Research Topics in the ATI
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| Title | Level of description (click button for more details) | Researchers | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-technical | Simple technical | Technical | ||
| Identification of Recombination Processes in Mid-infrared Semiconductor Lasers |  |  |  | Kevin O'Brien, Dr Stephen Sweeney, Professor Alf Adams, Dr Shirong Jin, Dr Nasir Ahmad and Professor Ben Murdin |
| The Characterisation of Gallium Nitride Based Light Emitting Diodes for Applications in Solid State Lighting | | | | Ahmed, Dr David Lancefield, Dr Terry Sale |
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| Femtosecond Dynamics of Semiconductor Laser Diodes | | | | David Baxter, Professor Jeremy Allam |
| Novel Materials for Semiconductor Micro-cavities: Modulation Spectroscopy and Carrier lifetimes Characterisation | | | | Gunnar Blume, Dr Jeff Hosea, Dr Stephen Sweeney |
| Using Dilute Nitrides to Control Impact Ionization in Avalanche Photo Diodes | | | | James Chamings, Professor Alf Adams, Dr Stephen Sweeney |
| Laser Biosensors | | | | Joanna Coote, Dr Stephen Sweeney, Dr Sub Reddy |
| Spectroscopy of Near and Mid-infrared Semiconductors | | | | Stuart Cripps, Dr Jeff Hosea, Professor Ben Murdin, Dr Stephen Sweeney |
| Mach Zehnder Optical Modulator in SOI using Traveling Wave Electrodes | | | | Frederic Gardes, Professor Graham Reed, Dr Neil Emerson, Dr Charles Free |
| Polarisation Conversion in Rib Waveguides in the Silicon-On-Insulator Material System | | | | William Headley, Professor Graham Reed |
| Carrier Recombination in 1.3micron GaAsSb/GaAs-based Edge Emitting and Surface Emitting Lasers | | | | Konstanze Hild, Dr Stephen Sweeney, Dr Igor Marko, Mr Gunnar Blume |
| Silicon Waveguide Based Biosensors | | | | Simon Howe, Professor Graham Reed, Dr Stephen Sweeney, Dr Sub Reddy |
| Materials Engineering to Optimise the Spin Dependent Transport between Ferromagnetic Metals and Narrow Gap Semiconductors. | | | | Konstantin Litvinenko, Professor Ben Murdin |
| Silicon Based Light Emitting Devices | | | | Manon Lourenco, Professor Kevin Homewood, Dr Russell Gwilliam |
| Design and Optimization of AlGaInAs Quantum Well Lasers for High Temperature Applications | | | | Igor Marko, Dr Stephen Sweeney, Professor Alfred Adams |
| Coupler for Silicon Nanophotonics | | | | Goran Mashanovich, Professor Graham Reed |
| Long Wavelength Quantum Dot Lasers | | | | Nicolas Masse, Dr Stephen Sweeney, Dr Igor Marko, Dr Aleksey Andreev, Professor Alf Adams |
| High Pressure Studies of Novel Semiconductor Materials | | | | Gary Strudwick, Dr Andrew Prins, Dr Stephen Sweeney, Professor Alf Adams |
| Non-linear Optical Measurement of Novel Materials | | | | Richard Sutton, Professor Jeremy Allam, Mr Konstantinos Bourdakos |
| Total Internal Reflection Based SOI Optical Switch | | | | David Thomson, |
| Ring Resonator Optical Filters in Silicon-on-Insulator | | | | Branislav Timotijevic, Professor Graham Reed, Dr William Headley |
| Flat Diffraction Gratings | | | | Peter M Waugh, Professor Graham Reed, Dr Neil Emerson |
| Characterisation of Amorphous Iron Disilicide for Application to Solar Cells | | | | Lewis Wong, Dr Manon Lourenco, Professor Kevin Homewood |
| Fabrication of Three-dimensional Taper Coupler Using a Nuclear Microprobe | | | | Pengyuan Yang, |
| Ultra-Shallow Junctions for Strain-Engineered nMOS Devices | | | | Nick Bennett, Professor Brian Sealy, Professor Nick Cowern |
| Optimisation of Pre-amorphisation Conditions for the Formation of Highly Activated USJ in Si and SOI | | | | Justin Hamilton, Dr Karen Kirkby, Professor Nick Cowern |
| Proton Beam Lithography: Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, Lab-on-a-Chip | | | | Harry Igbenehi, Dr Inmaculada Gomez-Morilla, Dr Geoff Grime, Dr Karen Kirkby, Professor Roger Webb |
| X-ray Detector Design | | | | Shada Kazemi, Professor Roger Webb, Dr Russell Gwilliam, Dr Rob Sareen, Dr Greg Bale |
