Manisha Gupta, PhD, MSc, BEng

Area of Study / Keywords

Engineering Department Executive Biomedical Engineering Microsystems and Nanodevices Photonics and Plasmas Solid State Electronics

About

Manisha Gupta has received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Yale University, a MS in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an undergraduate degree from Mumbai University in India in Instrumentation Engineering. She has joined University of Alberta as a tenure transact professor in September 2014. 

During her PhD, she developed the first novel tunable gallium arsenide deep center laser based on electrical injection. She has worked on wafer level 3D integration of chips during her MS, along with yield studies on damascene structures. As a postdoctoral fellow and research associate, she has conducted research in the area of optical materials including different growth techniques like Molecular Beam Epitaxy and Pulsed Laser deposition for growth and optimization of different materials for device applications. She has also worked on several laser applications based on light scattering for label free detection of cells and also for oil sands applications. She has industrial experience at the Alberta Center for Micro Nano Technology Products, where she worked as an optoelectronics product engineer, and at H2Gen Innovations where she worked as an Instrumentation engineer, in addition to research experience at a National Laboratory in India. In essence, her strengths are in optical materials, photonics, devices and sensing.

Currently, she specializes in biosensors for bio wearables and point of care sensing. In addition, she also conducts research in the area of 2D materials which includes density functional theory to understand the material properties, growth of large 2D materials for optical, electronic and biosensing applications. 

Research

Current research Interests:

• Semiconductor devices
• Biosensors for diabetic wounds and neuropathy. 
• Nanophotonics for different sensing applications
• 2D materials large scale growth for device applications
• 3D aerosol jet printed devices for different applications. 
• Optoelectronics and photonics
• Biosensing using optical electronic devices, and nanopores
• Applications of optical techniques for other industrial sensing applications

Teaching

ECE 302 Electronic devices (core course)

ECE 450 Nanoscale phenomena in electronic devices

ECE 750 Devices for sensing applications