David Nicol

PhD student at Strathclyde Uni | Gallium Oxide supporters club | Below average golfer

[David Nicol @DavidRNicol92]

Super excited to share that I successfully defended my PhD thesis on Friday! 🎉
Huge thanks to @FabienMassabuau for always keeping me motivated and challenging me to be the best researcher I can be 🫡
@PhysicsStrath

[David Nicol @DavidRNicol92]

Great talk by Mugove at the @europeanmrs shining a light on the effect of dislocations on the luminescence spectra of alpha Ga2O3

[David Nicol @DavidRNicol92]

Lots of exciting discussions yesterday at our poster on sub-bandgap absorption in Ga2O3 at the E-MRS meeting.

Later today I’ll be back at the poster session, demonstrating how we can use the broad, defect mediated absorption properties for water quality monitoring applications

[David Nicol @DavidRNicol92]

Arrived at the University of Warsaw for the start of an exciting week the E-MRS fall meeting.
Later today I’ll be presenting out work on studying how light is absorbed Gallium Oxide at sub-bandgap energies

[David Nicol @DavidRNicol92]

@ProfRachelGaN Thanks Rachel!

[David Nicol @DavidRNicol92]

Great day in Bristol today talking about all things Gallium Oxide at the Ultra Wide-bandgap oxides conference. Topped off by being awarded the prize for best student presentation 🥳

[David Nicol @DavidRNicol92]

@FabienMassabuau I’ve got your back @FabienMassabuau

[David Nicol @DavidRNicol92]

Less than 1 week to go 📢 Exited to be giving a talk at the UWO in Bristol discussing the impact of Hydrogen on the UV luminescence properties of alpha Ga2O3. See the GIF to see the evolution of the luminescence line at 3.8 eV at low temp ❄

Paper 👇
https://t.co/Pg90DuXrKx

[Fabien Massabuau @FabienMassabuau]

Our paper on Ni/Au contacts in #ALD #Ga2O3 is now published in JJAP @ioppublishing

We studied the structural/chemical/electrical properties of the contact against annealing to gain insights into the mechanisms affecting devices .

👉 https://t.co/nIuA0y9XS4

[David Nicol @DavidRNicol92]

Delighted to share my first first-author paper 🥳

Here we use Temperature-dependent photoluminescence to reveal a 3.8 eV emission line in alpha phase Ga2O3 that exhibits a strong dependence with Hydrogen concentration and temperature.

@PhysicsStrath
https://t.co/WcaYZNas2K

[David Nicol @DavidRNicol92]

Giving my first seminar to ours friends in Lyon introducing what we do at the SSD group at @PhysicsStrath, as well as an insight into some of the cool properties of Gallium Oxide

[David Nicol @DavidRNicol92]

Excited to be presenting at my first conference for the #UKNC winter meeting this afternoon, where I will be talking about the luminescence properties of Gallium Oxide @IoPScotland @PhysicsStrath

[Fabien Massabuau @FabienMassabuau]

@DavidRNicol92 @PhysicsStrath has finally made it to Lyon, and is now growing #Ga2O3 with Bertrand Vilquin @CentraleLyon in the context of the Alliance Hubert Curien Programme @fr_British

[David Nicol @DavidRNicol92]

@kellyhoppen Went to the zoo the other day, but there was only one dog in it

It was a shih Tzu

[David Nicol @DavidRNicol92]

@LewisWalton16 Tickets still available?

[David Nicol @DavidRNicol92]

@FabienMassabuau This sounds like me trying to get my word count up 😭

[Fabien Massabuau @FabienMassabuau]

Come and see our presentations on
- Electric contacts to Ga2O3
- Trench defects in InGaN quantum wells studied by time-resolved CL (pew pew)
- Stacking faults in cubic GaN

[Fabien Massabuau @FabienMassabuau]

New paper on Ti contacts to corundum α-#Ga2O3 just accepted @JPhysD, aka the importance of balancing #diffusion, chemical #stability and #recrystallisation at the contact.
https://t.co/ElM8NBZkS7

It will be published in @JPhysD Emerging Leaders special issue.

[David Nicol @DavidRNicol92]

Looking after the kid for a few days, never realised these kids books were so ruthless 😭

[David Nicol @DavidRNicol92]

Yayy to the first time my name being on something Sciency. Does the feeling of imposter syndrome ever go away though?

anyway, Check out our paper on the progress of atomic layer deposited alpha-Ga2O3 materials and solar blind detectors-its pretty cool🥳
https://t.co/R0eLidR3zs