High Performance Electronic Devices Based on Nanomaterials

The aim of this project is to develop efficient electronic devices, including high mobility field-effect transistors (FETs) based on nanowire materials suitable for solvent-based deposition processes.  Interaction of nanoparticles with device electrodes and insulating layers is studied using SEM, AFM, polarised optical microscopy, FIB and electrical characterisation of FET devices. The resulting device structure-performance relationship will be derived.  Hybrid structures based on organic/inorganic composites will also be studied. During the project fully functional electronic devices will be produced, the properties measured, analysed and modelled.

Initial characterisation of Fe2O3 and ZnO nanowires (produced in-house) on FET substrates has been performed using SEM and polarised optical microscopy. The project is a collaboration with Merck Chemicals Ltd, Southampton U.K., with CASE student support from Merck Chemicals Ltd.