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Hi, I'm Ijaas.

I’m a Ph.D student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the The Ohio State University, developing ultra wide bandgap AlGaN field effect transistors for RF power amplifiers.

Academics

Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering @ The Ohio State University, United States

Aug 2024 - Today

I joined OSU in Autumn of 2024 with a Graduate fellowship from College of Engineering. Later I joined Dr.Siddharth Rajan’s group for as a PhD student, working on design and processing of high composition AlGaN channel field effect transistors for mm-Wave RF power amplifiers.


M.Sc in Photonics Engineering @ Ghent University, Belgium

September 2022 - July 2024

I joined UGENT for a second master’s degree to shift my interest towards semiconductor device physics and optoelectronics. With Photonics Reseatch group at UGENT (associate lab of IMEC), I worked on design and processing of optical isolator free heterogeneosuly integrated InP on Si DBR laser diodes.


B.S - M.S (Dual Degree) in Physics @ Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal, India

August 2017 - June 2022

M.S thesis on Third order non-linear optical response of Rhenium Disulfide and Rhenium Diselenide 2D semiconductors and its alloys.


Experience

Research Intern

July 2023 - Sept 2023

Investigation of optical properties of top-down fabricated InGaN nanowires (NW) from layers grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), using Spectroscopic ellipsometry, micro photoluminescence (µ-PL), reflectance-transmittance measurements. Numerical simulations using Lumerical FDTD & FDE to predict the absorptance and supported guided and resonant leaky modes in the GaAs NWs and InGaN NWs.

Undergraduate summer intern

June 2021- August 2021

Optical simulations of different textured & planar anti-reflective coatings in c-Si solar cells to study the light trapping effect using Transfer matrix method (TMM) and Rigourous coupled wave analysis (RCWA) with RayFlare package and electrical modeling for I-V characteristics using SOLCORE package in Python (Remotely due to covid restrictions)

Visiting student researcher

June 2019- August 2019, & Dec 2019

Fabrication of inkjet printed ferroelectric field effect transistor (FeFET), followed by electrical characterization. Synthesised and optimized the Ag, Cu2O, PVDF-TrFE, CSPE, In2O3 inks for printing

Undergraduate summer intern

June 2018- August 2018

Optimising the deposition of p-type Cu2O thin films by RF-Magnetron sputtering. Fabrication and I-V characterization of p-type oxide Thin film transistors(TFT).

Publications

My projects

Single event breakdown tolerant AlGaN channel transistors. @ OSU

Nov 2025 - Today

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