Staff Profile
Joseph Ballantyne
Department: ECE
Title: Professor Emeritus
Personal Web Site:
http://people.ece.cornell.edu/ballantyne/
Degrees earned:
B.S. Utah 1959
B.S.E.E. Utah 1959
S.M. MIT 1960
Ph.D. MIT 1964
Address:
Office:
313 Phillips Hall
Ithaca, NY, 14853
Office Phone: (607) 255-8519
What I Do:
Ballantyne was a staff member at M.I.T.'s Laboratory for Insulation Research for nine months after completing his doctoral work, and then joined the Cornell faculty. He has spent leaves at Stanford University as a National Science Foundation senior fellow, and at the IBM Watson Research Laboratories, The Technical University of Aachen, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of California at San Diego. He was instrumental in establishing the National Nanofabrication Facility at Cornell and served as acting director during its first year. Ballantyne was director of the School of Electrical Engineering from 1980 to 1984, and served the university as vice president for research and advanced studies from 1984 through 1989. He currently directs the SRC Center of Excellence in Microscience and Technology. He has presented or published more than 200 research papers, and holds several patents. He is or has been a consultant to twenty companies and an adviser to several universities. He has served on national committees for the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, the American Vacuum Society, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, of which he is a fellow. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, and Sigma Xi.
Research interests:
My research program focuses on two areas: (1) the synthesis and characterization of III-V compound materials for applications in optical devices, and (2) the design, construction, and testing of optoelectronic devices and circuits. Projects include MOCVD synthesis of heterostructures in the AlGaInAsP alloy system, techniques for the heteroepitaxy of III-V compounds on silicon, and the design and fabrication of monolithically integrated optoelectronic circuits combining amplifiers, detectors, waveguides, and lasers.
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