Professor Dinesh Pamunuwa
BSc(Peradeniya), PhD(KTH Stockholm)
Expertise
Current positions
Professor of Electronic Engineering
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
Contact
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Research interests
Please see home page https://seis.bristol.ac.uk/~eeidbp/
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Nanomechanical Switch-Based Logic and Non-Volatile Memory for Robust Ultra-Low Power Circuits
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Electrical & Electronic EngineeringDates
01/01/2020 to 31/12/2023
Pulse quietening at source for higher-frequency power and signal switching
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Electrical & Electronic EngineeringDates
17/06/2013 to 16/06/2018
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Selected publications
04/03/2020Nanoelectromechanical relay without pull-in instability for high-temperature non-volatile memory
Nature Communications
Single-contact, four-terminal microelectromechanical relay for efficient digital logic
Advanced Electronic Materials
Theory, Design, and Characterization of Nanoelectromechanical Relays for Stiction-Based Non-Volatile Memory
Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems
Nano-crystalline graphite for reliability improvement in MEM relay contacts
Carbon
Full custom design of an arbitrary waveform gate driver with 10 GHz waypoint rates for GaN FETs
IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
Recent publications
22/01/2025DT2HDL
2025 26th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED)
Measurement and Analysis of Dynamic Energy Consumption in Microelectromechanical Relays
2025 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
Nanomechanical Relay-Based Switchblock for FPGA Interconnect
2025 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
Reconfigurable Non-Volatile 4-Way Routing Switch With Zero Standby Power
2025 IEEE 38th International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)
Energy Consumption in Micro-and Nanoelectromechanical Relays
IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
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