Felix A. Buot, Ph. D.

Research Professor

 

Address:

                School of Computational Sciences

                George Mason University, MSN 5C3

                Fairfax, VA 22030

                Tel: (703) 993-1978; Fax: (703) 993-1993

                Email: fbuot@gmu.edu

Office: Science and Technology Building I, Rm. 116

 

BIOSKETCH

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS

RECENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

RESEARCH MONOGRAPHS

PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION AND AWARDS

SELECTED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

 

BIOSKETCH:

 

Dr. Felix A. Buot obtained his M.S.E.E. (Microelectronics) from Stanford University and his Ph. D. (Theoretical Solid-State Physics) from the University of Oregon under Research Assistantship with Profs. G. H. Wannier and J. W. McClure. His Ph.D. thesis deals with the "Theory of Diamagnetism of Bismuth and Bi-Sb Alloys". He was awarded Postdoctoral Research Associateships and Fellowships in the following institutions: (a) Department of Mathematics, Westfield College, University of London, U.K.; (b) International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy; (c) Eaton Electronics Research Laboratory, McGill University, Montreal, Canada; (d) Department of Physics, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada; (e) Stanford Electronics Laboratory, Stanford University; (f) Laboratory of Atomic and Solid-State Physics (LASSP) jointly with the National Research and Resource Facility for Submicron Structures (NRRFSS), Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. He was a Professorial Lecturer, Graduate School, University of the Philippines, and a Science Education Consultant to the Philippines National Science Development Board (NSDB). From 1982 - 2003, he was a Research Physicist working at the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), initially as a contractor for about a year. He leads the NRL efforts on time-dependent quantum transport physics, nanoelectronic device theory and simulation. This leads to their first successful time-dependent numerical simulation of GaAs/AlGaAs resonant tunneling diode, which results in their discovery of the autonomous current oscillation of this device in the THz range, when biased in the negative differential resistance region. He has served as a consultant to various universities in the U.S. and abroad. He pioneered the lattice Weyl transform and Wigner discrete phase-space distribution-function technique in quantum dynamics of band electrons in solids. More recently, he formulated the nonequilibrium quantum super-field theoretical technique in quasi-particle pairing dynamics.

 

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS: More than 100 archival research publications and more than 50 technical presentations in international conferences.  

 

RECENT RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE: Nonequilibrium quantum super-field theoretical techniques in nanoscience and nanotechnology, discrete phase-space multi-band quantum dynamics, quantum transport across interfaces between different excitation media, heat transfer, nano-devices, nano-optoelectronics, detectors, and sensors.

 

RESEARCH MONOGRAPHS:

Felix A. Buot, Mesoscopic Physics and Nanoelectronics: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Physics Reports  234, 73-174 (1993).
F. A. Buot, General Theory of Quantum Distribution Function Transport Equations: Superfluid Systems and Ultrafast Dynamics of Optically Excited Semiconductors, La Rivista del Nuovo Cimento 20, No.9, 1-75 (1997)

 

PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION AND AWARDS:

  •  Elected Fellow, Washington Academy of Sciences
  • Elected Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
  • Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience (American Scientific Publishers, CA, USA).
  • Member, Executive Committee, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Washington, D.C.
  • President (1996-1997), Philippine-American Academy of Science & Engineering (PAASE).
  • NRL Alan Berman Research Publication Awards, March 1991 and March 1995.
  • Invited Plenary Speaker, First International Conference on Low Dimensional Structures and Devices, Pan Pacific-Singapore, May 8-10, 1995.
  • Member, Editorial Board, Transport Theory and Statistical Physics, Marcel Dekker, Inc.(New York, Basel and Hongkong).
  • Member, Editorial Board, Science Diliman (University of the Philippines)
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Electron Devices Meetings (IEDM 1990; IEDM 1991).
  • Member, International Advisory Committee, 9th International Workshop on Computational Electronics (IWCE-9), May 25-28, 2003, Rome, Italy; 8th International Workshop on Computational Electronics (IWCE-8), October 2001, Beckman Institute-Urbana; IWCE-7, May 22-25, 2000, Glasgow, U.K.; IWCE-6, October 19-21, 1998, Osaka, Japan; IWCE-5, May 28-30, 1997, Notre Dame, Indiana; IWCE-3, May 18-20, 1994, Portland, Oregon; IWCE-2, August 11-13, 1993, University of Leeds, England; IWCE-1, May 28-30, 1992, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Workshop on Computational Electronics, May 21-24, 1990, National Center for Computational Electronics (NCCE), Beckman Institute, Urbana-Champaign.
  • Invited Workshop Lecturer, short course on "The Fundamental Equations on Quantum Transport Modeling", Workshop on Computational Electronics, May 21-24, 1990, Beckmann Institute-Urbana, IL.
     

SELECTED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS:

 

F. A.Buot, "Foundation of Computational Nanoelectronics", in Handbook of Theoretical and Computational Nanotechnology,  Eds. Michael Rieth and Wolfram Schommers, Vol. 1, pp. 1-90 (American Scientific Publishers, NY 2005).

 

F. A. Buot, "Generalized Semiconductor Bloch Equations", J. Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience 1, pp. 144-168 (2004).

 

F. A. Buot, Y. Jiang, and A. I. Fedoseyev, “Quantum hydrodynamic equations and quantum-hierarchy decoupling scheme”, Phys. Rev. E 66, 066119 (2002).

 

F. A. Buot, P. Zhao, H. L. Cui, D. Woolard, K. L. Jensen, and C. M.Krowne, "Emitter Quantization and Double Hysteresis in Resonant Tunneling Structures: A Nonlinear Model of Charge Oscillation and Current Bistability", Phys. Rev. B61, 5644-5665 (2000).

 

F. A. Buot and C. M.Krowne, "Double-Barrier Thz Source Based on Electrical Excitation of Electrons and Holes", J. Appl. Phys. 86, 5215-5231 (1999). See also: F. A.Buot and C. M.Krowne, J. Appl. Phys. 87, No.6 (March 15, 2000).

 

F. A. Buot and A. K.Rajagopal, "Theory of Novel Nonlinear Quantum Transport Effects in Resonant Tunneling Structures", Materials Science and Engineering B: Solid-State Materials for Advanced Technology B35 (1995) pp. 303-317.

 

A. K. Rajagopal and F. A. Buot, "Time-Dependent Functional Theory of Superconductors", Phys. Rev. B52 (1995) pp. 6769-6774.

 

F. A. Buot and A. K. Rajagopal, "High-Frequency Behavior of Quantum-Based Devices: Equivalent-Circuit, Nonperturbative Response and Phase-Space Analyses", Phys. Rev. B48, 17217-17232 (1993).

 

K. L. Jensen and F. A. Buot, "Numerical Simulation of Intrinsic Bistability and High-Frequency Current Oscillations in Resonant Tunneling Structures", Phys. Rev. Letters 66, 1078 (1991).

 

F. A. Buot and K. L. Jensen, "Lattice Weyl-Wigner Formulation of Exact Many-Body Quantum Transport Theory and Applications to Novel Quantum-Based Devices", Phys. Rev. B42, 9429-9456 (1990).