Faculty

Nonlinear quantum optics and excitonic quantum materials.

He works on experiments and simulations of reliability aspects in novel logic and memory devices. He also investigates radiation damage of devices and circuits.

Experimentalist working on low-dimensional transport for logic and memory applications. He designs, fabricates, characterizes and analyzes novel devices and circuits from transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs).

Design and Development of Multifunctional Nanocomposites for Electrical and Thermal Conductive Devices. The current research focus include design and development of polymeric composites for comformance, surface energetics, conduction, and robustness. Electrical and thermal properties are tailored by adding particulate materials with tailored size and shape. An additional focus of the work include design and development of alternates to PFAS especially Teflon and FKMs to address environment related issues.

Bansal research group works on dimensionally modified halide perovskite and chalcogenide compound semiconductors. The goal is to develop novel functional materials, advanced device packaging, interconnection technologies and physics-based degradation models for lifetime prediction.

Experimentalist that characterizes various materials and devices employing time resolved, low-temperature photoluminescence, Raman spectroscopy, and near IR ellipsometry.

Experimentalist exploring inter-domain coupling in Opto-mechanical, Spin-Acoustic and Atom-MEMS devices to design and fabricate inertial sensors, clocks, frequency combs and computing and microwave sub-systems.

Modeling and measurement of microstructure development using advanced characterization techniques to predict reliability.

Experimentalist working on optical meta-materials and quantum materials.

Design and synthesis of organic and hybrid materials for optical, electronic, magnetic, and spintronic device applications with a focus on the materials chemistry, molecular-level physics, and device optimization.

Four-Dimensional (4D) materials science with a particular emphasis on the deformation behavior of advanced materials at bulk and small length scales characteristic of advanced packaging.

Experimentalist working on novel materials for logic and interconnect applications. She is also an expert in developing concepts for back-end-of-line (BEOL) heterogeneously, monolithically integrated memory applications.

Known for pioneering the non-equilibrium Green function (NEGF) model widely used in semiconductor industry to model nanoscale electronic devices. Also known for creative proposals that inspired new fields of research like negative capacitance devices, spintronics and probabilistic bits.

Molecular visualization of interfacial mechanics, including adhesion, friction, and wetting novel measurements of polymer interfacial properties and mechanics.

Oversee evaluation and metrics, SCALE student programming, co-lead education efforts (K through professional education, including community college); oversee educational research.

Microstructural modeling of multifunctional materials, including solder-based interconnects microstructural evolution and phase transformations in confined geometries reliability and optimization of FeRAMs, portable power sources.

Radiation-hardened Microelectronics Research Faculty Mentor.

Shock and vibration characterization of electronics packaging; Optimization of mechanical systems; Additive manufacturing; Smart material systems.

Theorist exploring device-circuit co-design in emerging nanotechnologies for Boolean and non-Boolean computing, spintronics, low power variation tolerant VLSI design, device-circuit modeling.

Lead teacher professional development workshops, ongoing support for implementation.

Internship opportunity coordination; certification.

Experimentalist investigating quantum interaction of light with atoms and its role in quantum optical communication, computation and sensing. We work towards developing a hybrid and scalable platform for future quantum optical technologies.

Reducing the operational energy footprint of polymer membranes through material design.

Environmental sustainability, water pollution control, and the environmental fate of organic contaminants; water consumption in supply chains; sustainable electronics and environmental sustainability in engineering education.

Design and development of advanced complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) electronics and integration of highly manufacturable, widely deployable and low cost futuristic electronic systems for logic computing, handheld/wearable smart gadgets, defense, healthcare, environmental monitoring, robotics, and automation.

Out of School learning (e.g., summer camps); Co-Lead K-12 SCALE curriculum, Interim Director of INSPIRE (Institute for Pre-College Engineering Education).

Heat-assisted detection and ranging which allows machine perception in pitch darkness like broad daylight. Developing new sensors and edge computing devices for HADAR.

Nanoscale electronic devices, molecular/semiconductor devices, microwave devices, and characterization.

CAD design expert exploring computational electromagnetics, modeling and simulation of micro- and nano-scale integrated circuits, high-speed VLSI circuit design and analysis, high-performance VLSI CAD, applied electromagnetics, signal and power integrity, fast and high-capacity numerical methods, scattering and antenna analysis, and bio-electromagnetics.

Instructor of Course on Secure Operations.

System on Chip Extension Technologies (SoCET, pronounced like socket) is a long running chip design team intended primarily for undergraduates to get experience in as many aspects of chip design, fabrication, and test as possible. The team is organized like a small chip design company with sub-teams for logic design, verification, chip-layout, analog design, printed circuit board design, test, software, and special research projects in collaboration with research groups in ECE. Most team members receive academic credit for work on SoCET, but some receive research or teaching assistant funding, and experienced members often continue on a volunteer basis.

VLSI designer of circuits and systems for wireless sensing applications.

Theorist working on modeling of nanoelectronic devices, genetic algorithm based optimization, and image processing.

Finite Elements and Phase Field simulations of stress relaxation, kinetics, and diffusion in thin films. Integration of thermal, electrical, and mechanical fields to predict failure in electronics.

Theorist exploring equilibrium and non-equilibrium phenomena in nanodevices and molecules. This covers electronic and phonon bandstructures as well as heat, charge and spin transport in nanodevices.

