Prof. Manuel Quevedo received a B.S. in Chemistry (1996), a M.S. in Materials Science (1998). In 2002 he received a PhD in Materials Science from the University of North Texas and joined Texas Instruments Silicon Technology Development Group as a Member of Technical Staff (MTS). While at Texas Instruments he was appointed SEMATECH assigned from 2004-2006. In April 2007 He joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Texas as Dallas and  was promoted to Professor in 2012.

Prof. Quevedo CV

Dr. Caraveo received the BS degree from Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM), Chihuahua, Mexico in 2009 and the MS and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering, both from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, in 2010 and 2013, respectively. After graduation, he joined SABIC’s Corporate Research and Innovation Center as a Senior Scientist where he led projects of new materials and sensor development. In 2018, he joined UTD as a Research Scientist to lead the radiation sensor development efforts as well as the technology commercialization initiatives.

Dr. Harvey Stiegler received the B.S.E.E. degree from Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, in 1973 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, both from Rice University, Houston, TX, in 1985 and 1989, respectively. After graduation from Texas Tech, he served in the U.S. Air Force until joining Texas Instruments (TI) Incorporated in 1979. At TI he was primarily involved in the development of nonvolatile memory products and dynamic RAM as well as analog and mixed signal products as a Design Engineer and Design Manager. He was elected TI Senior Member, Technical Staff, in 1993. In 2009 he joined the University of Texas at Dallas as a Research Scientist in Materials Science and Engineering. He is a member of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Dr. Leunam Fernández-Izquierdo received a B.S. in Chemistry (2012) at the University of Havana, where he worked on the development of nanomaterials and coordination compounds as materials for the construction of solar cells. He received his PhD in Chemistry from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2020) where he worked on the development of water splitting systems using carbon nanotubes and semiconductors. After earning a PhD degree, he joined the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Materials Science and Engineering Department, where he works on developing materials to be used as radiation sensors.

Martin G. Reyes-Banda (Post-doctorate)
Martin works as a Post-doctorate researcher at UTD, where he designs experiments, assists with on-going experiments, and executes research. He overviews undergraduate and graduate students’ work on their research projects and contributes to scientific publications. His research focuses on the study and characterization of hybrid/inorganic perovskite materials and device fabrication for high energy-particle radiation (neutron) sensing applications.

I am from Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, the city of the sun and, also of the orange. Since my early teens, I have considered the concept of multidisciplinary knowledge to applied technology very exciting. For that reason, I decided to study a major in Mechatronic Engineering at the Instituto Tecnologico de Hermosillo. In order to become a professional in the materials and devices field, I decided to pursue a master’s degree in Material Science, at the advanced materials research center, CIMAV (in Mexico), with Dr. Manuel Quevedo as my external advisor. I participated as an exchange student at the University of Texas at Dallas for the development of my Master’s thesis, “Study of amorphous InGaZnO thin film deposited by pulsed laser deposition for flexible electronic applications.” My academic interest has been focused in the area of flexible and transparent electronics, specifically in the study, development, implementation, and integration of new and innovative materials. Currently, I am pursuing my PhD in Material Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas. I am currently working on the development and fabrication of Thin film transistors, PN diodes and Junction gate field effect transistors based on oxide semiconductors. I desire to be a prominent researcher and teacher focused on the development of flexible and transparent devices. I have gained practical experience and knowledge in this field, which I feel will contribute to my academic and professional success.

Dr. Montano received her BS degree in Chemistry in 2011 from the University of Sonora (UNISON), Mexico. She obtained her MS and Ph. D degrees both in Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) from the same university (UNISON) in 2014 and 2018, respectively. During the doctorate program, she joined the University of Texas at Dallas as a visiting graduate student, where she was involved in several projects, among them as college mentor during the period of 2014-2017 for the Young Women in Science and Engineering Investigators Program. Since 2019, she holds a Postdoctoral Researcher position at UTD leading projects on materials characterization closely related to the microelectronic industry.

Dr. M Josefina Arellano-Jimenez earned her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 2009. In 2010, she joined the University of Connecticut as a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Barry Carter’s group, in the Department of Chemical, Materials, and Biomolecular Engineering, and focused on studying the structure and composition of materials at the nanometric scale using electron microscopy and spectroscopic techniques. Since then, she has been using TEM, SEM, FIB, EDS, EELS, and in-situ to investigate the structure and properties of materials at various scales. Her research interests include materials that are relevant to developing new technologies and materials related to human health.
In November 2019 she joined the University of Texas at Dallas as a Research Scientist in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Currently, she supports research projects in Dr. Quevedo’s group, working with undergraduate and graduate students, visiting scholars, and postdoctoral researchers, collaborating with researchers in the department, and with researchers from other academic and non-academic institutions.
Dr. Arellano-Jimenez is a board member of the Texas Society for Microscopy and a senior member of MSA, MAS, and MRS. She has authored and coauthored over 60 publications in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings.

I am from Mexico. I finished my Bachelor of Chemical Sciences degree from Coahuila University, Coahuila Mexico in 2005, major in Ceramic Materials. After that I continued my graduate studies in the same University working on Synthesis and characterization of hybrid materials by sol-gel process and completed my PhD in May 2010. Since august 2010 I have been working on my post-doc in The University of Texas at Dallas. My research is to develop Chemical bath deposition processes for chalcogenide thin film transistors.

