Research Interests

- Electron Diffraction

- Electron Microscopy

- Semiconductor Materials and Devices

- Functional Ceramics

- Electron Diffraction, Crystallography and crystal defects

More information can be found on the research pages.

Research Projects

We are looking for someone with strong computing/modelling skills to undertake a PhD on the growth of dislocations in optoelectronic semiconductor devices. For example, he image below shows the dendritic growth of a single dislocation across the optical aperture of a vertical-cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) like the one you have in your computer mouse. There is currently no model of how this happens!

I am also working on the use of digitally-reconstructed large-angle electron diffraction patterns to solve and refine crystal structures.

Above: Digital diffraction pattern taken from Ca3Mn2O7: experimental data, room temperature.

Above: Simulated LACBED patterns from Ca3Mn2O7. The match between simulation and experiment allows atomic coordinates to be measured to a precision of ~0.1 pm

Dr Richard Beanland

Reader
Department of Physics,
University of Warwick,
Coventry
CV4 7AL

Office: MAS3.07 

Office tel:
44 (0)24 765 73884
Lab tel:
44 (0)24 765 74476
E-mail:
R.Beanland@warwick.ac.uk