Professor Shankar Narayanan Ekkanath Madathil
Rolls-Royce/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair
email : s.madathil@sheffield.ac.uk
tel: +44 (0) 114 222 5856
- B.Sc (Applied Sciences), PSG College of Technology, India 1982
- M.Sc. (Applied Sciences), PSG College of Technology, India 1984
- M.Tech (Physical Engineering), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 1986
- PhD. (Engineering) University of Cambridge,1992
- Maudslay Engineering Research Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge (1991-94)
- Founder and Head of Emerging Technologies Research Centre, De Montfort University, UK 1994-2007
- Professor of Microelectronics (1998) EMTERC, De Montfort University, UK
- Royal Academy of Engineering/ Rolls Royce Chair in Power Electronics Systems, EEE Department, University of Sheffield, UK (2007-)
- Senior Member IEEE
- Fellow: Institute of Physics (IOP) and Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
Key Research Activities:
- Power semiconductor devices and technologies
- High temperature Power Electronics
- Active Gate Drive technologies
- High Power Density Converters
- Power Integrated Circuits for Lighting, Automotive and Switched Mode Power Supplies
- High Voltage thin film transistors & integration aspects
- Modelling of power semiconductor devices & technologies
- New concepts for semiconductor devices & technologies
- Power Semiconductor devices & technologies for harsh environments
- Wide Band gap Power Semiconductor devices and technologies
- Nano technologies for Power Electronic Applications
RECENT GRANTS from the Funding Councils
Current EPSRC Support
(P)=Principal Investigator, (C)=Co-Investigator, (R)=Recognised Researcher:
- TSB/CRD/08: Design for Manufacturability of High Voltage ICs on SOI for Automotive Applications (P)
- DT/E004687/1 High Power IGBT Modules for Marine Drive Applications (HiDrive) (P)
- EP/D034000/1 Advanced modelling and simulation of smart power ICs and packages for operation at 225 C in automotive Electronics (ADAM-SPICE) (P)
Previous EPSRC Support
(P)=Principal Investigator, (C)=Co-Investigator, (R)=Recognised Researcher:
- GR/T11425/01 RAIS: Rapid Commercialisation of Advanced Power Devices - Technology Transfer (P)
- GR/P03957/01" Ind. CASE - De Montfort University (C)
- GR/P02820/01 DTA - De Montfort University (C)
- GR/S34229/01 Support for the 15th International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs held on 14th -17th of April 2003 in Cambridge University, UK (P)
- GR/P01779/01 Ind. CASE - De Montfort University (C)
- GR/R95029/01 RAIS: Power and high voltage intergrated Microelectronics - Technology transfer (P)
- GR/R45314/01 RAPID COMMERCIALISATION OF ADVANCED POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES (P)
- GR/M17839/01 EARLY STAGE HOT CARRIER DEGRADATION IN STATE-OF-THE- ART DEEP SUBMICRON SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES (C)
- GR/L62061/01 STAIN ETCHED POROUS SILICON FOR NOVEL HETEROFACE SOLAR CELLS (P)
- GR/L43138/01 POWER AND HIGH VOLTAGE INTERGRATED MICROELECTRONICS (P)
- GR/L29248/01 INVESTIGATION OF NOVEL MOS CONTROLLED POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES WITH EDGE TERMINATION (P)
- GR/J40676/01 NOVEL POLYSILICON DEVICES FOR HIGH VOLTAGE INTEGRATED THIN FILM TRASISTOR CIRCUITS (C)