Nanotechnology for microelectronics and optoelectronics

José Manuel Martínez obtained his Masters Degree in Physics at the University of Michigan and his PhD both at The Pennsylvania State University and Madrid University. He is the author of about three hundred publications in reputed scientific journals. During the 1970s, he was Assistant Professor at Penn State University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Research Visiting Scientist at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. Later he has been the Director of the Solid State Physics Institute (CSIC) at Madrid, and the Applied Physics Department at Universidad Autónoma (Madrid). He has been the President of the European Materials Research Society during the period 2000–2001. During the last fifteen years he has been working on the electronic and opto-electronic properties of nanostructured materials. In the field of nanotechnology, Professor Martínez-Duart has been director of several courses, co-author of several books, and Invited Editor of two volumes, “Materials and Processes for Submicron Technologies” and “Current Trends in Nanotechnologies”, both published by Elsevier in 1999 and 2001, respectively.