Research Interests

Novel silicon-based technologies

 

Biography

Professor Evan Parker set up the Nano-Silicon semiconductor group at Warwick, concerned with epitaxial growth of the Si-Ge-C semiconductor material system and associated physical and electrical characterization. This includes world-leading activity on Si-Ge strained structures grown by either CVD or solid source MBE, and on Ge layers (strained and unstrained) for futuristic microprocessor devices and quantum computing platforms. He has held leadership roles in several European Network of Excellence programmes. He chaired international conferences and managed EPSRC's SiGe Hetero-MOS Programme involving a consortium of nine universities. He continues to work on high performance silicon cold electron bolometers (CEB) for application in bio-medical, security and quantum technology fields - and recently including the detection of the elusive dark-matter particle.

Evan raised £30M grant income, has >200 publications and patents including 2 books, and previously - a winner of the AVS prize. He spent a year working with Nobel Laureate Leo Esaki.

He has a strong interest in climate change and co-founded a spin-out company based in Warwick Science Park, attracting over £18M investment to develop leading-edge solar cell technologies. He also co-founded Q-Eye Sensors Ltd to produce strained silicon CEB quantum sensor technologies. During 2022-3 he was advisor to a nano-science company involving hyperpolarized gas-enhanced MRI imaging of the lung and brain. He is also currently working on a new energy source that could yield a paradigm shift in the world's energy scene.

He has a major on-going activity pivoting on a new interpretation of democracy.

Write to:

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

Contact Details:

Office: P440
Telephone:
+44 (0)2476150356
e-mail:
evan.parker@warwick.ac.uk