Semiconductor supply chains and its digital twins. Apply lean six sigma in semiconductor design, manufacturing, assembly, testing, and packaging, etc.

New memory device technologies and circuit designs for energy-efficient computing, spanning experimental, design, and system integration aspects for creating nanotechnology-inspired hardware chips.

Employer needs assessments; professional and technical certification.

Physics, modeling, and simulation of electronic and thermal transport in semiconductor devices.

Quantum physicist developing novel qubit hardware in semiconductor and hybrid superconductor/semiconductor systems. Work includes semiconductor growth, mesoscopic device fabrication, and low temperature electron transport.

Transport phenomena in multi-scale, heterogeneous materials & systems fundamentals of nanoscale thermal transport electronics cooling and thermal management.

Experimentalist exploring nanoscale electronic devices including devices based on carbon nanotubes and nanowires, nanoelectromechanical devices, RF devices, device characterization and modeling, RF and microwave circuits, low-power electronics, 3D integration, optoelectronics, Nanofluidic and vacuum electronic.

Oversee all K-12 efforts, including teacher professional development, curriculum, educational standards.

Sensible and evaporative heating of thin films, pool boiling, flow boiling, jet-impingement cooling, spray cooling, micro-channel heat sinks, heat transfer enhancement, heat transfer in rotating systems, critical heat flux, and capillary pumped flows.

Scalable nanomanufacturing: lithography and imaging optical and magnetic data storage nanoscale energy conversion, transfer and storage for alternative energy.

Experimentalist focusing on reconfigurable analog/RF electronics for adaptive communications, signal intelligence, and harsh-environment sensors.

Experimentalist interested in Nanotechnology, especially 3D nanofabrication and low-cost nanolithography micro and nanophotonics, with emphasis on 3D photonic crystals and integrated Si photonic circuits thermophotovoltaics and solar cells.

Kuhardware for AI and machine learning, compute near and in memory, and secure microelectronics.

Expert in embedded systems, Internet-of-things and energy-efficient and secure embedded computing.

Scalable manufacturing processes of flexible electronic devices that can empower technologies for health-care and environmental monitoring convergence of advancements in functional polymers and electrical engineering for developing innovative tools and technologies that can be utilized in solving various obstacles in healthcare, agriculture, and the environment.

Developing robust and efficient multiscale and multiphysics computational electromagnetics methods, with primary applications for accelerating the design process of quantum electromagnetic technologies that will be used to build quantum computers, quantum communication systems, and quantum sensors. The computational methods we develop are also leveraged for classical electromagnetic analysis of emerging RF/microwave, antenna, and circuit technologies.

Neuromorphic computing, device-circuit-architecture co-design for AI workloads, computing-in-memory, robust and secure system design, and energy-efficient integrated circuits and systems.

Development of simulation methods within the framework of first principles, molecular dynamics, Boltzmann transport equation, and Monte Carlo methods; Prediction of thermal conductivity, interfacial thermal resistance, and Joule heating in electronic materials and nanostructures; Machine learning, optimization, and high throughput design of semiconductor materials and systems.

VLSI and circuit design, sensing and communication circuits/systems, energy harvested sensor nodes for internet of things (IoT), analog/RF, wireless, and security.

Experimentalist exploring quantum electronics, mutual interaction of heat, light, and electricity in nano materials and devices, lock-in imaging and advanced image processing with applications to nanoscale thermal measurements and roll-to-roll process monitoring.

Oversee development of nanoHUB tools and content curation for nanoHUB; oversee research mentoring program.

Environmentally responsible design and manufacturing; sustainable systems; decision-making for sustainability; manufacturing; corporate social responsibility; sustainability education.

Theorist exploring magnetism, classical and quantum spintronics, next-generation information processing & bio-devices.

Design and processing of functional nanocomposite thin films for microelectronics, optoelectronics, high-temperature superconductors, solid oxide fuel cells, plasmonics and photonics, ferroelectric and ferromagnetic applications, and radiation tolerant materials.

Advanced Semiconductor Packaging and Heterogeneous Integration with a focus on processing, materials, and architecture development, Chip-Package Interactions, Reliability, and Efficient thermal management technologies.

Electronics cooling and packaging phase-change transport phenomena microscale and nanoscale surface engineering for enhanced thermal transport.

Experimentalist exploring new mechanical designs and efficient transducers for MEMS devices and systems. Focus on monolithic and heterogeneous integration with ICs, programmability, ad-hoc tuning, analog signal processing, sensors, and actuators using electromechanical devices.

Energy efficiency and cybersecurity for semiconductor device manufacturing and supply chain management, via monitoring, modeling, analytics and vulnerability discovery/mitigation.

Investigation of fundamental thermal transport in thin film and two dimensional semiconductors, and development of innovative solutions for thermal transport control and thermal switching in semiconductor devices.

Experimentalist with a deep understanding in various atomic layer deposition solutions. He is also interested in novel ferroelectric materials for ferroelectric memory and oxides for novel logic and BEOL applications.

Synthesis of nanomaterials, Radiation Damage in nanostructured materials, Mechanical behavior of nanostructured metals, dynamics of metal bonding.

Environment friendly design and life cycle engineering for sustainable electronics, sustainable energy, manufacturing high-performance buildings.