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Deep Jariwala: Forbes 30 Under 30

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Deep Jariwala is one of the 30 young researchers on the Forbes 30 Under 30: Science list this year.

Dr. Jariwala is joining Penn Engineering’s department of electrical and systems engineering in January as an assistant professor. He will be leading Penn’s Device Research and Engineering Laboratory.

According to Forbes, “Dr. Jariwala develops nanometer and atomic scale devices with applications in computing, sensors, and renewable energy. His materials research made it possible to build solar cells with thicknesses smaller than a thousandth of a human hair. His doctorate research is helping to shape next-generation integrated circuits, and he’s also invented three new types of electrical devices.”

He joined the Atwater group at California Institute of Technology​ as a Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow​ in 2015 after earning his PhD in materials science and engineering from Northwestern University in 2015 and his B.Tech in metallurgical engineering from IIT-BHU in 2010. In his undergraduate days, he was a summer research intern in Dr. Pulickel Ajayan’s research group at Rice University. There, he co-authored a research article in Nature Materials which has garnered over 1,100 citations.

He is a device and materials engineer with extensive experience in semiconductor fabrication, processing and characterization. His  primary interests lie in exploring novel materials for applications in electronic and photonic devices as well as in energy harvesting applications He is equally interested in studying fundamental physical and quantum phenomena in matter under confined environments and exploiting them for useful technology. 

He develops nanometer and atomic scale devices with applications in computing, sensors, and renewable energy. His doctorate research is helping to shape next-generation integrated circuits.

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