plenary and keynote speakers, received awards including young physicist award and honorary
life-membership from Indian Physical Society, award
by the Metrology Society of India (MSI), Indian
Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE), award by
Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), his work on
nanodiamonds, was also awarded and featured as a key
scientific article contributing to excellence in engineering, scientific and industrial research, by Advances in
Engineering, USA; recently their work related to
on-chip integrable terahertz detectors was awarded by
Quality in Research (QiR), Indonesia along with
Prof. Hiroshi Inokawa, RIE, Japan. Alongside the
pursuit of research and administrative ambitions, Amit
is keenly engaged in consulting futuristic technologies
for business firms, educational ventures and universities. Amit received Ph.D. degree in Semiconductor
Technology from Energy Research Unit, Indian
Association for the Cultivation of Science (DST,
Government of India), and extensively worked on
design and development of high vacuum plasma CVD
reactors, which are used in industrial manufacturing of
solar cells, coatings and TFTs. He also developed low
cost high vacuum MW-PECVD units, and conceived
the process for cost effective commercial grade
antireflection coatings (ARC) synthesis for solar cells
by nanocrytalline diamonds. His current work is on
Terahertz Technology, including THz sensors and
sources, design, fabrication, aiming at biomedical
imaging applications. His recent work on
antenna-coupled microbolometer arrays, are compatible
with the state-of-the-art medium-scale semiconductor
device fabrication processes, and technologically competitive with commercial viability as on-chip integrable
detector arrays for terahertz imaging.
e-mail: amitbanerjee.nus@gmail.com; eleami@nus.
edu.sg
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