{"id":208,"date":"2015-12-07T09:06:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T15:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/?page_id=208"},"modified":"2026-03-12T10:28:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:28:48","slug":"toshi-nishida","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/people-2\/coe\/toshi-nishida\/","title":{"rendered":"Toshi Nishida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/227\/2015\/12\/NishidaToshi.jpg\" alt=\"Toshi Nishda, Ph.D.\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><strong>Professor and Associate Chair for Research<\/strong><em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><a title=\"Toshi Nishida\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ece.ufl.edu\/users\/nishida-toshikazu\">Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering<\/a><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/\">Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dr. Nishida received his Ph.D. (1988) and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer engineering and B.S. degree in Engineering physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.\u00a0 With colleagues and students, he has published over 130 refereed journal and conference papers and received three best paper awards.\u00a0 He also received the 2003 College of Engineering Teacher of the Year award.\u00a0 He holds six U.S. patents.\u00a0 He is a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Electron Devices Society and a senior member of IEEE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Nishida&#8217;s research interests include the development of reliable, high performance, multi-functional semiconductor devices and solid-state physical sensors and actuators for microsystems employing strained Si, SiGe, GaN, ferroelectrics, and polymers. Applications include biomedical, energy harvesting, logic, and micro-electro-mechanical systems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research Projects:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.img.ufl.edu\/content\/investigation-stress-effects-thin-film-pzt-ferroelectric-capacitors-fram-enhancement\"><span class=\"s1\">Investigation of Stress Effects on Thin-Film PZT Ferroelectric Capacitors for FRAM Enhancement<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.img.ufl.edu\/content\/microfluidics-enabled-immunoassay-array-multianalyte-detection\"><span class=\"s1\">Microfluidics-Enabled Immunoassay Array for Multianalyte Detection<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.img.ufl.edu\/content\/effect-mechanical-stress-algangan-high-electron-mobility-transistor-hemt-device-characterist\"><span class=\"s1\">Effect of Mechanical Stress on AlGaN\/GaN High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT) Device Characteristics and Reliability<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.img.ufl.edu\/content\/flexible-microelectrode-array-neural-recording\"><span class=\"s1\">Flexible Microelectrode Array for Neural Recording<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=oviULDIAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao\">Toshi Nishida&#8217;s Publications found with Google Scholar<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Homepage:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/people\/coe\/toshi-nishda\/\">Toshi Nishda&#8217;s Homepage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor and Associate Chair for Research Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Dr. Nishida received his Ph.D. (1988) and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer engineering and B.S. degree in Engineering physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.\u00a0 With colleagues and students, he has published over 130 refereed journal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":210,"parent":1003,"menu_order":72,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-section-nav.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-208","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12763,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208\/revisions\/12763"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}