Publication List

Since there is never enough time in the day to update personal web sites, all the publications of members of the Device Modelling Group (including all my own publications) are logged on the Device Modelling Group's Publications Page, which gives links to many full papers. You might also download many of our papers from the University of Glasgow's Institutional Repository Service.

Previous and Ongoing Research Interests

Much of my research involves bespoke Monte Carlo and commercial drift-diffusion simulation of Si, SiGe and strained Si MOSFETs, UTB-SOI FETs and Double Gate FETs. Work on Silicon was kick-started by the UK project SiGe for MOS technologies, and continues as part of the EU consortia SINANO and PULLNANO.

I also have a long standing interest in the nitty-gritty of high performance computing. A couple of early bits of work which exemplify this interest are the construction of a DC-Hypermesh parallel processing machine, and work on simulated annealing of processing domains for parallel processing codes.

Recent Research Interests

My latest research stems from work done in the Device Modelling Group on the simulation of intrinsic parameter fluctuations in nano-CMOS devices. A description and taxonomy of the most important causes of fluctuations, why the problem is critically important for industry, and how the simulations are performed is described here. My core interest is in how these intrinsic parameter fluctuations impinge upon circuits and systems, and how temporal fluctuations (effectively the source of 1/f noise) can be calculated from first principles. The former work has recently spawned a large EPSRC sponsored research project.

As a cool sideline, Prof. Asenov, Dr. Campbell Millar and myself have also been working on the simulation of nanoscale bio- and bio-electronic devices.