Steve Gaalema

Steve Gaalema received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1976, where he demonstrated the first acoustic charge transport device. His subsequent experience includes CCD star tracker development at JPL. He was also integral to the development of Si and Ge IR detectors; integrated readout electronics for Si, Ge, InSb, and HgCdTe detectors; and cryogenic packaging and signal processing for Hughes Aircraft. He was responsible for the development of several IC processes at Hughes, and in cooperation with Orbit Semiconductor, the buried channel CCD/CMOS process now offered through the MOSIS service. Dr. Gaalema is the inventor of twelve patents and has several patents pending, and is currently working directly for the parent company as a Luminar Fellow, and is a member of the BFE Board of Directors.