62 issued US patents in last 10 years (almost 1 patent every two months)

Invention of Nano-crystalline Diamond Field Emitters used for flat panel displays, nano-electronics, vacuum microelectronics, electronic coolers, high power RF devices, nano/micro-satellite thrusters and UV sensors. My 30 patents in this area are licensed to Canon and a consortium of Japanese companies for display manufacturing.

Invention of 'NanoBench', an individually addressable Carbon Nanotube Array useful for real time single molecule studies, nano-fluidics & single molecule fluidics, DNA sequencing, nanostructure synthesis, cell migration studies and study of electric field on cells/tissues.

Invention of a field emission thermoelectric cooler that has the potential of increasing the efficiency of state-of-the-art coolers by a factor of 5-10.

Independent development of aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) field emission cathodes and demonstration of electron emission at field in the 1-3 volts per micrometer range. These are useful for applications such as flat panel displays, x-ray sources and electronic coolers.

Nanotechnology, Carbon Nanotubes, Nano-crystalline Diamond Thin Films

Field Emission Cathodes and their Applications

Advanced Electronic, Semiconductor and Photonic Materials & Devices

Semiconductor Processing and Advanced Multi-Chip Module Packaging

Government Funded Research Grants (almost $10 M in last 10 years)

New Technology and IP Development

New Project and Facility Start-Up and Management

Ph.D. in Microelectronics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, June 1988.

Thesis Topic: Development of a Multi-Layer Metallization Scheme Using Titanium Nitride as a Diffusion Barrier GPA: 3.85

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, Drexel University, Oct. 1985.

Thesis Topic: A Process Control Technique for Reactive Sputtering Using Glow Discharge Mass Spectrometry GPA: 4.0

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Electrical Communications, Punjabi University, India, June, 1983 Second in University