Education
Faris received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in 1969, 1971 and 1976 in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, from the University of California, Berkeley. His PhD thesis project, starting in 1971, dealt with building and investigating devices that resembled the scanning tunneling microscope, STM. His point contact tunneling devices made of tungsten tips of 5 nm were not used for nano-scale microscopy, instead, they were used as ultra-fast detectors/rectifiers of laser radiation from the IR to the visible spectra. He made experimental and theoretical contributions elucidating the role of quantum mechanical tunneling mechanism being responsible for the femto-second speed of response and other interesting non-linear phenomena.
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