Prof. Krishna Saraswat honored with Prof. L K Maheshwari Foundation Distinguished Alumnus Award 2011
Prof. Krishna Saraswat (1963-1968), the Rickey Nielsen Professor in the School of Engineering &
Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University has been honored with the Prof. L K Maheshwari Foundation Distinguished Alumnus Award for 2011. Prof. Saraswat received his B.E. degree in
Electronics in 1968 from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science,
Pilani, India, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering
in 1969 and 1974 respectively from Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
Professor Saraswat stayed at Stanford as a researcher and was appointed
Professor of Electrical Engineering in 1983. He serves on the leadership
council of the MARCO/DARPA-funded Focus Center for Materials,
Structures, and nano-Devices. He also has an honorary appointment of an
Adjunct Professor at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science,
Pilani, India since January 2004 and a Visiting Professor during the
summer of 2007 at IIT Bombay, India. Since 2011, Prof. Saraswat also serves on BITS Pilani's Alumni Advisory Council advising and providing consultative inputs to the Vice Chancellor and the BITS
Leadership on issues such as: (1) Academic curriculum, (2) Practice
School/WILP Program, (3) Research Directions, (4) Infrastructure
modernization and provide an independent view of BITS's standing among
Global Universities.
Professor Saraswat's research interests
are in new and innovative materials, structures, and process technology
of silicon, germanium and III-V devices and interconnects for VLSI and
nanoelectronics. Special areas of his interest are: new device
structures to continue scaling MOS transistors, DRAMs and flash memories
to nanometer regime, 3-dimentional ICs with multiple layers of
heterogeneous devices, ultrathin MOS gate dielectrics, and metal and
optical interconnections.
Prof. Saraswat has graduated 70 doctoral students and has authored or
co-authored over 620 technical papers, of which six have received Best
Paper Award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and a member of both The
Electrochemical Society and The Materials Research Society. He received
the Thomas Callinan Award from The Electrochemical Society in 2000 for
his contributions to the dielectric science and technology, the 2004
IEEE Andrew Grove Award for seminal contributions to silicon process
technology, Inventor Recognition Award from MARCO/FCRP in 2007 and the
Technovisionary Award from the India Semiconductor Association in 2007.
He is listed by ISI as one of the 250 Highly Cited Authors in his field.
The Prof. LK Maheshwari Foundation has instituted "Professor L K Maheshwari
Distinguished Alumnus Award in EEE
& Instrumentation" since 2010 to recognize and honor BITS Alumnus
graduated from BITS, Pilani campus with a degree in the area of Electrical,
Electronics or Instrumentation and has accomplished a good name at the National
or International level towards contribution in the advancement in the field.
This award provides an opportunity for the awardees to interact, motivate and show a
pathway to young budding engineers and technologists pursuing degree programs
in the area of EEE and Instrumentation from BITS Pilani.
On the eve of his retirement as our Vice Chancellor, Prof. L K Maheshwari announced the creation of a Foundation to promote the cause of education and research in the field of Electronics
and Instrumentation engineering and other allied areas. The goal of this
foundation is to promote education and research in BITS, Pilani by awarding scholarships to
students and faculty, arranging technical seminars and talks to promote
the disciplines of EEE and Instrumentation on a regular basis and
identify to award medals to meritorious students every year.
The trust is managed by a board of trustees who are primarily officers and alumni of BITS, Pilani. It is led by Prof. V K Chaubey, Head of the EE&I Department at BITS Pilani as its Secretary. In keeping with the great love and affection shown by BITSian's to LKM, the Foundation has received substantial alumni contribution. BITS Pilani Alumni Association (BITSAA) International has tied up with the Foundation to enable alumni in the US to contribute to the Foundation through it. If you would like to know more or contribute, please visit - http://www.bitsaa.org/lkm
The Awards were conducted following a nomination process open to all alumni over a 6-month period. If you would like to nominate someone, for the next award - please visit: http://www.bitsaa.org/?dist_alumnus
More About Prof. Krishna Saraswat - From: Website During 1969-70, he worked on microwave transistors at Texas
Instruments. Returning to Stanford in 1971, he did his Ph.D. on high
voltage MOS devices and circuits. After graduating he joined Stanford
University as a Research Associate in 1975 and later became a Professor
of Electrical Engineering in 1983. For the next 15 years, Prof.
Saraswat worked on modeling of CVD of silicon, conduction in
polysilicon, diffusion in silicides, contact resistance, interconnect
delay and 2-D oxidation effects in silicon. He pioneered the
technologies for aluminum/titanium layered interconnects, CVD of
tungsten silicide MOS gates, CVD tungsten MOS gates and tunable
workfunction SiGe MOS gates. During the late 80's he became interested
in the economics and technology of single wafer manufacturing. He
developed equipment and simulators for single wafer thermal processing,
deposition and etching and technology for the in-situ measurements and
real-time control. Jointly with Texas Instruments a microfactory for
single wafer manufacturing was demonstrated in 1993. Since the mid 90's
Prof. Saraswat has been working on new materials, devices and
interconnects for scaling MOS technology to sub-10 nm regime. He has
pioneered several new concepts of 3-D ICs with multiple layers of
heterogeneous devices. His group has recently demonstrated the first
high performance germanium MOSFETs with high-k dielectrics and high
efficiency optical detectors in germanium integrated on silicon. During
2000-2008 he also did research on Environmentally Benign Semiconductor
Manufacturing.
Prof. Saraswat has been active in BITSAA Silicon Valley mentoring its leadership. Prof. Saraswat was also highly supportive of the 1st BITSAA Global Meet (2011, New Delhi) conducted jointly by BITS Pilani, BITSAA International and BITSAA Delhi. Hear Prof. Saraswat encouraging alumni to come for the 1st Global Meet.
Hear Prof. Maheshwari's Farewell Adress to BITSian's
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alumni of BITS, Pilani. It is led by Prof. V K Chaubey, Head of the EE&I Department at BITS Pilani as its Secretary. In keeping with the great love and affection shown by BITSian's to LKM, the Foundation has received substantial alumni contribution. BITS Pilani Alumni Association (BITSAA) International has tied up with the Foundation to enable alumni in the US to contribute to the Foundation through it. If you would like to know more or contribute, please visit -