Professor Siddharth Rajan has been appointed the inaugural faculty director of the Nanofab Facility at The Ohio State University’s Nanotech West Lab.
Prof. Rajan is an internationally renowned leader in semiconductor devices who holds the title of Distinguished Professor of Engineering, with appointments in both the Electrical and Computer Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering departments. This new appointment marks an important step in strengthening Ohio State’s leadership in advanced semiconductor research and education.
With the extraordinary growth of semiconductor activities at Ohio State in the past few years, this new role within IMR’s leadership team has multiple goals. These include enhancing the experience of the growing base of students who use the Nanofab, increasing external partnerships in semiconductor device fabrication, and helping bridge to related semiconductor fabrication facilities on campus, such as the ECE department Dreese Lab cleanroom and the NanoSystems Lab located in the Department of Physics.
In this new capacity, Prof. Rajan will work closely with Dr. John Carlin, the director of IMR’s Nanotech West Lab, which houses the Nanofab Facility.
Prof. Rajan’s primary research interests focus on gallium nitride-based semiconductors for RF communications and optoelectronics, ultrawide bandgap semiconductors for high-voltage applications, and molecular beam epitaxy. His internationally leading contributions have been central in propelling Ohio State to the forefront of semiconductor research for commercial and government applications.
Prof. Rajan also leads several efforts to transform and scale Ohio State’s education and training programs in semiconductors, work that includes supporting Intel’s strategic partnership with Ohio State. Prof. Rajan joined Ohio State in 2008 after receiving his PhD at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2006 and holding subsequent research scientist positions at both UCSB and GE Global Research.
About the Ohio State Nanofab Facility at Nanotech West Lab:
The Nanofab Facility at IMR’s Nanotech West Lab is the university’s primary and largest cleanroom facility supporting research and development of semiconductor technologies used for applications that include electronics, photonics, energy and sensing. Located on Kinnear Road within Ohio State’s Innovation District, the Nanofab houses state-of-the-art device processing capabilities within an 8,000-square-foot Class 100 cleanroom supporting hundreds of Ohio State students and faculty, and dozens of large and small companies, as well as government labs. Within Nanotech West, the Nanofab Facility benefits from co-location with several centers of related semiconductor activities. These include the Microelectronics Innovation Technology Cluster (MITEC), the Nanotech MOCVD Lab, and the Optoelectronics and Metrology Lab. More information can be found at nanotech.osu.edu.