Sustainable Electronic Technologies

Our group explores how to improve renewable energy sources and create more efficient electronic device technology to benefit the environment.

About

We research new methods of electricity generation, and more efficient electronics and communications, while addressing all aspects of sustainability.

Electronic devices, such as computers, mobile phones and data centres, account for a significant amount of the world's energy consumption.

We need electricity from renewable resources in order to allow advanced electronic devices to have a continued positive impact on society. We also need high-speed, low-power and efficient computing and communication.

Our research interests cover 3 main areas:

solar cells and energy harvesting, including photovoltaic devices, photovoltaic systems, thermoelectric generators and radiative cooling
mobile and automotive electronics, including lidar and beam steering light-emitting diodes, structural colour and photo-detectors
devices for artificial intelligence, including neuromorphic computing, heterogeneous integration, 2D material-based transistors and flexible electronics

People, projects and publications

People

Dr Daniel Newbrook PhD

Senior ASIC/FPGA Elec. Design Engineer

Research interests

Reusable SoC infrastructure
Hardware acellerators including AI
Low Power SoC design

Connect with Daniel

Email: d.newbrook@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 7715321166

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Dr Firman Simanjuntak MInstP, SMIEEE, FHEA

Lecturer

Research interests

Dr Firman is exploiting the emerging memristive system for ultra-high dense data storage, AI-hardware accelerator, and sensor applications, where these multifunctional capabilities can exist in single architectonic enabling reconfigurable and adaptive electronic system. He is interested in integrating memristive devices with various electronics and photonics (RF, LED, waveguide, etc.) to open a new way of controlling the electrical/material properties of the integrated devices/circuits.

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Firman

Email: F.M.Simanjuntak@soton.ac.uk

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Dr Graeme Bragg

Senior Teaching Fellow

Connect with Graeme

Email: gmb@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2784

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Professor Harold Chong

Professor of Electronic Engineering

Connect with Harold

Email: hmhc@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 3777

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Dr Ioannis Zeimpekis

Associate Professor

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Ioannis

Email: izk@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 0160

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Dr Ivan Ling PhD, MIET, MIEEE

Teaching Fellow

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Ivan

Email: Ivan.Ling@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +447917983980

Professor Kees De Groot

Professor

Research interests

Radio-Frequency and Microwave Devices
2 dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Transistors
Smart Radiative Cooling and RF control of smart glass using metal oxides such as Al-doped ZnO and W-doped VO2

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Kees

Email: chdg@southampton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2732

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Dr Kevin Chung-Che Huang

Senior Research Fellow

Research interests

CVD, ALD and Van der Waals Epitaxy for photonic devices, phase-change memory, thin-film solar cells, photo-catalyst, nano-electronics and other emerging applications

Connect with Kevin Chung-Che

Email: cch@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 9104

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