Ground state density of Si(63)C(1)

 

Dr Martin Vaughan


 

 

 

 

Lecturing

Spring 2015PY2108: Experimental Methods I
 PY3101: Optics
 
Autumn 2014PY1008: Physics for Biomedical, Environmental, Food and Nutritional Sciences
 PY1009: Physics for the Environmental Sciences I
 PY3105: Introduction to Condensed Matter Physics
 PY3107: Experimental Physics II
 
Spring 2013PY2108: Experimental Methods I
 PY3101: Optics
 
Autumn 2013PY1008: Physics for Biomedical, Environmental, Food and Nutritional Sciences
 PY1009: Physics for the Environmental Sciences I
 PY3105: Introduction to Condensed Matter Physics
 PY3107: Experimental Physics II

Research Interests

  • Transport Theory in semiconductors

  • Alloy scattering

  • Phonon scattering

  • Ab initio approaches to alloy and impurity scattering

Publications

Professional Employment

2013 -  Lecturer in Physics
 Physics Department, University College Cork, Ireland
  
2009 - 2013Researcher
 Materials Theory Group, Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland
 Computational and mathematical modelling of condensed matter. Particular projects focussing on carbon in SiGe material systems using density functional theory and Green’s function methods for investigation of dilute nitrides.
  
2009 - 2013Research Officer
 School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, UK
 Experimental characterisation of semiconductor lasers and novel THz sources based on InP technology.

Education

2006PhD in Physics
 University of Essex, Colchester, UK
 Alloy and phonon scattering-limited electron mobility in dilute nitrides
 Supervisors: Prof Brian K. Ridely (emeritus) and Prof Naci Balkan
  
2003MSc in the Physics of Laser Communications
 University of Essex, Colchester, UK
  
2000BSc in Physics
 Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

Presentations

Projects

 


M.P. Vaughan (2013)