Postgraduate research students
Take a look at what our postgraduate research students are working on.
Our students
Our students work within our research groups/centres associated with our Institute.
Viva voce examinations
Our research students who have passed their PhD viva voce examinations according to award year.
Robin Underwood
- Project: An acoustic gas thermometer for the redefinition and realisation of the kelvin
- Supervisor: Professor Marian Florescu
Leslie Askew
- Project: Conjugated semiconductors for a retinal prosthetic
- Supervisor: Dr Maxim Shkunov
Dongtao Liu
- Project: Strain engineering for halide perovskite photovoltaics
- Supervisor: Dr Wei Zhang
Christopher Preddy
- Project: Multi-Functional Carbon Fibre Composites for Radio Frequency Applications
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Jinxin Bi
- Project: Fabrication of Photo-rechargeable Systems for Self-powered Electronics
- Supervisor: Dr Wei Zhang
Michal Delkowski
- Project: Smart coatings for polymers and carbon fibre reinforced composites to improve properties in extreme environments and space applications
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Alexander Browning
- Project: Hexagonal boron nitride: Investigations towards a single-photon source
- Supervisor: Professor Jeremy Allam
Adam Burgess
- Project: Non-Markovian Dynamics of Open Quantum Systems in Structured Environments
- Supervisor: Dr Marian Florescu
Kristian Stockbridge
- Project: Electrical readout of orbital state transitions from few hydrogenic donors in silicon
- Supervisor: Professor Ben Murdin
Manman Wang
- Project: Development of Highly Reversible Li-CO2 Batteries for Energy Storage and CO2 Utilisation: From On-Chip Exploration to Practical Application
- Supervisor: Dr Yunlong Zhao
Dannielle Cox-Pridmore
- Project: Embedding bioelectronics within a multifunctional characterisation platform for cellular interrogation and cardiac tissue deterministic regeneration
- Supervisor: Dr Yunlong Zhao
Xuhui Yao
- Project: Interface Engineering and Advanced Characterisation for Solid-State Li Metal Batteries
- Supervisor: Dr Yunlong Zhao
Ella Schneider
- Project: Fabrication of Isotopically Pure 28Si and 74Ge Layers for Quantum Computers Using Ion Implantation and Metal Induced Layer Exchange
- Supervisor: Professor Jonathan England
Max Cykiert
- Project: Robust control of the transmon qubit for quantum information processing
- Supervisor: Dr Eran Ginossar
Jamie McMillan
- Project: Traceable thermal imaging in harsh environments
- Supervisor: Professor Stephen Sweeney
Xueping Liu
- Project: Highly Efficient and Stable Halide Perovskite Solar Cells
- Supervisor: Dr Wei Zhang
George Bairaktaris
- Project: Flexible Electronic Technologies for New User Interfaces
- Supervisor : Dr Radu Sporea
Dominic Duffy
- Project: Development of Novel Semiconductor Materials and Type-II Heterostructures for Infrared Applications
- Supervisor: Professor Stephen Sweeney
Christopher Fitch
- Project: Development of III-V Materials and Devices for Silicon Photonic Integration
- Supervisor: Professor Stephen Sweeney
Elena Lupo
- Project: Theory and design of quantum devices with superconducting circuits and topological states of matter
- Supervisor: Dr Eran Ginossar
Mateus Gallucci Masteghin
- Project: Focused Ion Beam Induced Strain of Nanomembranes and Exotic Liquid Metal Ion Sources Development
- Supervisor: Dr David Cox
Michael Spencer
- Project: Limiting Concentration Quenching in Porphyrin – o-MWCNT systems: Mechanisms and Applications
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Maheshani Prabodhi Alwis Nanayakkara
- Project: Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Semiconductors for Direct X-ray Detection
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Jessica Smith
- Project: Scanning Near-field Microscopy of Silicon-based Material for Quantum Technologies
- Supervisor: Professor Ben Murdin
Wesley Buxton
- Project: Electroactive Nanofiber materials for high-performance Supercapacitor devices
- Supervisor: Dr Vlad Stolojan
