Dr. Sean L. Rommel

 

Professor
Rochester Institute of Technology
Microelectronics Engineering Department
82 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14623-5604

E-mail: slremc@rit.edu
Phone: (585) 475 4723
Office: 17-2549
Homepage: http://www.rit.edu/~slremc

Sean L. Rommel received both the B.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Delaware, Newark, in 1996 and 2000, respectively. His Ph.D. dissertation developed a process for the realization of Si-based tunnel diodes that could be integrated into a CMOS or BJT fabrication line.

From June 2000 to May 2002, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the Micro and Nano Technology Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, where he specialized in the use of inductively coupled plasma-reactive ion etching and electron beam lithography for the fabrication of low-loss InP-based waveguides for ring resonators. Since July 2002, he has been an assistant professor with the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY. His research interests include the development and integration of emerging device technologies into CMOS/BJT fabrication lines and photonic integrated circuits. His group recently demonstrated the first Si-based Tunneling SRAM circuit. He has 27 refereed journal publications, and 1 United States Patent.

Dr. Rommel is a member of EDS, LEOS, and the American Vacuum Society. He is presently the Western NY EDS chairperson. He is the recipient of the 1997 George W. Laird Merit Fellowship, the 2000 Excellence in Teaching Award, the 2000 Allan P. Colburn Prize in Engineering and Mathematical Sciences for best dissertation, and was a finalist in the 2006 Richard and Virginia Eisenhart Teaching award competition.