Mihir Pendharkar

Education & Awards

• B.E., Instrumentation Engineering, VIT Pune, India, 2011
• M.S., Electronics and Photonics, ECE, UC Santa Barbara, 2013
• Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC Santa Barbara, 2019
• Outstanding TA Award, ECE, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017
• APS DCMP Graduate Student Travel Award 2017
• PCSI, Young Scientist Award, 2018
• APS DMP Ovshinsky Student Award, 2018
• University Award of Distinction, UCSB Class of 2018
• Quantum Foundry Associate

Bio

Mihir Pendharkar is a former postdoctoral researcher and graduate student in the group. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering at UCSB in 2019 on "Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Low Dimensional Electron Systems for Topological Quantum Computation". Mihir joined UCSB in Fall 2011 and started working with the group in Spring 2012 on low temperature VIS-IR spectroscopy and transmission spectroscopy of various III-V semiconductors. As part of his PhD, he worked on MBE growth of low dimensional narrow band gap III-V semiconductors (quantum wires and wells of InAs, InSb and InAsSb). His post doc work was focused on growth of superconductor-semiconductor heterostructures for topological quantum computing. He is currently a Q-FARM Bloch Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University.

Research

• Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) growth of III-V semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures
• Low temperature optical spectroscopy 
• Scanning tunneling microscopy
• Topological quantum computing