Dr. Alexander Zaslavsky

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Biography

Alex Zaslavsky received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1991, where he worked with Daniel C. Tsui. He was a postdoctoral scientist at IBM Research from 1991 to 1993 before becoming an Assistant Professor at Brown University in 1994. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2000 and became a Full Professor in the Department of Engineering and the Department of Physics in 2007. Zaslavsky has received numerous awards for his research, including a Sloan Fellowship and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award. He has spent sabbatical periods in various institutions, including LETI-CEA/Minatec in Grenoble, France, and NIST-Gaithersburg in 2020-21. He has authored 180 journal articles and contributed to nine books in microelectronics. He has also served as an editor for the international journal Solid State Electronics from 2003 to 2024. His research interests focus on quantum transport in silicon-based nanostructures and tunneling-based semiconductor devices using silicon-on-insulator technology, among other topics.

Research Interests

Courses

Electricity and Magnetism Introduction to Semiconductor Devices Semiconductor Electronics Physics of Solid State Devices Physics of Technology in Semiconductor Heterostructures

Requirements for Brown University

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GRE General
TOEFL
Total
Required:90
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
Undergraduate degree in Economics or related field
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Specialization Notes

Department: Department of Economics