Prof. Deep Jariwala, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Nanomaterials for Low-Power Electronics and Strong Light-Matter Coupling
Deep Jariwala is an Associate Professor and the Peter & Susanne Armstrong Distinguished Scholar in Electrical and Systems Engineering and in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). Deep completed his undergraduate degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Varanasi and his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University. Deep was a Resnick Prize Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech before joining Penn to start his own research group. His research interests broadly lie at the intersection of new materials, surface science and solid-state devices for computing, opto-electronics and energy harvesting applications in addition to the development of correlated and functional imaging techniques. Deep’s research has been widely recognized with several awards from professional societies, funding bodies, industries as well as private foundations including the IEEE Photonics Society Young Investigator Award and the IEEE Nanotechnology Council Young Investigator Award. His presentation on the subject of strong light-matter coupling starts with excitonic 2D semiconductors (namely chalcogenides of Mo and W) that are attractive candidates for investigating strong light-matter interactions as a result of formation of hybrid states. These ideas are extended to hybrid 2D materials and 1D carbon nanotubes.
