Research Philosphy
A common theme that extends across current and past work is either the exploration
of novel devices using known materials, or developing known devices with new materials.
A key facet of this work is a sensitivity to epitaxial growth parameters and their
influence upon device performance.
Research Excellence
Prof. Berger aspires to the highest academic achievements publishing
exclusively in the
highest impact factor journals,
generally ranging from 2.0 to 8.1, or above. He has garnered nearly 1300 citations
for a body of work nearing 90 peer reviewed journal articles, averaging over 14 citations
per article over his career. His
former graduate students
have gone on to become university faculty, founders of their own semiconductor companies
and employees at major semiconductor companies (e.g. Intel, AMD, Cree, Micron, National Semiconductor
and Lockheed Martin).
His undergraduate researchers have also gone on to graduate school at preeminent institutions
such as MIT, Texas at Austin, UCLA, Washington, Johns Hopkins, Duke, Ohio State and Delaware.
Balanced Initiatives (Teaching and Service)
Prof. Berger believes some of the most memorable and valuable teaching moments occur in
1-on-1 settings of students with faculty.
Undergraduate research
is an excellent forum for students and faculty to mingle and for students to be exposed to new trends in
science and engineering at a top-ranked research university.
Berger has mentored over
60 undergraduate researchers
in various projects over his faculty career. He is hoping to establish an
Undergraduate Research Institute in the College of Engineering to promote more
opportunities for students of all backgrounds to participate. Further, Berger was the 2009 receipient
of OSU's College of Engineering - Faculty Diversity Excellence Award for "for actively recruiting,
retaining, training and promoting a diverse group of high school, undergraduate and graduate researchers
and instilling in them a sense of self-pride and yearning for excellence."
Through his role as
IEEE Student Chapter Faculty Advisor,
Prof. Berger seeks to expose undergraduate underclassmen to different areas of the broad ECE
discipline in order for them to properly select the career path that works best for themselves.
The IEEE Student Chapter also seeks ways to break down the barriers between students and
faculty.
Prof. Berger has established a
consortium within the State of Ohio for nanoscale patterning
of like-minded organizations by creating a cost-center laboratory with state-of-the-art
electron beam lithography (EBL) facilities complete
with trained personnel to help assist and train a diversified user base. The EBL tool
is a powerful 100 kV system that is in the process of being installed and became
operational in late Fall 2005. It is hoped that this will be a lightening rod for
nanotechnology in the State of Ohio and the Midwest region for any academic or industrial
users that need to write patterns at the nanometer scale and perform subsequent processing.
Biography
Paul R. Berger was born in a midwest
Big Ten
town, but mostly identifies with
Massachusetts ,
specifically Andover ,
where he grew up and graduated from
Phillips Academy at Andover .
Prof. Berger received the B.S.E. degree in Engineering Physics in 1985, and
the M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees in
Electrical Engineering
in 1987 and 1990, respectively, all from the
University of Michigan
in the city of
Ann Arbor.
From 1990 to 1992 he was employed as a postdoctorate, under
Niloy Dutta, at Bell Laboratories,
Murray Hill, NJ in the Optoelectronic Device Research Department. In 1992,
Prof. Berger joined the University of Delaware
as an Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering. In 1997, he became
an Associate Professor in the renamed
UD Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.
In 1999, Prof. Berger took a sabbatical leave while working first at the
Max-Planck Institute for Polymer
Research, Mainz, Germany while supported by Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wegner
and then moved on to Cambridge Display
Technology, Ltd., Cambridge, United Kingdom working under Dr. Jeremy
Burroughes. In 2008, Prof. Berger spent an extended sabbatical leave
at IMEC (Interuniversity Microelectronics
Center) in Leuven, Belgium while appointed as a Visiting Professor
in the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
In the Summer of 2000, Prof. Berger
joined The Ohio State University as
an Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering in the
Solid State Electronics and Photonics Area. In the Fall of 2001, Prof. Berger was
extended a Courtesy Appointment in the
OSU Physics Department.
In 2003, Prof. Berger was promoted to Full Professor
in Electrical
and Computer Engineering.
Prof. Berger is co-Director of the Department's 4000 sq. foot
Nanofabrication and Materials Processing Center (NanoMPC)
and has sparked a re-birth and significant growth of the current
NanoMPC facility. A key facet of this expansion is Berger's role
as Founder of the Nanoscale Patterning
Laboratory that is a State of Ohio resource offering electron
beam lithography (EBL) services and equipment to the scientific
community. The Leica EBPG 5000 EBL system is a multi-million
dollar investment by the Ohio Board of Regents. Prof. Berger is
also a key member of the
Ohio State Polymer Consortium and organized their first
annual meeting.
Major Awards, Publication Record and Technical Societies
Prof. Berger is a recent recipient of the 2006 Lumley Research Award.
Berger made seminal contributions to the QMOS Team, a multi-university,
industrial-lead team, which elicited a 1998 DARPA Excellence Award.
He also received the prestigious National Science Foundation's Faculty
Early Career Development Award (CAREER) in 1996, which was formerly known
as the Presidential Young Investigator Award. In 2009, Berger received
OSU's College of Engineering's Faculty Diversity Excellence Award for
his promotion of diversity students within his graduate and undergraduate
research team.
Prof. Berger has co-authored
nearly 90 refereed journal articles,
nearly 90 conference presentations,
4 book sections and generated 28 invention
disclosures, resulting in
13 issued patents with 3 more pending.
In 1990, Prof. Berger received a U. S. Army Fellowship. He has been included in
American Men & Women of Science since 1992;
Who's Who in Science and Engineering since 1998; and
Who's Who in America.
He is a Senior Member of the Institute
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE),
IEEE Electron
Devices Society (EDS),
IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics
Society (LEOS), and a member of the Optical
Society of America (OSA) and the Materials Research
Society (MRS).
Currently, he serves as the Chair for the
IEEE joint EDS/LEOS Columbus Chapter.
Links Within Site
For General Interest
- Smaller is better!
- Excerpts of Berger activities from past OSU EE Department Annual Reports
- Recent Nobel Prizes Awarded for Semiconductor and Polymer Work
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