Dr. J. 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. His current interests include novel devices based on low-dimensional nano-materials as nanowires, nanotubes and graphene.
A selection of published articles from the last five years can be found here.
Josh Smith received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University, graduating summa cum laude in December 2004, and began attending Purdue as a PhD student in early 2006. Currently supported as a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow, his research interests involve experimental realization of high performance nanoscale devices for future nanoelectronic applications.
Ali Razavieh received his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from
Shiraz University in Iran. He also received his Master's degree in Physics
from Ball State University. He started his Doctoral studies in the School
of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University in the Fall of
2006. His research interests involve design and fabrication of nanoscale
devices and circuits.
Sahil Mohan Bansal completed his undergraduate degree in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, India in the year 2006. He worked on devices insensitive to temperature gradients during his undergraduate program. Currently he is pursuing his Doctoral Studies in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA and is interested in the field of nanoscale device fabrication. He is working on making nanoscale devices using a mono-layer of graphene.
Saptarshi completed his undergraduate degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Jadavpur University, India. There, he worked on nanosensors and transport through novel nanoelectronics devices. His PhD interests include the experimental realization of Low power transistors with negative capacitors.
Hong-Yan Chen received a BS in Electronics Engineering from National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, and completed Master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in Purdue University in 2007. Her PhD research interests are on novel nanoscale CNT devices.
Dr. Yang Sui received his B.S. and M.S. degrees both in Materials Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) and Iowa State University (Ames, Iowa) in 2000 and 2002. He received his Ph.D. degree in February 2007 in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana). His doctoral thesis focuses on design, simulation and fabrication of SiC power switching devices. Dr. Sui is currently working as a post-doctoral research associate on graphene nanoelectronic devices.
Drew Candebat received the BS of Engineering degree from the University of Tennessee at Martin, USA, in 2008. He is currently a PhD student at Purdue University. His focus is developing III-V nanowires to access intrinsic effects that occur in the quantum mechanical regime for improved, room temperature transistor operation.
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Caitlin Burger received her BS in Mathematics and Applied Physics from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania in 2006. There, she worked on the fabrication of organic light emitting diodes. She joined Purdue’s School of Materials Science and Engineering in 2006. Currently, she is supported as a GAANN Fellow. Her PhD work includes the growth and characterization of thin film perovskite structured ferroelectric oxides.
Tony Low obtains his PhD in electrical engineering from the National University of Singapore, where he works on the theory and modeling of electronic transport and band-structure of semiconductor quantum well. He is currently a post-doctoral associate at Purdue University, working on the physics and modeling of graphene devices, with the aim to explain experimental phenomena and to propose new and improved device concepts. His other research interests includes spintronics, band-structure calculation, magneto-transport and percolation.
