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Newcastle University

Newcastle upon Tyne , England ,United Kingdom

Electrical and Electronic Engineering PhD

The School of Engineering offers postgraduate research degrees at PhD level in all of our major research areas. You are encouraged to view our research group expertise for details of our research areas and opportunities to develop research in a chosen subject.

Our research in this area includes:

  • strained Si technology for high-speed low-power integrated circuits
  • SiC for high-temperature, high-power electronics
  • reliability of interconnects
  • high-k dielectrics and developing novel electrical characterisation
  • ferroelectric materials for tunable capacitance and integration with silicon technology
  • biomedical devices
  • sensors and electronics for hostile environments
  • Si-based photovoltaics
  • nm scale material characterisation
  • diffusion in semiconductors
  • Atomic Layer Deposition
  • device fabrication
  • technology CAD
  • molecular electronics
  • integrative systems and applications
  • first-principles simulation of defects in semiconductors
  • theoretical modelling of the properties of materials

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Minimum English Language Requirements

English Level Description IELTS (1.0 -9.0) TOEFL IBT (0-120) TOEFL CBT (0-300) PTE (10-90)
Expert 9 120 297-300 86-90
Very Good 8.5 115-119 280-293 83-86
Very Good 8 110-114 270-280 79-83
Good 7.5 102-109 253-267 73-79
Good 7 94-101 240-253 65-73
Competent 6.5 79-93 213-233 58-65
Competent 6 60-78 170-210 50-58
Modest 5.5 46-59 133-210 43-50
Modest 5 35-45 107-133 36-43
Limited 4 32-34 97-103 30-36
Extremely Limited < 4 < 31 < 93 < 30