Prof. em. Dr. Werner Bächtold

Prof. em. Dr.  Werner Bächtold

Prof. em. Dr. Werner Bächtold

Professor Emeritus at the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering

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Werner Bächtold was Full Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich beginning in December 1987. He retired end of March 2005.



Born on October 1, 1939, he received his diploma and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1964 and 1968 respectively. From 1969 - 1987 he was with the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, working on device and circuit design and analysis with GaAs MESFETs, design of logic and memory circuits with Josephson junctions and semiconductor lasers for digital communication. He had several assignments at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Height, NY, USA. He directed the Microwave Electronics Group at the Laboratory for Electromagnetic Fields and Microwave Electronics and was engaged in the following subjects: design and characterization of gallium arsenide microwave integrated circuits, HEMT device and circuit design and technology and microwave photonics.

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