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W/Prof. Lorenzo Faraone (Room: 1.78, E-mail : lorenzo.faraone@uwa.edu.au) |
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Professor Faraone has been with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Western Australia since 1986. After gaining his PhD from the University of Western Australia in 1979 Professor Faraone worked as a Research Scientist in the Sherman Fairchild Laboratory, Lehigh University, PA, USA (1979-80), where he was involved in studies on MOS devices. From 1980 to 1986 he was a Member of Technical Staff at RCA Laboratories, David Sarnoff Research Center, Princeton, USA, including time as a Project Leader in the area of VLSI CMOS technologies, and as Principal Investigator of a research team studying space radiation effects in silicon MOS integrated circuits.He was appointed a Senior Lecturer in 1987, Associate Professor in 1993, Professor in 1998, and Head of Department in 1999 in the Department of Elecrical and Electronic Engineering at The university of Western Australia.Since his arrival at UWA his research interests have been in the area of non-volatile memory technology, and compound semiconductor materials and devices. In particular his interests are Mercury Cadmium Telluride materials and device technologies for infrared detector arrays, and Gallium Nitride technology for ultra-violet detectors and high speed/high power electronics. |
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W/Prof. John Dell (E-mail : john.dell@uwa.edu.au) |
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Professor Dell is a professor of electrical engineering at The University of Western Australia. His primary areas of interest are semiconductor optoelectronics and optical MEMS devices. He has worked in both industry and academia in these fields. Work undertaken by his group on robust, low-cost microspectrometer technology has attracted funding from the US and Australian Defence Departments and more recently from the Australian Grains Research and Development Corporation. This latter funding is for the development of low-cost tools using IR spectroscopy for broad acre agriculture applications. This work is being undertaken as a collaboration between electrical engineers and soil scientists. Professor Dell has several patents, over 200 journal and conference publications. |
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Prof. Brett Nener (Room: 1.72, E-mail : brett.nener@uwa.edu.au) |
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Specialist in modelling of atmospheric effects (such as aerosol scattering, refraction and scintilation), Electro-Optic systems, measurement of electronic deep level traps, far-infrared and UV photo-detector devices and models.M.Sc (1980), University of Tokyo; B.E. (Hons) (1977) and Ph.D. (1987), The University of Western Australia; Wyn-Spence Medical Research Fellow (1985-1986 ); Senior Research Engineer (1986-1987);, ACET Ltd., ARC PostDoctoral Fellow (1987-1989); Lecturer (1990), Senior Lecturer (1994), Associate Professor (1999) in Electronic Engineering at The University of Western Australia; Visiting Professor to US Navy Space and Naval Warfare Center (SPAWAR), San Diego, USA (1996) and the University of California at Santa Barbara (1997). |
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Prof. Gia Parish (Room: 1.76, E-mail : Giacinta.parish@uwa.edu.au) |
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Giacinta Parish is a Professor of electronic engineering and the Deputy Head of School. Her research expertise is on semiconductor materials and devices with a focus particularly on group III nitrides and porous silicon. Her specific expertise in these areas includes fabrication technologies, materials characterisation, and chemo- and bio- sensors. She also handles number of units at postgraduate and undergraduate level including past and present units on physical (solid-state) electronics, digital system design and microelectronics. Concurrently she supervises doctoral and undergraduate students on their thesis work. Professor Parish has numerous journal publications and conference proceedings, many highly cited (around 100 publications, including 60 journal publications, together cited over 1000 times). She has received prestigious awards including a Fulbright Postgraduate Award, ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, and finalist in the 2011 Scopus Young Investigator of the Year awards. She is also a Chief Investigator in many past and present competitive research grant projects such as ARC Discovery Projects. Professor Parish completed her Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Electronic with 1st class Honours)/Bachelor of Science (Chemistry) from The University of Western Australia in 1995 and Master of Engineering Science from the same University in 1997. In 2001 she obtained her Doctor of Philosophy in ˇ°Growth and characterization of AlGaN/GaN ultraviolet detectorsˇ± from the University of California, Santa Barbara. |
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Prof. Adrian Keating (Room: 1.02B(MechEng), E-mail : adrian.keating@uwa.edu.au) |
