-
Scholarship
in
1986
at
the University of Glasgow
Rebecca Cheung received her secondary and tertiary education in
Scotland. After obtaining a first class honours degree in Electronics
and Electrical
Engineering from the University of Glasgow, she was awarded a
Scholarship from the Croucher Foundation to study towards a Ph.D, which
she received from the same University in 1990. During her Ph.D,
she was a visiting researcher with the
Semiconductor Technology Group at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research
Centre in Yorktown Heights, USA, where high density plasma etching
techniques
were developed for GaAs. The process-induced material damage was
characterised using x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and quantum
transport techniques.
Currently
Professor Cheung joined the University of Edinburgh in 2000 and
her current research interests include Silicon Carbide
Microelectromechanical Systems, Biomimetical Systems and Graphene. She
has been funded by EPSRC and Scottish Enterprise to develop fabrication
processes and technologies for the production of microelectromechanical
systems in silicon carbide. Presently, she is funded by EPSRC to
develop a multi-channel biomimetical system consisting of an array of
resonating gate transistors integrated with neural electronics for
mimicking the cochlea.
