Umesh Mishra
Institute Role
Member of Lighting Solutions Group, Production & Storage
Solutions Group and Electronics & Photonics Solutions Group
Role in Affiliated
Centers
Executive Committee Member of the Solid State Lighting &
Energy Center; Member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Wide Bandgap Semiconductors
and the Center for Energy Efficient Materials
Research
Umesh Mishra’s research interests include energy efficient high-speed transistors, optoelectronics,
semiconductor device physics and advanced processing and integration
techniques. A recognized leader in the area of high-speed field effect
transistors, Mishra’s current research attempts to develop an understanding of
novel materials and extend them into applications such as group three nitride
(III-N) based high-efficiency solar cells and high-efficiency gallium nitride
(GaN) LEDs.
Biography
Umesh Mishra received a Ph.D.
in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, as well as an M.S. degree
from Lehigh University and a B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of
Technology. He joined the ECE Department at UC Santa Barbara in 1990 from the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State
University. A recognized leader in the area of high-speed field effect
transistors, Mishra has made major contributions at every laboratory and
academic institution for which he has worked, including Hughes Research
Laboratories in Malibu, California; the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor;
and General Electric, Syracuse, New York. He has led the development of
GaN-based electronics at UCSB in part through the generous support of several
MURI centers of which he has been the Director.
