Katsutoshi Izumi

Katsutoshi Izumi received an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Nagoya Institute of Technology in 1972 and a Ph.D. degree in electronics from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1988. After joining the Musashino Electrical Communication Labortory, NTT, in 1972, he performed research mainly on SOI technology for CMOS LSIs. He invented the SIMOX in 1976, and succeeded in fabricating CMOS/SIMOX ICs for the first time in 1978. He is presently working in the field of a new composite semiconductor material for Electron-Photon-Merged devices as a professor in the Research Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at Osaka Prefecture University.