Background
Professor Anthony O'Neill joined Newcastle University in 1986, having previously worked at Plessey Research (Caswell) Ltd. He has been Siemens Professor of Microelectronics since 1996. In 1994 he was Visiting Scientist at MIT, Cambridge, Ma, USA. In 2002 He became Royal Society Industry Fellow at Atmel, UK. In 2009 he was Visiting Professor at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Roles and Responsibilities
Director of Research.
Director of nanoLAB university research centre
Leader of eFutures network for electronics research in UK universities
Principle Investigator on EPSRC Projects: Strained Si Platform Grant; Ferroelectrics for nanoelectronics (FERN); nanoLAB cross-disciplinary research account (nanoelectronics and biomedical); eFutures
Co Investigator on EPSRC Projects: SiC Platform Grant
Member of EPSRC College
Qualifications
BSc, PhD
Memberships
C Eng, Fellow IET, Senior Member IEEE,
Research Interests
1. Strained Silicon: materials, technology and characterisation.
2. Ferroelectric materials for nanoelectronics.
3. Nanoelectronics for future biomedical applications.
4. Interconnects for integrated circuits.
5. Silicon Carbide technology.
Projects
- Advancing Silicon Carbide Electronics Technology (ASCENT)
Project Leader(s): Prof. Nick Wright, Prof. Anthony O'Neill - ALD of Ferroelectrics and Piezoelectrics
Project Leader(s): Prof. Anthony O'Neill - An investigation of Future Metal and Dielectric Cu Barrier Processes and their Impact on Cu Reliability
Project Leader(s): Prof. Anthony O'Neill - Atmel Scholarship
Project Leader(s): Prof. Anthony O'Neill - Atmel: Strained Si/SiGe CMOS 4
Project Leader(s): Prof. Anthony O'Neill - Atomic Layer Interface Engineering for Nanoelectronics (ALIEN): contacts
Project Leader(s): Prof. Anthony O'Neill - Characterisation and Reliability of Thin Gate Dielectrics
Project Leader(s): Prof. Anthony O'Neill - CMOS Studentship
Project Leader(s): Prof. Anthony O'Neill - Electronics for Extreme Environments Network (E3NET)
Project Leader(s): Prof. Nick Wright - Engineering Doctorate
Project Leader(s): Prof. Paul Acarnley, Prof. Alan Jack - Ferroelectrics for Nanoelectronics (FERN)
Project Leader(s): Prof. Anthony O'Neill, Dr Patrick Briddon - Industry funded PhD (Applied Materials) Commercially sensitive
Project Leader(s): Prof. Anthony O'Neill - Integration of Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) with Electronics in Silicon Carbide for Harsh Environments
Project Leader(s): Dr Alun Harris - Metal gate CMOS for RF
Project Leader(s): Prof. Anthony O'Neill - Nano Lab Cross Disciplinary Feasibility Account
- Network: Silicon Research and Exploitation for the Nanotechnology Era
Project Leader(s): Prof. Anthony O'Neill - Platform Grant: Silicon Carbide Electronic Systems
Project Leader(s): Prof. Nick Wright, Prof. Anthony O'Neill - Platform Grant: Strained Si/SiGe: Materials, Technology and Design
Project Leader(s): Prof. Anthony O'Neill, Prof. Alex Yakovlev, Dr Sarah Olsen - Platform Grant: Technologies for SiC Electronics and Sensors in Extreme Environments
Project Leader(s): Prof. Nick Wright - PREP - Postgraduate Conference
Project Leader(s): Prof. Anthony O'Neill - PULLNANO - Pulling the Limits of Nanoelectronics
Project Leader(s): Prof. Anthony O'Neill - Royal Society Industrial Fellowship
Project Leader(s): Prof. Anthony O'Neill - SiGe for MOS Technologies
Project Leader(s): Prof. Anthony O'Neill, Dr Sarah Olsen - SiGe for MOS Technologies II
Project Leader(s): Prof. Anthony O'Neill - Silicon Carbide for High Power and High Temperature Applications (SCEPTRE)
Project Leader(s): Dr C.M. Johnson - SiNANO – Silicon-based Nanodevices European Union Network of Excellence
Project Leader(s): Prof. Anthony O'Neill - Strained Si/SiGe CMOS: proof of concept, manufacturability, RF CMOS
Project Leader(s): Prof. Anthony O'Neill - Strained Si/SiGe Virtual Substrate Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor
Project Leader(s): Prof. Anthony O'Neill, Dr Sarah Olsen - TCAD Study of SiGe Virtual Substrate Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor
Project Leader(s): Prof. Anthony O'Neill, Dr Sarah Olsen, Prof. S. Bull - ULSI Interconnects: Process Modelling and Test for Reliability against Electromigration and Stress (PROMOTES)
Project Leader(s): Prof. A.G. O'Neill - X-Ray Propagation in Carbon Nanotubes
Project Leader(s): Prof. Anthony O'Neill
Undergraduate Teaching
Semiconductor Electronic Devices EEE3020
Postgraduate Teaching
Semiconductor Electronic Devices EEE8018