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David Westwood  PhD 1990 (Cardiff)

Dr David Westwood

PhD 1990 (Cardiff)

Lecturer
Physics Education Research Group

School of Physics and Astronomy

Email
Westwood@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 29208 74992
Campuses
Queen's Buildings - West Building Extension, Room WX/2.10, 5 The Parade, Newport Road, Cardiff, CF24 3AA

Overview

Course committee

Environmental Management Team

ERASMUS and Study Abroad coordinator.

Examinations panel

Safety Team and Safety Committee (+Chemical Safety Officer and deputy laser safety officer)

Year 0 organiser

Publication

2008

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1992

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1990

Articles

Conferences

  • Westwood, D., Brown, I. H., Linsell, D. N. J. and Matthai, C. C. 2000. Dynamics of the growth of InAs quantum dots on GaAs(001) substrates. Presented at: Semiconductor quantum dots, San Francisco, CA, 5-8 April 1999 Presented at Moss, S. C. et al. eds.Semiconductor quantum dots : symposium held April 5-8, 1999, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.. Materials Research Society symposia proceedings Vol. 571. Warrendale, PA: Materials Research Society pp. 337-342.
  • Cooper, C., Blood, P., Molloy, C., Chen, X. Y., Westwood, D. I., Smowton, P. M. and Somerford, D. 1997. New approach to blue-shifting asymmetric quantum wells. Presented at: In-plane Semiconductor Lasers: From Ultraviolet to Midinfrared, San Jose, CA, USA, 10-13 February 1997 Presented at Choi, H. K. and Zory, P. S. eds.Proceedings of In-Plane Semiconductor Lasers: from Ultraviolet to Midinfrared, 10-13 February 1997, San Jose, California. Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 3001. Bellingham, WA: SPIE pp. 184-191., (10.1117/12.273787)
  • Lees, A. K., Zhang, J., Sobiesierski, Z., Taylor, A. G., Xie, M. H., Joyce, B. and Westwood, D. I. 1996. New hydrogen desorption kinetics from vicinal Si(001) surfaces as observed by reflectance anisotropy. Presented at: 23rd International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors, Berlin, Germany, 21-26 July 1996 Presented at Scheffler, M. and Zimmermann, R. eds.The Physics of Semiconductors: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors, ICPS, Berlin, 21-26 July 1996, Vol. 2. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing pp. 955-958.
  • Williams, P., Westwood, D. I., Sobiesierski, Z. and Aubrey, E. 1992. The molecular beam epitaxial growth of GAAS/GAAS(201): doping and growth temperature studies. Presented at: 21st International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors, Beijing, China, 10-14 August 1992 Presented at Jiang, P. and Zheng, H. eds.Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors: Beijing, China, August 10-14, 1992. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing
  • Sobiesierski, Z., Woolf, D. A., Westwood, D. I. and Williams, R. H. 1990. Photoluminescence measurements for GaAS grown on SI(100) and SI(111) by molecular-beam epitaxy. Presented at: 20th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors, Thessaloniki, Greece, 6-10 August 1990 Presented at Joannopoulos, J. D. and Anastassakis, E. eds.20th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors (ICPS), Thessaloniki, Greece, Aug. 6-10 1990. London: World Scientific Publishing pp. 1081-1084.

Research

Research interests

Although no longer research active, my research background is in molecular beam epitaxy crystal growth of compound semiconductor materials and the study of semiconductor surfaces and interfaces.

The move to teaching has allowed me, through undergraduate projects, to develop an interest in the physics of sport and in particular the interaction between bat and ball.

As for pedagogy, this too is driven by sporting interests.  Why, for example, are “training”; “practice” and “skills development” treated so differently in scientific education and sport?

Teaching

PX2133 - Intermediate Practical Physics I: module organiser

PX2233 - Intermediate Practical Physics II: module organiser

PX2135 - Electronic Instrumentation: module organiser

Year 3 and 4 Project supervisor

Biography

I obtained my first degree in Physics from the University of Nottingham in 1983. My first job was as a research scientist in the Compound Semiconductor Division at GECs Hirst Research Centre, Wembley. In 1985 I moved to Cardiff (then University College Cardiff) joining the group studying semiconductor surfaces and interfaces as a research assistant. Supported by British Telecom I completed my PhD in 1990. My increasing interest and activities in teaching eventually led to a teaching only role in 2013