(March 28, 1949 - ) is a Japanese
electrical engineer, active in the fields of
nanotechnology and electronic and photonic devices, best known for his success in fabricating
hot-electron transistors and invention of
resonant-tunneling transistors.
Yokoyama born in Osaka, Japan, received his bachelor's degree in Physics from
Osaka City University
, abbreviated to , is a public university in Japan. It is located in Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka. It is one of the most prestigious universities in Japan regarding Applied Linguistics.
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(1971), and master's (1973) and PhD (1984) degrees in Engineering from the Graduate School of Engineering Science at
Osaka University. He joined the Semiconductor Devices Laboratory of
Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. in 1973, where he was subsequently named a Fellow and General Manager of its Nanotechnology Research Center in 2000. He is also Visiting Professor of the
University of Tokyo
, abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project b ...
.
Yokoyama received the 1987 GaAs Symposium Young Scientist Award, and 1998
IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award
The initially called Morris Liebmann Memorial Prize provided by the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE), the IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award was created in 1919 in honor of Colonel Morris N. Liebmann. It was initially given to awardees who h ...
"for contributions to and leadership in the development of self-aligned refractory-gate
gallium arsenide MESFET
A MESFET (metal–semiconductor field-effect transistor) is a field-effect transistor semiconductor device similar to a JFET with a Schottky (metal–semiconductor) junction instead of a p–n junction for a gate.
Construction
MESFETs are constr ...
integrated circuits." He was elected an
IEEE Fellow
As of 2019, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has 5,082 members designated Fellow, each of whom is associated with one of the 41 societies under the IEEE. The Fellow grade of membership is the highest level of membershi ...
in 2000, Fellow of the
in 2003, and Fellow of the
Applied Physics Society in 2007.
Selected works
* Masayuki Abe, Naoki Yokoyama, ''Semiconductor heterostructure devices'', Volume 8 of ''Japanese technology reviews'', Taylor & Francis US, 1989. .
References
Naoki Yokoyama short biography Naoki Yokoyama curriculum vitaeIEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award recipients
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Japanese electrical engineers
1949 births
Living people
Japanese nanotechnologists
People from Osaka