Finley Shapiro, PhD

Finley Shapiro is a Hertz Fellow who earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from MIT, where his fellowship began in 1980. His doctoral research examined the computer simulation of the transient response of amorphous silicon hydride devices—an important class of thin-film semiconductor materials used in solar cells and flat-panel displays. Shapiro earned both his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from MIT. His work on amorphous silicon device simulation contributed to the understanding of thin-film transistor behavior in early flat-panel display technology.