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Lt Col Timothy S. Wolfe, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering

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Lt Col Timothy Wolfe is Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH.  Maj Wolfe was commissioned in 2011 by AFROTC Detachment 355 at Boston University.  His career has included a variety of assignments ranging from technical intelligence analysis to program management. Prior to completing his PhD education, he served as Deputy High Power Electromagnetics Core Tech Lead, AFRL Directed Energy Directorate, Kirtland AFB, NM. Lt Col Wolfe is an IEEE Senior Member and has served in both IEEE society and conference leadership, with the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques chapter winning a top 10 worldwide ranking in 2025 under his leadership. He currently serves as the AFIT/EN Faculty Council Military Member at Large. He has taught classes ranging from microelectronics to electromagnetics to RF systems to statistics, winning the 2025 AFIT/EN nomination for AETC Educator of the Year and being named a Dean's Distinguished Teaching Fellow in 2023. He has been published not only in major research journals but also AFIT ebooks and soon a military history volume published through Air University Press. His research interests include electronic materials and devices, RF antennas and propagation to include the ThZ regime, and directed energy.

Education

2011 BS, Electrical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA

2015 MS, Electrical Engineering, AFIT, Dayton, OH

2021 PhD, Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Awards

2026 Chancellor’s Annual Exceptional Wingman Award 

GSEM’s Academic Year 2022/2023 Dean’s Distinguished Teaching Professors

2023 AFA Wright Memorial Chapter Gage H. Crocker Outstanding Professor Award

Publications

Refereed Journals

 

  1. “Review of Photocoductive Semiconductor Switches: Focus on the Need to Address Uncertainty in Material Properties” Timothy Wolfe and Alejandro Strachan, IEEE Electron Device Reviews  DOI 10.1109/EDR.2026.3694615 

  1. *Guillermo A. Salcedo, Michael Harrington, Stefan Nikodemski, Vladimir Vasilyev, Michael Newburger, Timothy Wolfe, Christine Schubert Kabban, James Sattler, Ahmad Islam; A statistical study on the origin of the polarization-dependent leakage in ferroelectric aluminum scandium nitride films. J. Appl. Phys. 28 July 2025; 138 (4): 044104. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0279258 1 citation 

  1. *Guillermo A. Salcedo, Ahmad E. Islam, Elizabeth Reichley, Michael Dietz, Christine M. Schubert-Kabban, Kevin D. Leedy, Tyson C. Back, Weisong Wang, Andrew Green, Timothy Wolfe, James M. Sattler; Effect of fabrication parameters on the ferroelectricity of hafnium zirconium oxide films: A statistical study. J. Appl. Phys. 28 March 2024; 135 (12): 124101. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0191420 1 citation 

  1. *T.S. Wolfe, R.M. Van Ginhoven, A. Strachan, “Computational study of first-row transition metals in monodoped 4H-SiC,” Modelling Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng., vol. 29, no. 055008, 2021: 291 downloads, 5 citations 
     

  1. *T.S. Wolfe, S.A. Francis, D. Langley, J.C. Petrosky, J. Roos, A. Terzuoli, T. Zens, “Integrated Computational Investigation of Photoconductive Semiconductor Switches in Pulsed Power Radio Frequency Applications,”  IEEE Trans. Plas. Sci., vol. 44, no. 1, 2016: 350 full-text views, 8 citations 

  1. *T.S. Wolfe S.A. Francis, D. Langley, J.C. Petrosky, J. Roos, A. Terzuoli, T. Zens, “Waveguide Mode Formation as a Potential Cause of Switch Failure in High-Power Wide-Bandgap Photoconductive Switches,”  IEEE Trans. Plas. Sci., vol. 43, no. 12, 2015: 209 full-text views, 1 citations 

 

Peer Reviewed Conference Publications (full paper review) 

  1. T. Wolfe*, S. Francis, D. Langley, J. Petrosky, A. Terzuoli and T. Zens, "High power ultrawideband short pulse (UWBSP) electromagnetics (EM) application for wide band gap (WBG) photoconductive semiconductor switches (PCSS)," 2015 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), Turin, Italy, 2015, pp. 1500-1503: 233 full-text views, 2 citations 

  1. T. Wolfe* et al., "Integrated computational study of an optoelectronic pulsed power radio frequency source," 2015 31st International Review of Progress in Applied Computational Electromagnetics (ACES), Williamsburg, VA, USA, 2015, pp. 1-2.: 69 full-text views 

  1. N. J. Lehman et al., "Superconducting Ring Array Pattern Modeling, Characterization, and Propagation for Microwave Through Terahertz Frequencies," NAECON 2024 - IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference, Dayton, OH, USA, 2024, pp. 247-250, doi: 10.1109/NAECON61878.2024.10670692. 19 full-text views 

  1. G. A. Salcedo, A. E. Islam, T. C. Back, K. D. Leedy and T. Wolfe, "Differences in Ferroelectric Characteristics of Similar Hafnium Zirconium Oxide Films Studied Using X - Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy," NAECON 2024 - IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference, Dayton, OH, USA, 2024, pp. 262-267, doi: 10.1109/NAECON61878.2024.10670663. 24 full-text views