Matthew Spink

Specialist Technician at University of Southampton in the Novel and Compound Glass research group, with a PhD in Materials Science, Physics and Electronic Devices from Nottingham Trent University. My expertise is the in deposition, processing, characterisation and modelling of inorganic thin films and materials, as well as their adoption into optoelectronic devices.

I also have a general interest in the wider semiconductor industry.

PhD work included:
-Using laser annealing as an alternative processing technique to fabricate electronic materials, TFTs;
-Simulating light-matter interaction during laser annealing of sol-gel materials for electronics;
-Using Infra-Red Spectroscopic Ellipsometry to understand the conversion mechanism of sol-gel materials;
-Laser patterning to fabricate self-forming nanogap devices with coplanar metallic electrodes using the adhesion lithography process.