The doctor study programme is devoted to the preparation of the high quality scientific and research specialists in various branches of microelectronics and electrotechnology, namely in theory, design and test of integrated circuits and systems, in semiconductor devices and structures, in smart sensors, in optoelectronics in materials and fabrication processes for electrical engineering, and in sources of electric energy.
The aim is to provide the doctor education in all these particular branches to students educated in university magister study, to make deeper their theoretical knowledge, to give them also requisite special knowledge and practical skills and to teach them methods of scientific work.

The doctors are able to solve scientific and complex engineering tasks from the area of microelectronics and electrical technology
Wide fundamentals and deep theoretical basis of the study program bring high adaptability and high qualification of doctors for the most of requirements of their future creative practice in all areas of
microelectronics and electrotechnology.
The doctors are competent to work as scientists and researchers in many areas of basic research or research and development, as high-specialists in the development, design, construction, and application areas in many institutions, companies, and organisations of the electrical and electronics research, development, and industry as in the areas of electrical services and systems, inclusively in the special institutions of the state administration. In all of these branches they are able to work also as the leading scientific-, research-, development- or technical managers.

The graduate of the doctoral study programme is able to solve scientific and complex engineering tasks in the field of microelectronics and technology for electrical engineering. The graduate has reached a high level of general theoretical knowledge in the branch and is further specialized in the area of his/her dissertation thesis.
Having broad theoretical knowledge, the PhD graduate is capable of meeting work requirements of both fundamental and applied research. The PhD graduates are sought out as specialists in all branches of microelectronics and technology. They are able to work as research workers, as members of management staff in fundamental or applied research, as design, construction or operation specialists in various research and development institutions, electronics manufacturing firms, and to work for various users of electronic systems and devices. They will be able to employ advanced technology everywhere in a creative way.

prof. Ing. Vladislav Musil, CSc.

1. Modeling and computer simulation of switched circuits

   The substance of this thesis consists in developing new methods of modeling and computer simulaton of electronic circuits, whose behavior can be simulated in SPICE-family programs with difficulty or in some cases not at all. The so-called circuits with external switching, composed of the analog switches, controlled by external signals, belong to this group of problematic networks. Typical representatives are switch capacitor filters or switched DC-DC converters. The well-known transient analysis is ineffective, time consuming, and generates unacceptable numerical errors in some cases. The averaging techniques are very economical, but they remove the switching effects from the analysis results. The AC analysis is practicable only for averaged models. However, they cannot be used for the switched capacitor circuits. No direct methods of AC analysis in SPICE now exist for these circuits. The modeling methods should be developed with the aim to impement them in SPICE-compatible programs.

   Supervisor: Biolek Dalibor, prof. Ing., CSc.

2. New types of hydrogen safety sensors

   Possibility of clean energy conversion and independence on foreign energy sources are main reasons for contemporary drive to use of hydrogen as fuel in renewable energetic sources. For large use of hydrogen is nevertheless indispensable to ensure the transport of hydrogen to other locations. This will bring need for new types of hydrogen safety sensors. The work will deal with design and investigation of new types of hydrogen sensors based on organic layers and nano-structured noble metal and oxide layers. The collaboration with Chemical faculty of Brno University of Technology and with universities and institutions in Spain in the Netherlands is expected.

   Supervisor: Boušek Jaroslav, prof. Ing., CSc.

3. New types of photovoltaic solar cells

   New types of photovoltaic solar cells and improvement in technology bring perpetual increasing of conversion efficiency of crystalline silicon solar cells and because of that crystalline silicon is to time most used material for production of photovoltaic solar cells. The work will deal with design and investigation of crystalline silicon solar cells with extremely thin substrates, with new types of passivation layers and with new structures using back side contacts. The collaboration with Czech producer of solar cells - Solartec, s.r.o. company, and with universities and institutions in Germany and in the Netherlands is expected.

   Supervisor: Boušek Jaroslav, prof. Ing., CSc.