Conley Materials and Devices Group: Conley CV
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Materials Science | Oregon State University

John F. Conley, Jr.

Fellow, Institute of Electrical Electronic Engineers (IEEE)

Fellow, American Vacuum Society (AVS)

Fellow, Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI)
Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Professor, Materials Science

Oregon State University

3089 Kelley Engineering Center, Corvallis, OR 97331

541.737.9874

 jconley@ eecs.oregonstate.edu

http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/~jconley

Publications

Education

Ph.D.  Engineering Science and Mechanics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 1995

B.S.    Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA            1991

Professional Experience                                                                                                   

Associate Editor

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (TED)

4/20 - present

Fellow

American Vacuum Society

4/19 - present

Fellow

IEEE

1/15 - present

Professor and ONAMI Signature Faculty Fellow

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Materials Science

Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

8/07 – Present

Expert Witness

Morgan, Lewis, and Bockius, LLP

Palo Alto, CA                  

7/17 – 7/19

Consultant

RedWave Energy

Boulder, CO                                                                                            

10/14 – 7/19

Leader

Novel Materials and Devices Group, LCD Process Technology Lab

Sharp Laboratories of America

Camas, WA

8/05 – 8/07

Adjunct Professor

Washington State University

Vancouver, WA

9/02 – 1/03

Senior Scientist

IC Process Technology Lab, Sharp Laboratories of America

Camas, WA

5/01 – 8/05

Senior Member of Technical Staff

California Institute of Technology

NASA Jet Propulsion Lab

Pasadena, CA (Held U.S. D.o.D. security clearance.)

3/00 – 5/01

Senior Scientist

Advanced Technology Group, Dynamics Research Corporation

San Diego, CA  (Held U.S. D.o.D. security clearance.)

10/98 – 3/00

Senior Scientist

Commercial Systems Division, Dynamics Research Corporation

Beaverton, OR  (Held U.S. D.o.D. security clearance.)

10/95 – 10/98

Fellow

NASA Space Grant

Engineering Science and Mechanics Dept.

The Pennsylvania State University

University Park, PA

10/94 – 10/95

Dean's Fellow

Engineering Science and Mechanics Dept.

The Pennsylvania State University

University Park, PA

10/91 – 10/94

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Engineering Science and Mechanics Dept.

The Pennsylvania State University

University Park, PA

10/91 – 10/94

Electronics Technician Intern,

U.S. Bureau of Mines

Department of the Interior

Pittsburgh, PA

5/89-8/89

Research Interests, Publications, Presentations, and Patents

General areas of interest include solid state materials and devices, atomic layer deposition, high-κ dielectrics, thin film transistors, metal/insulator/metal tunnel diodes, directed integration of nanomaterials and nanodevices, point defects, reliability, and radiation effects in novel electronic materials.  Authored or co-authored more than 100 technical papers (including over sixty in refereed journals and several invited) and more than 130 conference presentations (including several invited) in these areas.  The refereed articles have been cited more than 1200 times.  Hold nineteen U.S. patents.

D2.  Service to the Profession

D2.1.  Journal Editorships

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (2020-present)
• Guest editor, IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability 8(3) (2008).
• Guest editor, IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability 6(2) (2006).
• Guest editor, IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability 5(1) (2005) - special issue on High-k Dielectrics. 

D2.2.  Conference and Workshop Organization

• Associate editor, IEEE 11th International Conference on Nanotechnology (NANO), 2011.
• Session Organizer, The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society Electronic Materials Conference (EMC), 2011.
• Advisory Committee, IEEE 11th International Conference on Nanotechnology (NANO), 2011.
• Session Organizer, The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society Electronic Materials Conference (EMC), 2010.
• Session Organizer, IEEE International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium (ISDRS), 2009.
• Advisory Board, IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop (IRW), 2007.
• General Chair, IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop (IRW), 2006.
• Technical Program Chair, lead editor of first archival Journal proceedings for workshop, IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop (IRW), 2005.
• Vice-Technical Program Chair, IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop (IRW), 2004.
• Finance Chair, IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop (IRW), 2003.
• Finance Chair, IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop (IRW), 2002.
• Secretary, IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium (IRPS), 2002.
• Secretary, IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop (IRW), 2001.
• Awards Committee Member, IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC), 2001.
• Evening Discussion Panel and Poster Chair, Senior Management Committee, IEEE International SOI Conference, 2001.
• Communications Chair, IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop (IRW), 2000.
• Publicity Chair, Senior Management Committee, IEEE International SOI Conference, 2000.
• Technical Program Chair, IEEE Microelectronics Reliability and Qualification Workshop (MRQW), 2000.
• Local Arrangements Vice Chair, IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop (IRW), 1999.
• Publicity Chair, developer of original conference website, IEEE International SOI Conference, 1999.
• Session Organizer of the Basic Mechanisms of Radiation Effects Session, IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC), 1998.
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D2.3.  Conference Program Committees

