Research
Semiconductor materials, devices and circuits
Conducting oxides and silicon: materials, TFT materials, devices and circuits,
High permittivity dielectrics,
Rectennas for IR, THz and solar energy harvesting
Circuit concepts for Hardware Neural Networks,
Modelling of astrocytes for better understanding of the brain
GaN Schottky diode devices
Research groups
Research grants
Feasibility of Novel Deca-nanometer vertical MOSFETs for low-cost Radio Frequency Application
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
March 2007 - February 2010
Value in People Award 2005.
WELLCOME TRUST (UK)
October 2005 - September 2009
Silicon-based nanostructure and nanodevices for long-term nanoelectronics applications(NANOSIL).
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
January 2008 - March 2011
0.03um Vertical Shallow Trench CMOS Technology (VST-CMOS).
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
September 2000 - June 2004
Pulling the limits of nanocmos electronics (PULLNANO)
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
June 2006 - December 2008
A Biologically Plausible Spiking Neuron in Hardware
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
September 2008 - February 2012
Silicon-based nanodevices (SINANO).
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
January 2004 - February 2007
Micro-PADI sources for applications in 2-D chemical imaging
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
April 2011 - March 2014
SiGe channel and source/drain engineering for deep sub-micron CMOS (SIGMOS).
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
January 2000 - June 2003
Mechanisms and Control of Resistive Switching in Dielectrics
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
January 2015 - January 2018
SiGeC HBTs on Insulator for rf Communications.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
August 2001 - August 2004
Precision Passive Component Design & Manufacture in Micro-Module Electronics: PPM2
DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY (UK)
June 2008 - November 2011
ZnO MESFETs for application to Intelligent Windows
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
May 2013 - May 2016
eFuturesXD - crossing the boundaries.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
November 2011 - May 2015
Performance, degradation and defect structure of MOS devices using high-k materials as gate dielectrics.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
March 2005 - February 2008
Low power architecture, circuits and technologies (POWER PACK).
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
March 1998 - February 2001
High permittivity dielectrics on Ge for end of Roadmap application.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
January 2011 - March 2014
Thematic network on silicon on insulator technology, devices and circuits (EUROSOI).
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
December 2003 - March 2006
KEL11/24 - Terahertz rectifiers for solar energy harvesting
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
December 2011 - September 2012
Impact Acceleration Account - University of Liverpool 2012
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2012 - March 2017
Research collaborations
P Chalker
Dielectrics Research