Diamond CVD Personnel
- Professor Michael N.R. Ashfold, FRS - is a Professor of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, supervising the diamond project. Other research activities include laser spectroscopy and atmospheric gas phase chemistry.
- Professor Paul W. May - is a Professor of Physical Chemistry. Main research interests are all aspects of diamond film CVD, gas phase diagnostics, field and thermionic emission and bioapplications of diamond.
- Dr Neil A. Fox - is a Reader based both in the Chemistry and Physics Depts. Main research interests are field and thermionic emission of diamond for energy applications.
- Dr James Smith - is a research associate involved with the technical aspects of diamond deposition.
- Dr Hugo Dominguez Andrade (hd1313@bristol.ac.uk) - studied here for a PhD in the area of thermionic electron emission from diamond, and is now working as a postdoctoral researcher in Physics.
- Mrs Tahani Almutairi (ta16535@bristol.ac.uk) - is a student doing a PhD studying methods for n-type doping of diamond.
- Mr Ed Smith (edmund.smith@bristol.ac.uk) - is a PhD student studying diamond deposition methods, and in particular deposition of diamond onto GaN.
- Mr Limin Yang (ly17360@bristol.ac.uk) - is a PhD student studying applications of nanodiamond particles, funded by the Chinese Scolarship Council.
- Mr Max Williams (mw12315@bristol.ac.uk) - is a PhD student studying computer simlations of diamond growth, funded by the UK Diamond Science and Technology CDT and IIa Technologies (Singapore).
- Mr Dominic Palubiski (dominic.palubiski@bristol.ac.uk) - is a PhD student studying diamond/metal and diamond/polymer composites for improved wear, thermal, and damping capabilities, funded by ACCIS.
- Mr Robbie Mackenzie (gm12172@bristol.ac.uk) - is a PhD student studying studying diamond-based gamma-voltaic technology.
- Mr Tom Wallace-Smith (tw17227@bristol.ac.uk) - is a PhD student studying diamond-based beta-voltaic technology.
- Mr Ramiz Zulkharnay (nu18043@bristol.ac.uk) - is a student doing a PhD in surface functionalisation of diamond for thermionic emission applications.
- Mr Adam Kirwan (adam.kirwan@bristol.ac.uk) - is a student doing a PhD in surface functionalisation of diamond for thermionic emission applications.
- Mr Matt Brumwell (nd18734@bristol.ac.uk) - is a student doing a PhD in polymer-templated diamond growth.
- Ms Liia Buhhanevits (wg19689@bristol.ac.uk) - is a student doing a PhD funded by SAAB
- Mr Liam Cullingford (liam.cullingford.2018@bristol.ac.uk) - is a student doing a PhD funded by AWE looking into the use of diamond wafer composites as the basis of a novel fast neutron imaging detector material that improves upon existing technology to provide greater resolution and sensitivity.
- Ms Sophie Osbourne (sophie.osbourne@bristol.ac.uk) - is a student doing a PhD studying the development of a diamond-based radiation detector with an enhanced sensitivity for tritium beta-decay radiation.
- Mr Sami Ullah (sami.ullah@bristol.ac.uk) - is a student doing a PhD studying methods to produce scalable temperature-stable emitters for thermionic and betavoltaic applications.
- Miss Kaili Yao (nl19264@bristol.ac.uk) - is a visiting student from Harbin University, China, studying diamond growth on GaN.
Other people working on diamond at Bristol include: Professor Neil Allan (Chemistry: Computer modelling of solid-state materials, including diamond defects and dopants), Professor David Fermin (Chemistry: Diamond Electrochemistry), Professor Martin Kuball (Physics: Diamond/GaN devices) and Dr Simon Kohn (Earth Sciences: Diamond gemstone defects).
A list of previous group members, including staff and students can be found on this page.