Milton
Feng was born in Taiwan, China on July 21, 1950. He graduated from
Columbia University in 1976 with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and
his M.S, 1976 and his PhD, 1979 at the University of Illinois Urban
Champaign in Electrical Engineering. Feng worked from 1979 to 1983,
as the head of the materials and device group at Torrance Research
Center, Hughes Aircraft Company, Torrance, CA. While working at the
Torrance Research Center he developed an ion implanted low noise and
power MESFET and MMIC for radar applications. He would go onto work
for the Ford Microelectronic, Inc., researching digital integrated
circuit development.
In
1991, he took a position at the University of Urbana Champaign as an
electrical and computer engineering professor and a research
professor at the Microelectronic Laboratory and has worked on a
variety of projects. In 2003 he developed the words fastest
transistor, 2004 the Light emitting transistor, and the Transistor
Laser with Nick Holonyak. He has also published over 237 papers and
holds over 35 U.S patents in semiconductor microelectronics, and is a
IEEE and a OSA Fellow. Over the course of his life he has received
numerous awards honoring his contributions to the field of electrical
engineering.
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