Dr David Lane
Reader in Analytical Physics & Advanced Materials
Location: Shrivenham campus
E: d.w.lane@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1793 785226
Department of Engineering and Applied Science
Current activities
Teaching
Dr David Lane is Director of the Forensic MSc Programme and leader of two modules: Analytical Techniques and Trace Evidence.
Research
His main research interest is the growth and analysis of compound semiconductors for thin film solar cells and in particular assessing new sustainable materials by high throughput, combinatorial techniques.
The growth techniques used by David’s team include sputter coating, chemical bath deposition, spray pyrolysis, close space sublimation and vacuum evaporation. Analysis is by SEM, XRD, spectroscopic ellipsometry and RBS.
David has also used ion beam techniques, such as RBS, PIXE and NRA to analyse specimens ranging from soil and glass to biological materials and explosives.
Clients
EPSRC, EU, BP Solar, Pilkington GlassBackground
David joined Cranfield University in 1985 after spending three years in industry. After completing a doctorate in 'Laser Interactions with Natural and Ion Beam Modified Optical Surfaces' he joined the University's lecturing staff, teaching physics on courses that range from undergraduate and diploma to MSc. During his PhD he developed ion beam analysis techniques for the University’s Van De Graaff accelerator. These have been applied to film films, electronic devices, and biological and environment specimens.
He is now Reader in Analytical Physics and Advanced Materials in Cranfield Forensic Institute, and has published over fifty papers in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings. David leads the University’s research into the growth, characterisation and numerical modelling of thin film photovoltaic solar cells, and was one of the founding members of aSiNet, the EU funded network on amorphous silicon technology, and PVNET, the EPSRC funded network on thin film photovoltaics. His research team is a member of SUPERGEN PV-21 the EPSRC funded national consortium on inorganic solar cells, and was awarded a £1million EPSRC grant that started in April 2008. He was also a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College from 1 January 2003 to 31 December 2005.
In 1996 David helped establish the highly successful Forensic Engineering and Science MSc and was its Academic Leader since its first intake in 1998 and its Course Chairman from August 2004. In 2009 he expanded the University’s forensic education through the development of the new Forensic MSc Programme. This highly versatile modular programme allows students to graduate from specific themes that more closely match their specific areas of expertise, namely:
Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology MSc
Forensic Engineering and Science MSc
Forensic Explosive and Explosions Investigation MSc
David is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, a Chartered Physicist and a Professional Member of the Forensic Science Society.
Selected publications
S. Roncallo, O. Karimi, K.D. Rogers, D.W. Lane, S.A. Ansari, ‘Initial Assessment of a New Approach to High Throughput Diffraction Analysis’ , J. Appl. Cryst., 42 (2009) 174-178
S. Roncallo, J.D. Painter, M.A. Cousins, D.W. Lane, K.D. Rogers, ‘A method to quantify the degree of uniformity of thickness of thin films’, Thin Solid Films, 516 (2008) 8493-8497
D. W. Lane, G. Wright, T. Webb, S. Awar, ‘Scatter Patterns from Beer Glasses Used as Weapons’, International Crime Science Conference, 17-18 July 2008, British Library, London.
B.R. Wakeling, D.W. Lane, J.D. Painter, M.A. Cousins, K.D. Rogers, ‘The effect of CdS preparation on CdS/CdTe device structure and electrical characteristics’, 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference (1st to 5th September 2008), Valencia, Spain.
B.R. Wakeling, D.W. Lane, K.D. Rogers, ‘Structural and Electrical characterisation of CdS/CdTe devices with double layered CdS substrates’, PVSAT4 Conference University of Bath, (2 – April 2008)
B.R. Wakeling, U. S. Ketipearachchi, D. W. Lane, R.B. Degamber, J. D. Painter, M. A. Cousins, K. D. Rogers, ‘In-situ analysis of cadmium sulphide deposited by ultrasonic assisted chemical bath’, presented at PVSAT3 Conference, Durham University, Durham, 28 – 30 March 2007.
D.F. Peach, D.W. Lane and M. Sellwood, ‘An Assessment Of Surface Heating During Ion Beam Analysis I: Experimental Method’, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B, 249 (2006) 677-679.
D.F. Peach, D.W. Lane and M. Sellwood, J.D. Painter, ‘An Assessment Of Surface Heating During Ion Beam Analysis II: Application to Biological Materials’, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B, 249 (2006) 680-683.
A. Broadhurst, D.W. Lane, K.D. Rogers, T.W. Lowe, ‘Determination of analytical data from specific depths using PIXE’, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B, 249 (2006) 808-811.
D W Lane, ‘A review of the optical band gap of thin film CdSxTe1-x’, 90, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 90, (2006) 1169-1175.
D.W. Lane, J.D. Painter, K.D. Rogers, I. Forbes, R.W. Miles, K.M. Hynes, ‘Dendritic CuIn Films Grown by Electroless Deposition’, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., 836 (2005) 155-160.
U. Ketipearachchi, D.W. Lane, K.D. Rogers, J.D. Painter, M. A. Cousins, ‘Bath pH dependence on the structural and optical properties of chemical bath deposited CdS thin films’, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., 836 (2005) 161-166.
A. Broadhurst, K. D. Rogers, T. W. Lowe and D. W. Lane, ‘Determination of depth-dependent diffraction data: a new approach’, Acta Cryst, A61, (2005) 139-146
K.D. Rogers, D.W. Lane, J. Painter, A. Chapman, 'Structural characterisation of TiO2 thin films fabricated by spray pyrolysis', Thin Solid Films 466 (2004) 97– 102.
I. Forbes, K.T. Ramakrishna Reddy, D. Johnston, R.W. Miles, D.W. Lane and K.D. Rogers, A. Chapman, 'RF Sputtering of high Quality Cu / In Precursor Layers and Conversion to CuInS2 Using Elemental Sulphidisation Processes', Journal Of Materials Science-Materials In Electronics 14 (2003) 567-571
K.D. Rogers, D.W. Lane, A. Chapman and J. Painter, 'The Structural Features of TiO2 Thin Films Formed by Pyrosol Methods', Journal Of Materials Science-Materials In Electronics 14 (9): 573-577 SEP 2003
D.W. Lane, J.D. Painter, M.A. Cousins, G.J.Conibeer, K.D. Rogers, 'Sulphur diffusion in cadmium telluride thin films (part 1): The grain boundary diffusion coefficient', Thin Solid Films, 431-432 (2003) 73-77.
M. A. Cousins, D.W. Lane, J.D. Painter, G.J. Conibeer, K.D. Rogers, 'Sulphur diffusion in cadmium telluride thin films (part 2): Modelling grain boundary diffusion', Thin Solid Films, 431- 432 (2003) 78-83.
A. J. Chapman, D. W. Lane, K. D. Rogers, M. E. Ozsan, 'Microstructural changes of CdTe during the annealing process', Thin Solid Films, 403 (2002) 522-525
M. Sperrin, K. Rogers, D. Lane, P. Southerden, 'An investigation into the architecture and composition of a urinary calculus', Journal Of Materials Science-Materials In Medicine, 13 (2002) 7-9
