STAFF PROFILE
Professor Anthony Holland
Research
Research interests include semiconductor materials and devices, thin film technology and microfabrication. Among his current activities in semiconductors are research on electrical contacts for Ge, SiC and InP based hererostructure devices and other materials research into functional oxide thin films and electrical properties of nano-structured (nanowires) layers.
- Participation in research groups and projects
- Supervised 60 Masters 1-semester projects, 8 PhD students
Dr Holland is a senior lecturer in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is a key researcher with the Microelectronics and Materials Technology Centre. Dr Holland is director of the M.Eng programs in microelectronics and electronics and presents courses in semiconductor device fabrication, device physics, reliability and testability in microelectronics and microsystems technology.
- PhD (1999), RMIT University, Melbourne
- M. Eng. (1995), RMIT University, Melbourne
- B. A. I. (B. Eng.) (1987), Trinity College Dublin
- B.A. (1987), Trinity College Dublin
Dr Holland is the past president of The Vacuum Society of Australia.
- Almutairi, A.,Partridge, J.,Xu, C.,Cole, I.,Holland, A. (2022). Direct writing of divacancy centers in silicon carbide by femtosecond laser irradiation and subsequent thermal annealing In: Applied Physics Letters, 120, 1 - 7
- Pham, T.,Nguyen, D.,Holland, A.,Fechete, A. (2020). An Investigation of Transmission Line Modeling Test Structure in TCAD In: Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Electron Devices Technology & Manufacturing Conference (EDTM 2020), Penang, Malaysia, 16-18 March 2020
- Le Yen, P.,Murdoch, B.,Barlow, A.,Holland, A.,McCulloch, D.,McConville, C.,Partridge, J. (2020). Electroformed, Self-Connected Tin Oxide Nanoparticle Networks for Electronic Reservoir Computing In: Advanced Electronic Materials, 6, 1 - 7
- Pham, H.,Le, P.,Tran, H.,Raeber, T.,Alnassar, M.,Holland, A.,Partridge, J. (2019). Temperature dependent electrical characteristics of rectifying graphitic contacts to p-type silicon In: Semiconductor Science and Technology, 34, 1 - 5
- Pham, H.,Tran, H.,Holland, A.,Partridge, J. (2019). Temperature-Dependent Electrical Characteristics and Extraction of Richardson Constant from Graphitic-C/n-Type 6H-SiC Schottky Diodes In: Journal of Electronic Materials, 48, 2061 - 2066
- Le Yen, P.,Tran, H.,Zhao, Z.,McKenzie, D.,McCulloch, D.,Holland, A.,Murdoch, B.,Partridge, J. (2019). Tin Oxide Artificial Synapses For Low Power Temporal Information Processing In: Nanotechnology, 30, 1 - 8
- Leech, P.,Kibel, M.,Barlow, A.,Reeves, G.,Holland, A.,Tanner, P. (2019). Ohmic contacts to n-type 3C-SiC using Cr/Ni/Au and Ni/Cr/Au metallizations In: Microelectronic Engineering, 215, 1 - 5
- Nguyen, H.,Holland, A.,Beckett, P. (2018). Silicon on insulator null convention logic based asynchronous circuit design for high performance low power digital systems In: 2018 2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Signal Processing, Telecommunications and Computing, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, 29-31 January 2019
- Bui, T.,Reeves, G.,Leech, P.,Holland, A.,Taylor, G. (2018). TCAD simulation of a single Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors based on High Voltage CMOS technology In: MRS Advances, 3, 3053 - 3059
- Cheng, E.,Nasir, N.,Shahriman, A.,Baharuddin, S.,Majid, M.,Leech, P.,Tanner, P.,Holland, A. (2018). Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Analysis on Surface Roughness of 3C-Silicon Carbide (3C-SiC) Deposited on Silicon (Si) Substrate In: Journal of Telecommunication Electronic and Computer Engineering, 10, 73 - 77
23 PhD Completions8 PhD Current Supervisions
- Compositon analysis and electrical properties of germanide-semiconductor interfaces.. Funded by: Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE) Research Grant pre-2014 from (2010 to 2011)
- Etching microfeatures in Lithium Niobate using a novel process. Funded by: Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE) Research Grant pre-2014 from (2010 to 2012)
- Development of Test Structures for Thin Silicide Layers. Funded by: RMIT Research Leave Awards from (2009 to 2009)
- Comprehensive Analysis Facility for Thin Films and Surfaces. Funded by: ARC LIEF via other University from (2008 to 2008)
- Energy Transduction and Scavenging using Piezoelectric Thin Films. Funded by: The CASS Foundation Science and Medicine Grant pre-2014 from (2008 to 2009)