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FACULTY

IMG Not availableProf. Manuel Quevedo, Professor
Prof. Manuel Quevedo received a B.S. in Chemistry (1996) and a M.S. Materials Science (1998) in Mexico. He received his PhD in Materials Science from the University of North Texas (2002). In 2002 he joined Texas Instruments Silicon Technology Development Group as a Member of Technical Staff (MTS) in the 65 nm node. While at Texas Instruments he was appointed SEMATECH assigned from 2004-2006. In April 2007 He joined the University of Texas as Dallas as Senior Research Scientist and in September 2012 he was appointed Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He has authored or co-authored over 200 publications in peer reviewed journals and proceedings and holds 10 US patents.







IMG Not availableProf. Bruce Gnade, Professor and VP for Research
Prof. Bruce Gnade received his BA in Chemistry from St. Louis University in 1976 and his Ph.D. in Nuclear Chemistry from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1982. He is currently the Vice President for Research and the Distinguished Chair in Microelectronics at the University of Texas at Dallas. He managed several research and technology groups during his 14 years at Texas Instruments. From 1996-1999 he was on a temporary assignment at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as a program manager. His current research interests focus on flexible electronics, and nanostructured devices and materials for electronic applications. He has authored/co-authored approximately 160 refereed journal papers, 70 U.S. patents and 55 foreign patents.









SENIOR PERSONNEL

IMG Not availableDr. Israel Mejia, Research Associate
Dr. Mejia was born in Mexico City, Mexico in 1981. He received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the “National Polytechnique Institute” in Mexico City in 2003 with distinctions. He received his Masters and Ph. D Science degrees from CINVESTAV-Mexico City in 2006 and 2010, respectively. In 2010, he joined The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) as a Research Scientist for the Materials Science and Engineering Department. He has been leading the design, fabrication and characterization of novel electronic devices and circuits using alternative materials to silicon towards their implementation in low-cost, flexible and large area electronics applications. Dr. Mejia’s research is supported by The National Science Foundation (NSF), The Air Force Office of Sponsored Research (AFOSR), Defense Advanced Research Projects (DARPA), Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO), CONACyT, Texas Instruments, Bosch, Microsol Electronics and Nanoholdings LLC.





IMG Not availableDr. Wencel De La Cruz, Research Associate
I was born in Santa Marta, Colombia. I work as researcher for the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México at the Centro de Nanociencia y Nanotecnología located in Ensenada, Baja California. I started a sabbatical year in University of Texas at Dallas in the Flexible Electronics Group, in August 1st of 2015. I am developing novel thin films as p-type semiconducting materials for flexible electronics applications. This work will result in the development p-type TFTs that is an urgently needed area in flexible electronics to enable complementary metal oxide devices. The techniques that I am using to synthesize thin films are: Sputtering and Pulsed Laser Deposition.








IMG Not availableDr. Fernando Ely, Research Associate
Dr. Fernando Ely graduated with a Ph.D. in organic chemistry 2004 from UFSC – Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil) after receiving a M.Sc. in organic chemistry degree from the same university and his B.S. degree in chemistry from UFRGS – Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). His master and Ph.D. work emphasized the synthesis of ferroelectric and chiral liquid crystals for displays application. Dr. Ely is full technologist at CTI´s IC Packaging Lab coordinating research projects in the following areas plastic and organic electronics, third generation solar cells, nanomaterials and processes in micro and nanoeletronics.

Currently Dr. Ely is visiting researcher at Flexible Electronics group working on neutron detection system based on nanoparticle composites.

In this project is proposed the development of a neutron detector system that includes a sensing diode comprising a p-type polymer + electron acceptor + 157Gd neutron sensitive nanoparticle and a converter layer composed by 10B embedded. The system is a solid-state detector called Converter in Diode (CID) and it employs neutron-induced reactions to release detectable ionizing radiation. Our approach also aims to integrate the developed neutron detection system with flexible complementary metal oxide semiconductor (Flex-CMOS) on the same substrate, enabling large-area neutron imaging.



IMG Not availableDr. Amitava Chatterjee, Research Associate
Amitava Chatterjee was awarded a PhD in Electrical Engineering by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, in 1985. From 1985 till 2012, he worked at Texas Instruments on various aspects of CMOS technology and transistor miniaturization. In 2006, he was elected to the rank of Texas Instruments Fellow. His TI Fellow citation reads: “For his contributions to CMOS process integration, electrostatic discharge protection, and semiconductor device modeling.” During 2013, he was employed by PDF Solutions where he was a PDF Fellow working on yield improvement in Globalfoundries’ 14 nm FinFET and 20 nm planar CMOS technologies. Since 2014, Dr. Chatterjee is affiliated to the University of Texas at Dallas where he has taught junior and senior undergraduate courses on engineering mathematics, electrical network analysis, and electronic devices.

