Degrees

B.S.E.E., Rice University (summa cum laude), Electrical Engineering, 1987.

M.S., Stanford University, Electrical Engineering, 1988.

Ph.D., Stanford University, Electrical Engineering, 1992.

Research Interests

Timothy Boykin's research centers on the physics of quantum wells, superlattices, resonant-tunneling diodes, and other quantum-confined heterostructures. Most of his work has involved modeling these structures with empirical tight-binding techniques in order to include bandstructure effects. Highlights of his research include the first numerically-stable, realistic bandstructure empirical tight-binding calculation for a resonant-tunneling diode including space-charge regions (1991), investigations of nonparabolicity effects on quantum-confined heterostructures (1993-95), the generalized eigenproblem method for obtaining surface and interface states (1996), incompleteness in tight-binding models (1995), analytic effective mass expressions for and investigations of the capabilities of many commonly employed tight-binding models (1997-99), representing electromagnetic interactions in tight-binding (1999-2002), and modeling of strain in heterstructures (2002).

Publications

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