NIT Strategic Workshop Emerging Technologies for Future Optical and Wireless Networks September 8 & 9, 2003 Iain Thayne Professor Iain Thayne graduated with a first class joint honours degree in Physics and Electronic Engineering from the University of Glasgow in 1986. He worked for Philips Research Laboratories, 1986-1988 on the design, fabrication and characterisation of high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs). In 1988, he returned to the University of Glasgow as a research assistant in the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, and in 1992, received PhD for work on the fabrication and high frequency characterisation of short gate length heterojunction field effect devices. The outcome of this work was the demonstration of the highest frequency transistor technology in Europe. In 1992, Professor Thayne worked as a consultant for Norwegian Telecom Research Laboratories in Kjeller, before returning to Glasgow in 1993 as an EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow. During this two year Fellowship, he developed high sensitivity cryogenic readout electronics for mesoscopic physics experiments. In 1995, Professor Thayne was appointed Lecturer in the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at the University of Glasgow, being promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1998. He now leads the 15 strong Ultrafast Systems Group whose mission is to develop advanced millimetre-wave components for applications requiring the highest levels of performance. Recent highlights of the Ultrafast Systems Group include: Europe’s fastest GaAs transistor technology, Europe’s highest frequency monolithic millimetre-wave integrated circuit, the World’s first SiGe HMOS MMIC, the World’s first mm-wave photonic band gap antenna and the World’s highest speed semiconductor laser. More info: Prof. Thayne's web page