Arthur W. Lichtenberger
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