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Douglas J. Paul
FRSE FInstP
Douglas Paul at the University of Glasgow
Born1969
Greenock Scotland UK
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory, Churchill College (BA, MA, PhD)
Known forquantum engineering, silicon-germanium, quantum sensor, single-photon avalanche diode, photonic integrated circuits, gravimeters
AwardsInstitute of Physics President's Medal (2014) [1]
Scientific career
FieldsPhysicist Engineering Quantum Engineering
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Glasgow
Thesis Single electronics using delta-doped silicon germanium [2]  (1993)
Doctoral advisorHaroon Ahmed
Websiteuserweb.eng.gla.ac.uk/douglas.paul/index.html

Douglas J. Paul FRSE FInstP is a Scottish experimental physicist and electronic engineer. He is currently Professor of Semiconductor Devices [3] at the University of Glasgow holding a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies [4]. His career has used microfabrication and nanofabrication to demonstrate semiconductor devices for a range of different applications.

Education

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Paul was born and brought up in Greenock [5] attending Ardgowan Primary and Greenock Academy Schools. He studied natural sciences at Churchill College, University of Cambridge before gaining a PhD in physics at the Cavendish Laboratory for work which produced the first single-electron transistor in silicon-germanium [6]. As an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge, he was sponsored by the DTI through the National Engineering Laboratory.

Research and career

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Paul first worked in the Semiconductor Physics Group led by Michael Pepper at the Cavendish Laboratory on mesoscopic silicon-germanium nanostructure physics [7]. At the same time he was awarded a research fellowship at St Edmund's College, Cambridge [8] and became the Wine Steward [9] for the College. His first funded research grant as principal investigator was an EC Framework IV project "Silicon Quantum Integrated Circuits (SiQUIC)" in 1997 [10] on heterostructure and strained silicon MOSFETs [11] and SiGe resonant-tunneling diodes [12] before he was awarded an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship [13] in 1998. In 1998 he became a Class A Fellow at St Edmund's College, Cambridge [14].

Paul started work on SiGe terahertz radiation sources first with DARPA funding in 2000 which delivered the first SiGe terahertz LEDs [15] before additional support from EC and EPSRC grants [16]. At the same time he published work on 2D metal-insulator transitions in MOSFETs [17], received funding on quantum information processing using defects in MOSFETs with Michael Pepper and Crispin Barnes and worked with Alan Fowler (physicist) at IBM to help de-risk the introduction of high-κ dielectric into the IBM Microelectronics CMOS process [18].

In 2007, Paul moved to the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Glasgow where he set up the "Semiconductor Devices Group".. He became the first Director of the "James Watt Nanofabrication Centre". in 2010. His research from 2009 included energy harvesting, thermoelectrics and thermal photovoltaics and he led an EC Strategic Research Agenda on Sustainable ICT in 2016 [19].

In 2013 he started work on photonic integrated circuits for miniaturising atomic systems and his group microfabricated the first Ge on Si single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) photodetector for operation in the short wave infrared [20] before demonstrating the first Ge on Si planar single photon avalanche diode[21]. He also worked with Leroy Cronin and used silicon nanowires [22] with polyoxometalate molecules to demonstrate molecular flash memories [23].

Paul working with Giles Hammond demonstrated the first MEMS gravimeter [24]. The EC project Newton-g [25]has four of the Glasgow MEMS gravimeters on Mount Etna in Italy trying to image magma movements inside the volcano to see if they can be used to predict when the volcano might erupt.

From 2014 Paul was on the management boards of the UK Quantum Technology Hub for Quantum Enhanced Imaging (QuantiC) [26] and the UK Quantum Technology Hub for Sensors and Metrology [27] as part of the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme. He continued in these Hubs in Phase 2 and also joined the EPSRC Quantum Communications Hub [28]. Since 2023 he has been leading an EPSRC Programme Grant aiming to produce a chip-scale quantum navigator [29].

In July 2024 it was announced that Paul is the principal investigator of the UK Hub for Quantum Enabled Position Navigation and Timing [30] which starts on the 1st December 2024 as part of the phase III Hubs in the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme.

Strategic Agendas, Technical Roadmaps and Committees

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Throughout his career, Paul has been involved in a range of technology roadmaps, strategic agendas and committees. These have included:-

Awards and Fellowships

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Books and Edited books

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E. Kasper and D.J. Paul, "Silicon Quantum Integrated Circuits: Silicon-Germanium Heterostructure Devices: Basics and Realisations" Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg (2005), Web: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/b137494

M. Perenzoni and D.J. Paul (Editors), "Physics and Applications of Terahertz Radiation" Springer Series in Optical Sciences 173 (2014) - Web: http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-007-3837-9, ISBN: 978-94-007-3836-2

G. Abadal Berini, G. Fagas, L. Gammaitoni and D.J. Paul (Editors), "A research agenda towards zero-power ICT" Intech Open Access from "ICT - Energy - Concepts Towards Zero - Power Information and Communication Technology" (2014) - https://doi.org/10.5772/57092

