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Shlomo Hava
January 2004
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Short Curriculum Vitae
Prof. Shlomo Hava
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,
P.O. Box 653, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Tel. +972-8-6461541, Fax: +972-8-6472949
[email protected], www.ee.bgu.ac.il/~hava
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Education
Ph.D.
1982, University of Delaware, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Newark, Delaware
Advisor: Prof. R.G. Hunsperger; Thesis Title: "Thermoelectric properties of GaAlAs
and Integrated Peltier Cooled Laser Diodes"
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Employment
July 1989
Academic Rank: Full professor (Oct. 2003); Associate Professor
to present
(1995); Senior Lecturer (1987) and Lecturer (1982).
Department of Electrical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, BeerSheva, Israel.
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Educational activities
(a) Courses Taught
Undergraduate courses:
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Introduction to Electrical Engineering
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Electron Devices
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Introduction to Semiconductors ( The course has up to 100 students in each group,
and I taught it almost every semester).
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Electrical Properties of Semiconductors
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Introduction to Electronics (at Rose-Hulman Instituted of Technology, Indiana,
1989)
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Linear Electronic Circuits
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Control 1 (to Mechanical Engineering students)
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Electrical Measurement (at University of Pennsylvania)
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Physics of Semiconductor Devices
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VLSI Integrated Circuits (to Material Engineering students.)
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Semiconductor Devices: Structures and Properties (to Material Engineering students)
Graduate courses:
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Integrated Optics and Communication Applications (at EEBGU and Rose Hulman
Institute of Technology, Indiana, 1989)
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Transistors
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Special Electronic Devices and Micro-sensors
(b) Teaching Evaluation – Fall 2003:
Integrated optics and communication applications , grade 4.4 (in 0 to 5 scale)
(*highest grade among the department faculty)
Physics of semiconductor devices (fall 2003), grade 3.98
(c) Lecture notes ( as text book) in Hebrew for internal use at EEBGU:
All course lecture notes comes with set of problems and solutions.
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Introduction to Semiconductors Devices , also in http://www.ee.bgu.ac.il/~scintr/
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Integrated Optics and Communication Applications http://www.ee.bgu.ac.il/~io/
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VLSI Integrated Circuits for Material Engineering.
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Physics of Semiconductor Device www.ee.bgu.ac.il/~scp
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Semiconductor Devices: Structures and Properties, for Material
Engineering.
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(d) Students supervision
Senior Projects: Each year I supervise about 5 senior students. (The senior project is for
two-semesters with 6 credit points each semester )
Master Thesis Supervision: Garaduated- 8 students, present- 7 students
Ph.D. supervision: Graduated – one student, present – 2 students
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Scientific Publications
Refereed articles in Scientific Jourals and chapter in books - 49
Conference proceedings : Invited and Contributed Papers - 41
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Patents – 2 ( with co authors)
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Proposal submitted at 2003: for Establishment of a Interdisciplinary Center for Optronics
at Ben-Gurion University, Headed by Prof. Shlomo Hava.
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Research Activities
I. Current Research Activities
1) IR optical properties of grating and microstructures structures and grating-based optical
components. Theoretically we have developed simulation tools that are based on an operatorsymbolic S-matrix propagation algorithm (SPA), which uses MATLAB software. It allowed us
to design and analyze efficient unconventional optical-based components such as grating-based
spectral deflectors, filters, polarizers, beamsplitters, mirrors and antireflectors. The
experimental work includes the fabrication of grating and micro-pyramid cavities on silicon
and GaAs wafers, and measurements of IR (2 to 25 micron) transmission, reflection and
thermal emission, (publications # 19-39,44, in the CV).
2) Investigating the effects of gamma radiation and vacuum on the optical and electrical
properties of optoelectronic Devices: MQW laser diodes and photodiodes, LED,
heterostructures laser, pin photodiodes and phototransistors. (publications # 1,2,3,6,1015,17,40,42,44, in the CV). Recently, we has indicated that unlike bulk materials MQW
structures are more susceptible to atomic displacements. We found that due to gammairradiation, a displacement of a few atoms between the quantum layers could change the
optical and electrical properties of the devices.
II. Previous Research Activities
1) Monolithically Peltier-Cooled Laser Diodes: I have developed integrated cooling laser diode,
by integrating Peltier cooling with laser diode. The experimental work in this field includes
growing (by LPE) and fabricating GaAlAs monolithically thermoelectric cooled laser diodes.
(papers 4,7,8,9).
2) Investigation of Optical and Electrical Properties of Thin-Film Zn3P2 Deposited by Closed
spaced Vapor Transport.
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Professional Activities
1990-present
chairman of departmental safety committee;
1991-present
head of Michel Manon Microelectronics Laboratory;
1996-present
member of the departmental committee for appointments and promotions;
2001-present
member of the committee for graduate studies;
2002-present
chairman of departmental curricula committee
Professional functions outside the university
1999-present
Head of study program committee for teaching electronics and computers in high
schools, nominated by the Israel Minister of Education
2001-present
Member of Academic Council, Negev Academic College of Engineering, Israel
2003-present
Head of committee to evaluate the granting of M.Sc. accreditation to Holon
Academic Institute of Technology, nominated by the Israel Minister of Education