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
Dates
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
Dates
17/06/2013 to 16/06/2018
Thesis supervisions
Nanoelectromechanical Circuits for Low Energy Edge Computing
Supervisors
Nanoelectromechanical technology for radiation and temperature harsh environments
Supervisors
Development of a Bistable Actuation and Organic Electrochemical Transistor-based Sensing System for Underactive Bladder Management
Supervisors
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
04/07/2025A Fault-tolerant Voter Circuit in NEM Technology
IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems
DT2HDL
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)
Muller C-Element for NEMS
Proceedings - 2025 29th IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, ASYNC 2025
Nanoelectromechanical Binary Comparator for Edge-Computing Applications
2025 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference (DATE)
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