Andrei Silard

Andrei P. SILARD b. 30.04.1944, Timişoara, d. 30.06.1993 Bucharest

Dr. Eng. Professor of Electronics

Education:

1962-1967 - Moscow Institute of Power Engineering, Fac. Electronics

1976 - Doctor Engineer, Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest,

1976 - Department of History, University of Bucharest.

Professional Career:

1967 - 1974 - researcher at the Electronics Research Institute in Bucharest.

1974 - 1993 - teacher at the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest: substitute assistant (February 1, 1974), lecturer, associate professor (March 1, 1992) at the Department of Devices, Circuits and Electronic Apparata at the Faculty of Electronics, Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest.

Teaching and research: Besides traditional courses he taught ( "Electron Measurement and Control", "Devices and Circuits"), he introduced 3 new subjects: "Power Semiconductor Devices" (1987) "Optoelectronics Power Devices" (1990) at the Faculty of Electronics and "Power and Optoelectronic devices" (1991) at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. He taught at the English Department of Engineering Sciences, Bucharest Polytechnic Institute the course "Philosophy of History" and "Contemporary History". From 1990 he led doctoral theses in specialties: "Devices and Circuits" and "Optoelectronics". He designed and built in the Romanian profile companies (IPRS - Baneasa Microelectronics) over 20 new electronic devices, especially power devices. Some can be mentioned: Gate Turn-Off Thyristors (GTO) of medium and high power with two interdigitation levels (TIL) - global priorities, power bipolar transistors with two interdigitation levels, rapid power bipolar transistors, optothyristors, optical sensors, high efficiency monocrystalline silicon controlled spectral response solar cells. The main original scientific contributions are standard form of theory of breakdown of power semiconductor devices and its experimental verification, the introduction of interdigitation, the introduction of novel solutions to the design and development of solar cells of high efficiency, the development of new methods for the control of the spectral response of the optical sensors, investigation of electro-thermal response of power devices and analog integrated circuits.

Contributions:

- 67 scientific articles published as author or co-author in international prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, IEEE E. Dev. Lett., Solid State Electronics, Japanese Journal of App. Phys., Intl. Journ. of Electronics, Electronics Letters, Sensors and Actuators, Solar Cells, Solar Energy Materials, Electron Device News; with many of these he was (from 1984) permanent consultant;

- 38 scientific papers at international conferences (USA, Japan, Canada, etc.);

- more than 50 scientific papers published in Romanian, mostly Rev. Roum. des Sci. Techn., et Energetique Series Electro-technique, where he was a member of scientific study in 1992;

- more than 50 scientific papers presented at conferences in Romania;

- 6 patents;

- 11 invited papers at international conferences (India, Brazil, etc.);

- four scientific exposures invited to universities in the US, Canada, Poland etc .;

- 4 books summarizing his scientific work;

- over 20 papers in the fields of history, philosophy of history, about the complex relationships between positive sciences and society.

Reference Works: "Power diodes and thyristors" (co-author), Technical Publishing House, Bucharest 1989, "Gate Turn-Off Thyristors GTO", Technical Publishing House, Bucharest 1990.

Awards:

1981"Traian Vuia" award of the Romanian Academy "for contributions to the investigation electrothermal semiconductor devices Power"

1975 Member IEEE and senior member of IEEE from 1982,

1990 elected Fellow of IEEE "for contributions to the development of power devices and photonics on silicon"

1993 Corresponding member of the Romanian Academy.