Purdue Microelectronics and Nanotechnology Overview
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In today’s modern world, microelectronics has touched every aspect of our lives. None of us can imagine or live in a world without personal computers, smart phones, and probably very soon autonomous cars. To continue its expansion and go beyond the traditional semiconductor technologies, hardware researchers and technologists must know how transistors, memories, sensors, and actuators work. They must also understand how these devices are integrated and packaged, how their proximity redefines design, and how their reliability and security are ensured. Different from the past, today, there is also the need for these researchers to understand the field of algorithms, data science, networks, and machine learning that give cyber-physical systems their power.The Microelectronics and Nanotechnology (MN) area is one of the seven areas in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Purdue University West Lafayette campus. The MN area consists of twenty-plus faculty members with active research and instructional programs in Nanoelectronics and Nanomaterials, Spintronics and Quantum Technologies, Probabilistic Computing, Energy Conversion, Micro and Nanoelectromechanical Systems (MEMS/NEMS), and Computational Nanotechnology. Experimental programs are located primarily in a state-of-the-art facility, the Birck Nanotechnology Center. Purdue is also the home of the NSF-sponsored Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) that created the science gateway nanoHUB.org with nearly 100,000 users worldwide. In today’s webinar, ten Purdue ECE faculty from the MN area will give high level overviews of their individual groups’ research and visions for a New Era Electronics.
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Muhammad Ashraful Alam holds the Jai N. Gupta professorship at Purdue University, where his research focuses on the physics and technology of semiconductor devices. From 1995 to 2003, he was with Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, as a Member of Technical Staff in the Silicon ULSI Research Department. Since joining Purdue in 2004, Dr. Alam has published over 350 papers and has presented many invited and contributed talks. He is a fellow of IEEE, APS, and AAAS. His awards include the 2006 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Medal for contributions to device technology and 2015 SRC Technical Excellence Award for fundamental contributions to reliability physics, and 2018 IEEE EDS Education Award for contribution to graduate education. Prof. Alam enjoys teaching -- more than 500,000 students worldwide have learned some aspect of semiconductor devices from his web-enabled courses.
Joerg Appenzeller received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the Technical University of Aachen, Germany in 1991 and 1995. His Ph.D. dissertation investigated quantum transport phenomena in low dimensional systems based on III/V heterostructures. He worked for one year as a Research Scientist in the Research Center in Juelich, Germany before he became an Assistant Professor with the Technical University of Aachen in 1996. During his professorship he explored mesoscopic electron transport in different materials including carbon nanotubes and superconductor-semiconductor-hybride devices. From 1998 to 1999, he was with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, as a Visiting Scientist, exploring the ultimate scaling limits of silicon MOSFET devices. From 2001 until 2007, he had been with the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown, NY, as a Research Staff Member mainly involved in the investigation of the potential of carbon nanotubes and silicon nanowires for a future nanoelectronics. Since 2007 he is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University and Scientific Director of Nanoelectronics in the Birck Nanotechnology Center. In 2014 he became the Barry M. and Patricia L. Epstein Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His current interests include novel devices based on low-dimensional nanomaterials as nanowires, nanotubes, graphene and di-chalcogenides.
Zhihong Chen is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. Her research focuses on understanding physical properties of nanomaterials, fabricating nanostructures with desired properties and functionalities for electronic, spintronic, and optoelectronic applications. From 2004 to 2010, she was with the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center working on design and fabrication of high-performance carbon-based electronics. She was appointed as the manager of the Carbon Technology Group between 2008 and 2010. She joined Purdue as an associate professor in 2010 and became a full professor in 2017. She is the Director of the SRC nCORE NEW LIMITS Center and Associated Director of Research for the Birck Nanotechnology Center. She also serves as the General Chair of the Device Research Conference and Program Co-Chair of the International Interconnect Technology Conference.
Supriyo Datta received his PhD from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1979 working on surface acoustic wave devices, and has been with Purdue University since 1981. The non-equilibrium Green function (NEGF) method approach pioneered by his group for the description of quantum transport has been widely adopted in the field of nanoelectronics and he was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for this work. He is also known for innovative new fields of research including molecular thermoelectricity, negative capacitance theoretical proposals that have inspired devices, and spintronics.
Sumeet Kumar Gupta received the B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India in 2006, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette IN in 2008 and 2012, respectively. Dr. Gupta is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. Prior to this, he was an Assistant professor of Electric Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University from 2014 to 2017 and a Senior Engineer at Qualcomm Inc. from 2012 to 2014. He has also worked as an intern at National Semiconductor, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Intel Corporation in 2005, 2007 and 2010, respectively. His research interests include low power variation aware VLSI circuit design, neuromorphic computing, nanoelectronics and spintronics, device-circuit co-design and nanoscale device modeling and simulations. He has published over 100 articles in refereed journals and conferences and is a member of IEEE and EDS. Dr. Gupta was the recipient of DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2016, an Early Career Professorship by Penn State in 2014 and the 6th TSMC Outstanding Student Research Bronze Award in 2012. He has also received Magoon Award and the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from Purdue University in 2007 and Intel PhD Fellowship in 2009.
