David Ingram has been curious about electronic materials and devices
ever since he was 9 years old, when his uncle took him and his family
to an open house at the Royal Radar Establishment, Malvern, England,
where his uncle had worked since the start of World War II. As an
experimentalist, he works on growing new materials and studying their
properties. A classic method of making semiconducting devices is to
use ion implantation. With this metod, one can take any isotope of
any element in the periodic table and implant it in a substrate. This
led him into the study of the interaction of energetic particles with
matter and now into areas of applied nuclear science where low energy
nuclear physics and materials science intersect. He runs the Edwards
Accelerator Laboratory and is also a member of the Faculty Senate.
In his spare time he fishes, gardens, walks in hills around Athens, and is a member of the Shade Tree Commission for the City of Athens.
