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Parag Banerjee

Parag Banerjee

Professor
Lead, Catalysis Faculty Cluster

Email: parag.banerjee@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-0190
Office: Research I, Room 208
Website: Banerjee Lab

Biography

Professional Experience:

  • Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, UCF (2018 – 2024)
  • Undergraduate Program Director Materials Science and Engineering, UCF (2022 – 2023)
  • Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Washington University in St. Louis (2011-2018)
  • Process R&D Engineer, Micron Technology (2000 – 2006)

Education:

  • Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, 2011
  • M.S., Washington State University, 2000
  • B.E., Indian Institute of Technology, 1998
Research

Materials:

  • Morphology: Thin films, nanoparticles, nanowires
  • Systems: Metals, metal oxides, nitrides, sulphides, organic-inorganic hybrid

Processes:

  • Atomic layer deposition
  • Chemical vapor deposition
  • Electrochemical deposition
  • Atomic layer etching

Fundamental and applications:

  • Chemical transformations on atomically engineered surfaces
  • Electronic and optoelectronic transport in quantum confined systems
Publications

A selective list is provided below from over 90+ publications. See a full listing of Professor Banerjee’s publications.

  • Feit, C.;  Kumar, U.;  Islam, M. R.;  Tomar, L.;  Berriel, S. N.;  Gaskins, J. T.;  Hopkins, P. E.;  Seal, S.; Banerjee, P., Surface treatment of TaN for sub-2 nm, smooth, and conducting atomic layer deposition Ru films. J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 2024, 42 (3).
  • Berriel, S. N.;  Feit, C.;  Keller, N.;  Rudawski, N. G.; Banerjee, P., In situ spectroscopic ellipsometry and rigorous coupled wave analysis for real time profile evolution of atomic layer deposited films inside SiO2 nanotrenches. J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 2022, 40 (6), 7.
  • Ganesan, J. P.;  Dev, D.;  Krishnaprasad, A.;  Feit, C.;  Moser, D.;  Kanjolia, R. K.;  Roy, T.; Banerjee, P., Semiconductor-to-metal transition in atomic layer deposition (ALD) of VO2 films using VCl4 and water. Appl. Phys. Lett. 2021, 118 (26), 5.
  • Gao, Z. N.; Banerjee, P., Review Article: Atomic layer deposition of doped ZnO films. J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 2019, 37 (5), 17.
  • Wu, F.;  Banerjee, S.;  Li, H. F.;  Myung, Y.; Banerjee, P., Indirect Phase Transformation of CuO to Cu2O on a Nanowire Surface. Langmuir 2016, 32 (18), 4485-4493.
  • Myung, Y.;  Wu, F.;  Banerjee, S.;  Park, J.; Banerjee, P., Electrical conductivity of p-type BiOCl nanosheets. Chem. Commun. 2015, 51 (13), 2629-2632.
  • Wu, F.;  Tian, L. M.;  Kanjolia, R.;  Singamaneni, S.; Banerjee, P., Plasmonic Metal-to-Semiconductor Switching in Au Nanorod-ZnO nanocomposite films. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2013, 5 (16), 7693-7697.
  • Banerjee, P.;  Perez, I.;  Henn-Lecordier, L.;  Lee, S. B.; Rubloff, G. W., Nanotubular metal-insulator-metal capacitor arrays for energy storage. Nat. Nanotechnol. 2009, 4 (5), 292-296.
  • Banerjee, P.; Ditali, A., Uniqueness in activation energy and charge-to-breakdown of highly asymmetrical DRAM Al2O3 cell capacitors. IEEE Electron Device Lett. 2004, 25 (8), 574-576.
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Organizations
  • American Vacuum Society
  • Materials Research Society
  • The American Association for the Advancement of Science