David Janes is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. From 2012-2017, he served as a Global Affairs Fellow and Faculty Coordinator of Institutional Partnerships, in Purdue’s Office of Corporate and Global Partnerships, focusing on global engagement strategies and institutional partnerships. He has also held leadership positions in major centers. From 2001-2003, he was Research Program Coordinator for the Birck Nanotechnology Center in Purdue’s Discovery Park. From 2003-2007, he was Technical Director of the Institute for Nanoelectronics and Computing, a NASA-supported research and education center. In this role, Janes was responsible for technical direction of center research, director/recruiter for graduate fellowship program and co-director of undergraduate research program. His current research projects include nanowire and other low-dimensional transistors for low-noise and thin-film electronics, 2-D/1-D hybrid systems for transparent conductors and IR/photovoltaic applications, and chemical/biological sensors. He has published over 125 referred journal papers and is a co-inventor on 4 patents.
Gerhard Klimeck is an Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty at Purdue University and leads two research centers in Purdue's Discovery Park. He helped to create nanoHUB.org which now serves over 2.0 million users globally. Previously he worked with Texas Instruments and NASA/JPL/Caltech. His research interest is in computational nanoelectronics, high performance computing, and data analytics. NEMO, the nanoelectronic modeling software built in his research group established the state-of- the-art in atomistic quantum transport modeling. NEMO is now being used at Intel for advanced transistor designs and commercialized. He published over 525 printed scientific articles that resulted in an h-index of 68 in Google scholar. He is a fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP), a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of AAAS and a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (Germany). Together with physicist Michelle Simmons of the University of New South Wales, he "devised a way to make a single-atom transistor", which ranked #29 top invention of 2013 by Discover Magazine. In 2020 the nanoHUB team was awarded a R&D 100 award for “nanoHUB: Democratizing Learning and Research”. In Oct. 2020 he was elected Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), ”For the quantum mechanical modeling theory and simulation tools to design today's nanotransistors and for leadership of the global nanotechnology community as Director of nanoHUB.”
Dana Weinstein is an Associate Professor in Purdue’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Associate Dean of Graduate Education in the College of Engineering. Prior to joining Purdue in 2015, Dr. Weinstein joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT as an Assistant Professor, and served as an Associate Professor there between 2013 and 2015. She received her B.A. in Physics and Astrophysics from University of California - Berkeley in 2004 and her Ph.D. in Applied Physics in 2009 from Cornell, working on multi-GHz MEMS. She is a Purdue Faculty Scholar, and a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the DARPA Young Faculty Award, the first Intel Early Career Award, the first TRF Transducers Early Career Award, and the IEEE IEDM Roger A. Haken Best Paper Award. Dr. Weinstein’s current research focuses on innovative microelectromechanical devices for applications ranging from MEMS-IC wireless communications and clocking to micro robotic actuators and flexible substrate ultrasonic transducers.
Pramey Upadhyaya is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Purdue University. Before joining Purdue, Pramey was a postdoctoral scholar in the Physics and Astronomy Department, University of California Los Angeles. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, in 2009, and the master’s and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering department from the University of California Los Angeles, USA, in 2011 and 2015, respectively. His research has explored the theory of classical and quantum spintronic phenomenon and their device applications, enabled by electrical and thermal control of magnetism. Along with his teammates, this work has resulted in one of the earliest demonstrations of current-induced room-temperature skyrmion manipulations, spin torque switching by topological surface states and quantum sensing of spintronic phenomena. He is a recipient of NSF CAREER (2020), Purdue Outstanding Engineering Teacher Award, and Qualcomm Innovation fellowship (2013).
Peter Ye’s research focuses on atomic layer deposition and its integration on various novel channel materials including III-V, Ge, 2D materials and complex oxides. He obtained his Ph.D. from Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Germany under Nobel Laureate Prof. Klaus von Klitzing and postdoc training at NHMFL and Princeton University under another Nobel Laureate Prof. Daniel C. Tsui. Prof. Ye received the 2011 IBM Faculty Award, Sigma Xi Award and Arden Bement Jr. Award at Purdue University. He is IEEE Fellow and APS Fellow for his contributions to materials and device development for compound semiconductor MOSFETs. Prof. Ye is also recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher among 6000 worldwide in all fields.
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