Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Contact
University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5080
IEE Research Areas:
Affiliations:
Solid State Lighting & Energy Center, Executive Committee Member
Interdisciplinary Center for Wide Bandgap Semiconductors, Member
Center for Energy Efficient Materials, Member
Honors:
2012 Heinrich Welker Award
2007 IEEE David Sarnoff Award
2006 IIT Distinguished Alumnus Award
1995 IEEE Fellow
1989 NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award
Research Description:
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.
Education:
BT: Indian Institute of Technology (1979)
MS: Lehigh University (1981)
PhD: Electrical Engineering, Cornell University (1984)
Biography:
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.