Prof. Alan Seabaugh

“Alan Seabaugh”, Ph.D. has been a faculty in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame since 1999. His research activities and interests are in nanoelectronic devices and circuits. This includes work on high-speed and low-power transistors, tunnel diodes, steep subthreshold swing transistors, and ferroelectric memory for machine learning. He is currently the Director of Notre Dame’s Center for Nanoscience & Technology, and Director of the Interdisciplinary Materials Science & Engineering Doctoral program.

Prior to joining Notre Dame, “Seabaugh” was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in Texas Instrument’s Central Research Laboratory in Richardson, Texas. During his 11 years at TI, “Seabaugh” pioneered the development of high speed resonant-tunneling transistors and circuits for logic and memory. He then worked as a technical fellow at Raytheon, a position he held for 2 years. In that period he developed technology leading to the demonstration of resonant-tunneling analog-to-digital converters.

”Seabaugh” received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering field from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. His doctoral research was performed at the National Bureau of Standards, now called the National Institute of Standards & Technology, in Gaithersburg, Maryland. His research was in the development of transient photoresistance spectroscopy for the characterization of deep levels in semi-insulating semiconductors.