Abstract
Arokia Nathan (S’84-M’87-SM’99) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical
engineering from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, in 1988. In 1987, he
joined LSI Logic Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, where he worked on advanced multichip
packaging techniques and related issues. Subsequently, he was at the Institute of
Quantum Electronics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland. In 1989, he joined the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University ofWaterloo,Waterloo, Canada. In 1995, he
was a Visiting Professor at the Physical Electronics Laboratory, ETH Zürich,
Switzerland. In 1997 he held the DALSA/ NSERC industrial research chair in sensor
technology, and was a recipient of the 2001 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research
Council E.W.R. Steacie Fellowship. During 2005-2006, he was a Visiting Professor in the
Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, U.K. Later in 2006, he joined the
London Centre for Nanotechnology and the Department of Electrical Engineering,
University College London, London, U.K., where he holds the Sumitomo/STS Chair of
Nanotechnology. He is also the Chief Technology Officer of Ignis Innovation
Inc.,Waterloo, Canada, a company he founded to commercialize technology on thin-film
silicon backplanes and driving algorithms for active-matrix organic light-emitting diode
displays. He has extensive experience in device physics and modeling, and materials
processing and integration. His present research interests lie in fabrication of
devices, circuits, and systems using disordered semiconductors, including organic
materials and nanocomposites, on rigid and mechanically flexible substrates for large
area electronics, for imaging and display applications. He has published extensively in
the field of sensor technology and CAD, and thin-film transistor electronics, and has
over 30 patents filed/awarded. He is a coauthor of two books, Microtransducer CAD
(Springer, 1999) and CCD Image Sensors in Deep-Ultraviolet (Springer, 2005). Dr. Nathan
is a Chartered Engineer (U.K.) and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and
Technology. He is a member of the American Physical Society, Electrochemical Society,
Materials Research Society, Society for Information Displays, and International Society
for Optical Engineering. He served as chair of the IEEE Electron Devices Society
(EDS)-Solid-State Circuits Society (SSC) in the IEEE K-W Local Chapter, IEEE Newsletter
Editor for Region 7, and received the IEEE/EDS Distinguished Lecturer Award in 2004. He
is a member of the IEEE EDS Publications Committee and the IEEE EDS Sub-Committee on
Organic and Polymer Devices. He chaired the 2005 and 2006 IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics
Society (LEOS) Technical Committee on Displays and the Displays Sub-Committee in 2004,
2005, and 2006. He is an editorial board member of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON DEVICES,
MATERIALS, AND RELIABILITY, and the IEEE ELECTRON DEVICE LETTERS. He co-chaired the Fall
2005 Materials Research Society Symposium M: Flexible and Printed Electronics,
Photonics, and Biomaterials, the Fall 2006 and 2008 Materials Research Society Symposium
on Mobile Energy, and the Spring 2007 and 2008 Materials Research Society Symposium A on
Amorphous and Polycrystalline Thin-Film Silicon Science and Technology. He was a Guest
Editor for a two-part Special Issue on Flexible Electronics Technology in the
PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE.
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