Barbara Salonikidou
- Project: Fully Printed Ag/a-TiO2/Ag electronic synapse for biomimetic applications
- Supervisor: Dr Radu Sporea
Eva Bestelink
- Project: Contact-Controlled Thin-Film Transistors and Compact Circuits for Low-Power Sensors and Internet of Things
- Supervisor: Dr Radu Sporea
Joshua Reding
- Project: Structural and Electronic Properties of 2D Lead Halide Perovskites
- Supervisor: Professor Jeremy Allam
Jing Zhang
- Project: : Development of High-performance Long-term Stable and Low-cost Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells
- Supervisor: Dr Wei Zhang
Richard Spalding
- Project: Active Hyperuniform Disordered Materials
- Supervisor: Dr Marian Florescu
Holly-May Lewis
- Project: Development of Direct Analyte-Probed Nanoextraction Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (DAPNe-LC-MS) as a novel approach for the analysis of biological samples
- Supervisor: Professor Roger Webb
Bowei Li
- Project: Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays for Perovskite Solar Cells
- Supervisor: Dr Wei Zhang
Victoria Ferguson
- Project: Development of High-Performance Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells
- Supervisor: Dr Wei Zhang
Zulhilmi Mustafa
- Project: PL and EL Studies of Dysprosium and Holmium Doped Silicon Based on Dislocation Engineering Method
- Supervisor: Professor Roger Webb
Robert Simmons
- Project: Effects of the Rashba Interaction in Asymmetric Narrow Gap QuantumWells
- Supervisor: Dr Steven Clowes
Cameron Underwood
- Project: Ab Initio Calculations of the Structural and Electronic properties of Tin Based Perovskite Solar Absorber Materials
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Pavlos Giannakou
- Project: Printed Transition Metal Oxide Electrochemical Capacitors for Energy Harvesting Applications
- Supervisor: Dr Maxim Shkunov
Elizabeth Legge
- Project: Physicochemical Characterisation of Graphene Based 2D Materials for Industrial Applications
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Ash Stott
- Project: Polyaniline and nano-carbon composites for high performance supercapacitor materials
- Supervisor: Dr Radu Sporea
Kaspar Snashall
- Project: Additive Manufacture Of RF Electronics
- Supervisor: Dr Tim Brown
Cristian Matei
- Project: Multiphysics Characterisation and Design of GaN HEMTs Using Advanced Thermoreflectance Techniques
- Supervisor: Dr Peter Aaen/Dr Radu Sporea
Rhonda Au Yeung
- Project: Developing Spontaneous Coherence in Incoherently-driven Jaynes-Cummings Systems
- Supervisor: Dr Eran Ginossar
Morgan Carpenter
- Project: Quasi-Two-Dimensional Modelling of Gallium Nitride Based Microwave High Power Power Amplifiers
- Supervisor: Dr Peter Aaen
Alberto Perez
- Project: THz Nonlinear Optics in Silicon and Germanium for Third Harmonic Generation
- Supervisor: Professor Ben Murdin
Mehmet Tas
- Project: Carbon Nanotube-based Hybrid Structures for Micro-probing and Motion Sensing Applications
- Supervisor: Dr Vlad Stolojan
Gemma Chapman
- Project: Integration of Microwaves for Solotronic Applications
- Supervisors: Dr Peter Aaen and Professor Ben Murdin
Matthew Sharpe
- Project: Development of Novel Semiconductor Based Photodetector DevicesDevelopment of Novel Semiconductor Based Photodetector Devices
- Supervisor: Professor Stephen Sweeney
Laurence Stant
- Project: measurement uncertainty in nonlinear behavioural models of microwave and millimetre-wave amplifiers
- Supervisor: Dr Peter Aaen
Helen Jones
- Project: Uncertainties in focused ion beam characterisation
- Supervisor: Dr David Cox
Indrachapa Bandara Rajapakshe Mudiyanselage
- Project: Inorganic Organic Hybrid Pb-Sn Mixed Perovskites for Photovoltaics
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Jonas Urbonas
- Project: Multiphysics Measurements of High-Power Microwave Transistors and Amplifiers
- Supervisor: Dr Peter Aaen
Yousif Sadik
- Project: Tuning the absorption and emission properties of Ru(11) polypyridyl complexes by ligand design
- Supervisors: Dr Scott Turner/Professor Stephen Sweeney
