Rachel Oliver (scientist)

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Rachel Oliver

FIMMM
Professor Rachel Oliver.jpg
Oliver in 2019
Born
Rachel Angharad Oliver
Alma materUniversity of Oxford (MEng, DPhil)
AwardsRoyal Society University Research Fellowship (2006-2011)
Scientific career
FieldsGallium nitride
Advanced microscopy
Quantum technology[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
Robinson College, Cambridge
ThesisGrowth and characterisation of nitride nanostructures (2003)
Doctoral advisorAndrew Briggs[2]
Websitewww.msm.cam.ac.uk/people/oliver

Rachel Angharad Oliver FIMMM is a Professor of Materials Science at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge.[1] She works on characterisation techniques for gallium nitride materials for light-emitting diodes and laser diodes.[3][4]

Early life and education[]

Oliver studied engineering and materials science at the University of Oxford and completed an industrial placement in metallurgy.[when?][5] Her final year masters project was in optoelectronic materials.[5] She completed her Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Oxford in 2003,[2] where she began to work with gallium nitride under the supervision of Andrew Briggs.[5] She used metalorganic vapour-phase epitaxy (MOVPE) to grow quantum dots.[5] During her PhD, she spent several months working in an industrial lab in America.[6]

Research and career[]

She joined the University of Cambridge in 2003 as a Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 postdoctoral research fellow.[5] In 2006 Oliver was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (URF) at the University of Cambridge.[7] She studied the morphology of gallium nitride light-emitting diodes (LEDs), identifying what factors controlled their efficiency and the impact of defects.[7] She was awarded an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) grant to study semi-polar nitride based structures.[8]

She was appointed a lecturer at the University of Cambridge in 2011.[9] Oliver studies gallium nitride materials for LEDs and laser diodes.[1][3][10] Her research considers ways to engineer the nanostructure of light emitting diodes and how this impacts macroscopic device performance.[10] She has developed atom-probe tomography and scanning capacitance microscopy to study nitride devices.[10]

Oliver is also working on single-photon indium gallium nitride quantum dots for quantum crystallography.[10][11] She has looked at the impact of threading dislocations on the quality factor of InGaN cavities. Her group developed the first blue-emitting single-photon source.[12][13][14] She was the first to note rabi oscillations of GaN quantum dots.[15][16] She designed a quasi-two-temperature growth method to pattern GaN quantum dots, which improved their emission by a factor of ten.[12][17]

Awards and honours[]

Oliver was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM) in 2019.[18][19] She held a Royal Society University Research Fellowship from 2006 to 2011.[7]

Personal life[]

Oliver’s husband is a cardiologist with whom she has a son.[9]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c Rachel Oliver publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Oliver, Rachel Angharad (2003). Growth and characterisation of nitride nanostructures. bodleian.ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 59185823. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.400219.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Rachel Oliver publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  4. ^ Rachel Oliver publications from Europe PubMed Central
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Pain, Elisabeth (2010). "Structuring a Career Around Gallium Nitride". Science. American Association for the Advancement of Science. doi:10.1126/science.caredit.a1000032. Retrieved 2018-09-29.
  6. ^ Anon (2018). "Contributors – Cambridge Science Centre". csc.webfactional.com. Retrieved 2018-09-29.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b c Anon (2018). "Dr Rachel Oliver: Research Fellow". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2018-09-30. Retrieved 2018-09-29.
  8. ^ Oliver, Rachel (2019). "Study of semi-polar and non-polar nitride based structures for opto-electronic device applications". ukri.og. UK Research and Innovation. Retrieved 2018-09-29.
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b Notman, Nina (2015). "The mothers of invention: Nina Notman profiles four researchers successfully balancing an academic career with family life". chemistryworld.com. Chemistry World. Archived from the original on 2020-08-20. Retrieved 2018-09-29.
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Wineman, Adina (2016-08-09). "Rachel Oliver". msm.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-09-29.
  11. ^ Jarjour, Anas F.; Oliver, Rachel A.; Taylor, Robert A. (2009). "Nitride-based quantum dots for single photon source applications". Physica Status Solidi A. 206 (11): 2510–2523. doi:10.1002/pssa.200824455. ISSN 1862-6300.
  12. ^ Jump up to: a b Anon (2016). "Collaboration Casts New Light On Quantum Dots - Science and Engineering". ses.ac.uk. Science and Engineering. Retrieved 2018-09-29.
  13. ^ Jarjour, Anas F.; Taylor, Robert A.; Oliver, Rachel A.; Kappers, Menno J.; Humphreys, Colin J.; Tahraoui, Abbes (2007). "Cavity-enhanced blue single-photon emission from a single InGaN∕GaN quantum dot". Applied Physics Letters. 91 (5): 052101. doi:10.1063/1.2767217. ISSN 0003-6951.
  14. ^ Aharonovich, Igor; Woolf, Alexander; Russell, Kasey J.; Zhu, Tongtong; Niu, Nan; Kappers, Menno J.; Oliver, Rachel A.; Hu, Evelyn L. (2013). "Low threshold, room-temperature microdisk lasers in the blue spectral range". Applied Physics Letters. 103 (2): 021112. arXiv:1208.6452. doi:10.1063/1.4813471. ISSN 0003-6951.
  15. ^ Zhu, Tongtong; Liu, Yingjun; Ding, Tao; Fu, Wai Yuen; Jarman, John; Ren, Christopher Xiang; Kumar, R. Vasant; Oliver, Rachel A. (2017). "Wafer-scale Fabrication of Non-Polar Mesoporous GaN Distributed Bragg Reflectors via Electrochemical Porosification". Scientific Reports. 7 (1): 45344. doi:10.1038/srep45344. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 5366952. PMID 28345612.
  16. ^ Reid, Benjamin P. L.; Kocher, Claudius; Zhu, Tongtong; Oehler, Fabrice; Emery, Robert; Chan, Christopher C. S.; Oliver, Rachel A.; Taylor, Robert A. (2014). "Observations of Rabi oscillations in a non-polar InGaN quantum dot". Applied Physics Letters. 104 (26): 263108. doi:10.1063/1.4886961. ISSN 0003-6951.
  17. ^ Wang, Tong; Puchtler, Tim J.; Zhu, Tongtong; Jarman, John C.; Oliver, Rachel A.; Taylor, Robert A. (2017). "High-temperature performance of non-polar (11-20) InGaN quantum dots grown by a quasi-two-temperature method". Physica Status Solidi B. 254 (8): 1600724. doi:10.1002/pssb.201600724. ISSN 0370-1972.
  18. ^ IOM3. "IOM3 members recognised in Women's Engineering Society's Top 50 Women in Engineering: Sustainability". www.iom3.org. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
  19. ^ Cambridge Centre for Gallium Nitride (2019-03-26). "Rachel elected to Fellowship of IOM3". www.gan.msm.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
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