Students
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Current Students
Ashkar Ali
Ph.D. Candidate and IBM 2010-2011 Ph.D. Fellow
aua176@psu.eduExpected Graduation: Spring 2012
Education: M.S. Engineering Science and Mechanics, Penn State University
B.S. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
Research Interests:
Ashkar's research goal is to address the fundamental challenges at the material and device level to enable high-speed low-power logic applications. Current research includes oxide and III-V interface characterization, simulation, fabrication and characterization of narrow-gap quantum-well FETs for beyond silicon technology nodes. He enjoys photography and listening to music.
Feng Li
Ph.D. Candidate
fxl135@psu.eduExpected Graduation: Summer 2012
Education: B.S. Tsinghua University, China, 2008
Research Interests:
Feng is working on LNA design for "Chip-scale Ultra Sensitive Magnetometer". Current research includes interface circuit design, fabrication as well as low frequency noise characterization and analysis of Si/SiGe Quantum well FETs. He enjoys reading and playing basketball.
Euichul Hwang
Ph.D. Candidate
euh125@psu.eduExpected Graduation: Summer 2012
Education: B.S. Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
Research Interests:
Device modeling, fabrication and characterization of Quantum Well Transistors in the digital logic applications with low energy band-gap materials. Currently, Euichul has been focusing on the scalability of In0.7Ga0.3As HEMT and developing a new structure design of InGaAs HEMT. He likes to listen to music and to play tennis, soccer and baseball.
Dheeraj K. Mohata
Ph.D. Candidate and IBM 2011-2012 Ph.D. Fellow
dkm154@psu.eduExpected Graduation: Summer 2012
Education: M.S, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
B.S. College of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India
Research Interests:
Design, simulations, modeling and characterization of low power high speed logic devices beyond silicon. Current research includes characterization of tunnel diodes and FETs and comparison and analysis using simulations and modeling. Hobbies include indoor games such as badminton.
Lu Liu
Ph.D. Candidate
lul137@psu.eduExpected Graduation: Summer 2013
Education: B.S. Peking University, China
Research Interests:
Lu is aiming at quantum transport in nanoscale devices and Tunnel Field Effect Transistor Modeling. He likes sports and photography.
Vinay Saripalli
PhD Candidate
vxs924@cse.psu.eduExpected Graduation: Fall 2011
Education: B.S. & M.S. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
Research Interests:
Vinay is interested in low power circuit applications of Single Electron Transistors.
Bijesh Rajamohanan
Ph.D. Candidate
bor5067@psu.eduResume
Expected Graduation: Fall 2013
Education: M.S. EE, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai
B.S. NIT, India
Research Interests:
Modeling, design, fabrication and characterization of novel low power devices. Current research includes experimental demonstration of multi-gated interband tunnel transistors and exploration of their circuit design space.
Himanshu Madan
M.S. Candidate
hsm128@psu.eduExpected Graduation: Spring 2011
Education: B.S. College OF Engineering Pune, India
Research Interests:
Small signal response of minority and majority carriers in III-V channel FETs with high-k gate stacks up to gigahertz frequency domain. Current works include admittance modeling to characterize III-V and oxide interfaces.
Zhao Fang
PhD Candidate (coadvised with Prof. Qiming Zhang)
zuf101@psu.eduExpected Graduation: Fall 2011
Education: M.S. Tsinghua University, China, 2007
Research Interests:
Modeling, design, fabrication and characterization of multiferroic dielectrics and their integration with CMOS.
Ashish Agrawal
M. S. Candidate
axa981@psu.eduExpected Graduation: Spring 2011
Education: B.S. B.Tech. E.C.E., Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology(VNIT), Nagpur, India
Research Interests:
Device Characterization, III-V Compound Semiconductor. Current Research involves Inelastic Electron Tunneling Spectroscopy(IETS) of novel devices to study Phonon-Assisted Tunneling.
Salil Shashikant Mujumdar
M. S. Candidate
Expected Graduation: Summer 2011
Education: M.Sc. ,Electronic Science, University Of Pune India
Research Interests:
Device Modeling and Characterization
Alumni
Saurabh Mookerjea
sam567@psu.eduPhD, Department of Electrical Engineering, Penn State (Summer 2010)
M.S. EE, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
B.S. University of Mumbai, India
Dissertation: Band-To-Band Tunneling Field Effect Transistor For Low Power
Logic and Memory Applications: Design, Fabrication and
Characterization
Currently working for Intel Corporation, Logic Technology Development, Hillsboro,Oregon, USA
Ramakrishnan Krishnan (co-advised with Dr. Vijay Narayanan)
ruk142@psu.edu PhD, Department of Electrical Engineering, Penn State (Fall 2009)
B.S., National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India
Dissertation: Analysis of Failures in Nanoscale Devices
Currently working for TSMC, Advanced Technology Platform Group, Hsin-chu, Taiwan
Wei-Chieh Kao
wxk151@psu.edu
M.S, Department of Electrical Engineering, Penn State (Spring 2010)
B.S., B.S. Soochow University, Taipei City, Taiwan
Dissertation: Impact of Interface States on
Sub-Threshold Response of
III-V MOSFETs, MOS HEMTs AND Tunnel FETs
Currently pursuing PhD at Arizona State University
Chad Ostrowski
cao5021@psu.edu
B.S. Electrical Engineering & Engineering Science, Penn State (Fall 2009)
Dissertation: Exploration of novel heterostructures in compound semiconductors to create energy efficient tunneling transistors
Srijith Rajamohan (co-advised with Dr. Vijay Narayanan)
szr144@psu.edu
M.S, Department of Electrical Engineering, Penn State (Fall 2009)
Dissertation: A neural network based classifier based on the cell broadband engine