Vassiliki Sia Kanellopoulos
- Project: A Tumour Database with Prediction Tools for Side Effects and Modelling of Hadrontherapy
- Supervisor: Professor Roger Webb
Joseph Allen
- Project: Robust Optimal Control of the Cross-Resonance Gate in Superconducting Qubits
- Supervisor: Dr Eran Ginossar
Timothy Eales
- Project: Influence of Electronic Band Structure on the Efficiency of Mid-Infrared Photonic Devices
- Supervisor: Professor Stephen Sweeney
Tomas Peach
- Project: Bismuth Implantation and Fabrication Routes towards Silicon Donor Based Quantum Technologies
- Supervisor: Dr Steve Clowes
Haris Votsi
- Project: High-Frequency Electromagnetic Characterisation and Modelling of Extreme Impedance Devices
- Supervisor: Dr Peter Aaen
Mohammed Ismael
- Project: Nucleolar Targeting in Combination with Radiation for Cancer Therapy
- Supervisor: Professor Roger Webb
Randunu Ishara Dharmasena
- Project: Triboelectric Self-Powered Energy Systems
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Zakaria Saadi
- Project: Thermoelectric Generators based on Carbon Nanotubes
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Hashini Thirmanne
- Project: 'Inorganics in Organics' Semiconductors for High Energy Radiation Detection
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Bobur Mirkhaydarov
- Project: Nanowire Field-Effect Transistors as RF-Switches
- Supervisor: Dr Maxim Shkunov
Lidija Matjacic
- Project: Optimisation and Application of AP MeV SIMS
- Supervisor: Professor Roger Webb
Natalie Mayhead
- Project: Modulation of the Base Excision Repair (BER) pathway in the Treatment of Glioblastoma with Radiotherapy
- Supervisor: Professor Roger Webb
Zoe Louise Bushell
- Project: Development of Novel Infrared Photonic Materials and Devices
- Supervisor: Professor Stephen Sweeney
Steven Sellers
- Project: Photonic Band Gaps and Local Self-Uniformity: New Perspectives on Disordered Optical Media
- Supervisor: Dr Peter Aaen
Ming Tsuey Chew
- Project: Effects of Different ION Species and LETs on Glioblastoma Cell Lines
- Supervisor: Professor David Bradley
Steven Chick
- Project: Coherent Control of Spin and Orbital Wave Packets of Donors in Silicon using Mid-Infrared and Terahertz Light
- Supervisor: Professor Ben Murdin
Ross Maspero
- Project: Unfolding the Band Structure of Electronic and Photonic Materials
- Supervisor: Dr Marian Florescu
Brett Fisher
- Project: Nanoscale Light Manipulation for Improved Organic Solar Cells
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Dimitar Kutsarov
- Project: Large Area Highly Efficient Hybrid Polymer Solar Cells
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Nurhakimah Norhashim
- Project: Photoluminescence Temperature Dependance of Ev:YAG, CdMnse and Zn3N2 Optical Materials
- Supervisor: Dr Richard Curry
Matthew Elliot
- Project: Theory of Nonclassical Photonic States in Driven-Dissipative Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics
- Supervisor: Dr Eran Ginossar
Marios Constantinou
- Project: Nanowire Field-Effect Transistors for Gas Sensor Applications
- Supervisor: Dr Maxim Shkunov
Scott Jarvis
- Project: Towards High Efficiency Photovoltaics for Applications in Laser Power Beaming
- Supervisor: Professor Stephen Sweeney
Matthew Large
- Project: Structure-Property Relationships in Silver Nanowire Coatings
- Supervisor: Dr Marian Florescu
Kiron Prabha Rajeev
- Project: Organic Photodiodes as Optical Sensors
- Supervisor: Dr Maxim Shkunov
Ranga Malvaiarachchige
- Project: Importance of Structure-property relationship and Metallophilic Stacking of the Azole-Azine ligand Based Homoleptic Platinum (II) Complexes in turning the Photo-physical Properties
- Supervisor: Dr Peter Jarowski
Saad Alshehri
- Project: Proton Beam Writing of 3D-microstructure for Microfluidics and MEMS Applications
- Supervisor: Professor Roger Webb
Christopher Smith
- Project: Graphene Oxide Material Interfaces in Electronics, Energy and Environmental Membranes
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Timothy Amoah
