Chakraborty takes VLSI Best Student Paper Award for Technology

Wriddhi Chakraborty received the Best Student Paper Award for Technology at the 2020 VLSI Symposia on Technology and Circuits for his paper titled “BEOL Compatible Dual-Gate Ultra Thin-Body W-Doped Indium-Oxide Transistor with I_on=370 uA/um, SS=73 mV/dec and I_on/I_off>4E9.”

A third-year Ph.D. student, Chakraborty is a member of the Nanoelectronic Devices and Circuits Lab. The lab conducts fundamental and applied research in functional materials, novel device architectures, and new compute blocks to improve the energy-latency-accuracy-resilience of next-generation computational systems for applications, such as intermittent, in-memory, resilient, cryogenic, stochastic, and bio-inspired computing. His advisor is Suman Datta, Stinson Professor of Nanotechnology and director of ASCENT, a multi-university advanced microelectronics research center.

Chakraborty’s work was supported in part by two centers in the Semiconductor Research Corporation and DARPA — ASCENT, one of six centers under JUMP, along with IMPACT, a Center under nCORE.

He will receive a travel grant to the 2021 VLSI Symposia on Technology and Circuits in Kyoto, Japan, in June 2021 along with a certificate, which will be presented during the awards ceremony.

The VLSI Symposia is a premier international conference on semiconductor technology and circuits that offers an opportunity to interact and synergize on topics spanning the range from process technology to system-on-chip.

— Barbara Walsh, ASCENT