Faculty Bio
 

Thomas Sullivan, Ph.D.
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Phone: 215-204-8404
Email: sullivan@temple.edu

   
 

Degrees

  • Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1976

Research Interests

  • Interface Properties of Silicon Oxide under X-ray and Gamma Radiation
  • Ultra High Speed Laser Interactions in Nano-tunnel Structures
  • Atomic Level Surface Imaging.

Selected Publications

  • Peridier, V.J., Pan, L.-H., & Sullivan, T.E., "The Quantum Filtering of Electron Emission from Ultra-sharp Tips", Physical Review B71, Jan15, 035345.1-12, (2005).
  • Huang, Z.H., Cutler, P.H., Miskovsky, N.M., Sullivan, T.E., "Theoretical Study of Field Emission from Diamond Surfaces", J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B13, 525 (1996).
  • Peridier, V.J., Pan, L.-H., & Sullivan, T.E., "Methods for Calculating Electrostatic Quantities Due to a Free Charge in a Nanoscale Three-dimensional Tip/Base Junction," J. Appl. Phys. 78, 1995.
  • Pan, L.-H., Sullivan, T.E., Peridier, V.J., Cutler, P.H., Miskovsky, N.M. (1994) "The Three-dimensional Electrostatic Potential, and Potential-energy Barrier, Near a Tip-base Junction," Appl. Phys. Lett. 65:17, October 24, 1994, p. 2151-2153, 1994.

Projects

  • High Temperature Superconducting Long Wavelength Infrared Detector, General Electric, Valley Forge.
  • A Study to Determine the Lifetime Limiting Mechanisms of the Gallium Arsenide Technology, SARGIC/HFET, in collaboration with AT&T Bell Labs, Reading.
  • Interaction of Radiation with STM and STM-like Tunnel Junctions: Application to Infrared and Optical Detectors, AFOSR.
  • Experimental and Theoretical Study of High Current Density Novel Emitter Sources Tri-Services Vacuum Microelectronics Initiative.

Present Teaching (Spring 2008)

  • EVOLUTION/MOD ELECT SYST
  • ELECTRICAL ENGR SCI II