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Adrian Keating (M90-SM07) was born Melbourne, Australia in 1967. He received his B.E. and Ph.D.degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Melbourne, Australia in 1990 and 1995, respectively. In 1996, he joined Nippon Telephony and Telegraph (NTT) in Japan as a research engineer. In 1998 joined the University of California, Santa Barbara as a postdoctoral researcher and in 1999 joined Calient Networks in Santa Barbara as the Fiber Optics Technology Manager. In 2004 he joined the School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of Western Australia (UWA) as a Principal Research Fellow. He moved to the School of Mechanical Engineering at UWA as an Associate Professor in 2007 and became a Professor in 2010. His current research activities are in the field of optical microelectro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and porous silicon based sensor technologies. In 2004 he received the Lynsey Ann Welsh Award for innovation in near-infrared science. In 2008 he received the Defence Science and Technology Organisations Eureka Prize for contributions to the development of a MEMS microspectometer. He is currently the international steering committee chair for the Asia-Pacific Conference on Transducers and Micro/Nano Technologies. |
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Prof. Farid Boussaid (Room: 4.20, E-mail : farid.boussaid@uwa.edu.au) |
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Subject expertise: Mixed-mode integrated circuit design, CMOS cameras, gas sensors, CMOS fabrication technology, semiconductor characterization Current Projects: Biomimetic electronic nose, polarization image sensors, Closed-Loop Control of Wide Tuning Range Micro spectrometers, energy harvesting circuits Recent publication/grants: - J. Al Yamani, F. Boussaid, A. Bermak, D. Martinez, " Glomerular latency coding in artificial olfaction," Frontiers in Neuroengineering, vol. 4, Article 18, pp. 1-9, 2012. - K. Ng, F. Boussaid, A. Bermak, "A CMOS single-chip gas recognition circuit for metal oxide gas sensor arrays," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, vol. 58, no. 7, pp. 1569-1580, 2011. - X. Zhao, F. Boussaid, A. Bermak, V. G. Chigrinov, "High-resolution thin "guest-host" micropolarizer arrays for visible imaging polarimetry," Optics Express, vol. 19, issue 6, pp. 5565-5573, 2011. |
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Prof. Jarek Antoszewski (Room: 1.71, E-mail : jarek.antoszewski@uwa.edu.au) |
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After completing his Ph.D. in 1982 in The Institute of Physics of The Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw, Dr J. Antoszewski joined The Microwave Apparatus Company in Warsaw, initially as an Engineer and then as a Project Manager. In 1988 he joined Crystal Growth Company in Warsaw as a Project Manager. He arrived in Western Australia in 1991 and joined the Microelectronics Research Group (MRG) at the University of Western Australia in 1992. Dr J. Antoszewski started his professional career in industry working on projects involvingmeasurement instrumentation, design, testing and manufacturing, as well as GaP and GaAs crystal growth. Since joining the MRG in 1992 his activities have concentrated on transport properties of semiconductor multilayer structures such as HgCdTe, AlGaAs/GaAs and AlGaN/GaN modulation doped heterostructures, and GaSb-InAs quantum wells. He is also involved in infrared detector design and fabrication and infrared systems design. His research and development of Quantitative Mobility Spectrum Analysis (QMSA) in collaboration with the Naval Research Laboratory (USA) resulted in a U.S. patent and a signed licensing agreement with LakeShore Cyotronics (USA) for QMSA commercialisation. He is also joint winner (with Prof. L.Faraone) of The John de Laeter Award, 1997, funded by the Technology and Innovation Management Pty. Ltd |
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Dr. Venkatesh Chenniappan (E-mail : venkatesh.chenniappan@uwa.edu.au) |
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Subject expertise : Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and System dynamics Current Projects : I am currently employed as a post-doc in the project "All optical actuation and interrogation of MEMS and NEMS resonant mode sensors". Recent publications: C.Venkatesh, N.Bhat, K.J.Vinoy and S.Grandhi, Micro-electro mechanical torsional varactors with low parasitic capacitance and high dynamic range, Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS and MOEMS Conference: - C.Venkatesh, B.Cheah, Prem Prakash Singh, M.Martyniuk, D.Silva, A.Keating, J.M.Dell, L.Faraone, M.Verma, N.Bhat, R.Pratap, Anchor design to overcome stress-induced- tilt in MEMS cantilevers,ISSS,Bangalore,2012. - C.Venkatesh, M. Marysuz, D.Silva, A.Keating, J.M.Dell, L.Faraone, A high sensitivity mass sensor based on torsion of micro-beams, ICONN, Perth, 2012. - C.Venkatesh and Reza Moheimani, Experimental study of nonlinear characteristics of a MEMS resonator, APCOT,Perth,2010. |
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Prof. Mariusz Martyniuk (Room: 4.17, E-mail : mariusz.martniuk@uwa.edu.au) |
