David E. Aspnes

David E. Aspnes
David E. Aspnes

Born 1 May 1939(1939-05-01)
Madison, WI, United States
Fields Condensed matter physics; surface physics; optics: expt. and theor.
Institutions North Carolina State University
Alma mater University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Wisconsin–Madison

David Erik Aspnes (born 1 May 1939 in Madison, Wisconsin, United States) is a Distinguished University Professor and member of the Department of Physics at North Carolina State University. Formal education includes BS (1960) and MS (1961) degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a Ph.D. (1965) in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Obtained year long postdoctoral research associate positions at both the University of Illinois and Brown University before taking a technical staff position at Bell Laboratories in 1967. Joined Bellcore as a result of the Bell System divestiture in 1983 to head the Interface Physics Department. He joined the North Carolina State University Physics Department in 1992 as a full professor and was made a Distinguished University Professor in 1999. He was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1998.

"Principal research interests have been in the areas of optical spectroscopy and semiconductor and surface physics. Contributions include the discovery, elucidation, and development of low-field electroreflectance for high-resolution spectroscopy of semiconductors and the determination of their band structures, the development and application of spectroscopic ellipsometry to surfaces, interfaces, thin films, and bulk materials, and the development and application of reflectance-difference spectroscopy to real-time analysis of epitaxial growth. Current research activities are directed toward nondestructive analysis of surfaces and interfaces, and in particular the real-time diagnostics and control of semiconductor epitaxy by organometallic chemical vapor deposition." [1]

As of 11 July 2008 David Aspnes has published over 400 papers and has been granted 23 patents.

David Aspnes currently resides in Apex, North Carolina with his wife, Cynthia Ball, and their many cats and dogs.

Father of James Aspnes, professor in Computer Science at Yale University and original creator of TinyMUD. Son Gary Aspnes is a scientist with Pfizer and daughter Ann Aspnes is a clinical psychologist with the Veterans Hospital system.

Awards and honors

  • 1973 Fellow of the American Physical Society
  • 1976 Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award
  • 1979 Optical Society of America
  • 1987 Wood Prize of the Optical Society of America
  • 1993 John Yarwood Memorial Medal of the British Vacuum Council
  • 1996 Elected Fellow - American Vacuum Society
  • 1996 Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids
  • 1996 Alumni Outstanding Research Award - North Carolina State University
  • 1996 Elected Fellow - Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
  • 1997 Max-Planck - Gesellschaft Prize for International Cooperation
  • 1998 Medard W. Welch Award of the American Vacuum Society
  • 1998 Elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2002 Elected Fellow - American Association for the Advancement of Science

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