Supratik Guha is an Indian–American materials scientist. Guha graduated from the

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur) is a public institute of technology established by the Government of India in Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. Established in 1951, the institute is the first of the IITs to be established ...

in 1985 and earned a doctorate in materials science from the

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in 1991. Between 1995 and 2015, he worked for IBM. He headed the Center for Nanoscale Materials from 2015 to 2019. After vacating the directorship, Guha remained a senior adviser to

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and on the faculty of the

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. Guha was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2009, " r his leadership in semiconductor materials and devices and, in particular, for providing the scientific and technological underpinnings of the high dielectric constant gate stack scheduled to replace the venerable silicon dioxide gate film in

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products in IBM." In 2015, Guha was cited " r contributions to field-effect transistor technology that allow continued scaling of silicon microelectronics" in his election to the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Guha, Supratik Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Indian emigrants to the United States University of Chicago faculty Indian materials scientists American materials scientists Fellows of the American Physical Society Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering IBM people University of Southern California alumni IIT Kharagpur alumni Argonne National Laboratory people