Post Graduates

Tim James

I completed an honours degree in Engineering with majors in Electronics and Communications systems in 2003. During my final year I joined the Microelectronics Research Group to do my honours project on the characterisation of HgCdTe MWIR detectors, and since then I've completed my Vac work and PhD preliminary with the group. In 2004 I've been working on a SEDO project to develop a novel heat exchanger for thermo-electric cooling devices, which involves bulk silicon micro machining.

My interests outside the world of microelectronics include: footy (AFL), motor racing, reading 1930's hard-boiled private detective novels, Jazz, Stoner-rock, and last but not least cricket. Seam up.

Ben Park

I completed my Bachelor of Engineering (majoring in Electrical and Electronic Engineering) with honours and B.Commerce degrees at UWA in 2003. My final year project involved the upgrade of electronic subsystems of a scanning laser microscope and creating the associated control and analysis software using LabVIEW.

I commenced a PhD program with the MRG in 2004 where the subject of my research project is HgCdTe IR detectors, in particular the fabrication of devices using inductively coupled plasma reactive ion etching. I also aim to investigate/characterise the associated plasma induced type conversion using techniques including laser beam induced current.

Ryan Westerhout

In 2003 I graduated from a double degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Science at UWA. March of 2004 I started my PhD with the Microelectronics Research Group and since then I have been working on 1/f noise in heterostructure HgCdTe photodetectors. This involves device fabrication, device characterisation, and modelling of the electrical properties (specifically the noise) of these devices.

In my spare time I play a lot of soccer, and when I am not playing soccer I am usually working on my car.

Gordon Tsen

I completed a double degree majoring in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Information Technology Applications in 2003. My honours project was done with the Microelectronics Research Group here at the University of Western Australia based on the characterisation of mid-wave infrared photoconductive devices. The following year, I went on to do my present PhD with the same research group. My current research involves p-type doping of the II-VI semiconductor, Hg1-xCdxTe grown by the molecular beam epitaxy facility available here in the school. My project will revolve around thermodynamical modeling involving arsenic incorporation and material characterisation using a variety of tools such as Nanosims, QMSA and LBIC.

I appreciate all kinds of music and like playing the guitar when I get stressed. I also enjoy all sorts of sports especially tennis, basketball and volleyball.

Ms Tamara Fehlberg

In 2003 I completed a double degree in Science (Information Technology Systems) and Electrical and Electronic Engineering at UWA. I started my PhD in 2004 working on gallium nitride-based electronics, specifically AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors. I am currently focused on magnetotransport experiments to measure the effects of varying surface passivation.

I am the proud owner of a dual 2GHz G5 Powermac and a brown Burmese kitten named Verin Sedai.

Stuart D. Hatch

S.Hatch I completed an honours degree in Science majoring in Physics at UWA in 2000, and went on the following year to start a combined PhD with the Microelectronics Research Group in E&E Engineering and the Theory Group in Physics.

My research interests are focussed on II-VI semiconductor superlattices, covering the MBE growth of these materials, plus optical and structural characterisation through photoluminescence and transmission electron microscopy. I am also interested in the incorporation of manganese into these materials, to study dilute magnetic systems in reduced geometries.

Other interests include surfing, skating, cricket, rugby, gin & tonic, late sixties falcons and Scandinavian metal.

Mr Danny Wee

I completed the Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Commerce degrees at the University of Western Australia in 2002. I enrolled in a PhD degree and joined the Microelectronics Research Group in 2004.

My research involves the characterisation of minority carrier properties (diffusion length and recombination lifetime) of p-type and ion implanted Gallium Nitride (GaN) materials. The objectives of my project is to improve the quality of extrinsically doped GaN (in particular in-situ p-type doped and ion-implanted materials) by characterisation of the minority carrier properties and correlation with other methods such as Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), Deep Level Transient Spectroscopy (DLTS) and Hall measurements as well as with growth and ion implantation conditions.

Mr Jason Milne

J.Milne 2004 it was, my honours year. Many late nights spent staring at the screen, contemplating my final year project; refractive index measurement of thin films, or something. For such an uninspiring sounding title, I enjoyed it so much that after graduating from a double degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, I continued on to face another glorious three years at UWA doing a PhD (hence my inclusion in this webpage).

Now I spend my days dressed up in a bunny suit, investigating Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems, affectionately referred to as MEMS. My work is on integrating tunable infrared filters with broadband infrared detectors (hopefully not MCT) to make a microspectrometer. A good one.

My other interests are breeding aquarium fish, share trading and scuba diving.

Mr Azlan Baharin

I completed my Bachelor degree in Applied Physics (Honours) in 2000 at RMIT, Melbourne. Since then, I've been working in Malaysia as secondary teacher and research assistant at Universiti Sains Malaysia. I started my PhD at UWA in August 2006, under the supervision of A/Prof Brett Nener and Dr Gia Parish. The focus of my research is on ion implantation doping in gallium nitride for electronic device application.

Ms JoeJin Kuek

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Mr Nadzril Sulaiman

I completed my Bachelor Degree (Hons) in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 1997 from the University of Portsmouth, UK and continue to do my MSc. in Manufacturing Technology at the same university. Upon completion, I started to work at the Universiti Teknologi Petronas and later as an academic staff at the International Islamic University Malaysia. In April 2006, I started my Ph.D with MRG under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. John Dell and Prof. Lorenzo Faraone. My research focuses on the realization of resonant-cavity-enhanced quantum dot infrared photodetectors.

Mr David Wyndham

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Mr Mohd Amiruddin Abd Rahman

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Ms Mei-Fang Lai

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Ms Yimeng Yang

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Ms Jing Zhang

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Mr Kiran Varughese

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