Department of Semiconductor and Optoelectronics Devices K-23
Head of the unit:
Professor Zbigniew Lisik, PhD, DSc
Potential promoters:
Professor Zbigniew Lisik, PhD, DSc,
Maciej Sibiński, PhD, DSc,
Ewa Raj, PhD, DSc
Contact person:
Katarzyna Znajdek, PhD, phone: 42-631-26-47, katarzyna.znajdek@p.lodz.pl
Scope of activities:
The main areas of interest and research directions within the Department's activities include the following issues falling within the general concept of the Automation, Electronic and Electrical Engineering scientific discipline:
- modelling and design of semiconductor devices using CAD and CAE methods for microelectronics
- design and production technologies of integrated electronics systems and semiconductor devices based on silicon and silicon carbide,
- thin and thick film technologies for microelectronics,
- high-temperature electronics and thermal issues in electronics,
- sensors and measurement systems,
- modelling, design and production of electromechanical and optoelectromechanical micro-sensors,
- automotive electronics,
- flexible electronics,
- photovoltaics, photonics and fiber optic technologies.
Present activities:
Current research activities conducted at the Department include the following areas:
- flexible thin-film solar cells - design and production of photovoltaic structures, as well as engineering and deposition technology of energy converting layers to improve the efficiency of PV devices,
- hybrid systems for solar energy conversion - innovative technologies for photovoltaic systems’ cooling using micro and macro channels,
- thermal management in the design and production of electronic devices and systems,
- fiber optic technologies - implementation of functional hybrid composites, technologies for integration and production of fiber optic connections,
- technologies and design of wide bandgap semiconductor devices,
- CAD methods for designing and analyzing the structures of semiconductor devices.
Future activities:
- development of new generation photovoltaic systems as an effective source of renewable energy,
- new generations of power semiconductor devices based on Si and other materials, including GaAs, SiC and GaN,
- high-temperature electronics allowing to increase the permissible operating temperature of the devices,
- flexible electronics - production of electronic systems in the form of flexible thin layers,
- fiber optic technologies - new generations of fiber optic transmission lines and integrated photonics systems.
Publications/patents, awards, projects:
- M. Sibiński, A. Apostoluk, K. Znajdek, Z. Lisik, "DOWN converter of the wavelength of light, designed to increase the efficiency of solar cells", patent application no. P.419389 dated November 8, 2016, patent obtained on January 22, 2021.
- Z. Lisik, K. Znajdek, E. Raj, "Hybrid liquid solar panel with a cooling plate", patent application no. P.429308, patent no. 238548, patent obtained on September 6, 2021
- Application project POIR.04.01.04-00-0019/19: "Hybrid systems for solar energy conversion" (12/2019 - 11/2022)
Keywords:
computer modeling, high temperature electronics, electronics and microelectronics technologies, flexible electronics, automotive electronics, metrology, optoelectronics, photovoltaics.
List of internship proposal in this research team: •
- cooperation in research on the production of hybrid systems for solar energy conversion,
- cooperation in the field of modeling of semiconductor devices and thermal issues in electronics,
- cooperation in research in the field of fiber optic technologies.
The portfolio of research groups was created as part of the Programme "STER" – Internationalisation of doctoral schools” as part of the realization of the project “Curriculum for advanced doctoral education & taining – CADET Academy of Lodz University of Technology”.