Prof Gehan Amaratunga
Director of EPEC
Extn: 48320, Fax: extn: 48322, Email: gaja1
Professor Gehan Amaratunga is the Group Leader of the Electronics, Power and Energy Conversion (EPEC) Research Group, Electrical Engineering Division, Cambridge University Engineering Department. He is also a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. He has published over 450 research articles in journals and conference proceedings. Professor Amaratunga is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical Engineers and a Chartered Engineer. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2004. Then in 2007 he was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal 'for outstanding personal contributions to British Engineering'. Research interests include: Nanoscale materials and device design for electronics and energy conversion. Novel materials and device structures for low cost, high efficiently solar cells. Power electronics for optimum grid connection of large photovoltaic electric generation systems. Integrated and discrete semiconductor devices for power switching and control.
Prof Florin Udrea
High Voltage Microelectronics
extn: 48319 , fax:48348, email: fu
Research Interests * High voltage power semiconductor devices * Numerical simulations and modelling of semiconductor devices * Smart sensors and MEMS Power Integrated Circuits * Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) devices * Silicon based micro-sensors
Dr Timothy Coombs
Superconductivity
extn: 48315, fax: 48348, email: tac1000
Dr Coombs is a Senior Lecturer in The Cambridge University Engineering Department. He is in the Engineering Power Group in the Electrical Engineering Division and is also attached to the Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Superconductivity. He is a Fellow of Magdalene College. The Electrical Power and Energy Conversion Group has currently 6 permanent academic staff, 7 research associates and 28 research students. Research Interests * Electrical Machines * Electromagnetic Modelling * Engineering Applications of Superconductivity * MEMS
Dr Richard McMahon
Renewables
extn: 48302, fax: extn: 48322, email: ram1
Richard is an electrical engineer with an interest in renewable energy generation and energy efficiency of electrical appliances. Current research focuses on low maintenance generators for wind turbines; linear generators for wave power and energy efficient power conversion for power supplies and electric appliances such as compact fluorescent light
Dr Patrick Palmer
Reader
extn: 48323, fax:48348, email: prp
Patrick Palmer joined the teaching staff of the Department of Engineering in 1985. He is now Reader in Electrical Engineering. His principle research is in the design, characterisation and use of power semiconductor devices. He has over 100 publications in the area and has current research in the use of high voltage IGBTs connected in series, the characterisation of IGBTs and the computer simulation and optimisation of IGBTs and diodes. He also has an active interest in the computer simulation of multi-disciplinary systems, including resonant power electronic circuits, captive power systems and fuel cells. He has patents on novel MOS gated devices and MOS gate drives.
Dr Tim Flack
extn: 48314 , fax: 48348, email: tjf
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