Prof. Saurabh Lodha
Prof. Saurabh Lodha is an Institute Chair Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. He graduated from IIT Bombay in 1999 with a B. Tech (EE), followed by a Masters (ECE) and PhD (ECE) from Purdue University, USA, in 2001 and 2004, respectively. From 2005-2010 he worked at Intel Corporation in Portland, USA, on the research and development of 45, 32 and 22 nm Si CMOS technologies. He joined IIT Bombay in 2010, where he is also the Professor-in-charge of the IITB-OSU Frontier Research Center. His research interests span devices and materials in the areas of advanced CMOS technologies, 2D (opto)electronics and gallium oxide power electronics. He has been awarded the Swarna Jayanti fellowship (2017) and the Young Career Award (2020) by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. He has (co-)authored 88 peer-reviewed journal publications and 8 patents; his work has been cited more than 4500 times (h-index of 33). He is a fellow of INAE, a senior member of IEEE and has supervised 15 PhD students and 7 Postdocs.
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Post Doctoral Fellows
Dr. Siddhartha Suman
Research Area:
Power Devices, Advanced CMOS Devices
Bio:
Dr. Siddhartha Suman is currently employed as a Project Research Scientist in the Electrical Engineering department at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB). He obtained his PhD in September 2022 from the Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IITI), focusing on the structural, optical, and electrical properties of wet-chemical deposited β-Ga2O3 nanostructured films. During his PhD, he extensively worked on the wet chemical synthesis of metal oxide semiconductors. Dr. Siddhartha has contributed to the publication of 4 research articles, co-authored 6 research articles, and contributed to 3 book chapters.
Research Interests:
His research interests lie in the field of nanomaterials synthesis and device fabrication for electronics applications.
Dr. Poulomi Chakrabarty
Research Area:
2D Materials and Devices
Bio:
Poulomi is presently working with the 2D Materials and Devices group at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB) as a post-Doctoral fellow. Before joining IITB, she worked as a post-doctoral research associate at the Centre of Nanoscience and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISC), from Aug 2021 to January 2023. She completed her PhD degree in 2021 at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IITKGP), on the topic of soft-patterning and instability-mediated hybrid nanostructures for optoelectronic devices. She obtained an M. Tech in Nanoscience and Technology from Jadavpur University in 2014 and a B. Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from West Bengal University of Technology in 2012.
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Research Interests:
Her research interests include 2D material-based light-trapping optoelectronic devices.
PhD Scholars
Pooja Sharma
Research Area:
Power Devices, Advanced CMOS Devices
Bio:
Research interests:
- Design, fabrication and characterization of beta-Gallium oxide high-power devices such as Schottky diodes.
- Development of process flow for transistor fabrication on beta-Gallium oxide substrates.
Srilagna Sahoo
Research Area:
2D Materials and Devices
Bio:
Srilagna has pursued her B.Tech. in Electronics and Telecommunication from BPUT, Odisha and M.Tech in VLSI and Microsystems from IIST, Trivandrum. She joined the Electrical Engineering department, at IIT Bombay, in Jan 2020 as a PhD student.
Research Interests:
Her research work in the lab focuses on the fabrication of 2D ferroelectric material transistors for memory applications.
Prabhat Prajapati
Research Area:
Power Devices, Advanced CMOS Devices
Bio:
Since 2020, Prabhat, a skilled researcher, has worked to advance wide-bandgap semiconductor power devices at the Indian Institute of Bombay’s Electrical Engineering Department. He has an impressive academic background and was awarded a gold medal in 2018 for his outstanding work in the field of electronics at the University of Delhi’s post-graduate level. Prior to this, Prabhat held the distinction of being the top student in his Physical Science undergraduate program at Hindu College, University of Delhi, in 2015.
Research Interests:
His research focuses on wide-bandgap semiconductor materials like gallium oxide for the fabrication and characterization of power devices.
Atira Zahoor
Research Area:
2D Materials and Devices
Bio:
Research Interests:
Mayank Goyal
Research Area:
2D Materials and Devices
Bio:
Mayank Goyal completed his BS-MS dual degree course from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune in 2020 with a specialisation in Physics. He has done research internships at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA and INSP, Sorbonne University, Paris, France, which resulted in 4 co-authorships and 2 acknowledgements in reputed journal publications. He joined the PhD program in the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay through the Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme for Electronics & IT.
Research Interests:
Layered 2D material-based optoelectronic devices
Sera Sen
Research Area:
2D Materials and Devices
Bio:
Sera Sen completed her B.Sc.(H) and M.Sc. in Electronics from Rajabazar Science College, University of Calcutta, in 2018 and 2020, respectively. Later she joined as a project research associate in Electrical Engineering Department at IIT Bombay.
Research Interests:
- Wafer-scale growth of 2D materials using ALD(Atomic Layer Deposition) and CVD(Chemical Vapor Deposition) tools, followed by characterization of those wafer-scale grown materials.
- Development of process flow for transistor fabrication on ALD and CVD grown 2D materials for electrical and neuromorphic applications.