- Project: Designer Disordered Complex Media: Hyperuniform Photonic and Phononic Band Gap Materials
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
James Clark
- Project: Microelectrode Array Fabrication for Electrochemical Detection with Carbon Nanotubes
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Thomas Pozegic
- Project: Nano-modified Carbon-epoxy Composite Structures for Aerospace Applications
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Graham Read
- Project: Efficiency limiting processes and optimisation of silicon compatible lasers for optoelectronic integration and optical interconnects
- Supervisor: Professor Stephen Sweeney
Muhammad Razali
- Project: Phosphorus Activation and Diffusion in Germanium
- Supervisor: Professor Russell Gwilliam
Aniza Abdul Karin
- Project: The Interaction of keV Cluster and MeV ions with Insulating Materials
- Supervisor: Professor Roger Webb
Sofia Siddique
- Project: Exciton Dynamics in Polymer Wrapped Carbon Nanotubes
- Supervisor: Professor Jeremy Allam
Jeng Shiung Chen
- Project: Selective Growth of Carbon Nanotubes via Photo-Thermal Chemical Vapour Deposition
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Dilla Berhanuddin
- Project: Generation and Characterisation of the Carbon G-centre in Silicon
- Supervisor: Professor Stephen Sweeney
Mark Langridge
- Project: Manufacture of Micro-Optical Elements for Imaging and Light-Guidance
- Supervisor: Dr Vlad Stolojan
Nathanael Roome
- Project: Electronic and Phonon Properties of 2D Layered Materials
- Supervisor: Dr David Carey
Keyur Kishorkumar Gandhi
- Project: Enhancement of Light Coupling to Solar Cells using Plasmonic Structures
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Rinku Saran
- Project: High Performance Large-Area Hybrid Photodetectors
- Supervisor: Dr Richard Curry
Francis Sam
- Project: Nanometric Metal Grids as Transparent Conducting Electrodes for OLEDs
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Zahida Batool
- Project: Characterisation of Compound Semiconductors for Next Generation Photonic Devices
- Supervisor: Professor Stephen Sweeney
Winnie Tang
- Project: Examining the Effects of Nanomaterials in Epoxy Systems
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Abdullah Mohammed Aldukhayel
- Project: Physical Process in Inter-band and Inter-subband Mid-Infrared Photonic Devices
- Supervisor: Professor Stephen Sweeney
James Cook
- Project: Optical Magnetism with Metallic Nano-Composites
- Supervisor: Professor Ortwin Hess
Mohammad R Alenezi
- Project: Nanostructured Zinc Oxide Sensors
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
John Dear
- Project: Solution Processed Self-Assembly for Aligned Carbon Nanotube Devices
- Supervisor: Dr Maxim Shkunov
Ellis Bowyer
- Project: Electrical Detection of Hydrogen-like Donors in Silicon
- Supervisor: Dr Steven Clowes
Nathan Owens
- Project: Carrier Injection Based Reflective Optical Switch in Silicon-on-Insulator
- Supervisor: Professor Graham Reed
Gangodawilage Dabera
- Project: Functionalisation of Carbon Nanotubes for 4th Generation Hybrid Photovoltaics
- Supervisor - Professor Ravi Silva
Abdullah Aldukhayel
- Project: Physical Processes in Inter-Band and Inter-Subband Mid-Infrared Photonic Devices
- Supervisor: Professor Stephen Sweeney
Liam McCafferty
- Project: Novel Synthesis Methods of Carbon-Nanotube-Based Composite Materials
- Supervisor: Dr Vlad Stolojan
Muhmmed Ahmad
- Project: Carbon Nanotube based Integrated Circuit Interconnects
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Muhammad Nordin
- Project: Magneto Optical Study of Undoped and Doped PbS Nanocrystals
- Supervisor: Dr Richard Curry
Abdullah Sarhan Alshammari
- Project: Organic-inorganic Nano-Composites for Large Area Device Applications
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Alexander James Samuels
- Project: Modular Doping of Graphene Based Materials
- Supervisor: Dr David Carey
Nasrul Aamina Nismy
- Project: Organic-Carbon Nanotube Hybrid Photovoltaics
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Stamatis Georgakopoulos
