Amrit Palaria is a Ph.D. student in ECE at Purdue University since August, 2005. He is conducting research on structural, electronic and mechanical properties, and device applications of nanostructures such as silicon nanowires and heterostructures using the computational methods of density functional theory, molecular dynamics, and tight-binding modelling. His work is being co-supervised by Prof. Gerhard Klimeck and Prof. Alejandro Strachan. He also served as the president of the Student Leadership Council of NCN at Purdue University.

Amrit completed M.S. in ECE at the University of Arizona where he experimentally demonstrated stable charge written in silicon dioxide using Kelvin probe force microscopy for electrostatic nano-assembly. He has also carried out research in the College of Optical Sciences at UA. Prior to coming to US, he obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering from Harcourt Butler Technological Institute (HBTI), India.

His research interests lie in the physics of materials at the atomic scale, applied to emerging applications, and electronics.