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Professor Steve Taylor B.Sc,ACGI, MEng PhD, C.Eng, FIEE, FInstPhys DSc DIC

Professor Electrical Engineering and Electronics

Research

Research Overview

Head of Mass Spectrometry and Instrumentation Research Group (School of EEE-CS)

Research Interest 1

Research interests inlcude: Miniature Mass Spectometry, Microelectronics and MEMS, Nanotechnology, Thin film dielectrics for MOS, Quantum Computation using Ion traps,

Research Grants

High Resolution Silicon Strip Detectors for portable spectroscopy

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL

May 2015 - August 2016

Ambient Processing of Polymeric Web: Advanced Diagnostics and Applications

ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

October 2013 - November 2016

Femtosecond Laser Manufacturing of Opto-Electronic and Engineering Components.

ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

November 2000 - October 2003

KEL09/01 - Development of a miniature ion trap mass spectrometer using RP techniques

ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

November 2009 - May 2011

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

ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

September 2000 - June 2004

Selective laser melting of high aspect ratio 3D microelectromechanical (MEM) devices and components - an engineering of functional materials proposal.

ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

March 2005 - August 2006

Monitoring respiratory gases using a novel miniature mass spectrometer.

MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

June 2005 - May 2006

Carbon Based Electronics: A National Consortium.

ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

October 2002 - November 2006

Silicon Microengineered Platforms for Arrayed Quadrupole Mass Spectrometers.

ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

February 1999 - January 2001

KEL12/28 - Miniature ion trap system for deployment in harsh environments

ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

May 2012 - August 2012

Design and simulation of advanced quadrupole mass spectrometers

AWE MANAGEMENT LTD (UK)

September 2008 - April 2009

Development and Exploitation of a Commercial Plasma Oxidation System.

ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

May 2000 - January 2003

Atomic layer deposition of Hafnium-nitride and Lanthanide nitrides

ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

October 2007 - March 2011

SF6 Emission Monitoring with Mass Spectrometry.

ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

April 2003 - March 2006

Liquid injection ALD of Cp- based precursers for deposition of dielectric materials.

ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

October 2006 - October 2009

Integration of III-nitride materials with silicon microsystem technologies.

ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

March 2001 - February 2004

MOCVD of lanthanide oxides and silicates for microelectronics applications.

ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

May 2004 - October 2007

Artificial Sniffer using linear ion trap mass spectroscopy (SNIFFLES).

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

January 2012 - July 2015

Microengineering of Quadrupole Mass Spectrometers using RP techniques

ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

November 2007 - October 2008

Research Collaborations

Prof R.Graham Cooks

External: Purdue University

Sabbatical visit to Purdue University for collaborative research

Prof W.Lange

External: The University of Sussex

Quantum Information Processing

Prof Paul Chalker

Internal

Characterisation of electronic materials

Prof Tony Jones

Internal

High k dielectric characterisation

Dr J.F. Ralph

Internal

Using microengineered ion traps for quantum information processing