Dr. Amitava Chatterjee, Research Associate
Amitava Chatterjee was awarded a PhD in Electrical Engineering by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, in 1985. From 1985 till 2012, he worked at Texas Instruments on various aspects of CMOS technology and transistor miniaturization. In 2006, he was elected to the rank of Texas Instruments Fellow. His TI Fellow citation reads: “For his contributions to CMOS process integration, electrostatic discharge protection, and semiconductor device modeling.” During 2013, he was employed by PDF Solutions where he was a PDF Fellow working on yield improvement in Globalfoundries’ 14 nm FinFET and 20 nm planar CMOS technologies. Since 2014, Dr. Chatterjee is affiliated to the University of Texas at Dallas where he has taught junior and senior undergraduate courses on engineering mathematics, electrical network analysis, and electronic devices.

Dr. Chatterjee has published 82 journal and conference publications and holds 75 US patents. He has served as an Associate Editor (2001 – 2010) and then as the Editor-in-Chief (2012 – 2015) of IEEE Electron Device Letters. In 2010 IEEE elevated his membership to the grade of Fellow citing him “For contributions to CMOS device technology and on-chip electrostatic discharge protection.”

Dr. Fernando Ely graduated with a Ph.D. in organic chemistry 2004 from UFSC – Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil) after receiving a M.Sc. in organic chemistry degree from the same university and his B.S. degree in chemistry from UFRGS – Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). His master and Ph.D. work emphasized the synthesis of ferroelectric and chiral liquid crystals for displays application. Dr. Ely is full technologist at CTI´s IC Packaging Lab coordinating research projects in the following areas plastic and organic electronics, third generation solar cells, nanomaterials and processes in micro and nanoeletronics.

Currently Dr. Ely is visiting researcher at Flexible Electronics group working on neutron detection system based on nanoparticle composites.

In this project is proposed the development of a neutron detector system that includes a sensing diode comprising a p-type polymer + electron acceptor + 157Gd neutron sensitive nanoparticle and a converter layer composed by 10B embedded. The system is a solid-state detector called Converter in Diode (CID) and it employs neutron-induced reactions to release detectable ionizing radiation. Our approach also aims to integrate the developed neutron detection system with flexible complementary metal oxide semiconductor (Flex-CMOS) on the same substrate, enabling large-area neutron imaging.

Dr. Singh received his Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2005. His doctoral work produced the first systematic theoretical / numerical Monte Carlo explanations of the collapse of transconductance with scaling in III-V nitride HFETs. While at Michigan, he also received two M. S. degrees in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering. Dr. Singh received his undergraduate integrated Masters degree in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (first in class) with a best final year project in designing measurements of AC magnetic susceptibility in perovskites exhibiting giant magnetoresistance, and the theoretical discovery of a new quantum scale for electron localization in core-shell nanocrystallites. Dr. Singh was previously a postdoc at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2005-2007. He is a co-discoverer of extrafluorescence in organic light emitting diodes through modification of charge transfer states and was a part of the first team to exhibit plasmon enhancement of organic solar cell efficiencies

I received B.A. from Rice University, M.S. and Ph.D. from Louisiana State University (LSU) Authored and/or coauthored more than 60 technical paper and 12 patents. I began my career served 21 months in the U.S. Army Chemical Corp at Pine Bluff Arsenal providing technical support for the manufacture of munitions. Prepared custom munitions for special tests. Worked for the American Oil (AMOCO) Company for 3.5 years on improving octane values for gasoline. I was promoted to group leader after two and a half years and also served on two corporate committees. I then worked for Texas Instruments for almost 30 years. I worked in the Central Research Labs on fuel cells, batteries, material characteristics and process control. I then served as manager of Semiconductor quality and reliability assurance for 4.5 years. Fallowing that I returned to CRL to work with Jack Kilby on solar energy project for 4 years. Became the first TI Professor for 5 years in the Chemical Engineering Dept. at The University of Texas in Austin. After retiring from TI I became a full tenured professor. I was the given The Paul D. and Betty Robinson Meek Centennial Professor in Chemical Engineering. Worked a total of 16 years and graduate 14 Ph.D.s and 3 Master students. I worked for 16 years in Austin teaching several short courses to various electronic companies. Currently I am a part time mentor for graduate students researching novel electronic devices in the Material Science and Engineering Department in The University of Texas at Dallas.

Dr. Israel Mejia, IEEE Senior Member, received his BE in Electrical Engineering with distinctions from the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico City in 2003. After achieving a Ph.D. from CINVESTAV in 2010, he joined the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) as a Research Scientist for the department of Materials Science and Engineering. 
 As a key link between academia and industry, Dr. Mejia’s work primarily involves leading research teams in using innovative approaches to design, fabricate and characterize semiconductor devices for implementation in novel, cutting-edge microelectronic applications, integration processes and circuits.

I was born in Santa Marta, Colombia. I work as researcher for the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México at the Centro de Nanociencia y Nanotecnología located in Ensenada, Baja California. I started a sabbatical year in University of Texas at Dallas in the Flexible Electronics Group, in August 1st of 2015. I am developing novel thin films as p-type semiconducting materials for flexible electronics applications. This work will result in the development p-type TFTs that is an urgently needed area in flexible electronics to enable complementary metal oxide devices. The techniques that I am using to synthesize thin films are: Sputtering and Pulsed Laser Deposition.

Dr. Xavier Mathew, visiting Research Scientist at UTD; a Professor/Scientist at the Instituto de Energias Renovables-UNAM, Mexico; Editor of the Elsevier journal “Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells; MRS, MRS-Mexico, and Mexican Academy of Sciences member. After earning a Ph.D degree from the faculty of science at Kerala University, India, started his career as a physics teacher and later joined UNAM in 1998 as a faculty member with the Materials Science Department at Centro de Investigacion en Energia-UNAM. The research interests include- solar cells based on CdTe, CZTS and Perovskites. Dr. Mathew is PI for various PV projects supported by CONACyT, SENER and UNAM, and leads a group of postdoctoral fellows and graduate/undergraduate students. Dr. Mathew is author/co-author to over 100 research papers and presented papers in many international conferences.