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2022

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

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304
National Ranking
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Citations
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World Ranking
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National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2010 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to thin film transistor technologies

Overview

Arokia Nathan is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering, with a strong focus on electrical and electronic engineering as well as biomedical engineering. Their research spans several subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, materials chemistry, and mechanical engineering.

The scientist's published work covers multiple main topics such as thin-film transistor technologies, advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, advanced memory and neural computing, transition metal oxide nanomaterials, electrowetting and microfluidic technologies, ZnO doping and properties, and radio frequency integrated circuit design.

Recent notable papers include:

  • "Technology Roadmap for Flexible Sensors" (2023, ACS Nano)
  • "Energy Autonomous Sweat-Based Wearable Systems" (2021, Advanced Materials)
  • "Thin-film transistors for large-area electronics" (2023, Nature Electronics)
  • "Memristor-Based Intelligent Human-Like Neural Computing" (2022, Advanced Electronic Materials)
  • "Wirelessly powered large-area electronics for the Internet of Things" (2022, Nature Electronics)

Frequent co-authors working with Arokia Nathan include:

  • R Todi
  • K. Ishimaru
  • M Polavarapu
  • Benjamín Iñíguez
  • M Radhakrishnan

Their research has been published repeatedly in venues such as:

  • IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society
  • Micromachines
  • SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers

Arokia Nathan has received recognition as an IEEE Fellow in 2010 for contributions to thin film transistor technologies.

Best Publications

  • Flexible Electronics: The Next Ubiquitous Platform

    A. Nathan;A. Ahnood;M. T. Cole;Sungsik Lee

  • Gated three-terminal device architecture to eliminate persistent photoconductivity in oxide semiconductor photosensor arrays

    Sanghun Jeon;Seung-Eon Ahn;Ihun Song;Chang Jung Kim

  • Pixel driver circuit with load-balance in current mirror circuit

    Arokia Nathan;Kapil V. Sakariya;Peyman Servati;Shahin Jafarabadiashtiani

  • Amorphous silicon thin film transistor circuit integration for organic LED displays on glass and plastic

    A. Nathan;A. Kumar;K. Sakariya;P. Servati

  • Trap-limited and percolation conduction mechanisms in amorphous oxide semiconductor thin film transistors

    Sungsik Lee;Khashayar Ghaffarzadeh;Arokia Nathan;John Robertson

  • Driving schemes for a-Si and LTPS AMOLED displays

    A. Nathan;G.R. Chaji;S.J. Ashtiani

  • Amorphous silicon active pixel sensor readout circuit for digital imaging

    K.S. Karim;A. Nathan;J.A. Rowlands

  • Printed subthreshold organic transistors operating at high gain and ultralow power.

    Chen Jiang;Hyung Woo Choi;Xiang Cheng;Hanbin Ma;Hanbin Ma

  • Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor Technology With and On Paper

    Rodrigo Martins;Arokia Nathan;Raquel Barros;Luís Pereira

  • Method and system for programming, calibrating and driving a light emitting device display

    Arokia Nathan;Gholamreza Reza Chaji;Peyman Servati

  • Ink-jet printing of carbon nanotube thin film transistors

    P. Beecher;P. Servati;P. Servati;A. Rozhin;A. Colli

  • Pixel driver circuit and pixel circuit having control circuit coupled to supply voltage

    Arokia Nathan;Peyman Servati;Kapil Sakariya;Anil Kumar

  • Low-Temperature Materials and Thin Film Transistors for Flexible Electronics

    A. Sazonov;D. Striakhilev;Czang-Ho Lee;A. Nathan

  • Subthreshold Schottky-barrier thin-film transistors with ultralow power and high intrinsic gain.

    Sungsik Lee;Arokia Nathan

  • Pixel current driver for organic light emitting diode displays

    Arokia Nathan;Peyman Servati;Kapil Sakariya

  • Circuit and method for driving an array of light emitting pixels

    Arokia Nathan;Yuriy Vygranenko;Shahin Jafarabadiashtiani;Peyman Servati

  • Organic light emitting diode display having shield electrodes

    Arokia Nathan;Peyman Servati;Karim S. Karim

  • Method and system for driving an active matrix display circuit

    Arokia Nathan;Gholamreza Chaji

  • Method and system for programming and driving active matrix light emitting device pixel having a controllable supply voltage

    Arokia Nathan;Gholamreza Reza Chaji;Peyman Servati

  • High-mobility nanocrystalline silicon thin-film transistors fabricated by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition

    Czang-Ho Lee;Andrei Sazonov;Arokia Nathan

  • Flexible Electronics: The Next Ubiquitous Platform This paper reviews thin-film materials and technologies for flexible electronics and considers future applications in healthcare, the automotive industry, human-machine interfaces, mobile devices, and other environments.

    Arokia Nathan;Arman Ahnood;Matthew T. Cole;Sungsik Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Peyman Servati
Peyman Servati University of British Columbia
John Robertson
John Robertson University of Cambridge
John A. Rowlands
John A. Rowlands Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
Sanghun Jeon
Sanghun Jeon Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
William I. Milne
William I. Milne University of Cambridge
U-In Chung
U-In Chung Samsung (South Korea)
Gehan A. J. Amaratunga
Gehan A. J. Amaratunga University of Cambridge
Andrew J. Flewitt
Andrew J. Flewitt University of Cambridge
Chang-Jung Kim
Chang-Jung Kim Samsung (South Korea)
Jing Chen
Jing Chen Southeast University

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