Pranav Acharya

About me

A researcher with a PhD in Electronic Engineering from the University of Glasgow and a Masters of Theoretical Physics from Lancaster University. Holds a research interest in nanoelectronic devices and leveraging quantum effects to develop new technology. His PhD was on the simulation of Resonant Tunneling Diodes (RTDs), a quantum tunneling based nanoelectronic device, with the Non-equilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) formalism. Specifically, he focussed on how device variation affects RTDs, and thereby provides them with the potential to build Physical Uncloneable Functions (PUFs) which can uniquely identify devices they are placed on, in order to fight counterfeiting.

Publications

First Author Publications

1. P. Acharya et al., "Analysis of Random Discrete Dopants Embedded Nanowire Resonant Tunnelling Diodes for Generation of Physically Unclonable Functions," IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, vol. 23, pp. 815-821, 2024, doi: 10.1109/TNANO.2024.3504963.
2. P. Acharya and V. Georgiev, "Interface roughness in resonant tunnelling diodes for physically unclonable functions," Solid State Electron, p. 109131, 2025, doi: 10.1016/j.sse.2025.109131.
3. P. Acharya, N. Kumar, A. Dixit, J. Lee, and V. Georgiev, "Impact of interface roughness correlation on resonant tunnelling diode variation," Scientific Reports, vol. 15, no. 1, p. 26815, 2025, doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-07720-0.
4. P. Acharya, N. Kumar, A. Dixit, and V. Georgiev, "Sensitivity of resonant tunneling diodes to barrier variation and quantum well variation: A NEGF study," Micro and Nanostructures, vol. 207, p. 208264, doi: 10.1016/j.micrna.2025.208264

Other Publications

1. P. Aleksandrov, P. Acharya, and V. Georgiev, "Diffusion-Based Machine Learning Method for Accelerating Quantum Transport Simulations in Nanowire Transistors," in 2024 International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices (SISPAD), pp. 1-4, 2024, doi: 10.1109/SISPAD62626.2024.10733041.
2. T. Liu et al., "The study of electron mobility on ultra-scaled silicon nanosheet FET," Physica Scripta, vol. 99, no. 7, p. 075410, 2024, doi: 10.1088/1402-4896/ad56d9.

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Curriculum Vitae

PhD Thesis

Simulation of Resonant Tunnelling Diodes with the Non-Equilibrium Green's Function Formalism

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