Nilesh Badwe
(PhD, Arizona State University, USA)
Assistant Professor, Department of MSE
Email: nbadwe@iitk.ac.in
Office: Faculty Building 412 B
Phone: +91 512 679 2205

Specialization:

Mechanical properties of materials, Microelectronics packaging

Areas of Interest:

Nanoporous metals, Electrodeposition of nanocrystalline alloys, Interconnect materials

Professional Experience

• Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur (Feb 2021 - Present)
• Staff Packaging R&D Engineer & Materials Technologist, Intel Corporation (Mar 2020 - Feb 2021)
• Packaging R&D Engineer, Intel Corporation (Jul 2015 - Mar 2020)
• Post-Doctoral Research Scholar, Arizona State University (ASU) (Dec 2014 - Jul 2015)

Recent Publications   |

• Future novel memory device fabrication, heterogenous integration and packaging innovations
  CL Gan, CY Huang, KN Chen, NU Badwe, S Zhang
  Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 185, 108998, 2025
• Optimization of Plating Parameters for Nanocrystalline Copper for Realizing Low Temperature Cu-Cu Bonding
  A Kumar, C Chen, N Badwe
  2024 8th International Workshop on Low Temperature Bonding for 3D Integration (LTB-3D), 2024
• High Temperature Mechanical Properties of Nano-twinned Copper
  G Parween, BY Chen, DP Tran, C Chen, N Badwe
  2024 8th IEEE Electron Devices Technology & Manufacturing Conference (EDTM), 1-3 1, 2024
• Comparative mechanical behavior of Sn-Bi based low temperature solder alloys under different pretest aging conditions
  Sukshitha Achar PL, Colin V Greene, Sean Yenyu Lai, Radu Radulescu, Hannah Fowler, John Blendell, Carol Handwerker, Ganesh Subbarayan, Nilesh Badwe
  2023 IEEE 73rd Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), 2218-2222 4, 2023
• Thermal cycling induced interconnect stability degradation mechanism in low melting temperature solder joints
  K Young, R Aspandiar, N Badwe, S Walwadkar, YW Lee, TK Lee
  2022 IEEE 72nd Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), 1199-1205 11, 2022

Awards/Scholarships

• TMG Excellence Award, Intel Corporation (2018)
• ATTD and CQN Department Recognition Awards, Intel Corporation (2017, 2019, 2019, 2021, 2021)
• University Graduate Fellowship - Arizona State University (2008, 2012)
• Among top 3 students (out of 560) selected from IIT Bombay for Tata steel scholarship (2007 - 08)
• Among top 3 students from Maharashtra selected for Hinduja merit cum means scholarship (2001 - 08)