Vivek Subramanian

Associate Professor

Research Areas

• Energy (ENE)
• Integrated Circuits (INC)
• Physical Electronics (PHY)

Research Centers

• Microfabrication Lab (Microlab)

Teaching Schedule (Spring 2008)

• EE 231. Solid State Devices, TuTh 930-11A, 2032 VLSB

Biography

He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Louisiana State University, 1994, and his M.S. and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1996 and 1998 respectively.

Dr. Subramanian co-founded Matrix Semiconductor, Inc. in 1998. He joined the EECS faculty in 2000 and is currently an Associate Professor. He is also a founding technical advisor of Kovio, Inc. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 research publications and patents.

Dr. Subramanian is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and has served on the technical committee for the Device Research Conference and the technical and executive committees for the International Electron Device Meeting. In 2002, he was nominated to Technology Review's list of top 100 young innovators (the TR100). In 2003, he was nominated to the National Academy of Engineering's "Frontiers of Engineering", and was awarded a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award (CAREER). He received the EE Department Outstanding Teaching Award in 2006.

Selected Publications

• D. Redinger and V. Subramanian, "High-Performance Chemical-Bath-Deposited Zinc Oxide Thin-Film Transistors," IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 54, no. 6, pp. 1301-7, June 2007.
• Q. Zhang and V. Subramanian, "DNA hybridization detection with organic thin film transistors: Toward fast and disposable DNA microarray chips," Biosensors and Bioelectronics, vol. 2007, no. 12, pp. 3182-87, June 2007.
• B. Mattis and V. Subramanian, "Stacked Low-Power Field-Programmable Antifuse Memories for RFID on Plastic," in 2006 International Electron Device Meeting Technical Digest, 2006, pp. 11.7.
• J. Chang, V. Liu, V. Subramanian, K. Sivula, C. Luscombe, A. Murphy, J. Liu, and J. Frechet, "Printable polythiophene gas sensor array for low-cost electronic noses," Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 100, no. 1, pp. 014506-511, July 2006.
• D. C. Huang and V. Subramanian, "Iodine-doped pentacene schottky diodes for high-frequency RFID rectification," in Proceedings of the 64th IEEE Device Research Conference, 2006, pp. 219-220.
• J. Chang and V. Subramanian, "Effect of active layer thickness on bias stress effect in pentacene thin-film transistors," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 88, no. 23, pp. 233513-5, June 2006.
• P. Chang, S. Molesa, A. Murphy, J. Frechet, and V. Subramanian, "Inkjetted Crystalline Single-Monolayer Oligothiophene OTFTs," IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 594-600, April 2006.
• S. Molesa, A. De la Fuente Vornbrock, P. Chang, and V. Subramanian, "Low-Voltage Inkjetted Organic Transistors for Printed RFID and Display Applications," in 2005 International Electron Device Meeting Technical Digest, 2005, pp. 5.4.1-4.
• V. Subramanian, P. Chang, J. Lee, S. Molesa, and S. Volkman, "Printed organic transistors for ultra-low-cost RFID applications," IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 742-747, Dec. 2005.
• A. Murphy, P. Chang, P. VanDyke, J. Liu, J. Frechet, V. Subramanian, D. DeLongChamp, S. Sambasivan, D. Fischer, and E. Lin, "Self-Assembly, Molecular Ordering, and Charge Mobility in Solution-Processed Ultrathin Oligothiophene Films," Chemistry of Materials, vol. 17, no. 24, pp. 6033-6041, Dec. 2005.
• D. DeLongChamp, S. Sambasivan, D. Fischer, E. Lin, P. Chang, A. Murphy, J. Frechet, and V. Subramanian, "Direct correlation of organic semiconductor film structure to field-effect mobility," Advanced Materials, vol. 17, no. 19, pp. 2340-44, Sep. 2005.
• J. Lee, P. Chang, J. A. Liddle, and V. Subramanian, "10-nm channel length pentacene transistors," IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 52, no. 8, pp. 1874-1879, Aug. 2005.
• V. Subramanian, J. Frechet, P. Chang, D. C. Huang, J. Lee, S. Molesa, A. Murphy, D. Redinger, and S. Volkman, "Progress towards development of all-printed RFID tags: Materials, Processes, and Devices," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 93, no. 7, pp. 1330-38, July 2005.
• F. J. Liao, C. Chen, and V. Subramanian, "Organic TFTs as gas sensors for electronic nose applications," Sensors and Actuators B (Chemical), vol. 107, no. 2, pp. 849-55, June 2005.
• J. Lee and V. Subramanian, "Weave Patterned Organic Transistors on Fiber for E-Textiles," IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 269-275, Feb. 2005.
• S. Volkman, S. Molesa, J. Lee, B. Mattis, A. De la Fuente Vornbrock, T. T. Bakhishev, and V. Subramanian, "A novel transparent air-stable printable n-type semiconductor technology using ZnO nanoparticles," in 2004 International Electron Device Meeting Technical Digest, 2004, pp. 769-773.
• S. Molesa, S. Volkman, D. Redinger, A. De la Fuente Vornbrock, and V. Subramanian, "A high-performance all-inkjetted organic transistor technology," in 2004 International Electron Device Meeting Technical Digest, 2004, pp. 1072-1074.
• D. Redinger, S. Molesa, S. Yin, R. Farschi, and V. Subramanian, "An ink-jet-deposited passive component process for RFID," IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 51, no. 12, pp. 1978-83, Dec. 2004.
• P. Chang, J. Lee, D. C. Huang, V. Subramanian, A. Murphy, and J. Frechet, "Film Morphology and Thin Film Transistor Performance of Solution Processed Oligothiophenes," Chemistry of Materials, vol. 16, no. 23, pp. 4783-9, Nov. 2004.
• D. C. Huang, F. J. Liao, S. Molesa, D. Redinger, and V. Subramanian, "Plastic-compatible low-resistance printable gold nanoparticle conductors for flexible electronics," Journal of the Electrochemical Society, vol. 150, no. 7, pp. G412-417, July 2003.