All Staff

Professor Lorenzo Faraone

L.FaraoneProfessor 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.

Professor John Dell

Professor Dell has had extensive experience in silicon, GaAs, and HgCdTe semiconductor device design and processing. He has worked in a number of fields of semiconductor research including MBE growth, optical material and device characterisation, optoelectronic integrated circuit design, and radiation effects in semiconductors. Professor Dell's current activities are in the areas of semiconductor growth and characterisation, and semiconductor device technologies for optical detectors. He has recently commenced aproject in Micro Electro-mechanical Systems (MEMS) for optical detectors which are wavelength selective and tuneable. He has one international and two Australian patents in the optoelectronics field as well as more than 80 refereed journal and conference publications.

Associate Professor Brett D. Nener

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).

Associate Professor Charlie Musca

My specialist interests are in semiconductor material characterisation and microlectronic/optoelectronic devices and systems. Of particular interest is the area of infrared detectors and systems. This work involves the modelling, design, fabrication and characterisation of novel device structures for application in the field of infrared detection. I am also involved with developing new non-destructive material characterisation techniques, along with new methods for extracting semiconductor and device parameters. Current projects include; characterisation of mid-wavelength and long-wavelength infrared photodetectors; the use of reactive ion etching for device processing; laser beam induced current (LBIC) characterisation of material and devices; development of multispectral infrared detectors and systems; molecular beam epitaxy growth of mercury cadmium telluride.

Dr. Giacinta Parish

Dr Parish has a variety of research interests, based around semiconductor material and device characterisation and processing, particularly in the area of III-nitrides (primarily AlGaN/GaN). Her current research activity has several thrusts. The first of these is fundamental materials studies of gallium nitride (GaN) through material, electrical and optical characterisation techniques (particularly for GaN-based transistor device characterisation). This includes, for example, transport and defect studies in electronic devices, and measurement of minority carrier properties. The second is the development of processing techniques for of III-nitride materials, and the third is processing techniques for silicon.

Dr Parish received a B.S. degree in Chemistry in 1995, and B.E. and M.Eng.Sc degrees in electronic engineering in 1995 and 1997, respectively, all from UWA, and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 2001, from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Her PhD research at UCSB was in the area of GaN/AlGaN research, particularly materials growth for UV detectors and electronic devices, and her MEngSc research at UWA was in the area of HgCdTe IR detectors. From 2001-2004 Dr Parish was an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at UWA, where she is now a Lecturer.

Dr. Farid Boussaid

Forthcoming.

Dr. Jarek Antoszewski

J.AntoszewskiAfter 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 involving measurement 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

Dr. Mariusz Martyniuk

Forthcoming

Dr Adrian Keating

Dr. Keating obtained his Ph.D in Photonics and Optical systems (1995) from the University of Melbourne in the Electrical/Electronics Engineering Department. He has 48 publications in international and domestic journals/conferences and 9 patents spanning work in 3 different countries. He has detailed experience working within the public and private research sectors, developing optical systems, instrumentation and testbeds. He currently manages an optical laboratory overseeing the instrumentation development and characterization of the MEMS sensors under construction by the Microelectronics Research Group (MRG) at UWA. His current research interests are in the Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) area including:

  • modeling and characterization of opto-electrical-mechanical structures relating to MEMS
  • the development of advanced research grade instrumentation for understanding the operation of MEMS sensors and systems
  • The exploitation of microfluidic structures for handling, transport and mixing of liquids for processing or analysis and the use of optical interrogation in these structures to facilitate the development of sensitive sensors and systems.

Recent teaching interests include Discrete Signal and Systems, Introduction to Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) (Special Topics 620.490) and optical systems.
Office: Rm: 2.78 EECE, Ph: (08) 6488 3098.

Dr B. Dilusha Silva

Forthcoming.

Richard Sewell

I completed an honours degree in Electronic Engineering at U.W.A. in 1998, working specifically on polymer light emitting diodes. Since then I have enrolled as a PhD student and have been working on Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Mecrury Cadmium Telluride. I am also working on an x-ray diffraction system for performing double crystal rocking curves as a characterisation tool for MCT wafers. In 1998 I travelled to the U.S. II-VI workshop and visited the Microphysics lab in Chicago, Rockwell International, HRL and Fermionics.

Dr. Richard Sewell's research interests have been primarily concerned with growth and characterisation of HgCdTe semiconductor material. In particular, his experience is in molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), X-ray diffraction, SIMS, Hall and infrared transmission measurements. He has also been involved in development and testing of infrared detector devices based on HgCdTe material grown by molecular beam epitaxy at UWA. His current research is focused on in-situ optical flux monitoring for MBE and modeling MBE growth.

From 2004 to 2006 Dr. Sewell was a research fellow at the University of Western Australia and from 2007 will be an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at UWA. Dr Sewell completed his PhD in 2006 at the University of Western Australia. Office: Rm: 1.21 EECE, Ph: (08) 6488 3748.

Martin Kocan

M.KocanI completed my University studies at the Department of Microelectronics which is part of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Slovak Technical University in Bratislava, Slovakia in 2000. Afterwards I was working in a PhD position at the Institute of Thin Films and Interfaces of the Research Centre Juelich in Germany. The research study was focused on the MBE growth optimization of III-nitrides in respect to AlGaN/GaN High Electron Mobility Transistor devices. Moreover, surface + interface electronic properties and their interplay with the polarization charges of AlGaN/GaN heterostructures were investigated. After completing the PhD study at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen in 2003 I joined the MBE group at the Georg-August University Goettingen in Germany as a postdoctoral researcher. I was involved in the experimental investigation of the fundamentals to integrate the ferromagnetism into the III-Nitride semiconductor layers and fabricate a diluted magnetic semiconductor. From 2005 I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Microelectronics Research Group at The University of Western Australia and the study is focused on the use of novel ion implantation techniques to achieve reliable, manufacturable high performance gallium-nitride (GaN) based transistors for use in high power, high frequency applications.

Dr. Leo Schuler

Forthcoming

Gilberto Umana-Membreno

Forthcoming.

Admin. Secretary Sabine Betts

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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