GLCT’s CTO Dr. Timothy Grotjohn is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan State University (MSU) where he works on diamond process and device R&D. He joined MSU in 1987 and served for 9 years as the Department Chairperson and for six years as the R&D Director of the Fraunhofer USA Center for Coatings and Diamond Technologies located at MSU. His current research activities include diamond deposition reactor design; diamond process R&D for doped and undoped diamond; and diamond device R&D including diodes, transistors, quantum sensors and high energy particle detectors. He holds 13 patents with 9 related to diamond synthesis and processing. He has a total of 67 journal papers and over 250 conference papers/presentations. Dr. Grotjohn received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University.

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