University of Glasgow

Contact persons:

Asen Asenov, Vihar Georgiev

Equipment / Facilities

Processing platform

2 clusters with around 1500 cups

Modelling platform

  • Licenses for Synopsys, QuantumWise, ADF
  • Home made code based on NEGF and DD methods

Characterization platform

James Watt Nanofabrication Center

Expertise
Main Expertises
Beyond CMOS Neuromorphic Computing • Simulations of RRAM
• Simulation and Fabrication of hybrid (organic/inorganic) memories
Phonon engineering X
Small slope switches-NW/TFET/NEMS • Electronic transport simulation using NEGF solvers.
• Simulation using self-consistent Schrödinger Poisson solvers
Alternative materials-2D layers x
Novel devices for ultra-low power • Density Functional Theory and Drift-Diffusion simulations
1D • CNT-based transistors and interconnects
• Devices based on carbon nanotubes and silicon nanowires
Quantum Technologies & Very low temperature electronics • Non-Equilibrium Green’s Function Simulations
• Quantum Simulations
• Superconducting qubits simulations
• Semiconductor qubits
More Moore Logic Nanodevices& circuits • Electronic transport simulation using NEGF solvers.
• Simulation using self-consistent Schrödinger Poisson solvers
• Terahertz nonlinearities
Memories • Molecular based memories
• Flash memories: variability and reliability
• Ferroelectric memory devices
• Self-power electronics (transistors) based on 2D ferroelectric and ferroic materials (oxides, halide perovskites and MXenes)
Very low power devices x
High temperature electronics x
More than Moore micro-nano-bio Sensors & Systems • Silicon-based nanobiosensor design and fabrication
• DFT calculations of materials properties
• Chemical sensors simulations
Energy Harvesting • Ground state DFT calculations, and Molecular Dynamics
RF devices & circuits x
Photonics devices x
Power devices x
Flexible electronics • Electronic properties from first-principles
• Simulation of charge transport in organic matter (polaron transport)
• 2D spintronics
• Electronic properties from first-principles. Modeling different physical properties (structural, piezoelectric, magnetic, thermal, etc.)
Smart systems& Systems design Smart systems X
Systems design x
Research interests
Research interests
Beyond CMOS Neuromorphic Computing • Spiking neural networks
• Defect engineering for the manipulation of conductance and retention (especially in ionic-electronic conductors)
• Molecular electronics: molecular memories
Phonon engineering • High-efficient low-temperature thermoelectrics
• Thermal conductivity, thermal management and link to noise
• Strain control of electronic band structure in 2D materials
• Phonons as state variable
• Thermoelectric devices
• Strain control of electronic band structure in 2D materials
Small slope switches-NW/TFET/NEMS • 2D layers for 2DEG quantum systems
• Phonon-based devices in NOEMS based on phonon coupling to together state variables
Alternative materials-2D layers • Simulations of few-layer graphene and TMD sheets
• Printed graphene and TMD for flexible electronic devices
• Applications for 2D materials, e.g. sensors, spin-orbit torque memories
Novel devices for ultra-low power • Spintronics and new methods to study spin dynamics
• Molecular electronincs, nanointerfaces in low-dimensional systems and thermal properties
• Printed methods for device fabrication
1D • Graphene nanoribbons
• Nanowire networks
Quantum Technologies & Very low temperature electronics • Silicon nanoelectronics for quantum technologies
• Silicon based signal amplifier for low temperature electronics
• Superconducting qubits
• Semiconductor qubits
More Moore Logic Nanodevices& circuits • 2-dimensional spintronics, including grapheme
• Spin devices.
• quantum logic devices
• MoS2 transistors architecture for elementary logic component
• Optical computing
• Terahertz for 6G
Memories • Metal oxide-based nanoscale memory devices
• Artificial synapse demonstration based on flexible memories
• Unconventional ways of controlling the magnetization. Spin orbit torques (e.g. from spin-Hall effect)
• Understanding fundamental effects
Very low power devices • Coupled state variables
• Phonon-electron and phonon-photon coupling in nano-optoemectronic devices
High temperature electronics • Hot-carrier photonics and (opto)electronics
More than Moore micro-nano-bio Sensors & Systems • Piezoelectrics, chemical sensors simulations
• Nanobiosensors and flexible lab-on-a-chip
• Nanobiosensors for healthcare and environmental fields applications
• 0D (pore), 1D (tube/wire), 2D (graphene and TMD) and 3D (fluidics) biosensors for single molecule detection and analysis
• Silicon nanobiosensors for rapid antibiotic susceptibility tests
Energy Harvesting • Perovskite solar cells
• Hybrid photoelectrochemical water splitter
• Wireless powering of implanted and on body devices
RF devices & circuits • Spin orbit torques
• Superconducting qubits
• Wireless sensors for neural sensing
• Biomedical electronics
Photonics devices • Photodetection
• Nonlinear photonics
• Transceivers for data com
• Nanowire based single photon emitters and detectors.
Power devices • Nanopatterning surfaces and metamaterial design for photonic components
• Photodetectors
• Nanowire based single photon emitters and detectors.
Flexible electronics • Graphene and 2D materials electronics
• Wearable sensors
• MoS2 transistors architecture for flexible elementary logic component
• Composite materials
• Printing methods for device fabrication
• Flexible and stretchable technology based on 2D materials for neural interfaces; implantable devices for brain therapies
Smart systems& Systems design Smart systems • Self-powered tactile sensors and sensor array
• Robotics, human learning, cognition and bio-mechatronics
Systems design • Design of biomimetic tactile sensor array
• Design of biomimetic peripheral nervous system
• Musculoskeletal monitoring, neuroscience, oncology, trauma care, etc.