Wolfson Fellow

Dr Andrew Gallant, BSc PhD MIET MIEEE FHEA

(email at a.j.gallant@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

Personal web pages http://www.dur.ac.uk/engineering/microsystems.technology/

Andrew Gallant is a Lecturer in the School of Engineering at Durham University.

He graduated with a first class honours degree in Applied Physics with Electronic Engineering from Durham University in 2000. As an undergraduate, Andrew was sponsored by Fujitsu Microelectronics and worked in their Newton Aycliffe DRAM fab.

He stayed in Durham to develop widely tunable micromachined capacitors and received his PhD in 2004 (EPSRC CASE award with Filtronic Compound Semiconductors). Dr Gallant worked as a Research Associate in the Microsystems Technology Group at Durham until July 2008 when he was appointed as a Lecturer.

Research

Dr Gallant is interested in microfabrication techniques and their application to the electromagnetic spectrum.

In recent years, his work has focused on the terahertz region where he has developed a range of micromachined artificial materials. These can act as filters or negatively refracting prisms for beam steering.

He has over forty publications (journal and conference).

Teaching

L1 & L2 Computing, L1 Circuits and Systems (Michaelmas), L2 Instrumentation Systems, L1 Design, L2 Project Week, L3 Digital Electronics, L3 & L4 Final Year Project Supervision

Research Groups

School of Engineering and Computing Sciences

• Electronics Research Group

Research Interests

• Micromachining
• RF MEMS
• THz technology
• Wafer level packaging

Teaching Areas

• Level 1 Circuits and Systems
• Level 1 Computing
• Level 1 Design
• Level 2 Computing
• Level 2 Instrumentation Systems
• Level 2 Project Week
• Level 3 & 4 Final Year Project Supervision
• Level 3 Digital Electronics

Selected Publications

Edited works: conference proceedings

• Swift, G.P., Kaliteevskaya, N., DeChang Dai, Kaliteevski, M., Baragwanath, A.J., Gallant, A.J. & Chamberlain, J.M. (2010). Negatively refracting plasmonic devices at THz frequencies. Infrared Millimeter and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz), Rome.
• Baragwanath, A.J., Freeman, J.R., Gallant, A.J., Zeitler, J.A., Beere, H.E., Ritchie, D.A. & Chamberlain, J.M. (2010). Plasmonic apertures for THz QCL near-field imaging. Infrared Millimeter and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz), Rome.
• Swift, G.P., Kaliteevskaya, N., Johnson, K.L., Chamberlain, J.M. & Gallant, A.J. (2010). Terahertz spectroscopy of polyaromatic hydrocarbons. Infrared Millimeter and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz), Rome.
• Solano, B.P., Gallant, A.J. & Wood, D. (2009). Design and Optimisation of a Microgripper: Demonstration of Biomedical Applications Using the Manipulation of Oocytes. Design, Test, Integration Packaging of MEMS/MOEMS, Rome.
• Gallant, A.J. (2008). Can micromachining help us to fill the THz gap? (Invited talk). 9th International Symposium on RF MEMS and RF Microsystems, MEMSWAVE, Crete.
• Gallant, A.J., Baragwanath, A.J., Swift, G.P., Wood, D. & Chamberlain, J.M. (2008). Micromachined terahertz waveguides with embedded metal rods. Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves, 2008. IRMMW-THz, Pasadena, CA.
• Swift, G.P. , Gallant, A.J., DeChang Dai, Kaliteevski, M.A., Brand, S. , Zeze, D.A., Wood, D., Petty, M.C., Abram, R.A. & Chamberlain, J.M. (2008). Negative refracting materials at THz frequencies. Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves, 2008. IRMMW-THz 2008..
• Gallant, A.J., Levitt, J.A., Kaliteevski, M.A., Wood, D., Petty, M.C., Abram, R.A., Brand, S. , Swift, G.P., Zeze, D.A. & Chamberlain, J.M. (2007). Artificial plasmonic materials for THz applications. SPIE Photonics West.
• Gallant, A.J., Swift, G.P, Dai, D., Kaliteevski, M.A., Zeze, D.A., Wood, D., Petty, M.C., Brand, S. , Abram, R.A. & Chamberlain, J.M. (2007). Micromachining for Terahertz Artificial Materials. Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• Chiang, C.J., Rothe, C., Rosamond, M.C., Gallant, A.J., Ferain, E., Legras, R., Wood, D. & Monkman, A. (2007). Organic light-emitting diodes incorporating supported nanotemplates. Proc. SPIE 6593.
• Levitt, J.A., Gallant, A.J., Swift, G.P, Dai, D. & Chamberlain, J.M. (2007). Terahertz micro-spectroscopy using a transient mirror technique. SPIE Photonics West, San Jose, CA, USA.
• Gallant, A.J., Wood, D., Levitt, J.A., Kaliteevski, M., Petty, M.C., Brand, S., Abram, R.A. & Chamberlain, J.M. (2006). The Fabrication of High Aspect Ratio THz Metamaterials. Seminar on Metamaterials for Microwave and (Sub) Millimetrewave Applications: Electromagnetic Bandgap and Double Negative Design, Structures, Devices and Experimental Validation, 2006. The Institution of Engineering and Technology, London.

