Patrick Parkinson

📍 Manchester, UK

New Paper: Modal refractive index measurement in nanowire lasers - a correlative approach

The group has had a paper accepted in the IOP journal Nano Futures entitled Modal refractive index measurement in nanowire lasers – a correlative approach. In this work, image processing and registration techniques from astronomy have been adapted to allow marker-free identification of single nanowire using multiple approaches. We have demonstrated

Conference talk at Nanowire Week 2018

Patrick spoke at Nanowire Week 2018, on “Non-contact measurement of p-doping for high-yield room-temperature nanowire lasing”. This project, led by Arturo Alanis and carried out in collaboration with colleagues at the Australian National University, studied semiconductor nanowire ensembles to reveal correlations between doping and functional performance. Nanowire Week 2018 was

The Optoelectronic Materials Spectroscopy group at Manchester Physics

Welcome to the OMS research group at the University of Manchester. Our group carries out research within the Photon Physics sub-group of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, based in the Photon Science Institute at the University of Manchester. We study the origin and role of inhomogeneity in novel optoelectronic

Rank Prize Summer Studentship 2018

The group will host another 10-week summer studentship, funded through the Rank Prize Funds. The project on “Rapid, multispectral photovoltaic performance mapping using structured light illumination” will see one of our 3rd year undergraduate students Edoardo Altamura design, build and test a device for high speed characterisation. We look forward

MPhys - Compressive sensing for PV

New Publication - Distinguishing cap and core contributions to the photoconductive terahertz response of single GaAs based core–shell–cap nanowire

Our recent work on single-nanowire terahertz detectors has been published in a special issue of the Lithuanian Journal of Physics, celebrating the 70th birthday of Prof. Arunas Krotkus. In this work, Dr Kun Peng used single-nanowire terahertz detectors with different capping to understand the relative contribution of the core and

PhD Viva in Lancaster

Patrick acted as external PhD examiner for Hayfaa Alradhi, a student in the group of Dr Qiandong Zhuang in the Physics Department at Lancaster University.

New Paper - Three-dimensional direct laser written graphitic electrical contacts to randomly distributed components

A paper by Dr Bryce Dorin has been published in Applied Physics A, where our recently developed direct-laser-writing technique was put to use contacting randomly distributed and encapsulated components. In this work, Bryce distributed and encapsulated commercial microLEDs in a polyimide/epoxy system, and used direct laser writing to convert

UK III-V Nanowire Meeting

Patrick spoke at the UK III-V nanowire meeting in Oxford on March 20th on “Big-data for nano-wires”. This meeting brought together the UK community in nanowire growth and characterisation for a one-day workshop. PhD student Arturo gave a poster on his most recent work related to nanowire statistics.

PhD Viva in Nottingham

Patrick acted as external PhD examiner for James Kerfoot, a student in the group of Prof. Peter Beton in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nottingham.