David Woodward


My research interests are mainly centred around structural studies of perovskites, initially looking at Bi(Me)O3-PbTiO3 systems, but expanding to systems such as Ag(Nb,Ta)O3 and (Na,K)0.5Bi0.5TiO3.

Favourite publications:

D. I. Woodward & I. M. Reaney (2005). "Electron diffraction of tilted perovskites" Acta Cryst. B61 (4), 387-399. Open Access

D. I. Woodward, I. M. Reaney, R. E. Eitel & C. A. Randall (2003). "Crystal and domain structure of the BiFeO3–PbTiO3 solid solution" J. Appl. Phys. 94 (5), 3313-3318. Link

D. I. Woodward, I. M. Reaney, G. Y. Yang, E. C. Dickey & C. A. Randall (2004). "Vacancy ordering in reduced barium titanate" Appl. Phys. Lett. 84 (23), 4650-4652. Link

D. I. Woodward, J. Knudsen & I. M. Reaney (2005). "Review of crystal and domain structures in the PbZrxTi1−xO3 solid solution" Phys. Rev. B 72 (10), 104110. Link


Some new work has been looking at the layered ferroelectric structure of Ag2Nb4O11:

N. Masó, D. I. Woodward, P. A. Thomas, A. Várez & A. R. West (2011). "Structural characterisation of ferroelectric Ag2Nb4O11 and dielectric Ag2Ta4O11" J. Mater. Chem. 21 (8), 2715-2722. Link

D. I. Woodward & P. A. Thomas (2011). "Ferroelectricity in the xAg2Nb4O11 - (1-x)Na2N4O11 solid solution" Appl. Phys. Lett. 98 (13), 132904. Link to journal article

The lovely people at APL have sent me a copy which can be downloaded here by anyone. Copyright (2011) American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The article appeared in the above citation and may be found via the above link. Phew.

Here's another about a related material:

N. Masó, D. I. Woodward, A. Várez & A. R. West (2011). ”Polymorphism, structural characterisation and electrical properties of Na2Nb4O11”. J. Mater. Chem. 21 (32), 12096-12102. Link


This new paper brings together various structures in perovskites and shows that many can be considered intermediate phases between variants characterised by displacement, tilting and cation ordering:

I. M. Reaney, D. I. Woodward & C. A. Randall (2011). “Displacive phase transitions and intermediate structures in perovskites”. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 94 (7), 2242-2247. Link

Here's a paper where we used electron diffraction to identify the phases present in simulated waste glass. A mere 6 years later, it was published. One of the most carefully considered papers ever:

P. B. Rose, D. I. Woodward, M. I. Ojovan, N. C. Hyatt and W. E. Lee (2011). “Crystallisation of a simulated borosilicate high-level waste glass produced on a full-scale vitrification line”. J. Non-Cryst. Solids 357 (15), 2989-3001. Link


On a musical note, here are some things I get up to in my increasingly rare spare time. This is me playing one of my favourite guitar solos on my favourite guitar with my favourite band. Thanks to Jo for recording and uploading it. I think this is the best I've ever played it.

Here's another version of the same, the quality of the footage is better but my playing not as good. Thanks to Jon for recording and uploading this.

Finally, if you can't stand the sight of musicians, this is good footage of us. Here, here, here and here. Thanks to Mr. Danger for these.

David Woodward

Write to:

Department of Physics
University of Warwick
Coventry, CV4 7AL

Contact Details:

Office: MAS 3.09
Telephone:
44 (0)24 76151782
Fax:
44 (0)24 76150897

E-mail: d.i.woodward@warwick.ac.uk