Location
Thornton Hall E-224 ​PO Box 400743

About

Dr. Arthur Lichtenberger is a Research Professor at the University of Virginia in Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of the UVA, School of Engineering Innovations in Fabrication (IFAB) cleanroom and Nanoscale Materials Characterization Facility (NMCF) . He received a BA from Amherst College in 1980 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from UVA in 1985 and 1987 respectively. He has built an internationally recognized research program in superconducting materials, devices, circuits and packaging for ultra-sensitive single pixel and array THz detectors, having collaborated with astronomical groups for the past 25 years to develop state of the art millimeter and submm wavelength mixers for use on radio telescopes throughout the world. His group’s research, in collaboration with professors Barker and Weikle, also includes the investigation of materials and microfabrication technologies for new terahertz devices, circuits and metrology. He is particularly active in the Applied Superconductivity Conference (ASC) and Education Foundation (ASEF).  To date, he has been PI or Co-PI on over 75 million dollars of funding to UVA and an author on over 225 papers. He is a founding member, and the president and COO of Dominion MicroProbes Inc. He most recently (2024) received a $9M grant to  investigate materials and SIS junctions for superconducting digital logic circuits.

Education

B.S. ​Physics, Amherst College, 1980

M.S. ​Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia, 1985

Ph.D. ​Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia, 1987

Research Interests

Superconducting materials and devices
MM-wave and THz devices, circuits and metrology

Awards

Co-Winner of the UVA Edlich-Henderson Innovator of the Year Award (with Barker, Weikle and Hossack) 2016
Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Leadership Award 2017 and 2024
THz Science and Tech. Best Paper Award of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) 2020 (with Kooi and others)