Professor Shashi Paul

I graduated from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India and have previously worked in Cambridge University., Durham University, and Rutgers University. My research interests include manufacturing and analysis of nano-materials and their applications into energy (e.g. photovoltaic solar cells), electronics (emerging electronic memory devices including neuromorphic) and biological sensors. My particular focus is on the development of materials manufacturing processes to reduce the carbon footprint and next generation electronic devices.

Institute of Engineering Sciences (IES)

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Memory effect in thin films of insulating polymer and C60 nanocomposites, Paul, S., Chhowalla, M. and Kanwal, A., Nanotechnology (2006), 17(1), pp. 145-151.

Langmuir-Blodgett film deposition of metallic nanoparticles and their application to electronic memory structures, Paul, S et al, Nano letters (2003), 3, 191-195.

Realisation of Non-volatile Memory Devices using Small Organic Molecules and Polymer”, S. Paul, IEEE Transaction on Nanotechnology, 2007, 6 , 191-195.

Ferroelectric nanoparticles in polyvinyl acetate (PVAc) matrix-A method to enhance the dielectric constant of polymers. D Black, I Salaoru, S Paul, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters (2010), Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2010, Pages 41-45.

Prime, D. and Paul, S. (2010) First contact-charging of gold nanoparticles by electrostatic force, Applied Physics Letters, 96 (4) 043120.

• Organic and inorganic materials for plastic electronics (including printing techniques for their deposition)
• Emerging Electronic Memory Devices (including neuromorphic)
• New Growth Processes/Methods for Nano-structures/materials
• Photovoltaic Solar Cells (organic and inorganic)
• Energy Storage (Electrical and Heat)

• Electrical & Electronic Principles 1 (ENGD1103)
• Emerging Materials and Processes (ENGD3114)
• Energy Conversion & Storage Systems (ENGD3121)
• Physics of Semiconductor Devices (ENGT5128)
• Study Skills and Research Methods (ENGT5214)

MSc, PhD

MSc(Electronics Engineering)- Programme Leader, B.Engg (Mechanical Engineering), BSc(Energy Engineering) and a common module to all engineering disciplines in the school of engineering and sustainable development

The 4th International Conference “Smart Materials, Structures and Systems”- a part of CIMTEC2012 conference organising programme committee

Dr S Paul is member of international programme committee for the forthcoming Conference on Renewable Energies and Power Quality (ICREPQ) by the European Association for the Development of Renewable Energies, Environment and Power Quality (EA4EPQ)", (http://www.icrepq.com/), 28-30 March, 2012, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

The 3rd International Conference “Smart Materials, Structures and Systems” held in Acireale Catania District), Sicily, Italy, on June 8 to 13, 2008. Organised a special session on “Recent Development in Electrical Writable Organic Memory Devices”.

The 4th International Conference “Smart Materials, Structures and Systems” will be held in Acireale Catania District), Sicily, Italy, on June 8 to 13, 2008. Dr S Paul is organising a special session on “Emerging Non-volatile Memory Devices”.

Visiting Professor in the Physics department of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania. From 24/12/2011 to 24/12/2013.

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Member IEEE (January, 2012 to December 2012)

Member Materials Research Society

Organising a special symposium on Emerging Memory Devices in CIMTEC2012

Attended a number of international conferences (e.g.: IEEE, MRS, CIMTEC)

1. Febin Paul (1st supervisor)
2. Swapnodoot Ganguly (2nd supervisor)
3. Chris Yang (1st supervisor)
4. Abdulrahaman Ogunji (1st supervisor)
5. Pratik Deorao Shende (1st supervisor)
6. Shashikala Madaiah (1st supervisor)
7. Maher Nahhas(1st supervisor)

• Awarded an ICURe (Innovation & Commercialisation of University Research - funded by UKRI) £27k (from 1/1/2021 to 31/1/2021) for ‘Storing Electrical Energy in Silicon-Tin’ to explore commercialisation of his research. The CURe Programme offers university research teams with commercially-promising ideas funding and support to ‘get out of the lab’ and validate their ideas in the marketplace.
• Energy Catalyst-3 - Creating electricity by reducing cost, payback time and Carbon footprint - An exploitation of a novel method into manufacturing Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic solar Cells. (£70k) with 3 industrial partners.
• EPSRC High Value Manufacturing (HVM) Catapult fellowship to work on the project “Manufacturing Silicon Nano-structure at low temperature – route to increase charge capacity and lower the cost of Li-Ion batteries” (£36,070)- February-2016 to February-2018.
• EPSRC funding (#EP/E047785/1) on “Nano-Scale Rewritable Non-Volatile Polymer Memory Arrays”, principal investigator (£207k) – July-2007- November-2009.
• National Physical Lab funding “Electrical Charging Mechanism in C60”, principal investigator (£20k)- October-2005 – September-2010.
• EPSRC CASE Studentship (£57k) – October-2005 – March 2009.
• “Low-temperature Si Nonvolatile memory”, principle investigator, European Integrated Activity of Excellence and Networking for Nano and Micro- Electronics Analysis (FP6), December-2010
• Hosting visitor from Iraq (6k) – 2013
• Consultancy (AFM analysis) – 1k -2008.
• EPSRC-DTA studentship (~40k) – 2008 for 3 years.

RIF project: A Cleaner, Greener, Low Carbon Fabrication Process for Photovoltaic (PV) Solar Cells (PI). Start date: 01/04/10; End date: 01/07/10.

DMU PhD Bursary on Plastic compatiable Electronic Memory Devices, October-2011 to September 2014.

• GB2482915 - A low temperature method for the production of polycrystalline silicon, aligned silicon columns and silicon nanowires (Date Lodged: 20 August 2010, Granted on 5/2/2013).
• GB2484743 - Organic photoconductive material (Filing date: 23 October 2010, Publication Date 25 April 2012, Granted in October, 2014).
• 2 patent applications submitted in 2020.

Guest editor of the issue of the Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society A, on the theme of “Making Nano-Bits Remember: A Recent Development in Organic Electronic Memory Devices”. Volume 367, Issue 1905, 28 October 2009.

Reviewer for a number of journals in the field of electronic materials and devices.

Visiting Professor, Faculty of Physics, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania.

Nano-bits Enabled Application in storing electronic information and creating electrical energy:

Ribbon award – MRS Fall Meeting 2004, Boston, USA

News in Science -2004: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/5717/title/Buckyballs_store_1s_and_0s_in_new_memory_device

Gold nanoparticles for memory storage: http://www.theengineer.co.uk/news/gold-nanoparticles-for-memory-storage/1001480.article

Organic electronic memory chip to be demonstrated in the UK

Huge breakthrough in tiny technology by DMU: http://www.findaphd.com/custadverts/dmu/2010.asp

De Montfort University Shows the Benefits of Gold Nanoparticles for Organic Electronics: http://nanopatentsandinnovations.blogspot.com/2010/03/de-montfort-university-shows-benefits.html

De Montfort University Shows the Benefits of Gold Nanoparticles for Organic Electronics: http://nanopatentsandinnovations.blogspot.com/2010/03/de-montfort-university-shows-benefits.html

Flexible memory has wide ranging application

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