Hunt, Charles

Charles E. Hunt is Professor of ECE and Distinguished Member of Technical Staff and Founder of the Lighting Research Group of the EU’s Institute for Energy Research of Catalonia (IREC) in Barcelona. He holds an appointment as Visiting Professor of Physics at the University of Barcelona, and Staff Faculty at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1986 in Electrical Engineering and Electronic Materials Science; he also has a M.S.E.E. and B.S.E.E. from the University of Utah.
Prof. Hunt worked as a circuit-design engineer with General Instrument Corp.. After coming to UC Davis in 1986, his research has focused on Silicon-On-Insulator technology, Semiconductor Wafer Bonding, Column-IV alloy-semiconductor epitaxy, integrated-circuit fabrication technology, field-emission device design and fabrication, luminescent materials for displays and light sources, vacuum nanoelectronics devices, and chromaticity in light sources for heath, energy efficiency and materials safety. Since 2013, Prof. Hunt has focused his efforts on extreme-UV/soft-xray sources and detectors, particularly with respect to the needs of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in Livermore, CA. Dr. Hunt has been either Founder or early participant in four startup companies in light sources, and he currently serves as a staff advisor for a company making deep-UV light sources for air sterilization.
Professor Hunt is a Life Senior Member of the IEEE, Author of over one hundred and sixty refereed publications, ten books, and holds twenty US patents (as well as over 100 associated international patents.) From 1997-2004 he served as Editor of the journal, Solid-State Electronics. He is an IEEE-Certified ABET Electrical-Engineering Program Evaluator. He is on the Technical Steering Committee of the IVNC, and also the IVESC and LS Conferences. He is a Fellow of the American Scientific Affiliation.