Richard Smith BEng PhD
Richard is the laboratory technician for both Primary and Secondary PGCE Science courses.
Prior to joining the department in 2010 he worked at Surrey University as a research fellow in Nanotechnology. During his time there Richard published extensively in the field and gained sustained experience of cutting edge laboratory equipment and procedures. He has a wide experience of student mentoring from degree up to PhD levels.
Selected publications
R. C. Smith, P. C. P. Watts, C. H. P. Poa and S. R. P. Silva, (In press), Field emission and current saturation effects from carbon nanotube-polymer composites, Nanotechnology
R. C. Smith, L. D. Filip and S. R. P. Silva, (In press), Calculation of field enhancement factor from individual carbon nanotubes, J.Vac. Sci. Technol. B.
R. C. Smith and S. R. P. Silva, (In press), Interpretation of the field enhancement factor for electron field emission from carbon nanotubes, J. Appl. Phys.
T. Connolly, R. C. Smith, Y. Hernandez, Y. Gun’ka, J. N. Coleman and J. D. Carey, (2009), Carbon nanotube – polymer nanocomposites for field emission cathodes, SMALL, 5 826
R. C. Smith and S. R. P. Silva, (2009), Maximising the emission performance of carbon nanotubes arrays, Appl. Phys. Lett. 94 133104
L. D. Filip , R. C. Smith, J. D. Carey, S. R. P. Silva, (2009), Electron transfer from a carbon nanotube into vacuum under high electric fields, J. Phys. Cond. Matt. 21, 19 195302
R. C. Smith, D. C. Cox, and S. R. P. Silva, (2008), In situ field emission characterization of multiwalled carbon nanotubes, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B. 26 842
R. C. Smith and S. R. P. Silva, (2008), (Invited paper) The Design of Carbon Nanotubes for Large Area Electron Field Emission Cathodes, J. Soc. Inf. Display 16, 615
R. T. R. Kumar, E. McGlynn, C. McLoughlin, S. Chakrabarti, R. C. Smith,
J. D. Carey, J. P. Mosnier and M. O. Henry, (2007), Control of ZnO nanorod array density by Zn supersaturation variation and effects on field emission, Nanotechnology 18 (21), 215704
P. Mistry, I. Gomez-Morilla, R. C. Smith, D. Thomson, G. W. Grime, R. P.
Webb, R. Gwilliam, C. Jeynes, A. Cansell, M. Merchant and K. J. Kirkby, (2007), Maskless proton beam writing in gallium arsenide, Nucl. Instr. And Meth. 260, 437
R. C. Smith, D. C. Cox, J. D. Carey and S. R. P. Silva, (2006), In-Situ Electrode Manipulation for the Characterization of Gated Electron Field Emission from a Single Carbon Nanotube, Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 063111
J. D. Carey, R. C. Smith and S. R. P. Silva, (2006), (Invited paper), Carbon based electronic materials: applications in electron field emission, J. Mater. Sci: Mater. Electron. 17, 405
R. C. Smith, J. D. Carey, R. J. Murphy, W. J. Blua,
J. N. Coleman and S. R. P. Silva, (2005), Charge Transport Effects in Field Emission from Carbon Nanotube-Polymer Composites, Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 263105
R. C. Smith, D. C. Cox and S. R. P. Silva, (2005), Electron Field Emission from a Single Carbon Nanotube: Effects of Anode Location, Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 103112
R. C. Smith, R. D. Forrest, J. D. Carey, W. K. Hsu and S.
R. P. Silva, (2005), Interpretation of enhancement factor in nonplanar field emitters, Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 013111
R. C. Smith, J. D. Carey, R. D. Forrest and S. R. P. Silva, (2005), The Effect of Aspect Ratio and Anode Location on the Field Emission Properties of a Single Tip Based Emitter, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B23, 632
C.H.P. Poa, R.C. Smith and S.R.P. Silva, (2005), Influence of mechanical stress on electron field emission of multiwalled carbon nanotube–polymer composites. C. Q. Sun, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B23, 698
S. R. P. Silva, J. D. Carey, G. Y. Chen, D. C. Cox, R. D. Forrest, C. H.
P. Poa, R. C. Smith, Y. F. Tang and J. M. Shannon, (2004), (Invited paper), Nanoengineering of materials for field emission display technologies, IEE Proc.-Circuits Devices Syst., Vol. 151, No. 5, 489
R. C. Smith, J. D. Carey, C. H. P. Poa, D. C. Cox, and S. R. P. Silva, (2004), Electron field emission from room temperature grown carbon nanofibers, J. Appl. Phys. 95, 3153
C. H. P. Poa, R. C. Smith, S. R. P. Silva, P. C. P. Watts, W. K. Hsu, H. W. Kroto, and D. R. M. Walton, (2003), Field emission from nonaligned carbon nanotube-polymer matrix cathodes, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 21, 1715