Vitae
Dr. Miller's research interests are in III-V compound semiconductor materials
and devices. His research specialty is molecular beam epitaxy, performed
using a modified Varian Gen II system. He has 20 years experience in this
field. His research is supported by grants from NSF and by industry to
investigate materials for heterojunction bipolar transistors and for optical
detectors.
Dr. Miller joined the faculty at Penn State in 1989 after ten years
at the Rockwell International Science
Center in Thousand Oaks, CA. While at Rockwell, he was instrumental
in developing the lab's III-V molecular beam epitaxy capabilities, and
later managed the heterostructure devices group. Prior to joining Rockwell,
he did thin film superconductivity and surface research at Brookhaven National
Laboratory. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics in 1973 from the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
In 1994-95 Dr. Miller spent a sabbatical year with the Department
of Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Washington, where he
worked on a project to develop technology for high-resolution physical
mapping of DNA using hybridization with fluorescent probes. He is now working
to establish a research program that will apply semiconductor fabrication
techniques to biotechnology.
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