Olufemi Olowolafe,
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
213 Evans Hall, University of Delaware, DE 19716.
Voice: (302) 831-4272
Fax: (302) 831-4316
e-mail: olowolaf@ee.udel.edu.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Prior to coming to the University of Delaware in 1995,
Dr. Olowolafe acquired over 6 years of industrial experience working for
Motorola Inc.,
Austin, Texas and IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown
Heights, (as a postdoctoral fellow). He also spent over twelve years as a
professor
at universities including visiting at Cornell, Ithaca New
York, and tenured positions at the University of Ife and the Federal University
of Technology, Akure,
as tenured Professor and Chair of the department.
AREAS OF RESEARCH
Synthesis and Characterization of Semiconducting Nanomaterials,
with emphasis on ZnO. Nanotechnology and Devices; Interconnect metallization and processiung
of diffusion barriers; processing and characterization of ultra-thin
dielectrics on Si and SiC. Processing,
characterization and device application of III-V nitride Semiconductors;
Interaction of metals with semiconductors, including III-V nitrides (GaN, AlN, InN)
and SiC. Processing and charaterization of ohmic and Schottky contacts to compound semiconductors; Plasma
etching and fabricationof nano-structures
in SiC and related semiconductors;Analytical
tools employed in our investigations include the Rutherford backscattering
spectrometry (RBS), X-ray diffraction (XRD) technique, Electrical Evaluations
(I-V, C-V, Hall effect techniques, Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM);
Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.
PUBLICATIONS
Publications include over 100 journal and conference articles,
7 patents and invited book chapters
MEMBERSHIP IN INTERNATIONAL SOCIETIES
Olowolafe is a member of
1) Senior Member: The Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
2) Materials Research Society (MRS).
3) The American Physical Society (APS).
4) The American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE).
5) The International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste,
Italy (associate member).
6) The Bomische Physical Society.
Eleg309
Electronic Circuit Analysis I (Fall 2007)
Eleg423 Electronic Proerties of Matter (Fall)
Eleg867 Devices and Metallization (Fall)
Eleg661 Materials and Devices Seminar (Fall)
Eleg433 Energy Systems (Spring)
Eleg667 Fundamentals of Micoelectromechanical systems (Spring 2001)
Eleg624 Fundamental Device Principles (Spring 2002)
Eleg340 Solid State Electronics (Fall)
Eleg649 Nanomaterials and Applications (Spring)
Email: olowolaf@ee.udel.edu