Noah Hershkowitz

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Noah Hershkowitz
Noah Hershkowitz
Associated organizations
University of Wisconsin
Fields of study
Plasma

Biography

For over 40 years, Noah Hershkowitz’s research has broadened the understanding of the fundamental properties of plasma. His work has covered a wide range of plasma phenomena including low-temperature plasmas, semiconductor fabricating plasmas, fusion plasmas, and space plasmas. His groundbreaking contributions to understanding solitons, sheaths, and presheaths have impacted semiconductor etching, as the plasma sheath plays a major role in the linear acceleration of ions that results in the small features of modern microelectronic circuits. His pioneering work on emissive probes resulted in the development of a new technique for determining plasma potential by analyzing emissive probe emitted current. In 2002 he was the first to measure plasma potential throughout the presheath and sheath at a boundary in a weakly collisional plasma. He has supervised 56 Ph.D.'s.

An IEEE Life Fellow, Dr. Hershkowitz is the Irving Languir Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA.