Siva Sivoththaman

Dr. Siva Sivoththaman is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. For six years, he served as the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies & Postdoctoral Affairs in the Faculty of Engineering, with his term concluding in August 2025.

Dr. Sivoththaman earned his Doctorate from the University of Paris XII - Créteil Val de Marne (France) in 1993. He then worked as a Research Scientist at the Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC) in Belgium for six years before relocating to Canada in 2000 to join the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo.

Dr. Sivoththaman was honored with the Ontario Premier's Research Excellence Award in 2002 and has held two prestigious Research Chairs: the NSERC Associate Industrial Research Chair in Radio Frequency Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (2002-2006) and the Ontario Research Chair (ORC) in Renewable Energy Technologies and Health (2010-2015). He is also the Director of the Centre for Advanced Photovoltaic and Display Systems (CAPDS) at Waterloo.

Dr. Sivoththaman served as the inaugural director of the University of Waterloo's Nanotechnology Engineering Program from 2004 to 2006. A Senior Member of the IEEE, he currently serves as the Chapter Chair for the Electron Devices Society of the IEEE Kitchener-Waterloo Section.

• Solar Photovoltaic Technologies

• Microelectronic Fabrication

• Nanotechnology

• Advanced Photodetectors and Sensors

• Crystalline Silicon and Thin Film Materials

• Synthesis of Colloidal Quantum Dots

• Quantum Dot-enabled Emission Devices

• Smart Circuits for Solar Photovoltaic Systems

• Backplane Electronics in Displays

• 1993, Doctorate Engineering Sciences, University of Paris Est - Creteil Val de Marne (UPEC), Paris, France

• 1989, Master's Energy Technology, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand

• 1987, Bachelor's Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India

• 2002 Ontario Premier's Research Excellence Award

• ECE 231 - Semiconductor Physics and Devices
  • Taught in 2021
• ECE 433 - Fabrication Technologies for Micro and Nano Devices
  • Taught in 2024
• ECE 632 - Photovoltaic Energy Conversion
  • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• ECE 730 - Special Topics in Solid State Devices
  • Taught in 2024
• NE 343 - Microfabrication and Thin-film Technology
  • Taught in 2024, 2025

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

• Zheng, Yaxin and Sadeghimakki, Bahareh and Brunning, Jacob and Piano, Evan and Sivoththaman, Siva, Emission and Decay Lifetime Tunability in Less-Toxic Quaternary ZnCuInS Quantum Dots, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, 525, 2021

• Tarighat, Roohollah and Sivoththaman, Siva, Low Temperature Self-Aligned-Silicide-Capable Transistor Process Using Solid-Phase-Epitaxy and Lift-off for Hybrid Substrates, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 244, 2021

• Ghosh, Hrilina and Sadeghimakki, Bahareh and Sivoththaman, Siva, Enhancement of UV Emission and Optical Bandgap of ZnO Nanowires via Doping and Post-growth Annealing, Materials Research Express, 0350131, 2020

• Zheng, Yaxin and Sadeghimakki, Bahareh and Brunning, Jacob and Sivoththaman, Siva, Ligand Exchange Functionalization of CIS Quantum Dots for CIS/ZnO Film Heterojunctions, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, 728, 2019

• Sadeghimakki, Bahareh and Zheng, Yaxin and Jahed, Navid and Sivoththaman, Siva, Synthesis of CIS Quantum Dots in Low Temperature Regime: Effects of Precursor Composition and Temperature Ramps, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, 659, 2017

• Gao, Zhen and Jahed, Navid and Sivoththaman, Siva, Biased Photoresponse Analysis of Al-ZnO Heterojunctions with N and P Type Silicon, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 1100, 2017

• Bakshizadeh, Nasim and Sivoththaman, Siva, Graphene Decorated Nanocomposites for Printable Electrodes in Thin Wafer Devices, IEEE/TMS Journal of Electronic Materials, 6922, 2017