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Professor, Chandra Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Research Interests

• Flexible Electronics.
• Carbon Electronics.
• New Nanomaterials
• Nanotechnology and RF Electronics for Brain/Neurotechnology.

Professor, Chandra Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Research Interests

• MOS and nanostructure device modeling
• UHVCVD for Si-Ge-C heterostructure devices
• Ultra-shallow junction technology and process modeling

Professor, Chandra Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Research Interests

• Nanophotonic devices
• Chipscale photonics
• Single photon and photon-number resolved detectors (avalanche photodiodes)
• Entangled photon generation (designer nonlinear materials)
• Chipscale integration (epitaxial regrowth)

Assistant Professor, Chandra Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Research Interests

• Quantum optoelectronics and band structure engineering.
• Long wavelength quantum and nonlinear photonics.
• Mid-infrared and terahertz sources and detectors.
• Terahertz sensing.
• Frequency combs.

Professor, Chandra Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Research Interests

• Nano-photonic passive and active devices for bio- and EM-wave sensing and interconnect applications.
• Thin film guided-wave optical interconnection, computing and packaging for 2D and 3D laser beam routing and steering.
• True time delay (TTD) wide band phased array antenna (PAA).
• 3D printed micro-electronics and photonics.

Assistant Professor, Chandra Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Research Interests

• Integrated Photonics.
• Quantum Information.
• Nonlinear Optics.
• Hybrid quantum system.

Associate Professor, Chandra Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Research Interests

• Magnetic Logic Devices and Circuits.
• Neuromorphic Computing.
• Spintronics using 2D TMD Materials.
• Materials for Magnetic Tunnel Junctions.
• Ultra-Scaled Transistors using 2D Materials.
• New Spintronic 2D Materials

Professor, Chandra Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests

• Compound semiconductor epitaxial growth
• Optoelectronics
• High frequency/power electronics
• Passive photonics and electronics
• Quantum sensing: deterministic spin defects in scalable hosts (hBN, SiC, etc.)
• Quantum transduction: III-N alloys
• Nanowire-based optoelectronics
• Integrated photonics

Assistant Professor, Chandra Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Research Interests

• Piezoelectric micro electromechanical systems (MEMS)
• Low-loss (high Q) acoustic structure with high coupling between electrical and acoustics (high k2) at GHz
• Design, microfabrication, and testing of transducers and waveguides for quantum/photonic platforms, e.g., suspended thin films (lithium niobate, scandium aluminum nitride), and solidly mounted thin films (lithium niobate on sapphire and lithium niobate on silicon carbide)

Professor, Chandra Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Research Interests

• Design automation for digital/analog/mixed-signal ICs and systems
• Design for manufacturability/reliability/security
• Machine learning and hardware acceleration
• Optical computing and interconnect
• CAD for emerging technologies and applications
• Vertical integration of architecture, CAD/circuit, and technology

Assistant Professor, Chandra Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Research Interests

• Superconducting quantum circuits
• Quantum circuits with super/semi hybrid Josephson junctions
• Ultra-low-noise microwave amplifiers
• Quantum simulation and quantum error-correction experiments with bosonic systems

Professor, Chandra Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Research Interests

• Rotationally Controlled van der Waals Heterosturctures.
• Controlled Moiré Patterns of 2D Materials.
• Resonant Tunneling and Exciton Condensates in Double Layers of 2D Materials.
• Growth of Germanium, Silicon Nanowires and Core-Shell Heterostructures.

Professor, Chandra Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Research Interests

• Enhancing light-matter interaction from visible to THz wavelengths
• Quantum engineering of epitaxial materials: superlattices, quantum nanostructures, heterostructure engineering.
• Photonic integrated circuits and nonlinear photonics for on-chip optoelectronics on Si substrates
• Photonic funnels, plasmonics, and metamaterials for nanoscale light confinement and optical probes
• High efficiency, low-SWaP semiconductor lasers, detectors, modulators and sensors across the EM spectrum.
• Opto-mechanical systems for hierarchical transduction: thermal-optical-electronic-mechanical.

Professor, Chandra Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Research Interests

• Semiconductor materials and solid-state nanostructures: Strain engineering in semiconductors; Quantum light emission; Renewable energy (PV, PEC); Resistive switching phenomena
• Nanoscale materials characterization: Proximal probe techniques for electronic, optical, thermal, electromechanical characterization at the nanoscale.
• Large-area, nanoscale patterning by self-assembly patterning with <100nm resolution; new self-assembly techniques enable patterning speeds of >200 cm2/min;
• Broadband, omnidirectional anti-reflective surfaces, structural color, nanoparticle-based materials, physically unclonable structures, etc.

Professor, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

Research Interests

• Orbital Mechanics, Perturbations, and Orbit Determination
• Space Geodesy (Earth's Shape, Orientation & Gravity Field)
• Modeling, Determination and Interpretation of Gravity Field
• Space Mission Design
• Data Processing and Numerical Methods

Assistant Professor, Chandra Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests

• Analog/Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits

• Inductive, Ultrasonic, and Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting

• Implantable and Wearable Biomedical Devices

• Miniature Neural Interface Implants