Charles Patterson
Associate Professor
Physics
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
1982 B.Sc. (Hons.) in Chemistry, University of Bristol. 1982-85 PhD in Chemistry, University of Cambridge. PhD topic: Reactions at single crystal surfaces. 1986-90 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania. Research topics: Electron energy loss spectroscopy and X ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Ab initio computational studies of surfaces and clusters. 1987 Visiting researcher A.T. and T. Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey. Research topic: Low energy ion scattering from NiAl(110). 1990 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Physics, TCD. Ab initio computational studies of optical properties of semiconductor surfaces. 1991-04 Lecturer in Science of Materials, Department of Physics,TCD. Research Interests: Computational materials science. 1997-11 Director of Computational Physics Degree Course, TCD. 2004-current Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor, Department of Physics, TCD.
Research Interest
Atomic and molecular physics; Computational Physics; Condensed matter, electronic, magnetic and superconductive properties; Condensed matter, optical and dielectric properties; Magnetism and spin electronics; Quantum chemistry; Quantum mechanics; Theory and computational physics
Publications
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E. Mehes and C. H. Patterson, Defects at the Si(001)/a-SiO2 interface: Analysis of structures generated with classical force fields, Physical Review Materials, 2017
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P. Kumar and C. H. Patterson, Dielectric anisotropy of the GaP/Si(001) interface from first-principles theory, Physical Review Letters, 118, 2017, pin press-
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S. Banerjee, C. H. Patterson and J. F. McGilp, Group V adsorbate structure on vicinal Ge(001) surfaces determined from the optical spectrum, Applied Physics Letters, 2017, pin press-