| Investigations into Proton Beam Writing in Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) | | | | Prashant Mistry, Dr Inmaculada Gomez-Morilla, Dr Geoff Grime, Dr Karen Kirkby, Professor Roger Webb |
| Non-melt Laser Annealing of Boron implanted Silicon | | | | James Sharp, Dr Karen Kirkby, Professor Roger Webb, Professor Nick Cowern |
| Vacancy Engineering for Future Silicon Devices | | | | Andrew Smith, Dr Andy Smith, Professor Nick Cowern, Dr Russell Gwilliam, Professor Roger Webb, Professor Brian Sealy |
| Novel Multilayer Thickfilm Circuits Incorporating Antennas and Interconnects | | | | Anne Abeygunasekera, Dr Charles Free Professor Bernard Weiss |
| Photovoltaic applications of nano-structured materials | | | | Damitha Adikaari, Professor Ravi Silva |
| Investigation of Adaptive Microwave Communication System Using Novel Planar Antennas | | | | Wesam Ali, Dr Charles Free, Professor Ravi Silva |
| Characterisation of Source-Gated Transistors | | | | Frantisek Balon, Professor Brian Sealy, Professor John Shannon, Dr Richard Smith |
| Carbon Nanotube Networks as Transparent Conductive Flexible Films | | | | Romain Bernard, Dr Richard Smith, Professor Ravi Silva |
| Resonant Tunnelling and Fast Switching in Amorphous Carbon Quantum Well Structures | | | | Somnath Bhattacharyya, Dr Simon Henley, Dr Luis Gomez-Rojas, Professor Jeremy Allam, Professor Ravi Silva |
| Nonlinear Optical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes | | | | Konstantinos Bourdakos, Professor Jeremy Allam, Dr Richard Curry, Professor Ravi Silva |
| Development and Study of Hybrid Organic-Colloidal Quantum Dot Systems | | | | Konstantinos Bourdakos, Dr Richard Curry, Professor Jeremy Allam |
| Self Assembly Synthesis of Tungsten Oxide Nanowires | | | | Guan Yow Chen, Dr David Cox, Professor Ravi Silva, Dr Vlad Stolojan |
| NanoGrowth Tool Development for Low Temperature Growth of Carbon Nanotubes | | | | Guan Yow Chen, Professor Ravi Silva |
| Characterising and Functionalisation of Nanowhiskers for High Performance Devices | | | | Lok Chong, Dr Richard Curry, Professor Ravi Silva, Dr Gabriele Wagner |
| Nanofabrication and Manipulation | | | | David Cox, Professor Ravi Silva |
| Thermal Conduction in Carbon Nanotubes | | | | Philip Cripps, Professor Ravi Silva, Dr David Cox |
| Development and Study of Hybrid Organic-Colloidal Quantum Dot Systems | | | | Richard Curry, |
| Structural and Optoelectronic Properties of C60 Rods Obtained Via a Rapid Synthesis Route | | | | Richard Curry, Yizheng Jin, Richard J. Curry, Jeremy Sloan, Ross A. Hatton, Lok Cee Chong, Nicholas Blanchard, Vlad Stolojan, Harold W. Kroto and S. Ravi P. Silva |
| High Efficient Organic/Quantum Dot Hybrid Solar Cells | | | | Nanditha Dissanayake, Professor Ravi Silva, Dr Richard Curry, Dr Ross Hatton, Dr Nikolaos Bourdakos, Mr Anthony Miller |
| Field Emission from Carbon Nanotube Based Devices | | | | Lucian-Dragos Filip, Professor Ravi Silva, Dr David Carey |
| Solving the Inverse Problem of EEG and MEG Studies | | | | Archontis Giannakidis, Professor Maria Petrou, Professor Ravi Silva |
| Scanning Probe Microscopy on Carbon-Based Materials | | | | Cristina Giusca, Dr Yann Tison, Professor Ravi Silva |
| RF Response of Carbon Nanotubes | | | | Luis Gomez-Rojas, Professor Ravi Silva |
| System-on-Panel Techniques for Carbon Nanotube Field Emission Displays | | | | Xiaojun Guo, Dr Damitha Adikaari, Dr Guan Yow Chen, Professor Ravi Silva |
| Nano-structured Materials for Organic Solar Cells | | | | Ross Hatton, Professor Ravi Silva |
| The Development of Protein Specific Aqueous Phase Molecularly Imprinted Polymers | | | | Daniel Hawkins, Dr Sub Reddy |
| Pulsed-laser-induced, Self-assembly of Nanomaterials | | | | Simon Henley, Dr David Carey, Professor Ravi Silva |
| Advanced Electronic Characterisation of Carbon Nanotube Systems | | | | Daniel Henwood, Dr David Carey, Dr Nick Blanchard, Dr Yann Tison, Professor Ravi Silva |
| Microstrip Ring Resonators for Measuring Dielectric Properties of Materials | | | | Richard Hopkins, Dr Charles Free |
