Supriyo Datta (born 1954) is an Indian born American

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. A leading figure in the modeling and understanding of nano-scale electronic conduction, he has been called "one of the most original thinkers in the field of nanoscale electronics." As an author, his books are widely used as original research and design work in the field of

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Early life and education

Dr. Datta did his schooling from Hindi High School in

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. He was first in the whole

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exam in 1970. Datta received his

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with the President of India gold medal from the

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Kharagpur Kharagpur () is a planned urban agglomeration and a major industrial city in Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal, India. It is the headquarters of the Kharagpur subdivision. It is the largest, most populated, multicultural and cosmopol ...

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in 1975. He then received both his MS and PhD from the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univ ...

in 1977 and 1979 respectively. In 1981, he joined

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, where he is (since 1999) the Thomas Duncan Distinguished Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering.

Career

He started his career in the field of ultrasonics and was selected by the Ultrasonics group as its outstanding young engineer to receive an

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Centennial Key to the Future Award and by the ASEE to receive the Terman Award for his book on

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Devices. Since 1985 he has focused on nanoscale electronic devices and has contributed through his foundational work on (1) quantum transport, (2) spintronics and (3) negative capacitance electronics. (1) Quantum transport: In a series of papers between 1985 and 1995 his group demonstrated how the ''non-equilibrium

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'' (NEGF) formalism used by many-body physicists for uniform conductors could be extended to model electronic devices which are non-uniform and have contacts. He made this work broadly accessible through his book Electronic Transport in Mesoscopic Physics, Cambridge (1995), which is now considered a classic with 10,000+ citations. Between 1995 and 2005 his group combined his earlier NEGF approach with an atomistic Hamiltonian, to establish a conceptual and computational framework that is used by quantum chemists in molecular electronics, and is also the basis for modern quantum transport simulation tools routinely used in the semiconductor industry. He made this work broadly accessible through his book Quantum Transport: Atom to Transistor, Cambridge (2005). Between 2005 and 2015 his group developed approaches for analyzing spin-based devices and circuits that incorporate them. This work along with a new perspective on transport is described in his book Lessons from Nanoelectronics, World Scientific (2015). (2) Spintronics: In 1990 he proposed, the use of spin-orbit coupling to control electron spin with an electric field rather than a magnetic field. This was experimentally demonstrated in 1997 and is widely used in the field of spintronics. This "proposal planted the idea that spin could be used in its own right as a means to carry and manipulate information — and gave birth to the new field of spintronics.", (3) Negative capacitance electronics: In 2008, along with Sayeef Salahuddin he proposed the concept of negative capacitance devices, which is now considered a prime candidate for reducing dissipation and extending Moore's law.

Awards

In 2012 he was elected as a member into the

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(NAE) for quantum transport modeling in nanoscale electronic devices. In 2011 he received the

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. He is a

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of the

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(APS) as well as the

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(IEEE) and has received two IEEE technical field awards: the 2002

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, and the 2008 IEEE Leon Kirchmayer Award. He is included in Purdue's Book of Great Teachers and won the "Herbert Newby McCoy Award" and the "Morrill Award" given by

. He received the

Frederick Emmons Terman Award Frederick Emmons Terman (; June 7, 1900 – December 19, 1982) was an American professor and academic administrator. He was the dean of the school of engineering from 1944 to 1958 and provost from 1955 to 1965 at Stanford University. He is widely ...

from the

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in 1994, and the

Presidential Young Investigator Award The Presidential Young Investigator Award (PYI) was awarded by the National Science Foundation of the United States Federal Government. The program operated from 1984 to 1991, and was replaced by the NSF Young Investigator (NYI) Awards and Presiden ...

from the

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, 1984.

Books

*''Lessons from Nanoelectronics'' * ''Quantum Transport: Atom to Transistor'' *''Electronic Transport in Mesoscopic Systems'': Cambridge Studies in Semiconductor Physics and Microelectronic Engineering *''Quantum Phenomena'':Modular Series on Solid State Devices, Vol 8 *''Surface Acoustic Wave Devices''

Online Lectures

* youtub
A Different Perspective on NEGF
* nanoHU
A Different Perspective on NEGF

Online Courses

* Purdue-X cours
Fundamentals of Current Flow
* Purdue-X cours
Introduction to Quantum Transport
* Purdue-X cours
Boltzmann Law: Physics to Computing
* nanoHUB-U cours
Fundamentals of Current Flow
* nanoHUB-U cours
Introduction to Quantum Transport
* nanoHUB-U cours
Boltzmann Law: Physics to Computing

References

External links

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