G. Fagas, J.P. Gallagher, L. Gammaitoni, D.J. Paul (Editors), "Energy Challenges for ICT" ICT-Energy Concepts for Energy Efficiency and Sustainability, INTECH (2017) - https://doi.org/10.5772/66678

References

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  1. ^ https://www.iop.org/about/awards/presidents-medal-recipients
  2. ^ https://search.worldcat.org/title/855137715
  3. ^ https://userweb.eng.gla.ac.uk/douglas.paul/index.html
  4. ^ https://raeng.org.uk/programmes-and-prizes/programmes/uk-grants-and-prizes/support-for-research/chair-in-emerging-technologies/awardees
  5. ^ https://doi.org/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U258447
  6. ^ D.J. Paul, J.R.A. Cleaver, H. Ahmed and T.E. Whall, “Coulomb blockade in silicon based structures at temperatures up to 50 K” Applied Physics Letters 63(5), pp. 631-632 (1993) https://doi.org/10.1063/1.109972
  7. ^ https://www.sp.phy.cam.ac.uk/directory/formerMembers
  8. ^ https://doi.org/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U258447
  9. ^ https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/24528106/st-edmunds-record-2003a2004-st-edmunds-college-university-
  10. ^ https://userweb.eng.gla.ac.uk/douglas.paul/page-12/
  11. ^ https://doi.org/10.1109/TED.2003.815603
  12. ^ https://doi.org/10.1109/55.974584
  13. ^ https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=GR/A00546/01
  14. ^ https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/1997-98/weekly/5735/33.html
  15. ^ https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1501759
  16. ^ https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=GR/S27535/01
  17. ^ https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.69.075316
  18. ^ https://doi.org/10.1088/0268-1242/20/8/002
  19. ^ https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.14761.98406
  20. ^ R.E. Warburton, G. Intermite, M. Myronov, P. Allred, D.R. Leadley, K. Gallacher, D.J. Paul, N.J. Pilgrim, L.J.M.Lever, Z. Ikonic, R.W. Kelsall, E. Huante-Ceron, A.P. Knights and G.S. Buller, "Ge-on-Si Single-Photon Avalanche Diode Detectors: Design, Modeling, Fabrication, and Characterization at Wavelengths 1310 and 1550 nm" IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 60, pp 3807-3813 (2013) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TED.2013.2282712
  21. ^ P. Vines, K. Kuzmenko, J. Kirdoda, D.C.S. Dumas, M.M. Mirza, R.W. Millar, D.J. Paul and G.S. Buller "High performance planar germanium-on-silicon single-photon avalanche diode detectors" Nature Communications 10, 1086 (2019) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08830-w
  22. ^ M.M. Mirza, D.A. MacLaren, A. Samarelli, B.M. Holmes, H. Zhou, S. Thoms, D. MacIntyre and D.J. Paul, "Determining the electronic performance limitations in top-down fabricated Si nanowires with mean widths down to 4 nm" Nano Letters 14(11), pp. 6056 - 6060 (2014) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/nl5015298
  23. ^ C. Busche, L. Vila-Nadal, J. Yan, H.N. Miras, De-L. Long, V.P. Georgiev, A. Asenov, R.H. Pedersen, N. Gadegaard, M.M. Mirza, D.J. Paul, J.M. Poblet and L. Cronin, "Design and fabrication of memory devices based on nanoscale polyoxometalate clusters" Nature 515, Issue 7528, pp. 545 - 549 (2014) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13951
  24. ^ R.P. Middlemiss, A. Samarelli, D.J. Paul, J. Hough, S. Rowan and G. D. Hammond, "Measurement of the Earth tides with a MEMS gravimeter" Nature 531, Issue 7596, pp. 614 - 629 (2016) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature17397
  25. ^ http://www.newton-g.eu
  26. ^ https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/X012689/1
  27. ^ https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/M013294/1
  28. ^ https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/T001011/1
  29. ^ https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/X012689/1
  30. ^ https://www.ukri.org/news/five-hubs-launched-to-ensure-the-uk-benefits-from-quantum-future/
  31. ^ https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/contest
  32. ^ https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.14761.98406
  33. ^ https://www.ukri.org/who-we-are/epsrc/how-we-are-governed/governance-and-advisory-bodies/strategic-advisory-teams/memberships/
  34. ^ https://www.theiet.org/membership/communities/technical-networks/quantum-engineering-technical-network/executive-committee/
  35. ^ https://www.ukri.org/who-we-are/epsrc/how-we-are-governed/governance-and-advisory-bodies/strategic-advisory-teams/memberships/
  36. ^ https://doi.org/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U258447
  37. ^ https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/1997-98/weekly/5735/33.html
  38. ^ https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=GR/A00546/01
  39. ^ https://doi.org/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U258447
  40. ^ https://rse.org.uk/fellowship/professor-doug-paul/
  41. ^ https://www.iop.org/about/awards/presidents-medal-recipients
  42. ^ https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/N003225/1
  43. ^ https://raeng.org.uk/programmes-and-prizes/programmes/uk-grants-and-prizes/support-for-research/chair-in-emerging-technologies/awardees
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