ECS research group - Nano

Head of Group: Professor Hiroshi Mizuta
www.nano.ecs.soton.ac.uk

Our initial research into silicon microelectronic devices has progressed to fabrication and engineering at the nanometre-length scale, to produce small, integrated systems on chips. This includes the creation and characterisation of new metamaterials, and the study of biomimetics, which aims to apply evolutionary solutions from the natural world to optical and mechanical problems.

Our new £100 million Mountbatten Building is one of the leading multidisciplinary clean room facilities in Europe.

Staff

Professor Peter Ashburn: Carbon nanotube electronics; behaviour of fluorine in silicon and silicon-germanium; bipolar devices and technology

Professor Darren Bagnall: Photovoltiacs; optical biomimetics; plasmonics

Dr Harold M H Chong: Nanophotonics; photonic integrated circuits; nanofabrication technology

Dr Kees De Groot: Spintronics; quantum electronics; nanomagnetism; carbon nanotubes

Dr Maurits De Planque: Bionanotechnology; bio-solid matter integration; nanotoxicity

Dr Nic Green: Micro-/nanofluidics; lab on chip; bioelectronics

Professor Michael Kraft: MEMS; sensors and devices

Professor Hiroshi Mizuta: Nanotechnology; silicon-based microelectronics; single-electron devices; quantum information processing

Professor Hywel Morgan: Chemical and biosensors; bioelectronics; interaction of electric fields with biology; bionanotechnology

Professor Greg Parker: Photonic crystals/quasicrystals; optical biomimetics; upconversion lasers; quantum optics

Professor Bill Redman-White: Analogue and radio frequency integrated circuit design; analogue design in novel semiconductor technologies; sensor interfaces and ultra low-power design

Dr Yoshishige Tsuchiya: Silicon nanodevices; nanofabrication; MEMS