Bantval Jayant Baliga (born (1948-04-28)28 April 1948) is an Indian electrical engineer best known for his work in power semiconductor devices, and particularly the invention of practical implementations of the insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT).
In 1993, Baliga was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to power semiconductor devices leading to the advent of smart power technology, and in 2024, won the Finnish Millennium Technology Prize for his invention of the IGBT.
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