Mani Vaidyanathan

Area of Study / Keywords

Microsystems and Nanodevices Solid State Electronics

About

Mani Vaidyanathan received the B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc. degrees from the University of Waterloo, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of British Columbia. He has held the positions of Assistant Research Scientist at the University of California - San Diego, working in the area of radio-frequency electronics, and Visiting Assistant Professor at Purdue University, working in the area of computational nanoelectronics. He is currently a Professor at the University of Alberta.

Research

Research Interests

Dr. Vaidyanathan’s research interests are in understanding nanoscale transistors and circuits for future technologies. State-of-the-art modeling and simulation approaches, such as the semi-classical Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) and the fully quantum-mechanical non-equilibrium Green’s function approach (NEGF), are used to assess the performance potential and operating physics of emerging devices. Work is also underway in the area of radio-frequency (RF) circuits. Collaborators include local experimentalists, academics from Europe, and industrial partners in North America, including Ansys and Qualcomm.

Current Research

• Beyond CMOS device technologies
• Ferroelectrics and negative-capacitance field-effect transistors (NCFETs)
• Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) transport for spintronic devices targeted for quantum computing
• Spin-qubit detection in 2D materials