Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Materials and Devices

EECS Department - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tomás Palacios' Group: Brief Bio & CV
 

Tomas Palacios

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     Tomás Palacios joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of MIT in September of 2006 as an Assistant Professor and a member of the Microsystems Technology Laboratory. He is a Telecommunication Engineer by the Polytechnic University of Madrid since 2001 and he got his MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California - Santa Barbara in 2004 and 2006, respectively.

In 1997, Tomás joined the Institute for Systems based on Optoelectronics and Microtechnology (ISOM) in Spain.There, he worked on technology research, ultraviolet photodetectors, surface acoustic wave filters and high electron mobility transistors. In 2000, he worked in the Microelectronics Group of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN, Geneva) where he collaborated in the design of new Si transistors for radiation-hard and low noise electronics. In 2002, he joined Prof. Mishra´s group at UCSB where he developed new transistors based on nitrides for mm-wave applications and he established the state of the art in high frequency and high power applications.

Tomás´research interests include the design, processing and characterization of new transistors based on wide bandgap semiconductors for power amplification and digital applications beyond 100 GHz. He is also very interested in the development of new concepts for biosensors and bioactuators as well as in the use of the unique properties of nitrides for power generation and conversion. When not at MIT, Tomás enjoys reading, listening to classical music, hiking and attending plays and concerts.

In the last few years, Tomás has received multiple awards like the Young Researcher Award at the 6th International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors, the Best Student Paper Award at the 36th Device Research Conference, the Lancaster Dissertation award, the European Prize Salva i Campillo to the "most promising European Newcomer to Engineering", etc. He is also author or coauthor of more than 70 scientific papers in international journals and conferences, one book chapter and several invited talks and patents.