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IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecture on the 75th anniversary of the transistor: Towards Smart Bio-Chemical Sensing Platforms
October 28, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
You’re invited to a virtual EDS distinguished lecture by Professor Navakanta Bhat of the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, hosted by the Circuits and Devices Chapter of IEEE Toronto, celebrating the 75th anniversary of the transistor.
Registration link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/380387
The meeting will be held on Zoom and the link will be provided to the attendees one day before the event.
Abstract:
Multiplexed sensing platforms will be the key enablers of smart electronic systems of the future. Such platforms will require the integration of miniaturized sensor arrays at the system/chip level, using heterogeneous technologies. While we have made substantial progress in vision, tactile and auditory sensing applications, an equivalent of Moore’s law is missing in biological and chemical sensing applications. With phenomenal advances in semiconductor nanotechnology and printed/flexible electronics, the stage is now set for a new wave of sensor systems to be equipped with massive sensory functions, specifically with biological and chemical sensor arrays.
In this talk, I will present two case studies from our research:
(i) Biosensor systems for point of care diagnostics : the story of managing the sensing of multiple analytes in blood and urine with an eventual goal to realize “Lab on Palm”
(ii) Gas sensor systems for environmental monitoring, breath analysis and hazardous gas leakage detection, with an eventual goal to realize the “Electronic Nose”
Biography:
Navakanta Bhat received his B.E. in Electronics and Communication from SJCE, University of Mysore in 1989, M.Tech. in Microelectronics from I.I.T. Bombay in 1992 and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA in 1996. Then he worked at Motorola’s Networking and Computing Systems Group under Advanced Products R&D Lab (APRDL) in Austin, TX until 1999. At Motorola he worked on logic technology development and he was responsible for developing high performance transistor design and dual gate oxide technology for PowerPC microprocessors. He joined the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1999 where he is currently the Dean of Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences and Professor at the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE). His current research is focused on Nanoelectronics device technology, Biosensors for point of care diagnostics and Gas sensors for pollution monitoring. He has 300 research publications in international journals and conferences and 32 patents of which 12 are granted in the US. He was instrumental in creating the National Nanofabrication Centre (NNfC) at IISc, Bangalore. He has served as the Chair of NNfC administration committee (2010 – 2015) and Chair of CeNSE (2016-2020).