University of Liverpool

Contact person:

Dr I.Z. Mitrovic


University of Liverpool

Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics

Brownlow Hill

Liverpool, L69 3GJ

United Kingdom

Ranked in the top 1% of higher education institutions worldwide, University of Liverpool is a member of the prestigious Russell Group of the UK’s leading research universities. Since its royal charter in 1903, the University of Liverpool is also known to be one of the six original ‘red brick’ civic universities. It comprises three faculties organised into 35 departments and schools. The university has 33,000 students, 7,500 of whom travel from all over the world to study here, and 211,000 alumni in 171 countries.

The university is the largest provider of 100% online postgraduate degree courses in Europe with over 10,000 students studying for Liverpool degrees around the world.

The university was the first in the UK to establish an autonomous university in China. The Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, a partnership with Xi’an Jiaotong University and Laureate Online Education, opened in 2006 in the city of Suzhou, eastern China, and now has a student population of 8,000.

Equipment / Facilities

Processing platform

ALD

CVD

MBE

RF sputtering

Laser ablation micro/nano-fabrication

Modelling platform

SILVACO

CADENCE

Characterization platform

VASE

XRD

AFM

XPS

IPES

TEM

electrical characterization (CV, TDIV)

Expertise
Main Expertises
Beyond CMOS Neuromorphic Computing x
Phonon engineering x
Small slope switches-NW/TFET/NEMS x
Alternative materials-2D layers x
Novel devices for ultra-low power x
1D x
Quantum Technologies & Very low temperature electronics x
More Moore Logic Nanodevices& circuits
  • Design for Test (DFT) architectures, 3D circuits, reliability
  • Novel hardware security solutions
  • Process, Voltage and Temperature (PVT) Variation Aware Test
Memories
  • ReRAM, ALD processed dielectrics and characterization
Very low power devices x
High temperature electronics x
More than Moore micro-nano-bio Sensors & Systems
  • Nanowire Sensors (detect changes in surface potential)
  • Compact On-Chip Fluorescence by combining wafer bonding and microfluidics
  • DNA electronics (single molecule and polymers)
  • Surface chemistry for bio-sensors
  • Bacterial and Fungal Bio-Simulation
  • Molecular Motors (Myosin-Actin)
Energy Harvesting
  • Materials and devices for energy harvesting using rectenna technology
  • Materials for PV
RF devices & circuits
  • Antennas and rf power devices & technology
Photonics devices
  • Utilizing semiconductor optoelectronic devices / systems to realize compact Lab-on-chip equivalents for bio- and chemical sensors
Power devices
  • Oxides and interfaces on GaN: materials characterization
Flexible electronics
  • Development of low-cost flexible organic circuits for use as key functional block in various mixed signal applications i.e. sensors and displays
  • Organic physical device modelling
Smart systems& Systems design Smart systems
  • Utilizing semiconductor optoelectronic devices / systems to realize compact Lab-on-chip equivalents for bio- and chemical sensors
  • Dielectrophoresis; characterisation of cells and nanoparticles; automated bioreactors; biomimetic cell culture, microfluidic cell handling
Systems design x
Research interests
Research interests
Beyond CMOS Neuromorphic Computing x
Phonon engineering x
Small slope switches-NW/TFET/NEMS x
Alternative materials-2D layers x
Novel devices for ultra-low power x
1D x
Quantum Technologies & Very low temperature electronics x
More Moore Logic Nanodevices& circuits
  • VLSI design, reliability
  • Mixed signal design
Memories
  • ReRAM
Very low power devices x
High temperature electronics x
More than Moore micro-nano-bio Sensors & Systems
  • Biosensors
  • Nanowire sensors
  • Insole gait sensors for healthcare applications
Analogue devices
  • Use of ReRAM for analogue applications
Energy Harvesting
  • Rectenna technology
  • Photovoltaics
RF devices & circuits x
Photonics devices
  • Optoelectronic devices
Power devices
  • Power electronics (GaN HEMTs, SiC)
Flexible electronics
  • Smart integrated sensors
  • Smart organic PV
Smart systems& Systems design Smart systems
  • Bio/nano-engineering and low cost Lab-on-chip solutions
Systems design x