Journal papers: academic

• Sleiman, A., Rosamond, M.C., Alba Martin, M., Ayesh, A., Al Ghaferi, A., Gallant, A.J., Mabrook, M.F. & Zeze, D.A. (2012). Pentacene-based metal-insulator-semiconductor memory structures utilizing single walled carbon nanotubes as a nanofloating gate. Applied Physics Letters 100(2): 023302
• Daunton, R., Gallant, A.J., Wood, D. & Kataky, R. (2011). A thermally actuated microgripper as an electrochemical sensor with the ability to manipulate single cells. Chemical Communications 47(22): 6446-6448.
• Rosamond, M.C., Gallant, A.J. , Petty, M.C. , Kolosov, O. & Zeze, D.A. (2011). A Versatile Nanopatterning Technique Based on Controlled Undercutting and Liftoff. Advanced Materials
• Baragwanath, A.J. , Swift, G.P. , DeChang, D. , Zeze, D.A., Gallant, A.J. & Chamberlain, J.M. (2011). Micro-machined fluidic devices for terahertz time-domain spectroscopy. physica status solidi (c) 8(9): 2935-2937.
• Delcourt-Lançon, A., Kataky, R., Wood, D. & Gallant, A.J. (2011). Microelectrode arrays for electroanalytical sensing: Comparison of electroplating and electron-beam metallisation. Electrochemistry Communications 13(5): 414 - 417.
• Swift, G.P., Gallant, A.J., Kaliteevskaya, N., Kaliteevski, M., Brand, S., Dai, D., Baragwanath, A.J., Iorsh, I., Abram, R.A. & Chamberlain, J.M. (2011). Negative refraction and the spectral filtering of terahertz radiation by a photonic crystal prism. Optics Letters 36(9): 1641-1643.
• Baragwanath, A.J., Freeman, J.R., Gallant, A.J., Zeitler, J.A., Beere, H.E., Ritchie, D.A. & Chamberlain, J.M. (2011). Terahertz near-field imaging using subwavelength plasmonic apertures and a quantum cascade laser source. Optics Letters 36(13): 2393-2395.
• Baragwanath, A.J., Rosamond, M.C. , Gallant, A.J. & Chamberlain, J.M. (2011). Time-of-Flight Model for the Extraordinary Transmission Through Periodic Arrays of Subwavelength Apertures at THz Frequencies. Plasmonics 6(4): 625-636.
• Baragwanath, A.J., Swift, G.P., Dai, D., Gallant, A.J. & Chamberlain, J.M. (2010). Silicon based microfluidic cell for terahertz frequencies. Journal of Applied Physics 108(1): 013102.
• Zinov'ev, N.N., Andrianov, A.V., Gallant, A.J., Chamberlain, J.M. & Trukhin, V.N. (2009). Contrast and Resolution Enhancement in a Confocal Terahertz Video System. JETP Letters 88(8).
• Solano, B., Gallant, A.J., Gregains, G., Wood, D. & Herbert, M. (2008). Low voltage microgripper for single cell manipulation. Advances in Science And Technology 57: 67-72.
• Kaliteevski, M.A., Brand, S., Abram, R.A., Gallant, A.J. & Chamberlain, J.M. (2008). Negative refraction can make non-diffracting beams. Optics Express 16: 14582-14687.
• Aguiar, F.A., Gallant, A.J., Rosamond, M.C., Rhodes, A. , Wood, D. & Kataky, R. (2007). Conical recessed gold microelectrode arrays produced during photolithographic methods: Characterisation and causes. Electrochem. Comms 9: 879-885.
• Gallant, A.J., Kaliteevski, M.A., Wood, D., Petty, M.C., Abram, R.A., Brand, S., Swift, G.P., Zeze, D.A. & Chamberlain, J.M. (2007). Passband filters for terahertz radiation based on dual metallic photonic structures. Applied Physics Letters 91(16): 161115.
• Gallant, A.J., Kaliteevski, M.A., Brand, S. , Wood, D. , Petty, M.C. , Abram, R.A. & Chamberlain, J.M. (2007). Terahertz Frequency Bandpass Filters. Journal of Applied Physics 102: 023102.
• Gallant, A.J. & Wood, D. (2005). Surface micromachined membranes for wafer level packaging. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering
• Gallant, A.J. & Wood, D. (2004). Sacrificial layers for widely tunable capacitors. IEE Proceedings Science, Measurement & Technology
• Gallant, A.J. & Wood, D. (2004). The role of fabrication techniques on the performance of widely tunable capacitors. Sensors and Actuators A- Physical A110(1-3): 423-431.
• Gallant, A.J. & Wood, D. (2003). The modelling and fabrication of widely tunable capacitors. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering 13(4): S178-S182.
• Gallant, A.J. & Wood, D. (2002). Nickel electroplated widely tunable capacitor. Electronic Letters 38(22): 1392-1393.

Theses: PhD

• Gallant, A.J. (2004). The simulation, fabrication and testing of widely tunable micromachined capacitors. Durham, PhD.

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