Akintunde Ibitayo Akinwande[1] is a Nigerian
American engineering[2] professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of Massachusetts Institute of Technology .[3]
Early life and education
Akintunde was born in Offa in Kwara State . He attended Government College, Ibadan. He earned his B.Sc. (1978), M.Sc (1981) in
Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the
Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife and
Ph.D. (1986) in Electrical Engineering from
Stanford University , California.[1]
Academic and Research Career
Akinwande commenced work as a scientist at
Honeywell Inc. Technology Center in Bloomington, Minnesota in 1986, initially researching on Gas Complementary FET technology for very high speed and low power signal processing. He became associate professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) at MIT in January 1995, researching on pressure sensors , accelerometers , thin-film field emission and display devices , micro-fabrication and electronic devices with particular emphasis on smart sensors and actuators, intelligent displays, large area electronics (macro-electronics) and field ionization devices, mass spectrometry and electric propulsion. He developed the thin-film-edge Field Emitter Arrays for RF Micro-Triode Power Amplifiers and Flat Panel Displays, demonstrating the possible use of the thin-film-edge.
His research also focuses on:
Microstructures and nanostructures for sensors and actuators, and vacuum microelectronics.
Devices for large-area electronics and flat panel displays
Lithographically patterned metal oxide
transistors for large-area electronics
CNT-based open architecture ionizer for portable mass spectrometry
Growth studies of in-plane and out-of-plane SWNTs for electron devices
High-current CNT FEAs on Si Pillars
Batch-fabricated linear quadrupole mass filters[4][5][6]
He co-founded the Nigeria Higher Education Foundation in 2004. He has served in technical program committees for various conferences such as:
Device Research Conference,
the International Electron Devices Meeting,
the International Solid-State Circuits Conference,
the International Display Research Conference
the International Vacuum Microelectronics Conference.
Academic posts and memberships
Visiting professor at the Cambridge University Engineering Department
Overseas Fellow of Churchill College from 2002 to 2003.
Member of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council. [7]
Honours and awards
Sweatt Award Honeywell's Technical Award (1989) [8]
National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award.(1996)
Fellow Class of 2008 IEEE[9]
Publications
He has authored over 100 journals and publications.
Patents
Numerous patents in MEMS, Electronics on Flexible Substrates, Display. [10]
Single-use, permanently sealable microvalve. [11]
Diaphram phased field emitter and backfulling method for producing a microstructure. [12]
Individually switched field emission arrays.
[13]
Organic field emission device. [6][14][15]