Dr Eva Bestelink is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Surrey, having received her PhD in 2022 from U.Surrey's Advanced Technology Institute under the supervision of Prof. Radu Sporea. Prior to her PhD, she completed her BEng in Electronic Engineering with Nanotechnology at U.Surrey, where she received The Oclaro Technology Prize for Best Performance in the Semiconductor Devices and Optoelectronics module. During her PhD, she was awarded an Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) Postgraduate Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Engineering.
Since her PhD, Eva has continued to work with Prof. Sporea as a Research Fellow in thin-film transistors (TFTs) and circuits for large area electronics. She specializes in unconventional contact-controlled TFT architectures, including source-gated transistors (SGTs) and the newly-invented multimodal transistor (MMT), of which she co-invented with Prof. Sporea during her undergraduate degree. Currently, Eva is exploring benefits of contact-controlled devices in display technology, with a particular focus on solving long-term challenges in LTPS.
Eva’s research also involves fabrication, characterization, and simulation of many aspects of contact-controlled device operation and circuit design. As contact-controlled transistor operation is material agnostic, Eva works with many regional and international collaborators for device fabrication in various technologies, including organic, amorphous oxide, and thin-film silicon semiconductors.