School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering One-year MPhil project: Novel electronic devices with thin-films and 2D materials

This one-year MPhil project offers an exciting opportunity to pursue advanced research within the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Manchester. The aim of the project is to design and make novel electronic devices with thin-films and 2D materials. The market of wearable technology is entering a very rapid growth phase, predicted to reach $70 billion in 2025 by IDTechx. While silicon electronics has fundamentally changed the world in the last 70 years, silicon chips are always rigid and optically opaque. Thin-film oxide semiconductors and 2D materials, in contrast, are flexible and transparent. Recently, fastest flexible diodes (https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms8561) and extremely sensitive graphene microwave detectors
(https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms11670) have been demonstrated by Prof. Song’s group (www.manchester.ac.uk/research/A.Song) in the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Manchester. This project aims to achieve electronic devices with high performance such as very high operating speed, mechanical flexibility, and/or optical transparency. The candidate will have the opportunity to gain experiences on electronic device micro-fabrications, thin-film semiconductors or 2D materials, device electrical characterisations, etc.