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Mariusz Martyniuk was born in Poland in 1976. He received his Hon.B.Sc., M.A.Sc., and Ph.D. form University of Toronto, McMaster University, and The University of Western Australia, respectively. He gained his Ph.D. in 2007. He worked in the industry sector as an Electronics Engineer before rejoining The University of Western Australia where he is currently a Research Professor with the Microelectronics Research Group and manages the Western Australian Node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility. His primary areas of interest encompass thin-film materials and thin-film mechanics, as well as their applications in micro-electromechanical systems and optoelectronic devices. His research contributions were recognised in 2008 by the award of the inaugural Australian Museum Eureka Prize (the Oscars of Australian science) for "Outstanding Science in support of Defence or National Security". |
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Prof. Dilusha Silva (Room: 1.67, E-mail : dilusha.silva@uwa.edu.au) |
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Field of Expertise: Optics/Instrumentation/MEMS Current Projects: - "Demonstration of UWA microspectrometer technology for assessment of soil and grain parameters in broad acre agriculture" (funded by GRDC) - "Adaptive Multispectral Imaging System for Remote Sensing Applications " (ARC Linkage grant) Recent Grants: - "Adaptive Multispectral Imaging System for Remote Sensing Applications " (ARC Linkage grant - LP120100097) Recent Publications: 1. * Susli, M., Dilisha Silva, D., Boussaid, F., Dell, J., CMOS Capacitive Sensing Circuit for Closed-Loop Control of Wide Tuning Range Micro-spectrometers, Presented at SPIE Defense Security and Sensing . April 2010, Orlando, U.S.A. 2. * (invited) Silva, D., Dell, J.M., Faraone, F., Optical MEMS for Multi-Spectral Infrared Sensors and Arrays, Night Vision and Photonic Technology Conference, 17-Aug-10, Ayers House, Adelaide, (2010) 3. Silva, K.K.M.B.D., van der Walt, A., Dell, J.M., Faraone. L., On the accuracy of decay constant measurement by heterodyne cavity ringdown spectroscopy, Oral presentation at SPIE DSS 2011, Proc. SPIE 8032, 80320F (2011); doi:10.1117/12.883601, April 2011, Orlando, USA 4. Silva, K.K.M.B.D., Jefferey, R., Martyniuk, M., Limbouris, J.N., Woodward, R.C., Dell, J.M., Faraone, L., Biased-target ion beam deposited Polycrystalline Bismuth oxide as a write-once blueray archiving medium, Oral presentation (MDC16) at APCOT 2010, UWA, Perth, 6-9 July 2010. 5. K. A. Mudge, K. K. M. B. D. Silva, B. A. Clare, K. J. Grant, and B. D. Nener, Scintillation index of the free-space optical channel Phase screen modelling and experimental results, ICSANE 2010, 27-29 October 2010, Jeju Korea. (2010) |
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Gilberto A. Umana-Membreno received his PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Western Australia (UWA) in 2007, where he currently holds a post-doctoral Research Professorship appointment with the Microelectronics Research Group (MRG). He has extensive expertise in the general area of semiconductor devices and materials, including device processing, characterisation, design and optimisation. At the MRG, he is currently leading research efforts in the areas of electronic carrier transport and defect characterization, aimed at the optimisation of devices in the following semiconductor material technologies: HgCdTe (infrared photodetectors) InAs/GaSb type-II superlattices and InAsSb (infrared photodetectors) SiC (power electronics) GaN, AlGaN/GaN, InN (high frequency and high power electronics, short wavelength optoelectronics) Rare-earth oxide based and advanced dielectrics on Si (nanoelectronics) Magneto-transport characterisation of 1D structures (nanowires, quantum wires, nanotubes) at operational device temperatures (60K-325K) Publications: https://www.socrates.uwa.edu.au/Staff/StaffProfile.aspx?Person=GilbertoUmana Membreno&tab=publications Grants: https://www.socrates.uwa.edu.au/Staff/StaffProfile.aspx?Person=GilbertoUmana%20Membreno&tab=publications |
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Admin. Secretary Sabine Betts (Room: 1.73, E-mail : Sabine.betts@uwa.edu.au) |
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I am originally from Germany, but after extensive travels overseas and in Australia I decided to hang up my boots in Perth, Western Australia. I'm not going to dribble on and on but I would like you all to know that I feel very privileged to be a member of the Microelectronics Research Group. My sincere thanks to Professor Laurie Faraone and his staff for having me, and thank you to every present, past and future student, as well as every visitor we've had and will have (keep fingers crossed!). May the force be with you all! |
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Dr. Thuyen Nguyen (Room: 1.12B, E-mail : thuyen.nguyen@uwa.edu.au) |
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Mr. Nir Zvison (Room: 1.21B, E-mail : nir.zvison@uwa.edu.au) |
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