Professor Maria Merlyne De Souza

Chair in Microelectronics

email : m.desouza@sheffield.ac.uk

tel: +44 (0) 114 222 5167

• B.Sc (Physics and Mathematics) University of Bombay 1985
• B.Eng.(Electronics and communications Engineering ) Indian Institute of Science Bangalore 1988
• PhD. (Engineering) University of Cambridge,1994
• Chair in Electronics and Materials (‘03-) EMTERC, De Montfort University (1995-2007)
• Chair in Microelectronics, EEE Department, University of Sheffield (2007-)
• Member IEEE, IEE, AIP, IOP, MRS
• Fellow: Institute of Physics (IOP) and Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
• Technical Member IRPS 2002-
• Associate Editor IEEE Trans. Nanotechnology

Research Activities:

• RF Power semiconductor devices and technologies
• Reliability
• Photovoltaic systems and solar cells
• Ultrashallow junctions
• Transparent Oxide semiconductors
• High-k gate dielectrics and III-V MOSFETs
• Carbon based electronics
• Computational Physics (DFT, Electronic Transport and GW)