| Towards the Fabrication of a Carbon Nanotube Based Electrical Biosensor | | | | Charlie Jeynes, Professor Johnjoe McFadden, Professor Ravi Silva |
| Electrical Characteristics of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes | | | | Gemma Kerr, Dr David Carey, Dr David Cox, Mr Paul Smith, Professor Ravi Silva |
| Carbon Nanotubes in Large Area Lighting Applications | | | | Stephen Lyth, Dr Ross Hatton, Dr George Adamopoulos, Professor Ravi Silva |
| Organic Solar Cells Utilising a Carbon Nanotube-Polymer Composite | | | | Anthony Miller, Dr Ross Hatton, Professor Ravi Silva |
| Multilayer Micro/mm-wave Circuit Design | | | | Chunwei Min, Dr Charles Free |
| Excimer Laser Crystallised Polysilicon Solar Cells | | | | Nilushan Mudugamuwa, Professor John Shannon, Professor Ravi Silva |
| Dielectrophoretic Separation of Metallic/Semiconducting SWNTs | | | | Natacha Mureau, Dr Mike Hughes, Professor Ravi Silva |
| Fabrications of Devices using Carbon Nanotube and Carbon Nanofibres | | | | Fumitaka Ohashi, Dr Guan Yow Chen, Professor Ravi Silva |
| Source-Gated Thin film Transistors | | | | John Shannon, Dr Frank Balon, Prof Brian Sealy, Dr Richard Smith |
| Biosensing with Protein Functionalised Carbon Nanotubes | | | | Kathy Sharpe, Mr Charlie Jeynes, Dr Natacha Mureau, Professor Ravi Silva |
| Conduction in Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes | | | | Paul Smith, Dr David Cox, Dr David Carey, Professor Ravi Silva |
| Mechanism of Field Emission of Carbon Nanotubes | | | | Richard Smith, Dr David Carey, Professor Ravi Silva |
| Sub-nanometre Analysis Using Electron Microscopy and Associated Techniques | | | | Vlad Stolojan, Professor Ravi Silva, Dr David Cox, Dr Jeremy Sloan, Dr Guan Yow Chen, Dr Yann Tison |
| Probing the Electronic Structure of Nanostructures | | | | Yann Tison, Ms Cristina Giusca, Dr Nick Blanchard, Professor Ravi Silva |
| Ion-Beam-Synthesized Metal-SiO2 Nanocomposite Layers For Electron Field Emission Devices | | | | Wei-Mong Tsang, Dr V. Stolojan, Professor Brian Sealy, Professor Ravi Silva |
| Carbon Nanotube Arrays as 'Dry' Electrophysiological Sensors | | | | Paul Watts, Professor Ravi Silva |
| Computational Study of Functional Opal Based Photonic Crystals | | | | Durga Aryal, Professor Ortwin Hess, Professor Jeremy Allam, Dr Cecile Jamois |
| Solvation Pressure as Real Pressure: Ethanol Water Simulations | | | | Peter Berryman, Dr Dave Faux |
| Band-Resolved Modelling and Simulation of Optically Active Semiconductor Structures | | | | Klaus Boehringer, Professor Ortwin Hess |
| Molecular Dynamics Simulation of the Rheology of Nanotubes | | | | James Cannon, Professor Ortwin Hess |
| Control of Spatio-Temporal Dynamics in Bio and Optoelectronic Systems | | | | Nicoleta Gaciu, Professor Ortwin Hess, Dr David Faux, Dr Edeltraud Gehrig |
| Space-time Modelling of Mesoscopically-structured Semiconductor Media and Functional Biophotonic Structures | | | | Edeltraud Gehrig, Professor Ortwin Hess |
| Nonlinear Rheodynamics | | | | Chris Goddard, Professor Orwtin Hess |
| Quantum Computing with Semiconductor Quantum Dots | | | | Philip Howard, Dr Aleksey Andreev |
| Theory and Simulation of Quantum Dot Amplifiers and Lasers | | | | Dietmar Reschner, Professor Ortwin Hess, Dr E. Gehrig |
| Theory and Modelling of Metamaterial Heterostructures and Waveguides | | | | Kosmas Tsakmakidis, Professor Ortwin Hess, Dr Andreas Klaedtke, Professor Michael Kearney |
| Generation and Amplification of Light in Rare-Earth-Doped Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers | | | | Eldad Yahel, Professor Ortwin Hess |
| Distributed Computing Platform for Small Satellites using Software Agents | | | | Christopher Bridges, |
| Millimetre-Wave Antenna Integration for Multichip Module Technology | | | | Manju Henry, Dr. Charles Free |
| Biosensors and Electrophysiological Sensors Based on Carbon Nanotubes | | | | Thierry Lutz, Dr Natacha Mureau, Dr Paul Watts, Mr Shehan de Silva, Professor Ravi Silva |
