Sanjay Banerjee is an American engineer at the

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, director of Microelectronics Research Center, and director of the Southwest Academy of Nanoelectronics (SWAN) — one of three such centers in the United States funded by the Semiconductor Research Corporation to develop a replacement for

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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-sta ...

, fabrication and modeling of advanced

s, and

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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 American Physical Society in 2006, and Fellow of the

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

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

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Distinguished Alumnus Award, the 2003

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Thomas D. Callinan Award, the 2000

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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, and it is considered one of the fundamental tools for the devel ...

References

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