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Jay N. Zemel, PhD

Adjunct Professor of Engineering

Email: zemel@ee.upenn.edu  
Phone: (215) 898-8545 
Address: 308 Moore Building

Biography

Received his B.A (1949), M.A. (1953) and Ph.D. (1956) in Physics from Syracuse University. He joined the U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak (now the Naval Surface Weapons Center) in 1954 and eventually headed the Surface And Films Branch where he conducted research on electronic surface transport in semiconductors, epitaxial film growth of the IV-VI compounds and gas sensing phenomena. In 1966, he was appointed to the RCA Chair in Solid State Electronics in the Moore School at the University of Pennsylvania where he continued his research on the properties of epitaxial films and gas sensors. He was Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Science from 1972 to 1977. He was Editor-in-Chief of Thin Solid Films for 21 years beginning in 1969 and was on the Editorial Board of Sensors and Actuators from its inception for many years. As Director of the Center for Chemical Electronics, later renamed Center for Sensor Technologies,  (1979-89), he continued his research on pyroelectric chemical and fluid flow sensors, microfluidics, and black body emission from micro- and nanostructures. He was appointed to the H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor of Sensor Technologies

In 1993 and became Emeritus in 1996. From 1996 to the present he has been CEO and Chief Scientific Officer of Scitefair International. His recent work has dealt with sensor systems, standards. Professor Zemel has authored and co-authored over 150 articles, book chapters and edited books.

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