Senior Lecturer (Higher Grade)

CAREER SUMMARY

  • Head of Department/Senior Lecturer (2017 – date)
    Department of Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT), Sri Lanka.
     
  • Research Associate (2005 – 2017)
    Department of Materials, Loughborough University, UK.
     
  • Research Fellow (2001-2004)
    School of Engineering Sciences, University of Southampton, UK.
     
  • PhD candidate (1996-2001)
    Department of Materials and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, UK
     
  • Lecturer (1994-1996)
    Department of Materials, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • PhD in Materials Science and Metallurgy
    University of Cambridge (2001)
     
  • BSc Eng (First Class Honours) in Materials Engineering
    University of Moratuwa (1994) 

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND MEMBERSHIP

Research Interests

  • High temperature materials
  • Nickel base superalloys
  • 9Cr steels, Materials modelling
  • High performance computing in materials science
  • Thermodynamics
  • Coupled thermodynamics/kinetic modelling
  • Diffusion in multicomponent systems
  • Diffusion in semiconductor materials, Si and SiGe.

Memberships

  • Affiliate Member
    Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3)
     
  • Committee Member
    Materials Chemistry Committee, IOM3

PUBLICATIONS

  • Journal Publications 2005

    Diffusion of Boron in Silicon and Silicon-Germanium in the presence of Carbon

    Mudith SA Karunaratne, Janet M Bonar, Jing Zhang, Peter Ashburn, Arthur FW Willoughby, “Defect and Diffusion Forum” , pp. 998-1003

  • Journal Publications 2005

    Effect of fluorine implantation dose on boron transient enhanced diffusion and boron thermal diffusion in Si(1-x)/Ge(x)

    H. A. W. El Mubarek, M. Karunaratne, J. M. Bonar, G. D. Dilliway, Y. Wang, P. L. F. Hemment, A. F. Willoughby, and P. Ashburn, “IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices” , pp. 518-526

  • Journal Publications 2005

    Effect of point defect injection on diffusion of boron in silicon and silicon-germanium in the presence of carbon

    M. S. A. Karunaratne, A. F. W. Willoughby, J. M. Bonar, J. Zhang and P. Ashburn, “Journal of applied physics” , pp. 113531

  • Journal Publications 2006

    Suppression of boron diffusion due to carbon during rapid thermal annealing of SiGe based device materials-some comments

    M. S. A. Karunaratne, J. M. Bonar, P. Ashburn and A. F. W Willoughby, “Journal of materials science” , pp. 113-1016

  • Journal Publications 2006

    Diffusion and activation of dopants in silicon and advanced silicon-based materials

    Peter Pichler, Christophe J Ortiz, Benjamin Colombeau, Nicholas EB Cowern, Evelyne Lampin, Suresh Uppal, MSA Karunaratne, Janet M Bonar, Arthur FW Willoughby, Alain Claverie, Filadelfo Cristiano, Wilfried Lerch, Silke Paul, “Physica Scripta” , pp. 89

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