Deji Akinwande

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Deji Akinwande
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Akinwande shakes hands with President Barack Obama, while receiving the PECASE in 2016
Alma mater Stanford University
Case Western Reserve University
Known for2D materials, flexible and wearable nanoelectronics, nanotechnology, STEM education
Awards PECASE, given in 2016
Fellow of American Physical Society
Fellow of IEEE. Fellow of the MRS.
Scientific career
Institutions University of Texas at Austin
Thesis Carbon nanotubes: device physics, RF circuits, surface science and nanotechnology  (2009)
Doctoral advisor H.-S. Philip Wong
Website https://nano.mer.utexas.edu/

Deji Akinwande is a Nigerian-American professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering with courtesy affiliation with Materials Science at the University of Texas at Austin. [1] He was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2016 from Barack Obama. [1] He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the African Academy of Sciences, the Materials Research Society (MRS), and the IEEE.

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Early life and education

Akinwande was born in Washington, DC and moved to Nigeria in his early years. [2] He grew up in Ikeja with his parents. [2] His father was the financial controller of Guardian News and his mother worked at the Ministry of Education. He attended Federal Government College, Idoani and became interested in science and engineering. [2] He returned to America in 1994, starting at Cuyahoga community college and eventually transferring to Case Western Reserve University to study electrical engineering and applied physics. [2] During his master's degree he pioneered the design of near-field microwave tips for non-destructive imaging. [3] He was accepted to Stanford University as a graduate student, working on the electronic properties of carbon-based materials. [2] He was selected as an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow during his PhD. [2] He was also selected as a DARE (Diversifying Academia, Recruiting Excellence) Fellow in 2008. [4] He completed his PhD in 2009. [5] He joined University of Texas at Austin in 2010 as an Assistant Professor in January 2010, and was awarded research grants from several agencies including the National Science Foundation (NSF), Army Research Office (ARO), the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), DARPA, AFOSR, and Office of Naval Research, the latter focusing on high-frequency flexible 2D electronics. [6]

Research and career

Akinwande collaborated with Aixtron on wafer-scale growth of graphene, characterization and integration [7] The collaboration demonstrated scalable growth of polycrystalline graphene using chemical vapour deposition, creating the first 300 mm wafers. [8] [9] In 2011 he published the first textbook on Carbon Nanotube and Graphene Device Physics with Prof. Philip Wong of Stanford University. [10] He was made a senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2013. [3] He has made several advances in two dimensional graphene electronics. [11] In 2015 he demonstrated the first two dimensional silicene transistor. [12] Akinwande in collaboration with Alessandro Molle's group at CNR, Italy, achieved this by evaporating silicon onto a crystal of silver, monitoring the growth in real-time using scanning tunnelling microscopy. [12] [13] This research breakthrough was selected as one of the top science stories of 2015 by Discover magazine. [14] The silicene work is the most cited Nature Nanotechnology publication of similar age.

He went on to demonstrate the thinnest most transparent electronic tattoo sensors made from graphene in 2017, which were less than 500 nm thick and 85% optically transparent. This research was in collaboration with Nanshu Lu's group. [15] The tattoos can be laminated onto human skin like a temporary tattoo, but could measure electrocardiography, electroencephalography, temperature and hydration. [15] Subsequently, the graphene tattoos were developed as a wearable platform for monitoring blood pressure continuously using the bio-impedance modality published in Nature Nanotechnology in 2022. [16] He demonstrated the first atomristor by investigating nonvolatile resistance switching using a 2D atomic sheet of molybdenum disulfide. [17] Remarkably, the memory effect persists down to a single atom. [18] The devices can be as thin as 1.5 nm and have applications in 5G and future 6G [19] smartphones as zero-static power radio-frequency switches, internet of things and artificial intelligence circuits. [20] The discovery of memory in these systems is expected to be universal amongst 2D materials. [21]

He is on the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science, an associate editor of ACS Nano, an editor for Nature journal npj 2D Materials and Applications, and a past editor of IEEE Electron Devices Letters. [22] [23] He has given about a dozen plenary and keynote talks including the plenary talk at the 2017 SPIE annual meeting Optics & Photonics, where he discussed the progress, opportunities and challenges of 2D electronic devices. [24] He was made an American Physical Society Fellow in 2017 and a Fulbright Fellow in 2018. [25] [26] He will visit the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in 2019. [27] Three of his former postdoctoral scholars are now professors, Dr. Shideh Kabiri at Queen's University in Canada, Dr. Li Tao at Southeast University in Nanjing, and Dr. Seongin Hong at Gachon University. Myungsoo Kim, a former PhD student is now a Professor at UNIST in South Korea.

He was a finalist for the University of Texas at Austin 'UT System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching' Award for several years, the highest teaching recognition in Texas. [28]

He has chaired several major conferences and program committees in nanoelectronics/nanotechnology such as:

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