Meetings Committee

Patrick Fay received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1991, followed by the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1993 and 1996, respectively. He joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame in 1997, where he currently a professor as well as the director of the Notre Dame Nanofabrication Facility. His research interests include the design, fabrication, and characterization of III-V microwave and millimeter-wave electronic devices and circuits, power devices, and high-speed optoelectronic devices and optoelectronic integrated circuits. His research also includes the development and use of micromachining techniques for the fabrication of microwave and millimeter-wave components and packaging. Prof. Fay was awarded the Department of Electrical Engineering’s Outstanding Teacher award in 1998 and 2018, and Notre Dame's College of Engineering’s Outstanding Teacher award in 2015. He is a fellow of the IEEE, and Electron Device Society Distinguished Lecturer, and serves as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, and IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques.

Lecture Topics

- III-N Devices and Integration for Millimeter-Wave and Power Applications 

- Vertical GaN Devices and Epitaxial Lift-Off Processing for High Performance Power Applications

- Advances in III-N Devices for Power and Internet of Things Applications 

- III-N Nanowire FETs for Low-Power Applications

- Advanced Tunneling-Based Devices for mm-Wave Sensing and Imaging

Lecture Topics:

- Analog/Mixed-Signal/RF IC and Enabling Technologies 
- High Performance VLSI Interconnect