Microelectronics; exploring new materials and device structures using MBE and MOCVD for energy efficient nanoelectronics, high mobility III-V semiconductor heterostructures, strain and bandgap engineering for enhancing hole and electron mobility in low bandgap III-V and Ge quantum well structures, epitaxial growth kinetics, mismatch epitaxy, dislocation and defects confinement into nanoscale for mismatched materials, impact of dislocations on material and device properties, nanowires, thermophotovoltaic and photovoltaic cells on Si substrate for alternate energy sources, novel fabrication techniques and novel device concepts for future nanoelectronic devices.