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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2015 - IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award “For contributions to nano-materials, devices, circuits, and CAD, enabling lowpower and low-cost electronics.”
  • 2012 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to modeling and design of nanoscale integrated circuit interconnects

Overview

Kaustav Banerjee is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with a significant emphasis on Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry as subfields. Additional subfields include Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Inorganic Chemistry.

Their work covers various topics including:

  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Semiconductor materials and devices
  • Ferroelectric and Negative Capacitance Devices
  • Graphene research and applications
  • Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
  • MXene and MAX Phase Materials
  • Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design

Several recent papers illustrate the scope of their research contributions. Notable publications include:

  • "The future transistors," published in 2023 in Nature
  • "Defect and strain engineering of monolayer WSe2 enables site-controlled single-photon emission up to 150 K," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Is negative capacitance FET a steep-slope logic switch?" 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Quantum-Engineered Devices Based on 2D Materials for Next-Generation Information Processing and Storage," 2022, Advanced Materials
  • "One-Dimensional Edge Contacts to Two-Dimensional Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides: Uncovering the Role of Schottky-Barrier Anisotropy in Charge Transport across MoS2/Metal Interfaces," 2021, Physical Review Applied

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kaustav Banerjee include:

  • Wei Cao
  • Arnab Pal
  • Kamyar Parto
  • Kunjesh Agashiwala
  • Chao-Hui Yeh

Their research has appeared repeatedly in the following publication venues:

  • Nature Communications (4 publications)
  • IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (4 publications)
  • Nature (2 publications)
  • MRS Bulletin (2 publications)
  • Advanced Materials (1 publication)

In terms of recognition, Kaustav Banerjee's awards include:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2016
  • IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award, 2015, for contributions to nano-materials, devices, circuits, and CAD enabling low-power and low-cost electronics
  • IEEE Fellow, 2012, for contributions to modeling and design of nanoscale integrated circuit interconnects

Best Publications

  • Electrical contacts to two-dimensional semiconductors

    Adrien Allain;Jiahao Kang;Kaustav Banerjee;Andras Kis

  • 3-D ICs: a novel chip design for improving deep-submicrometer interconnect performance and systems-on-chip integration

    K. Banerjee;S.J. Souri;P. Kapur;K.C. Saraswat

  • Role of metal contacts in designing high-performance monolayer n-type WSe2 field effect transistors.

    Wei Liu;Jiahao Kang;Deblina Sarkar;Yasin Khatami

  • MoS2 Field-Effect Transistor for Next-Generation Label-Free Biosensors

    Deblina Sarkar;Wei Liu;Xuejun Xie;Aaron C. Anselmo

  • A subthermionic tunnel field-effect transistor with an atomically thin channel.

    Deblina Sarkar;Xuejun Xie;Wei Liu;Wei Cao

  • Computational Study of Metal Contacts to Monolayer Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Semiconductors

    Jiahao Kang;Wei Liu;Deblina Sarkar;Debdeep Jena

  • Interconnect limits on gigascale integration (GSI) in the 21st century

    J.A. Davis;R. Venkatesan;A. Kaloyeros;M. Beylansky

  • Carbon Nanomaterials for Next-Generation Interconnects and Passives: Physics, Status, and Prospects

    Hong Li;Chuan Xu;N. Srivastava;K. Banerjee

  • Two-dimensional van der Waals materials

    Pulickel Ajayan;Philip Kim;Kaustav Banerjee

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  • Circuit Modeling and Performance Analysis of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube Interconnects

    Hong Li;Wen-Yan Yin;K. Banerjee;Jun-Fa Mao

  • Modeling, Analysis, and Design of Graphene Nano-Ribbon Interconnects

    Chuan Xu;Hong Li;K. Banerjee

  • A power-optimal repeater insertion methodology for global interconnects in nanometer designs

    K. Banerjee;A. Mehrotra

  • High-performance MoS2 transistors with low-resistance molybdenum contacts

    Jiahao Kang;Wei Liu;Kaustav Banerjee

  • Steep Subthreshold Slope n- and p-Type Tunnel-FET Devices for Low-Power and Energy-Efficient Digital Circuits

    Y. Khatami;K. Banerjee

  • Synthesis of high-quality monolayer and bilayer graphene on copper using chemical vapor deposition

    Wei Liu;Hong Li;Chuan Xu;Yasin Khatami

  • Functionalization of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides with Metallic Nanoparticles: Implications for Doping and Gas-Sensing

    Deblina Sarkar;Xuejun Xie;Jiahao Kang;Haojun Zhang

  • Performance analysis of carbon nanotube interconnects for VLSI applications

    N. Srivastava;K. Banerjee

  • 2D Semiconductor FETs—Projections and Design for Sub-10 nm VLSI

    Wei Cao;Jiahao Kang;Deblina Sarkar;Wei Liu

  • Vertical Si-Nanowire $n$ -Type Tunneling FETs With Low Subthreshold Swing ( $\leq \hbox{50}\ \hbox{mV/decade}$ ) at Room Temperature

    R Gandhi;Zhixian Chen;N Singh;K Banerjee

  • Compact AC Modeling and Performance Analysis of Through-Silicon Vias in 3-D ICs

    Chuan Xu;Hong Li;R Suaya;K Banerjee

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert W. Dutton
Robert W. Dutton Stanford University
Adrian M. Ionescu
Adrian M. Ionescu École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Chenming Hu
Chenming Hu University of California, Berkeley
Krishna C. Saraswat
Krishna C. Saraswat Stanford University
Kazuhiko Endo
Kazuhiko Endo National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Vivek De
Vivek De Intel (United States)
Pulickel M. Ajayan
Pulickel M. Ajayan Rice University
Navab Singh
Navab Singh Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Kenneth E. Goodson
Kenneth E. Goodson Stanford University
Massoud Pedram
Massoud Pedram University of Southern California

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