Dr Oliver Burton
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Role
Undergraduate IA Engineering Supervisor
Post-doc theme lead for Functional Nano and Layered Materials
Research associate in the electronic and photonic materials group
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Research
The research interests of Dr Oliver Bruton are in scalable and applicable nanomaterial synthesis and nanofabrication, developing scalable methodologies and computational techniques to enable large dataset collection for understanding the chemistry and physics of these methods, and the many different possible individual processes that they encompass. He has worked with a number of international companies and research organisations and maintains a keen emphasis on translatable research. He founded a start-up company, ProSpectral LTD, where he is working towards commercialising some of his ideas as CEO and has received several grants in support of this.
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Awards, Degrees, Honours
BSc., MASt, PhD
Oliver works on integrated routes to 2D material synthesis and subsequent application in device fabrication. Working on the chemical vapour deposition of 2D materials such as graphene, Oliver is using both in-situ and ex-situ characterisation methods to understand how these materials grow and how we can control and utilise contamination levels of certain elements in the catalyst to the advantage of the final 2D film quality. In parallel he is working towards optimising the application of these films after their growth for both research and industry and working on novel repeatable methods of process tolerant 2D material based device fabrication.