Rate My Professor Hamid Fardi

Professor Hamid Fardi is a full professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering within the College of Engineering, Design and Computing at the University of Colorado Denver. He earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1986. After completing his doctorate, he served as a postdoctoral fellow at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. From 1988 to 1992, he was affiliated with the NSF Center for Millimeter-Microwave Computer Aided Design at the University of Colorado. He conducted research as a visiting scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in 1996 and 1997 and maintains ongoing collaborations as a frequent visitor to the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Dr. Fardi joined the University of Colorado Denver's Department of Electrical Engineering in 1992 and has progressed to full professor status. In 2017, the university recognized him for 25 years of dedicated service.

Dr. Fardi's research specializations include solid-state devices, VCSELs and optoelectronic devices for medical applications, the physics of semiconductor devices and materials, solar cells and photovoltaics such as SiC bipolar junction transistors, GaAs quantum well solar cells, and CdTe thin film solar cells, along with analog and digital electronics circuit design, IC design and modeling, and 2D simulations. As coordinator of the NIST Professional Research Experience Program at CU Denver, he secured a $2.7 million award from the U.S. Department of Commerce. He teaches undergraduate and graduate electronics courses at both Denver and Boulder campuses. Notable publications include "Study of 3C-SiC Power MOSFETs" (Micromachines, 2025), "Characterization and Modeling of CdS/CdTe Heterojunction Thin Film Solar Cell for High Efficiency Performance" (International Journal of Photoenergy, 2013), "Analog Behavioral Modeling of Magnetoresistive Sensors" (IEEE, 2010), "Magnetization Scissoring in Aluminum/Permalloy Microstructures" (Journal of Applied Physics, 2009), and "Numerical Analysis of Semiconductor PN Junctions Using SCAPS-1D" (Journal of Scientific Research and Reports, 2015).