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Em P Steve Hall BSc (1st), PhD, FIET, CEng, FHEA

Emeritus Professor and Honorary Senior Research Fellow Electrical Engineering and Electronics

Research

Semiconductor materials, devices and circuits

Conducting oxides and silicon: materials, TFT devices and circuits,
High permittivity dielectrics,
Rectennas for IR, THz and solar energy harvesting
Circuit concepts for 3G Hardware Neural Networks,
Bioelectronics, Solar energy harvesting
Ferroelectrics

Research Grants

Feasibility of Novel Deca-nanometer vertical MOSFETs for low-cost Radio Frequency Application

ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

March 2007 - February 2010

Value in People Award 2005.

WELLCOME TRUST (UK)

October 2005 - September 2009

Silicon-based nanostructure and nanodevices for long-term nanoelectronics applications(NANOSIL).

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

January 2008 - March 2011

0.03um Vertical Shallow Trench CMOS Technology (VST-CMOS).

ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

September 2000 - June 2004

Pulling the limits of nanocmos electronics (PULLNANO)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

June 2006 - December 2008

A Biologically Plausible Spiking Neuron in Hardware

ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

September 2008 - February 2012

Silicon-based nanodevices (SINANO).

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

January 2004 - February 2007

Micro-PADI sources for applications in 2-D chemical imaging

ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

April 2011 - March 2014

SiGe channel and source/drain engineering for deep sub-micron CMOS (SIGMOS).

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

January 2000 - June 2003

Mechanisms and Control of Resistive Switching in Dielectrics

ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

January 2015 - January 2018

SiGeC HBTs on Insulator for rf Communications.

ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

August 2001 - August 2004

Precision Passive Component Design & Manufacture in Micro-Module Electronics: PPM2

DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY (UK)

June 2008 - November 2011

ZnO MESFETs for application to Intelligent Windows

ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

May 2013 - May 2016

eFuturesXD - crossing the boundaries.

ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

November 2011 - May 2015

Performance, degradation and defect structure of MOS devices using high-k materials as gate dielectrics.

ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

March 2005 - February 2008

Low power architecture, circuits and technologies (POWER PACK).

ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

March 1998 - February 2001

High permittivity dielectrics on Ge for end of Roadmap application.

ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

January 2011 - March 2014

Thematic network on silicon on insulator technology, devices and circuits (EUROSOI).

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

December 2003 - March 2006

KEL11/24 - Terahertz rectifiers for solar energy harvesting

ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

December 2011 - September 2012

Impact Acceleration Account - University of Liverpool 2012

ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

October 2012 - March 2017

Research Collaborations

P Chalker

Internal

Dielectrics Research