Franck Natali
Professor
Chemical and Physical Sciences
Macdiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and NanoTechnology
New Zealand
Biography
Franck Natali received his M.Sc. degree (2000) in Electronic Engineering from the University of Bordeaux, France, and his PhD degree in physics from the University of Nice, France (2003). He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the School of Chemical and Physical Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington. Before to join Victoria University of Wellington, he spent 2 years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch and 2 years as a research operator on MBE systems inside Riber, a world leading supplier of molecular beam epitaxy products and services to the compound semiconductor community. He has been an Associate Investigator with the MacDiarmid Institute since 2010.
Research Interest
Most of his scientific research spans from semiconductor material science, including ultra-high vacuum technology, epitaxial growth, structural, electrical and optical characterizations, to the fabrication of devices such as light emitting diodes and transistors. his work on the description-comprehension of the epitaxial growth processes as well as the understanding-control of materials properties is driven with the aim of technological progresses in the electronic (powerful transistors for broadcast communications, etc.) and optoelectronics (energy savings) sectors.
