) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing (2000). His current research has been on MOS transistor models in order to help further the development of compact models for computer aided design of nanometer MOS integrated circuits.