Richard McManus

EECS PhD Student @ UC Berkeley

Trying to make the fastest transistor ever (and be the fastest device physicist ever??)

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About Me

Research & Interests

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Scaled Silicon MOSFETs

Ultra-thin-body / SOI scaling, parasitics, and chasing better fT/fMAX.

Air Spacer Test Structure
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Radiation Detection

What a gamma does in silicon and how to read out a tiny, fast charge packet.

Radiation

CV & Publications

Education

PhD, EECS

UC Berkeley

Scaled semiconductor devices - how can we make computing faster, more efficient, and more resilient?

B.S., Electrical Engineering

University of Notre Dame, 2024

Where I learned to love device physics and the research process.

Teaching Experience

Integrated Circuit Devices

UC Berkeley, 2026

Lecturer: Professor Asir Khan

Fundamentals of Semiconductors

University of Notre Dame, 2024

Lecturer: Professor Kai Ni

Digital Integrated Circuits

University of Notre Dame, 2023

Lecturer: Professor Matthew Morrison

Industry Experience

Environmental Test Engineering Intern

Boeing, 2023

Labs: Airflow, Thermal, Vibration, Arc Heater, etc.

CEO and Chief Engineer

Mound Power, LLC, 2020-2024

Developed and patented multi-axis force-measurement platform utilized by major league baseball teams.

Outside the Lab

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Running

Training around the Bay. Berkeley hills are no joke.

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Hiking

Trying to knock off 14ers one at a time.

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Lifting

Picking things up and putting them back down.

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Water Sports

Efoil, skimboard, surf, you name it.

Get in Touch

Want to talk devices or hitting PRs? I’m in.