Division Chairs

Electronic Materials and Photonics

Parag Banerjee


University of Central Florida
E-mail: parag_banerjee @ avs.org

PARAG BANERJEE is an Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Programs in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Central Florida. Prior to this appointment, he was an Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. From 2000 to 2006, Professor Banerjee was an R&D process engineer at Micron Technology Inc, studying high-k dielectric processes and their reliability in DRAM transistors and capacitors. 

Professor Banerjee's research focuses on atomic layer deposition (ALD). He seeks to understand mechanistic aspects of ALD using in situ techniques such as mass spectrometry and spectroscopic ellipsometry. Additionally, he develops new materials via ALD that address issues of performance and reliability in modern energy and electronic devices. The understanding gained as a result of these efforts have helped his group and his collaborators develop high yield CO2 photoreduction catalysts, nano-supercapacitors, improve reliability of photochromic displays and design better anodes for Li ion batteries. Professor Banerjee has over 60 publications and 9 U.S. and international patents. His research work is supported by NSF, AFOSR and the Semiconductor Research Corporation.  

Professor Banerjee obtained his Ph.D. in 2011 under the supervision of Professor Gary W. Rubloff at the University of Maryland, College Park. He was the first John and Maureen Hendrick’s Energy Fellow at the University.