Thompson, Mike
Associate Professorresearch
research and scholarship focus
Electronic properties of thin films and devices; materials modification by transient thermal processing; electrical properties of organic thin films; novel phase transformations and high velocity crystal growth
primary investigator of
co investigator of
research areas
- advanced materials | strategic research area (Engineering)
- condensed matter physics and materials science | research concentration area (AEP)
- ferromagnetics | research concentration area (MSE)
- materials science theory | research concentration area (MSE)
- semiconductors | research concentration area (MSE)
- thin films | research concentration area (MSE)
affiliations
faculty appointment in
- Materials Science and Engineering (MS&E) | Cornell department
member of graduate field
- Applied Physics | graduate field
- Material Science and Engineering | graduate field
other Cornell affiliations
- Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR) | research center
teaching
teaches
- ENGRG 1050 - Engineering Seminar (F 10:10:AM-11:00:AM) | fall 2009 class
- MSE 3030 - Thermodynamics of Condensed Systems (MWF 12:20:PM-01:10:PM) | fall 2009 class
- MSE 4050 - Senior Experimental Thesis I (MW 02:30:PM-04:25:PM) | fall 2009 class
- MSE 5830 - Thermodynamics of Condensed Systems (MWF 12:20:PM-01:10:PM) | fall 2009 class
- MSE 4060 - Senior Experimental Thesis II (F 11:40:AM-12:55:PM) | spring 2009 class
- MSE 3030 - Thermodynamics of Condensed Systems (MWF 12:20:PM-01:10:PM) | fall 2008 class
- MSE 4050 - Senior Experimental Thesis I (MW 02:30:PM-04:25:PM) | fall 2008 class
- MSE 5830 - Thermodynamics of Condensed Systems (MWF 12:20:PM-01:10:PM) | fall 2008 class
background
educational background
M.S. 1982, Ph.D. 1984 (Cornell)
B.S. 1979 (California Institute of Technology);
B.S. 1979 (California Institute of Technology);
professional background
For graduate work, I received an NSF Fellowship and an IBM Fellowship, and interned for summers at IBM Yorktown Heights and Sandia National Laboratories. After completing graduate work, I joined the faculty in materials science and engineering. During the first years of my career, I was the recipient of one of the first IBM Faculty Development Awards, and one of the first Presidential Young Investigator awards from the National Science Foundation. My latest sabbatical was spent at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory developing a technology for silicon electronics on plastic. I joined three colleagues in founding a new company, FlexIC Inc., to develop this technology.
featured in
- Research Without Boundaries, College of Engineering | magazine
- Semiconductor research group receives industry award | Cornell Chronicle feature