Education

• Ph.D (EE) - IIT Bombay (2005)
Thesis - Scalability & Reliability Studies of NOR Flash EEPROMs (Advisor - Prof. Souvik Mahapatra)


• M.Tech (EE) - IIT Bombay (2001)
Thesis - Numerical Modeling of Tunneling Current through Ultrathin Gate Oxides (Advisors - Profs. J. Vasi & M.B. Patil)


• B.Tech (ECE) - NIT Calicut (1999)
Thesis - Speech and Audio coding using Wavelet Transforms (Advisor - Prof. P.S. Sathidevi)

Experience

• Professor (Nov 2022 - present)
• Associate Professor (July 2017 - Oct 2022)
• Assistant Professor (Dec 2011 - June 2017)
• Senior Engineer - IBM Semiconductor Research and Development Center, Hopewell Junction, NY (April 2005 - October 2011)
-Device engineer for 65nm, 32nm, 28nm and (early) 14nm CMOS process nodes
-Lead device engineer of the multi-company (IBM/Samsung/Infineon/Toshiba/Renesas/GlobalFoundries/ST Microelectronics) 32nm & 28nm bulk CMOS technology development program

Courses Taught

• Basic Electrical Engineering (EE1100)
• Electric Circuits and Networks (EE2015)
• Solid State Devices (EE3001)
• Professional Ethics (HS3050)
• VLSI Technology (EE5312)
• Introduction to Research (EE6021)
• Advanced CMOS Devices and Technology (EE6346)^*
• Seminar on the History of Electrical Engineering (EE5004)^*
* Courses introduced

Research Interest

• Semiconductor Devices - Device Design, Fabrication, Characterization and Numerical modeling
• RF MEMS switches and resonators - Design, Fabrication, Characterization and Numerical modeling
• Silicon Photonics - Technology and Modeling

Amateur Interest

• History of Science and Technology
• Philosophy of Science and Technology
• Economic History

PhD scholars (Thesis and their 1^st job)

• Vishal Tiwari (2017) - Analysis and modeling of Gate Induced Drain Leakage (GIDL) mechanisms in SiGe pMOSFETs - Intel, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
• George Thachil (2022) (with Prof. Amitava DasGupta) - Design, fabrication and characterization of an energy efficient bistable DC MEMS switch - Infineon, Bangalore
• Dibakar Yadav (2022) - A quantum transport simulation based study of source to drain tunneling in pMOSFETs - Micron, Hyderabad
• Nidhin K (2022) (with Prof. Anjan Chakravorty) - Thermal Modeling of Transistor: A study of the static behavior of SiGe HBTs, SOI FinFETs and GaN HEMTs - Intel, Bangalore
• Kanaka Joy (2023) - Development and Wafer-level Packaging of RF MEMS SPDT Swicthes - IHP Microelectronics, Germany
• Pavan Ch L N (2024) - Characterization and Analysis of Random Telegraph Noise in SiGe channel HKMG PMOSFETs - Intel, Hyderabad
• Bijay J. (2024) - Performance improvement of thin film piezoelectric on Silicon MEMS resonator for timing applications - Western Digital, Bangalore
• Bhadri Narayanan (2024) (with Prof. Amitava DasGupta) - Design, Simulation, Fabrication and Modeling of TPoS MEMS Resonators for RF timing applications - GlobalFoundries, Bangalore
• Anurag Swarnkar (2024) - Wideband capacitive and dielectric-less high breakdown voltage RF MEMS switch - IMEC, Belgium
• Nivedita Rai
• Praveena S.

MS scholars (Thesis and their 1^st job)

• Sarath G (2016) - Tunable RF MEMS capacitive switches with stress resilience and enhanced capacitance ratio - Purdue University for PhD
• Vivek Oza (2022) - Characterization and Analysis of 1/f noise in SiGe channel PMOS devices - Micron, Singapore
• Animesh Vaish
• Amrendra Singh (with Prof. Nandita DasGupta)
• Gangam Pavan Kumar (with Prof. Nandita DasGupta)
• Abhishek Krishnan (with Prof. Subash S.)

Publications

• Google Scholar and Scopus
• ORCID (Only journal publications)

         Technical Talks

• Energy bands, Holes, Effective mass and Fermi level in 30 mins

         Semi-Popular Talks

1. From Elektron to Electrical Engineering
2. The Story of Integrated Circuit
3. The Planar process by Jean Hoerni
4. Semiconductor Manufacturing - Comparative development of India, Korea and Taiwan
5. What do heavens tell us about Modeling?

Projects

    Ongoing

• Indian Nanoelectronics Users Programme - Idea to Innovation (as co-PI)
• RF Oscillators based on MEMS resonators (as PI)

    Completed

• Reliability of SiGe channel PFETs (as PI)
• Characterization and simulation of Gate Induced Drain Leakage (GIDL) in high k metal gate PMOSFETs (as PI)
• Development of numerical simulation tool for 3-D silicon nanowire MOSFETs (as co-PI)
• Design, fabrication and characterization of nanoelectromechanical resonator (as co-PI)
• TCAD simulation, analysis and compact modeling of static thermal effects in GaN HEMTs (as co-PI)
• Design and Development of SPDT RF MEMS switches for Ku band applications (as PI)
• Self-aligned double polysilicon emitter Bipolar Technology for RF applications (as co-PI)