Michael Shur

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Michael Shur is the Patricia W. and C. Sheldon Roberts '48 professor of solid state electronics and a professor of physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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Professor Shur has led many research efforts in diverse fields related to semiconductor devices, solid-state physics, and engineering, such as plasma wave electronics, thin film transistors,laser technology, sub micrometre field effect transistors, and terahertz technology. Having written over 1,000 technical publications, the Institute for Scientific Information, an organization which tracks citations, lists him as one of the most quoted researchers in his field. He has also authored, co-authored, or served as editor for 32 books. As of 2004, he holds 27 patents for a wide variety of microelectronic innovations.