John C. Bean

John Marshall Money Professor

Contact
Thornton Hall - E223
351 McCormick Road
PO Box 400743
Charlottesville, VA 22904-1000

Phone: (434) 924-7575
FAX: (434) 924-8818
Email: john-bean@virginia.edu

Home Page:
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~jcb6t/

Summary
John Bean is interested in the extension of electronics technology through the introduction of novel materials and material configurations. He pioneered techniques for the growth of silicon-germanium heterostructures and continues to explore the physical properties of these materials and their application in devices ranging from heterojunction bipolar transistors to resonant cavity photodiodes. He is investigating means by which natural processes may assemble these and other materials into device-ready configurations at scales ranging from 0.1 um down to single atom dimensions. Finally, he is developing sensors for use within processing equipment as a means of both synthesizing new materials and enabling their reliable and economic manufacture.

Background
Dr. Bean has served on the faculty since January 1997. From 1976 to 1996 he was on the staff of the Physics Research Division of Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey. At Bell Labs he was both a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff and Head of the Materials Science Research Department. He has published over 250 technical articles including invited papers in Science, Physics Today, Parity and the Proceedings of the IEEE. He has edited and co-authored two books, presented over 100 invited conference presentations, and received 14 US patents. He has served on organizing committees for the Silicon MBE Symposia, the International MBE Meeting, the Device Research Conference, the Electronic Materials Conference, the International Solid State Devices and Materials Conference, and several Materials Research Society Symposia. He was elected to the Executive Committee of the EMPD Division of the American Vacuum Society and serves on the Editorial Board of Applied Surface Science. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the Materials Research Society and the American Vacuum Society. Bean received a B.S. from the California Institute of Technology in 1972, followed by M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University in 1974 and 1976. All degrees were in Applied Physics.

Research and Publications:
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