PhD Studentship - Optoelectronic Restive Random-Access Memory Technologies

This PhD will be supervised by Prof Themis Prodromakis and Dr Andreas Tsiamis and aims to explore architecture routes and novel thin film materials for realising and characterising micro and nanoscale memristive devices that can be controlled electrically and optically. Device architectures include metal-insulator-metal vertically stacked structures, planar nanodevices, or hybrid architectures that extend from traditional designs. Material investigation may focus on transparent or semitransparent conducting electrodes and active single or bilayer dielectric configurations such as metal-oxides, 2D materials, organic materials etc. The PhD candidate will be trained in and consequently further develop fabrication techniques, including thin film deposition, device patterning and etching. The research will also contribute towards the development of the test apparatus and experimental procedures to allow device characterisation with optoelectronic control. Ultimately the devices may be integrated with CMOS electronics. The research is affiliated with the EPSRC programme “Pro-Sensing” that is developing next-generation semiconductor technologies for smart-imaging applications.

The successful candidate will join our team which includes researchers at the Centre for Electronics Frontiers, the Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems and the wider College of Science and Engineering. They will also have the opportunity to work with our collaborators at the Institute of Photonics, University of Strathclyde. They will be based within the Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems and will be trained to access our class 10 Micro and Nanofabrication cleanrooms at the Scottish Microelectronics Centre, complemented by our state-of-the-art semiconductor characterisation facilities.

Further Information: 

Group website: https://cef.eng.ed.ac.uk/

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Principal Supervisor: 

Professor Themis Prodromakis

Eligibility: 

Minimum entry qualification - an Honours degree at 2:1 or above (or International equivalent) in a relevant science or engineering discipline, possibly supported by an MSc Degree. Further information on English language requirements for EU/Overseas applicants.

Funding: 

Tuition fees + stipend are available for applicants who qualify as Home applicants.

To qualify as a Home student, you must fulfil one of the following criteria:

• You are a UK student
• You are an EU student with settled/pre-settled status who also has 3 years residency in the UK/EEA/Gibraltar/Switzerland immediately before the start of your Programme. (International students not eligible.)

Further information and other funding options.

Informal Enquiries: 

t.prodromakis@ed.ac.uk

To apply, please click on the ‘Apply’ button above

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