Sanjay Banerjee is an American engineer at the

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, Microelectronics Research Center, and director of the Southwest Academy of Nanoelectronics (SWAN) — one of three such centers in the United States funded by the

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to develop a replacement for

MOSFET upright=1.3, Two power MOSFETs in amperes">A in the ''on'' state, dissipating up to about 100 watt">W and controlling a load of over 2000 W. A matchstick is pictured for scale. In electronics, the metal–oxide–semiconductor field- ...

s as part of their Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI).

Career

Banerjee has supervised over 60 Ph.D. students and 70 M.S. students at the University of Texas, where he is the Cockrell Family Regents Chair Professor.

Research

In 1986, he was awarded Best Paper at the IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference for work on polysilicon transistors and dynamic random access trench memory cells used by

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in the world's first 4 Megabit

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. He demonstrated the first three-terminal MOS tunnel FET as well as the first high-k dielectric/silicon-germanium quantum dot gates for flash memory. He is active in the areas of beyond CMOS nanoelectronic transistors based on 2D materials and

spintronics Spintronics (a portmanteau meaning spin transport electronics), also known as spin electronics, is the study of the intrinsic spin of the electron and its associated magnetic moment, in addition to its fundamental electronic charge, in solid-st ...

, fabrication and modeling of advanced

s, and

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Publications

He has over 650 archival refereed journal publications and conference talks, and he holds 30 U.S. patents. He is co-author with former Dean of the

Cockrell School of Engineering The Cockrell School of Engineering is one of the eighteen colleges within The University of Texas at Austin. It has more than 8,000 students enrolled in eleven undergraduate and thirteen graduate programs. Annual research expenditures are over $26 ...

Ben G. Streetman of the textbook Solid State Electronic Devices, currently in its 7th edition.

Honors and awards

Banerjee was elected Fellow of the

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in 1996, Fellow of the

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in 2006, and Fellow of the

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in 2007. His awards include the 2014 IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award, the 2008

Billy and Claude R. Hocott Distinguished Centennial Engineering Research Award, the 2005

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur or IIT-KGP) is a public institute of technology, research university, and autonomous institute established by the Government of India in Kharagpur, West Bengal. Founded in 1951, the in ...

Distinguished Alumnus Award, the 2003

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Thomas D. Callinan Award, the 2000

IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) organization, 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and other related disciplines. The IEEE ...

Millennium Medal, and the 1988

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for high speed optoelectronic devices and VLSI structures by laser enhanced

molecular beam epitaxy Molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE) is an epitaxy method for thin-film deposition of single crystals. MBE is widely used in the manufacture of semiconductor devices, including transistors. MBE is used to make diodes and MOSFETs (MOS field-effect transis ...

References

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