• Session Chair, The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society Electronic Materials Conference (EMC), 2011.
• Session Chair, IEEE 11th International Conference on Nanotechnology (NANO), 2011.
• Presentation & paper mentor and Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop (IRW), 2010.
• The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society Electronic Materials Conference (EMC), 2010. 
• Presentation & paper mentor and Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop (IRW), 2009.
• Session Chair, IEEE International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium (ISDRS), 2009.
• Paper & presentation mentor and member of TPC, IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop (IRW), 2008.
• Session Chair and Member of the Technical Committee, IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop (IRW), 2006.
• Session Chair and Member of the Technical Committee, IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop (IRW), 2005.
• Session Chair and Member of the Technical Committee, IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop (IRW), 2004.
• Session Chair and Member of the Technical Committee, IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop (IRW), 2003.
• Session Chair and Member of the Technical Committee, IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop (IRW), 2002.
• Basic Mechanisms Session, IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC), 2002.
• IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop (IRW), 2001.
• IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium (IRPS), 2001.
• IEEE International SOI Conference, 2001.
• Basic Mechanisms Session, IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC), 2001.
• Basic Mechanisms Session, IEEE Radiation and Effects on Components and Systems (RADECS), 2001.
• Session Chair and Member of the Technical Committee, IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop (IRW), 2000.
• Session Chair, IEEE Microelectronics Reliability and Qualification Workshop (MRQW), 2000.
• Basic Mechanisms Session, IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC), 2000.
• Session Chair and Member of the Technical Program Committee, IEEE International SOI Conference, 2000.
• Basic Mechanisms Session, IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC), 1999.
• Session Chair and Member of the Technical Program Committee, IEEE International SOI Conference, 1999.
• IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium (IRPS), 1999.
• Session Chair and Member of the Technical Committee, IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop (IRW), 1999.
• Technical Session Chair and Member of the Technical Committee, IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop (IRW), 1998.
• Session Chair and Member of the Technical Program Committee, IEEE International SOI Conference, 1998.
• Basic Mechanisms Session, IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC), 1998.
• Basic Mechanisms Session, IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC), 1997.
• Basic Mechanisms Session, IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC), 1996.
• Basic Mechanisms Session, IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC), 1995.
• Basic Mechanisms Session, IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC), 1994.

D2.4.  Reviewing

Proposals

• Vienna University of Technology, proposal reviewer, Spring 2011.
• NSF Panelist, (program and date withheld per NSF rules), Spring 2011.
• NSF Panelist, Engineering Education and Centers Division Engineering Research Center (ERC) program on-site Reviewer, Arizona State University, Summer 2010.
• NSF Proposal Reviewer (program and date withheld per NSF rules), Winter 2010.
• NSF CAREER Panelist (program and date withheld per NSF rules), Fall 2009.
• Department of Defense Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR) Program in South Carolina., Lee Snelgrove, Program Assistant, SC EPSCoR/IDeA Program, 2008.
• NSF Proposal Reviewer (program and date withheld per NSF rules), Fall 2008.
• NSF CAREER Panelist (program and date withheld per NSF rules) –  Sent out summary of this panel to department faculty, Fall 2007.

       
Journals (ongoing, as requested)

• IEEE Transactions on Material and Device Reliability (TDMR)
• IEEE Electron Device Letters (EDL)
• IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (TNS)
• Applied Physics Letters (APL)
• J. Applied Physics (JAP)
• Nanotechnology
• J. Phys D: Applied Physics (adjudicator)
• J. Magnetic Resonance
• J. of Vacuum Science and Technology B
• Semiconductor Science and Technology
• Thin Solid Films
• Solid State Engineering
• Microelectronics Reliability
• Materials Research Society (MRS) Proceedings

D2.5.  Other

D3.1.  Professionally Related

• Faculty mentor for Summer Experience in Science and Engineering for Youths (SESEY), Hosted two young women high school students in my lab for a week in summers 2009, 2010, and 2011.
• Member of Mechanical Engineering Industrial Advisory Board, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA, 2003-2007.
• Mentor and chaperone for Camas High School chapter of Advocates for Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics (AWSEM), 2002-2007.

Professional Memberships:

Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE Societies: Electron Devices (EDS), Nuclear and Plasma Sciences (NPSS), Reliability, Sensors Council), Materials Research Society (MRS), Electrochemical Society (ECS), American Physical Society (APS), and the Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) Society.

Honors

• IEEE Fellow, 2015
• ONAMI Signature Faculty Fellow, 2007
• Senior Member of IEEE, 2002.
• JPL Achievement Award, 2001.
• Nominated for Best Paper at IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference, 2001
• Intercollege Materials Research Laboratory Xerox Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation on Materials Research at The Pennsylvania State University, 1996.
• NASA Space Grant Fellow, 1994-95.
• Nominated for Best Paper at IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference, 1992.
• IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Graduate Research Award (one of four awarded), 1992.
• Penn State College of Engineering Dean's Fellow, 1991-94.
• Westinghouse Scholarship (competitive, merit-based scholarship), 1987-88.