Dr Christopher Shaw
Facility Manager and Course Director
Location: Building 70, Cranfield campus
E: c.p.shaw@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 750111 x2503
Materials
Current activities
Dr Chris Shaw is the Cleanroom Facility Manager for the Microsystems and Nanotechnology Centre and the Course Director of the Microsystems and Nanotechnology postgraduate programme. As well as providing day to day support for the running of the cleanroom, Chris has research activities in a number of projects including the development of a Microprobe with NPL and Cambridge, and investigations concerned with the possible use of the electrocaloric effect in pyroelectric materials.
As a result of a broad range of skills acquired over the last ten years and his general responsibilities within the clean room facility at Cranfield, Chris is able to work and advise on many other projects based within the department, particularly in areas relating to MEMS processing, photolithography and electrical characterisation of ferroelectric materials.
Clients
- EPSRC
- InfraRed Integrated Systems Ltd, Towcester
- Industry & Innovation Division, National Physical Laboratory
- Material Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge
- Owlstone, Cambridge.
Background
Dr Chris Shaw took up the position of Research Officer Cranfield University in January 1997, having previously gained a Chemistry Honour’s Degree at Liverpool University. He then went on to complete an MSc and a PhD at Cranfield. Within his MSc project work he looked at the unusual Electro-Rheological properties of lithium polymethacrylate suspensions before diversifying within his PhD studies to investigate the second harmonic generation effects from ordered helical polymer structures associated with polyglutamates and polyisocyanates.
On joining the Microsystems and Nanotechnology Centre, Chris has researched in a number of EPSRC funded projects in collaboration with other Universities including Manchester and Cambridge. Initial project work included the feasibility study of a hybrid ferroelectric-liquid crystal display, within which Chris developed his first experience of ferrroelectric thin film processing and characterisation, ending in a successful further funding of the proposal.
In later research, Chris worked in the field of pyroelectrics, gaining broad experience in ferroelectric ceramic processing both in terms of thin film sol gel synthesis techniques and mixed oxide bulk ceramic processing, which has subsequently found commercial application within a low resolution pyroelectric array imaging device.
Other areas of interest, have also included the development of a Pyroelectric testing rig and the running of a Deep Reactive Ion Etching (DRIE) facility which has provided small scale support to clients.
Selected publications
- S.S.Royand H.Gleeson, C.P. Shaw*, R.W. Whatmore, Z. Huang, Q. Zhang and S. Dunn. Integrated Ferroelectrics 2000, Vol.29, pp189-213. IS: 1058-4587(* Correspondence Author).
- C.P.Shaw, S.S.Roy, R.W.Whatmore, H.F. Gleeson, Z.Huang, Q.Zhang and S.Dunn. Ferroelectrics, 2001, Vol. 256, pp159-174.
- C.P.Shaw, S.Gupta, S.B.Stringfellow, A.Navarro, J.R.Alcock, R.W.Whatmore.
- Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 2002, Vol.22(13), pp2123-2132.
- C.P.Shaw, S.Landi, R.W.Whatmore and P. Kirby. Integrated Ferroelectrics 63, 93-97, 2004. ISSN:1058-4587 print/1607-8489 online.
- C.P.Shaw, W.Whatmore and J.R.Alcock. Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 2007, 90[1], p137-142.
