Professor Prabhakar R. Bandaru
Address:
Room 258, Engineering 2
Department
of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
9500 Gilman Drive, Mailcode 0411
La Jolla, CA 92093-0411
Phone:
(858) 534 – 5325 (Office), (858) 822-4775 (Lab.) (858) 534-2437 (Lab.)
Fax: (858)
534 – 5698
e-mail:
pbandaru@ucsd.edu
Prab Bandaru is
presently a Professor in the Mechanical
Engineering Department, at U.C. San Diego. He is also affiliated to the Electrical and Computer Engineering and the
Nanoengineering departments at UCSD. His research group is mainly interested in
topics related to electrochemical energy storage, control of thermal
energy, and fluid flow at the nanoscale. The basis of the underlying
investigations is materials physics and chemistry, invoking the electrical,
optical, and thermal properties of materials at the mesoscopic and microscopic
levels. The group investigates
various applications which include information processing and storage and
sensors.
Significant honors:
- specifically cited for achievements in Nano-electronics,
2006
Work history and background:
Subsequent to undergraduate study
at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, Prab Bandaru received his
Ph.D. at UC, Berkeley, with a graduate thesis in the thermodynamics of
magneto-optical materials, under the supervision of Prof. Tim Sands (Materials
Science) and Prof. Alan Portis (Physics). He later studied ferroelectric
materials for non-volatile random access memories (NV-RAMs) in the Silicon
Valley (Applied Materials Inc., Santa Clara). Prior to his arrival as an
Assistant Professor at UC, San Diego, Prab Bandaru was a post-doctoral fellow
in the Electrical Engineering department at UC, Los Angeles, with Prof. Eli
Yablonovitch, where he studied nano-fabrication techniques, low temperature
solid state science, and Si-Ge nanophotonics.
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