UCSB Professor Receives Award for Graphene Research
Electrostatic Discharge Association’s annual award recognizes innovations in graphene nanoelectronics research by Professor Kaustav Banerjee
“The ESDA research award is highly competitive and meant to recognize cutting edge research ideas that advance the field of electrostatic discharge. Professor Banerjee’s visionary proposal to investigate the electro-thermal behavior of graphene electronics is very timely and generated a lot of interest among the technical leaders in the ESD community.” said Dr. Charvaka Duvvury, Texas Instruments Fellow and a Board Member of ESDA.
The research award recognizes one outstanding researcher from academic institutes around the world for innovative research ideas in electrostatic discharge (ESD) prevention in integrated circuits and systems. ESD is a major reliability issue in the electronics industry, being the single largest cause of all integrated circuit failures. At an estimated annual loss of millions of dollars, ESD affects electronics industry production, manufacturing costs, product quality and reliability, and profitability, according to the ESDA.
“We have already carried out some high-current measurements on the graphene devices prepared by Professor Banerjee’s team and we are amazed at the current carrying capacity of a monolayer or bilayer of carbon atoms,” said Dr. Harald Gossner, Senior Principal Engineering at Intel Mobile Communications. “It also indicates the high-quality of the graphene that they are able to synthesize.”
