Archives: Committee Members

Currently, Emanuel Carlos is a Postdoctoral Researcher working on nanoimprint under the Fully Oxide-based Zero-Emission and Portable Energy Supply (FOXES) European project. He finished his PhD in 2021 in Nanotechnologies and Nanosciences, NOVA University Lisbon (2021). He has been working in solution-based metal oxide electronics since 2015, focusing on sustainable materials and technologies. In 2017, he was selected to the IDS-FunMat-Inno program financed by EIT Raw Materials where had the opportunity to acquire important soft skills and do two internships of a total of 6 months at the Nottingham Trent University (UK) and VTT (Finland). His work involves the design, deposition, and characterization of solution-based metal oxide thin films, fabrication, and characterization of electronic devices (transistors, memristors, diodes) on flexible substrates. He is co-author of more than 15 (9 as the first author) peer-reviewed papers (h-index=12, 599 citations, February 2022) in high-impact journals and 2 book chapters in this area. He has been participating in national (Neuroxide, IDS Paper) and international (Merck Chemicals, i-Flexis, 1D-NEON, SUPERSMART, DIGISMART, FOXES) research projects in the area, with academia and industry. Regarding science dissemination he gave oral and poster (4 awards) presentations at renowned conferences such as MRS, E-MRS, and InnoLAE. Recently he won his first national project (Supreme-IT) as Co-PI and the 1st prize on the Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge based on his PhD thesis idea.

Dr. Ahmed Nejim obtained his PhD in 1990 in Ion-Solid interaction. A wide experience in semiconductor processing was obtained in 17 years of research in material science, semiconductor physics and microelectronic design. Experience in lecturing, mentoring and facility management. 15 years of technical project management, European multinational projects, Liaison research fellow of a UK national research facility in contact with national industry and national and international academia. Since 2001 he has been working at Silvaco supporting TCAD software users and developing collaborative projects. He acts as the EU R&D Project Director for Silvaco.

Dr. Dhayalan Shakthivel is a Research Associate at the James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow (UoG), UK. He has earned Ph.D in Materials Science,  from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. His research interests are growth and integration of semiconducting nanowires, kinetic studies of nanostructures growth, nanoscale crystal growth, Nano-pattering, electron microscopy, chemical vapour deposition (CVD) and nanowires based flexible electronics. He has developed kinetic models to probe key atomistic processes in the catalyst particle assisted growth of semiconducting NWs. His research works earned more than 40 publications in high impact journals, review articles, international conferences and 2 patents. He has  developed a non-chemistry specific automated CVD system for the growth of  semiconducting nanostructures.  His current research focused on semiconducting nanowires for flexible large area electronics towards the development of electronic-skin for robotics. He was a recipient of government of India-MHRD fellowship for Ph.D research. He received John Robertson Bequest award at the UoG.

Dr. Samar Saha served as the 2016–2017 President of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Electron Devices Society (EDS). He is the Chief Research Scientist with Prospicient Devices, USA and an Adjunct Faculty with the Electrical Engineering Department at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, USA. He has authored over 100 research papers; two books, entitled, FinFET Devices for VLSI Circuits and Systems (CRC Press: Taylor & Francis Group, 2020) and Compact Models for Integrated Circuit Design: Conventional Transistors and Beyond (CRC Press: Taylor & Francis Group, 2015); one book chapter on Technology Computer-Aided Design (TCAD); and holds 12 US. patents. He is the recipient of 2021 IEEE EDS Distinguished Service Award. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE EDS, an IEEE Fellow, and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK.