Patrick Parkinson

📍 Manchester, UK

UKRN: Responsible Research Metrics

Patrick completed training from the UK Reproducibility Metric, on the topic of Responsible use of Research Metrics. This programme, delivered by Southampton University, helped to design a course to be delivered on the responsible use of citations, h-index, etc.

PhD viva: Examiner at Cambridge

Patrick was external examiner for Ningning Gao, alongside internal examiner Prof. Rachel Oliver at the University of Cambridge. Ningning's supervisor is Prof Hannah Joyce.

New Publication: Self-Catalyzed AlGaAs Nanowires and AlGaAs/GaAs Axial Heterostructures Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy

A new paper in collaboration with the Huiyun Liu group (UCL), Ana Sanchez group (Warwick) and David Mowbray group (Sheffield). In our contribution, led by Stephen Church, we showed that a previously low quality structure (AlGaAs) can be made to emit strongly at room temperature. Reference: Self-Catalyzed AlGaAs Nanowires and

New Publication: Wavelength-tunable femtosecond pulsed laser for the characterisation of solid-state sensors

Group PhD Nawal Al-Amairi (now lecturer at UTAS Oman) has published a device work in collaboration with the particle physics team at Manchester. In this new work, an ultrafast laser system is used to characterize different device structures for particle detection, revealing a broad spectrum approach to novel 3D detectors.

Fairwell: Stephen Church

A farewell to group postdoc (and later research Fellow) Stephen Church, who (after 14 years) leaves the university for a new role as a lecturer at the University of Salford. Many thanks for all your work, and we look forward to seeing what you achieve next!

New Publication: As-Flux-Induced Diameter Control in GaAs Nanowires

A new paper has been published in J Phys Chem C led by the Huiyun Liu group at UCL, with Stephen Church as lead Manchester contributor. In this work, an improved growth approach for GaAs nanowires is introduced that provides a route to generate diameter control and a method to

Talks at Nanowire Week

The group attended and spoke at Nanowire week in Cambridge. Stephen Church: dot-in-wire emitters Ishika Das: Wafer scale mapping of nanowires Tharaka Weeradanna: microfludics for nanowires

New Publication: Interfaces in Epitaxially Grown Zn3P2 Nanowires and Their Composition-Dependent Optoelectronic Properties for Photovoltaic Applications

A new paper in collaboration with Simon Escobar Steinvall (Lund University) was accepted for publication in Chemistry of Materials. In this work, high throughput spectroscopy was used to understand the variation in emission energy of ZnP nanowires in InP. This materials, whilst relatively old, is now seen as a potential

Oxford Nanotechnology talk and Celebration

Patrick gave a group highlights talk at the Oxford Nanotechnology Symposium at the Clarendon Building. This symposium was arranged in honour of Prof. Chennupati Jagadish being elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.