Research Interests

The extreme properties of diamond mean that it could surpass other wide band gap materials in many optical and electronic applications. Ultimately, the electrical and optical properties will be limited by defects and impurities either grown-in, introduced during processing steps involved in modern device fabrication, or produced via possible degradation processes during device operation.

This motivates work on understanding and determining the electronic properties and lattice structures of defects, as well as the diffusion of impurities and activation of dopants in diamond. Our group is part of a UK Carbon Based Electronics Consortium working on the development of different carbon electronic materials (e.g. polymers, nano-tubes, and diamond etc). Our contribution to the project is the development of in-situ Electron Paramagnetic Resonance for the investigation of bulk and surface defects created/destroyed during the processing of these materials.

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