- Project: Polymer Field-Effect Transistors
- Supervisor: Dr Maxim Shkunov
Ben Crutchley
- Project: Investigation into the Efficiency Limitations of inGaN-based Light Emitters
- Supervisor: Professor Stephen Sweeney
Matthew Brown
- Project: The Effects of Excitons on the Optical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes: Modelling and Theory
- Supervisor: Dr Alexsey Andreev
Michael Lewis
- Project: Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Nanostructures for Mid-IR Photonics
- Supervisor: Professor Stephen Sweeney
Iskandar Yahya
- Project: Advanced Nanoelectronic Devices Based on Carbon Nanotubes for Future Electronics
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Seungjin Han
- Project: Hybrid Bulk-Heterojunction Photovoltaic Cells incorporating Zn
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Andrew Pye
- Project: A Theoretical Investigation of Coherent Electron Transport and Thermoelectric Effects in Disordered Mesoscopic Structures
- Supervisor: Dr David Faux
Ali H Alshehri
- Project: Nanomaterials for RF and Sub-THz Applications
- Supervisor: Dr David Carey
Philip Howard
- Project: Modelling of Charge Qubits in Silicon Isolated Double Quantum Dots
- Supervisor: Dr Alexsey Andreev
Miriam Barry
- Project: Using Fluorescence Microscopy to Determine How Cell Cycle Phase Affects Different Cellular End-Points After Irradiation in the Low Dose Region
- Supervisor: Professor Karen Kirkby
Milan Milosevic
- Project: Silicon Waveguide Technology for Emerging Applications
- Supervisor: Professor Goran Mashanovich
Nicolas Bright
- Project: The Application of Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry for The Analysis of Overlapping Fingerprints and Inks
- Supervisor: Professor Karen Kirkby
Brian Jones
- Project: The Development of MeV Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry
- Supervisor: Professor Roger Webb
Paul Critchley
- Project: Optical Characterisation of Dipicolinic Acid Based Organolanthanide Complexes
- Supervisor: Professor Ben Murdin
Somporn Buaprathoom
- Project: Photonics Based Cryptosporidium Detection System
- Supervisor: Professor Stephen Sweeney
Sebastian Galer
- Project: Development of a Microbolometer for Microdosimetry of Ionising Radiation
- Supervisor: Professor Andrew Nisbet
Matthew Christopher
- Project: Development of Ion Beam Analysis Methods for the Characterisation o Gunshot Residue
- Supervisor: Professor Andrew Nisbet
Marina Leontiadou
- Project: Spin Dynamics and Spin Control in Narrow Gap Semiconductors
- Supervisor: Professor Ben Murdin
Nadir Hossain
- Project: Efficiency Limiting Processes in Novel Laser Materials for Optical Computing and Communications
- Supervisor: Professor Stephen Sweeney
Muhammad Tariq Sajjad
- Project: Exciton Dynamics in Carbon Nanotubes
- Supervisor: Professor Jeremy Allam
Sayid Sayid
- Project: Efficient, High Performance Photonic Devices for Optical Fibre Communications and Related Applications
- Supervisor: Professor Stephen Sweeney
Edmund Kirby
- Project: Slow and Stopped Light in Negative Refractive Index Waveguides
- Supervisor: Professor Ortwin Hess
Oijai Ongrai
- Project: New Approaches to Improve Thermocouple Thermometry to 2000oC
- Supervisor: Professor Stephen Sweeney
Lara Barazzuol
- Project: Combined Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy for High-grade Brain Tumours
- Supervisor: Professor Karen Kirkby
Michail Beliatis
- Project: Laser Fabrication of Plasmonic Metal Nanoparticles for Optoelectronic Devices
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Yee Yuan Tan
- Project: Growth and Electrical Properties of Chemical Vapour Deposited Low Dimensional sp2 Carbons
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Jaydeep Mody
- Project: Computer Modelling and Simulation of the Interaction of keV Clusters with Molecular Solids
- Supervisor: Dr Simon Henley
Imalka Jayawardena
- Project: Pulsed Laser Synthesis of Nanostructures for Large Area Nanoelectronics
- Supervisor: Dr Simon Henley
Barnabas Ikyo