Dr. Chatterjee has published 82 journal and conference publications and holds 75 US patents. He has served as an Associate Editor (2001 – 2010) and then as the Editor-in-Chief (2012 – 2015) of IEEE Electron Device Letters. In 2010 IEEE elevated his membership to the grade of Fellow citing him “For contributions to CMOS device technology and on-chip electrostatic discharge protection.”




IMG Not availableDr Harvey Steiger, Senior Research Associate
Dr. Harvey Stiegler received the B.S.E.E. degree from Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, in 1973 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, both from Rice University, Houston, TX, in 1985 and 1989, respectively. After graduation from Texas Tech, he served in the U.S. Air Force until joining Texas Instruments (TI) Incorporated in 1979. At TI he was primarily involved in the development of nonvolatile memory products and dynamic RAM as well as analog and mixed signal products as a Design Engineer and Design Manager. He was elected TI Senior Member, Technical Staff, in 1993. In 2009 he joined the University of Texas at Dallas as a Research Scientist in Materials Science and Engineering. He is a member of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science








Dr. Richard (Dick) Chapman

Dr. Rodolfo Garcia

FORMER SENIOR PERSONNEL

IMG Not availableDr. M. Singh, Research Associate (IIT, India)
Dr. Singh received his Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2005. His doctoral work produced the first systematic theoretical / numerical Monte Carlo explanations of the collapse of transconductance with scaling in III-V nitride HFETs. While at Michigan, he also received two M. S. degrees in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering. Dr. Singh received his undergraduate integrated Masters degree in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (first in class) with a best final year project in designing measurements of AC magnetic susceptibility in perovskites exhibiting giant magnetoresistance, and the theoretical discovery of a new quantum scale for electron localization in core-shell nanocrystallites. Dr. Singh was previously a postdoc at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2005-2007. He is a co-discoverer of extrafluorescence in organic light emitting diodes through modification of charge transfer states and was a part of the first team to exhibit plasmon enhancement of organic solar cell efficiencies









IMG Not availableDr. Amanda Carrillo, Research Associate (Faculty at Univ. of Juarez)
I am from Mexico. I finished  my Bachelor of Chemical Sciences degree from Coahuila University, Coahuila Mexico in 2005, major in Ceramic Materials. After that I continued my graduate studies in the same University working on Synthesis and characterization of hybrid materials by sol-gel process and completed my PhD in May 2010. Since august 2010 I have been working on my post-doc in The University of Texas at Dallas. My research is to develop Chemical bath deposition processes for chalcogenide thin film transistors.








IMG Not availableDr. Isaac Trachtenberg, Sr. Research Associate (Retired)
I received B.A. from Rice University, M.S. and Ph.D. from Louisiana State University (LSU) Authored and/or coauthored more than 60 technical paper and 12 patents. I began my career served 21 months in the U.S. Army Chemical Corp at Pine Bluff Arsenal providing technical support for the manufacture of munitions. Prepared custom munitions for special tests. Worked for the American Oil (AMOCO) Company for 3.5 years on improving octane values for gasoline. I was promoted to group leader after two and a half years and also served on two corporate committees. I then worked for Texas Instruments for almost 30 years. I worked in the Central Research Labs on fuel cells, batteries, material characteristics and process control. I then served as manager of Semiconductor quality and reliability assurance for 4.5 years. Fallowing that I returned to CRL to work with Jack Kilby on solar energy project for 4 years. Became the first TI Professor for 5 years in the Chemical Engineering Dept. at The University of Texas in Austin. After retiring from TI I became a full tenured professor. I was the given The Paul D. and Betty Robinson Meek Centennial Professor in Chemical Engineering. Worked a total of 16 years and graduate 14 Ph.D.s and 3 Master students. I worked for 16 years in Austin teaching several short courses to various electronic companies. Currently I am a part time mentor for graduate students researching novel electronic devices in the Material Science and Engineering Department in The University of Texas at Dallas.


IMG Not availableDr. Norberto Hernandez (Faculty at IPN-Mexico)
I am from Mexico. I received my Bachelor of Engineering degree from Oaxaca Institute of Technology, Oaxaca, Mexico in 2006, major in Communications. Since 2007 I have been working on my Ph.D degree in The Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute. My research is to simulate, design, develop and characterize a-Si:H/c-Si heterojunction solar cells. I was working at The University of Texas at Dallas on transparent conductive oxides for solar cells.









Dr. Amelia Olivas - Faculty at CNYN-UNAM

Dr. Jorge Conde - Faculty at Univ. of Chiapas

Dr. Maria Elena Nicho - Faculty at Univ. Aut. Morelos

Dr. Kurtis Cantley - Faculty at Boise State