Electrical and Electronic Engineering PhD

The School of Engineering offers postgraduate research degrees at PhD level in all of our major research areas. You are encouraged to view our research group expertise for details of our research areas and opportunities to develop research in a chosen subject.

Our research in this area includes:

• strained Si technology for high-speed low-power integrated circuits
• SiC for high-temperature, high-power electronics
• reliability of interconnects
• high-k dielectrics and developing novel electrical characterisation
• ferroelectric materials for tunable capacitance and integration with silicon technology
• biomedical devices
• sensors and electronics for hostile environments
• Si-based photovoltaics
• nm scale material characterisation
• diffusion in semiconductors
• Atomic Layer Deposition
• device fabrication
• technology CAD
• molecular electronics
• integrative systems and applications
• first-principles simulation of defects in semiconductors
• theoretical modelling of the properties of materials