Professor Prabhakar R. Bandaru
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Department of
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
9500 Gilman Drive, Mailcode 0411
La Jolla, CA 92093-0411
Phone: (858) 534 – 5325 (Office),
(858) 822-4775 (Lab.) Fax: (858)
534 – 5698,
e-mail: pbandaru@ucsd.edu
Prab Bandaru is currently an Associate Professor of
Materials Science, in the Mechanical Engineering Department, at U.C. San Diego. His research group is mainly interested
in materials physics and chemistry, broadly looking at 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.
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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