Ben G. Streetman is the former Dean of the

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at the

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. He earned a

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in electrical engineering from Texas in 1966, and became a professor there in 1982. He founded the university's Microelectronics Research Center and holds the Dula D. Cockrell Centennial Chair Emeritus in Engineering. Streetman is a member of the

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and the

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. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Electrochemical Society. He was awarded the IEEE Education Medal in 1989. Streetman's academic focus is on

semiconductor A semiconductor is a material which has an electrical conductivity value falling between that of a conductor, such as copper, and an insulator, such as glass. Its resistivity falls as its temperature rises; metals behave in the opposite way. ...

materials and devices. He is the co-author of ''Solid State Electronic Devices'', along with Dr. Sanjay Banerjee, and author of over 290 articles. Streetman helped start a workshop on

molecular-beam epitaxy Molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE) is an epitaxy method for thin-film deposition of single crystals. MBE is widely used in the manufacture of semiconductor devices, including transistors, and it is considered one of the fundamental tools for the develo ...

(MBE), which is now an annual conference known as NAMBE (North American Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy).

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Faculty Profile
at UT Faculty Bios
University of Texas MBE group
{{DEFAULTSORT:Streetman, Ben G. Living people American electrical engineers Cockrell School of Engineering alumni University of Texas at Austin faculty Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Year of birth missing (living people)