- Project: Physical Properties of Interband Cascade Edge- and Surface-Emitting Mid-Infrared Lasers
- Supervisor: Professor Stephen Sweeney
Marc Harper
- Project: Efficiency of Small Loop Antennas
Juerong Li
- Project: Spin Dependent Electron Transport in Nanoscale InSb Quantum Well Devices
- Supervisor: Dr Steven Clowes
Parul Sharma
- Project: The Growth and Characterization of Silicon Nanowires/ Carbon Nanotubes for Heterojunctions
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Simon Howe
- Project: Fabrication and Tailoring of Silicon Photonic Devices via Focused Ion Beams
- Supervisor: Professor Graham Reed
Masamba Kah
- Project: Comparative Study of Boron Activation in Silicon, Silicon-on-Insulator and Silicon-Germanium Substrates
- Supervisor: Professor Karen Kirkby
Solmaz Golchin
- Project: Investigating Single Cell Growth Dynamics of Mycobacteria with Microfluidics
- Supervisor: Dr Richard Curry
Nural Huda Osman
- Project: Minature Planar Components for Microwave Applications
- Supervisor: Dr Charles Free
Joseph Emah
- Project: Improving Organic Photovoltaic Device Efficiency through Nanoimprinting
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Radu Sporea
- Project: Polysilicon Thin-Film Source-Gated Transistors for Mixed Signal Large Area Electronics
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Worasak Sukkabot
- Project: Electronic Structure of Quantum Dot: Tight-binding Approach
- Supervisor: Dr Aleksey Andreev
Renzo Loiacono
- Project: Physical Properties and Efficiency Limiting Processes in Nitride Based in Optoelectronic Devices
- Supervisor: Dr Aleksey Andreev
Li-Wei Tan
- Project: Improvements to Organic Light Emitting Devices with Carbon Nanotubes and Fluoropolymer
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Shada Kazemi
- Project: Design, Development and Fabrication of a New Generation Semiconductor X-ray Detector
- Supervisor: Professor Russell Gwilliam
Kevin Yang
- Project: Proton Beam Writing: A novel tool for Silicon Waveguides Fabrication
- Supervisor: Professor Graham Reed
Kathy Sharpe
- Project: Functionalisation of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Proteins: A Comparison of Methods and Efficiency
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Michael Merchant
- Project: A Theoretical Investigation of the Next Generation of MeV Ion Nanobeams
- Supervisor: Dr Geoffrey Grime
David Grocutt
- Project: Modelling the Electronic Properties of Si-based Quantum Structures in External Electric and Magnetic Fields
- Supervisor: Dr Aleksey Andreev
Lewis Wong
- Project: Optical and Structural Properties of ion Beam Fabricated Amorphous and Polycrystalline Iron Disilicide
- Supervisor: Professor Kevin Homewood
Dietmar Reschner
- Project: Theory and Simulation of Quantum Dot Semiconductor Amplifiers and Lasers
- Supervisor: Professor Ortwin Hess
James Cannon
- Project: Non-equilibrium Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Flow Through Carbon Nanotubes
- Supervisor: Professor Ortwin Hess
James Chamings
- Project: Efficiency limitations and Band Anti-Crossing in novel Dilute Nitride Optoelectronic Devices
- Supervisor: Professor Stephen Sweeney
Fumitaka Ohashi
- Project: Fabrication of Carbon Nanotube Devices using Thermal Chemical Vapour Deposition
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Shehan de Silva
- Project: Integration of CNT Bio Potential Sensors Based on a SAW Backscatter Device
- Supervisor: Dr Charles Free
Lok Cee Chong
- Project: Palladium Modified Fullerite Systems for Catalytic Applications
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Lucian Filip
- Project: Modelling of Field Emissions and Tunnelling Processes for Carbon Nanotubes amd Multilayered Structures
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Nilushan Mudugamuwa
- Project: Excimer Laser Crystallised Polysilicon Solar Cells
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Harry Igbenehi
- Project: Three Dimensional Proton Beam Writing for Micro Electromechanical Systems Applications
- Supervisor: Professor Karen Kirkby
