Nanoelectronics and Nanophotonics Lab

We have a wide range of other research interests, which you can find out more about by looking at our research pages, and we collaborate widely with many other universities and industry worldwide. Please have a look at our webpage, and if you have any questions feel free to contact us. We are always open to new collaborations.

Research

Neuromorphic devices 

Silicon oxide-based devices that mimic synaptic and neuronal behaviour

Oxygen dynamics in oxides 

Electric field-driven changes in oxides; mechanisms of dielectric breakdown and resistance switching

Nanofabrication 

Techniques to fabricate structures at the nanometre scale for electronic, photonic and other applications: MEMS, hydrophobic surfaces, photonic structures and more

Electrospinning and electrospraying nanometre-scale structures

Nanoscale fibres and porous nanospheres by electrospinning and electrospraying

Silicon photonics

Overcoming some of the limitations of microelectronics by integrating photonics with silicon CMOS electronics; light emission from silicon

Resistive RAM (RRAM) 

Resistance switching in silicon oxide; non-volatile memory devices; post-Flash memory devices

Quantum effects in RRAM 

Quantisation of conductance in resistance switching devices

Tomography at the nanoscale using conductive AFM

Imaging internal structures in 3D using CAFM tomography

2D materials

Stability studies of 2D materials; novel electronic devices

People

Prof Tony Kenyon
Head of group

Dr Adnan Mehonic
RAEng Research Fellow

Dr Wing Ng
Research Associate

Mark Buckwell
PhD student

Luca Montesi
PhD student

Mark Wentink
PhD student

Mohamed Ibrahim
PhD student

Konstantin Zarudnyi
PhD student

Alumni

• Dr Manveer Singh Munde
• Dr Salman Malik
• Dr Hazel Kitching
• Dr Daniele Diamare
• Dr Miraj Shah
• Dr Matthew Shiers
• Dr Maciej Wojdak
• Dr Ijaz Ahmed

• Dr Dan Konopinski
• Dr Harith Saleh
• Dr Ben Jones
• Dr Paul French
• Dr Amedeo Pagliarani
• Dr Sylvia Bergamini
• Dr Haito Ye
• Dr Costas Chryssou

Visitors

• Professor Enrique Miranda
• Dr Edward Steinman

Latest news

Superhydrophobic nanostructures research published in Scientific Reports

We demonstrated controlling the wetting properties of semiconductor surfaces using re-entrant nanostructures alone, without applying additional chemical coatings. Our large area nanostructures were fabricated using single shot electron beam lithography technique.      doi:10.1038/s41598-018-21864-2

Spin-on oxide RRAM paper accepted for publication

Our latest research on high performance nano RRAM devices using spin-on oxide (HSQ) has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology. Our HSQ-based devices exhibit excellent performance - less than 1V switching voltage and over 10 million switching cycles without failure.

New Microelectronic Engineering paper

Our new Microelectronic Engineering paper reports outstanding results from our newest SiOx devices, with >10,000,000 cycles, excellent uniformity and very low switching voltages.

RAEng Fellowship success

Adnan Mehonic has been awarded a highly prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering 5-year Reseach Fellowship. One of only 7 awarded in the UK this year.

Tony in the media

Tony Kenyon was interviewed for BBC Radio 4’s “In their Element” about the use of silicon in microelectronics, and about our RRAM technology. See Radio 4 online for the 24th May episode.

New Research grant

We have been awarded a £734k research grant from EPSRC to study resistance switching devices and dielectric breakdown in oxides.

Cover image in Advanced Materials

Our recent work on oxygen dynamics in amorphous silicon-rich silicon oxide, published in Advanced Materials, was featured on the journal cover.

New Research grant

We have been awarded a £348k research grant from The Leverhulme Trust to study oxygen dynamics in amorphous oxides under electrical stress.

Contact

Email: t.kenyon@ucl.ac.uk 
Tel: +44 (0)207 679 3270