Nanoelectronics: an Overview

After completing his B.E. from the University of Mysore and M.Tech. from I.I.T. Bombay, Professor Bhat did his Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1996. He then worked at Motorola's Networking and Computing Systems Group in Austin, TX. He joined the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1999 where he is currently a Professor in the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering and Electrical Communication Engineering department. His current research is focused Nano-CMOS technology and Integrated CMOS-MEMS sensors. He has received the Young Engineer Award (2003) from INAE, Swarnajayanti fellowship (2005) from the DST and Prof. Satish Dhavan award (2005) from the Govt. of Karnataka. He is also the recipient of IBM Faculty award 2007. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Electron Devices Society. He is the Chairman of the Human Resource Development and Infrastructure committee of the National Program on Micro and Smart Systems.