Arokia Nathan

Arokia Nathan is an engineer, author and academic. He is an expert in the field of electrical engineering and digital display technology.

Arokia Nathan
EducationUniversity of Alberta
Engineering career
DisciplineElectrical engineering
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
Darwin College
AwardsRoyal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
J. J. Ebers Award

Education

Nathan studied at the University of Alberta, where he received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1988.[1]

Career

Following Nathan's graduation, he spent time working at both LSI Logic Corporation and ETH Zurich in the 1990s, before he joined the University of Waterloo in 1997 to chair DALSA/Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council following the establishment of the university's Giga-to-Nanoelectronics Centre.[2] In 2001, he was recognised by the Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council with the E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship.[3] In 2004, he was awarded the Canada Research Chair in nano-scale flexible circuits.[4] He then moved to University College London in 2006 to take up the role of Chair of Nanotechnology at the London Centre for Nanotechnology. While at UCL, he was the recipient of the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.[5]

In 2011, Nathan was recruited by the University of Cambridge as Chair of Photonic Systems and Displays, having previously worked at University College London.[6] At Cambridge, Arokia and his team developed ultra-low power transistor electronics in 2016 and 2019, which would go on to be used in various wearables and devices using Internet of Things technology.[7] It was believed that the ultralow power transistors could operate for years, without the need for battery replacement.[8][9][10] In 2020, he was the recipient of J. J. Ebers Award, for his work with thin-film transistor and flexible/foldable electronics integration strategies.[11][12][13]

Nathan's research and industry foresight has led to the creation of numerous companies, with a collective venture capital investment of over US$100 million. In 2022, he became a Fellow at the Royal Academy of Engineering.[14]

References
  1. "MSE's 30th Anniversary Colloquium Series: Prof Arokia Nathan "Ultralow Power Flexible Electronics"". Nanyang Technological University.
  2. "History of the Giga-to-Nanoelectronics (G2N) Centre". University of Waterloo.
  3. "E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowships winners". Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. 28 June 2016.
  4. Organic Thin Film Transistor Integration: A Hybrid Approach. John Wiley & Sons.
  5. "Professor Arokia Nathan". University of Cambridge.
  6. "Weaving electronics into the fabric of our physical world". Cambridge University. January 21, 2012.
  7. Loughran, Jack (21 October 2016). "Ultra-low-power transistor solves battery woes for wearables and IoT". Engineering & Technology.
  8. C. Jiang, H.W. Choi, X. Cheng, H. Ma, D. Hasko, A. Nathan, “Printed subthreshold organic transistors operating at high gain and ultralow power,” Science 363 (2019) 719-723.
  9. "Engineers design ultralow power transistors that could function for years without a battery". University of Cambridge. October 20, 2016.
  10. Lee, Sungsik; Nathan, Arokia (October 21, 2016). "Subthreshold Schottky-barrier thin-film transistors with ultralow power and high intrinsic gain". Science. 354 (6310): 302–304. Bibcode:2016Sci...354..302L. doi:10.1126/science.aah5035. PMID 27846559. S2CID 23713767.
  11. "IGNIS founder Arokia Nathan wins the 2020 IEEE EDS J.J. Ebers Award". IGNIS. October 16, 2020.
  12. "Conduction Threshold in Accumulation-Mode InGaZnO Thin Film Transistors". Nature. 2016.
  13. Portilla, L., Loganathan, K., Faber, H. et al. Wirelessly powered large-area electronics for the Internet of Things. Nat Electron 6, 10–17 (2023)
  14. "Professor Arokia Nathan". Royal Academy of Engineering.
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