Chris joined the Institute in October 2002 as a PhD student working on the applications of micropixellated III-V semiconductor nitride LED arrays. This work included building drive circuitry for controlling the arrays, characterising individual LED element beam divergence for microlens integration, and integration with light emitting polymers for wavelength conversion. Since obtaining his PhD he has continued at the Institute as a Postdoctoral Researcher. Prior to this, he worked for Marconi for two years as a Hardware Development Engineer testing and designing telecoms equipment. He graduated from the University of Aberdeen in 2000 with an Honours degree in Physics.
His research concentrates on the operation, characterisation, and applications of micron-scale AlInGaN/GaN and InGaN/GaN Light Emitting Diodes emitting in the near UV to blue wavelength range. Some of these applications include; high frequency short-pulsed LEDs for fluorescence studies, microfluidic integration, and parallel DNA sample hybridisation. He is involved in several aspects of LED array control, from conventional scale electronic driver circuits to miniaturised flip-chip controllers. |
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