Nick Wright
- Project: Reduction of Free Carrier Lifetime by ion Induced Defects in Silicon
- Supervisor: Professor Graham Reed
Archy Giannakidis
- Project: Solving the Inverse Radon Transform for Vector Field Tomographic Data
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Jo Coote
- Project: Semiconductor Lasers as Miniature Biosensors
- Supervisor: Professor Stephen Sweeney
Fred Gardes
- Project: High Speed Silicon on Insulator Phase Modulator
- Supervisor: Professor Graham Reed
Kevin Howard
- Project: The Application of Entropy in Optimising Systems
- Supervisor: Dr Charles Free
Kosmas Tsakmakidis
- Project: Ultraslow and Stopped Light in Metamaterials
- Supervisor: Professor Ortwin Hess
Ling Liao
- Project: High Speed Silicon-on-insulator Optical Modulators Based on the Free Carrier Plasma Dispersion Effect
- Supervisor: Professor Graham Reed
Chris Goddard
- Project: Rheological Chaos and Elastic Turbulence in a Generalised Maxwell Model for Viscoelastic Fluid Flow
- Supervisor: Professor Ortwin Hess
Richard Sutton
- Project: Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Semiconductors
- Supervisor: Professor Jeremy Allam
Peter Waugh
- Project: First Order Bragg Grating Filters in Silicon on Insulator Waveguides
- Supervisor: Professor Graham Reed
Morgianne Richard
- Project: A Computer Model of In Vitro Cellular Response to Radiation
- Supervisor: Professor Karen Kirkby
Daniel Henwood
- Project: Characterising the Interaction of Low Dimensional Carbon Nanostructures with Molecules and Nanowires
- Supervisor: Dr David Carey
Prashant Mistry
- Project: Proton Beam Writing in Gallium Arsenide
- Supervisor: Professor Karen Kirkby
James Sharp
- Project: Deactivation of Non-melt Laser Annealed Boran Ultra-shallow Junctions
- Supervisor: Professor Karen Kirkby
Gemma Kerr
- Project: Nanomanipulation and In-situ Electrical Characterisation of Nanowires
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Nick Bennett
- Project: Ultrashallow Junctions for Strain-engineered NMOS Devices
- Supervisor: Professor Brian Sealy
Chun-wei Min
- Project: Broadband Multilayer Antennas and Associated Materials Characterisation
- Supervisor – Dr Charles Free
Richard Hopkins
- Project: Millimetre-wave Measurements using the Ring Resonator
- Supervisor: Dr Charles Free
Wesam Ali
- Project: Investigation of Adaptive Microwave Communication System using Novel Planar Antennas
- Supervisor: Dr Charles Free
Anne Abeygunasekera
- Project: Novel Thick Film Multilayer Structures Incorporating Interconnects and Antennas
- Supervisor: Dr Charles Free
Justin Hamilton
- Project: Boron Activation and Diffusion in Pre-Amorphised Silicon & Silicon-on-Insulator SOI
- Supervisor: Professor Karen Kirkby
Yoji Miyajima
- Project: Electrical Properties of Pulsed Laser Deposited Amorphous Carbon and Carbon Nitride Thin Films
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Nicholas Masse
- Project: Recombination Processes in Quantum Dot Lasers
- Supervisor: Professor Stephen Sweeney
Durga Aryal
- Project: Theory and Modelling of Functional Photonic Opals
- Supervisor: Professor Ortwin Hess
Nicoleta Gaciu
- Project: Control of Spatio-temporal Dynamics of Bio and Optoelectronics Systems
- Supervisor: Professor Ortwin Hess
Jonathan Jeynes
- Project: Functionalised Carbon Nanotubes for Biomedical Applications and AC Electro Kinetics of DNA
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Stephen Lyth
- Project: Electron Emission and Injection from Acid Functionalised Multi-wall Carbon Nanotubes
- Supervisor: Professor Stephen Sweeney
Daniel McConville
- Project: Carrier Recombinations in Dilute Nitride Based Near Infrared Semiconductor Lasers
Lida Nikzad
- Project: Femtosecond-resolved Semiconductor Dynamics with Mid- and Far-infrared Pulsed Lasers
- Supervisor: Professor Ben Murdin
Kevin O'Brien
- Project: Mid-infrared Laser Diode Performance and Suppression of Auger Loss
- Supervisor: Professor Ben Murdin
Branislav Timotijevic
- Project: Autoregressive Optical Filters in Silicon-On-Insulator
