Nidhin Kurian Kalarickal

 Nidhin Kalarickal joined the Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering department at ASU as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2022. He completed his doctorate in electrical and computer engineering from The Ohio State University in 2022. At OSU, his research work focused on plasma Assisted MBE growth of β-(AlxGa1-x)2O3/Ga2O3 heterostructures and fabrication of β-Ga2O3 lateral high voltage transistors. For his research work, he was awarded The Ohio State University Presidential Fellowship in March 2021. Before joining OSU for his doctoral studies, Kalarickal was with the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, where he completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in materials science with a minor in physics. At ASU his research work focusses on wide and ultra-wide band gap semiconductors and devices for application in power switching and RF/mm-wave power amplification.