- Supervisor: Professor Graham Reed
Paul Smith
- Project: Electrical Characterisation of Free Standing Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Eldad Yahel
- Project: Spectrally-resolved Approach to Rare-eath-doped Fibre Lasers and Amplifiers
- Supervisor: Professor Ortwin Hess
Peter Berryman
- Project: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Ethanol and Ethanol-water Mixtures
- Supervisor: Dr David Faux
Cristina Giusca
- Project: Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy Studies of Carbon Nanotubes: From Atomic Structure to Density of States
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Xiaojun Guo
- Project: Exploring System-on-panel Integration for Next-generation Display Applications
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Imad Jalaly
- Project: Radio Frequency Identification and Tagging
- Supervisor: Dr Charles Free
Kum Meng Lum
- Project: Travelling-wave Feed Technique for Circularly Polarized Patch Array
- Supervisor: Dr Charles Free
Martin Merrick
- Project: Optical Studies of Band Structure and Spin-dependent Processes in Mid-infrared Semiconductor Materials and Devices
- Supervisor: Professor Ben Murdin
Anthony Miller
- Project: Multi-wall Carbon Nanotubes: A Versatile Electronic Material for Organic Photovoltaics
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Carl O'Rourke
- Project: Finite-difference Time-domain Simulation of Femtosecond Pulse Propagation S/C Lasers
- Supervisor: Professor Jeremy Allam
Andrew Smith
- Project: The Formation of Ultra-shallow P-type Junctions using Vacancy Engineering
- Supervisor: Professor Brian Sealy
Wei Mong Tsang
- Project: Electron Field Emission Properties from Nanoengineered Structures
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Chai Chuen Wong
- Project: Novel Defected Ground Structure Patterns
- Supervisor: Dr Charles Free
Damitha Adikaari
- Project: Excimer Laser Crystallisation of Amorphous Silicon for Photovoltaics
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Hwee Ang
- Project: Modelling and Characterisation of 2-Terminal Heterojunction Phototransistors
- Supervisor: Professor Bernard Weiss
Abdennour Azirar
- Project: Transmitter Linearisation using the Linc Technique & Digital Correction
- Supervisor: Professor Michael Kearney
Frantisek Balon
- Project: Characterisation of Source-gated Transistors in Amorphous Silicon
- Supervisor: Professor John Shannon
Seong Phun Phun
- Project: Third Order Bragg Grating Filters in Silicon-on-insulator Waveguides
- Supervisor: Professor Graham Reed
Guan Yow Chen
- Project: Low Temperature Growth of Carbon Nanostructures
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Konrad Klages
- Project: Deuterium Retention in Carbon, Beryllium, and Carbon Layers on Titanium and Beryllium
- Supervisor: Professor Brian Sealy
Evan Knox-Davies
- Project: Growth and Characterisation of GaN Thin Films by Reactive Sputtering at Low Temperatures
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Chanchai Laohapensaeng
- Project: Analysis of Printed Strip Monopole Antennas, both with and without Parasitics
- Supervisor: Dr Charles Free
Teck Guan Lim
- Project: Millimetre-wave Tapered Slot Antennas on Thick and High Permittivity Substrates
- Supervisor: Professor Bernard Weiss
Daren Lock
- Project: Investigations into the High Power Limitation of Semiconductor Laser Diodes
- Supervisor: Professor Alfred Adams
Jane Mefo
- Project: Langmuir Probe Characterisation of Ion Source Plasmas
- Supervisor: Professor Brian Sealy
Richard Smith
- Project: Electron Field Emission Properties of Tip Based Emitters
- Supervisor: Professor Ravi Silva
Riaz Sobrany
- Project: Ruthroff Transmission Line Transformers, Guanella Baluns, Low Pass and Bandpass Filters, and Balanced
- Supervisor: Professor Michael Kearney
Daniel Stephens
- Project: Millimetre-wave Substrate Integrated Waveguides and Components in Thick-film Technology
- Supervisor: Dr Charles Free
Melanie Webb
- Project: Blistering and Exfoliation of Ion-implanted GaAs
- Supervisor: Professor Brian Sealy