Dr Caspar James FALL, CPhys. MInstP.

School of Physics
University of Exeter
Exeter EX4 4QL
United Kingdom
Phone: +44-1392-264198
Fax: +44-1392-264111 		Home:
42 Prospect Park
St James
Exeter EX4 6NA
United Kingdom
Phone: +44-1392-435260
c.j.fall@exeter.ac.uk
http://newton.ex.ac.uk/people/fall/
Single
British Nationality
Born 7th January 1972
English and French mother tongues

Work Experience

1999-2001 Research Fellow at the School of Physics of the University of Exeter, United Kingdom
First-principles Research into Defects in Gallium Nitride, with Prof. R. Jones, using the AIMPRO ab initio code
  • June 2001: three weeks stay at EPFL, Switzerland, as an invited scientist
  • May 2001: three weeks at CINECA Supercomputing Centre, Bologna (I), as a visiting scientist under the European MINOS programme
  • March 2001: organisation of WideGap2001, a three-day conference gathering 70 scientists from 5 continents: http://widegap2001.ex.ac.uk/
  • September 2000: one month scientific collaboration at the Helsinki University of Technology (Finland)
  • March 2000: ten days stay at University of Newcastle (UK), as a visiting scientist programming in Fortran90
  • Extensive use of Cray T3E, SGI Origin 2000, and IBM SP systems
1995-1999 PhD in Computational Physics at the Institut Romand de Recherche Numérique en Physique des Matériaux, Lausanne, Switzerland
Research in solid state physics using numerical simulations, with Prof. A. Baldereschi, entitled Ab initio study of the work functions of elemental metal crystals
  • Extensive Fortran and Mathematica programming on Cray YMP, NEC SX-4, SG, and Digital machines, with management of 65'000 lines of parallel and vectorised code
  • Code parallelisation using the CRAFT and PVM libraries
  • Unix administration, programming with Unix scripts, development of LaTeX macros
Summer 94 Engineering project (Rural Engineering Department - EPFL)
An exploration of three-dimensional visualisation of LIDAR signals
  • Off-line treatment of Light Detection And Ranging (LIDAR) signals for measuring chemical pollution in the atmosphere with a double laser beam
  • Data analysis and programming in C
  • 3D visualisation with IRIS Explorer, Silicon Graphics
Summer 93 United Nations Development Programme, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Training of local staff for office computing on Windows
Summer 92 Danish Action for Aid to Afghan Refugees, Peshawar, Pakistan
Set-up of a Foxpro database for personnel management

Education

1997-1998 Postgraduate course on Communication Systems
Communication Systems Division of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Practical group project: Security and web servers
  • Set-up of a secure Apache-Stronghold SSL server, under Linux, for the controlled distribution of software at the Computed-Assisted Teaching Laboratory
  • Installation of a private certification authority using the SSLeay library
  • Authentication of remote clients by means of personal client certificates
  • Study of the principal security algorithms currently in use on the web: RSA, DSS, RC4
1990-1995 Physics Engineering MSc (April 1995)
Physics Department of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
  • 1995 Dommer prize for the best undergraduate results over 4 years of study at the EPFL
  • 1993 Cousin prize for the best results over the first two years of study at the EPFL
  • Masters' thesis in the Micro- and Optoelectronics Institute with Prof. E. Kapon, entitled: Quantum confinement in crescent-shaped quantum wires
1987-1990 Gymnase de Chamblandes, Pully, Vaud, Switzerland
  • Swiss scientific baccalaureate (July 1990)
  • Prizes for "general excellence", maths, physics, and chemistry-biology

Other Professional Activities

Feb. 2001 Three-day course on Practical Software Development for Computational Scientists and Engineers, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, United Kingdom
Dec. 2000 Chartered Physicist and Membership status awarded by the Institute of Physics, London, United Kingdom
June 2000 Two weeks intensive Intermediate German, organised by University of Exeter Language Centre
Mar. 2000 Three-day EPSRC Career Development School, organised by University College London, London
Feb. 2000 Four-day course on Visual Basis for Applications
run by University of Exeter Computer Services, Exeter, UK
1996-1999 Internet Marketing: http://mypage.bluewin.ch/a-z/latorretta/
Administration of a web server for letting a holiday home in Tuscany
  • Full administration and design of a web server for a holiday home in Tuscany
  • Financial control of rentals
  • Contacts with holiday-makers from four continents
1996-1999 Teaching assistant for 50 third-year physics students at the EPFL, Lausanne, for the numerical experimentation practical of Prof. A. Baldereschi
  • Programming for engineers in Fortran 90
1996-1998 Representative of the intermediate staff on the Board of Studies of the Physics Department, EPFL, Lausanne
  • Coordination of the curriculum for first and second cycles of undergraduate physics studies
1997-1999 Graphic design of posters and logos for cultural events
  • Physics students annual ball Artiphys'98
  • Three performances of the Village Players theatre group

International conferences

January 2002 ONR Workshop on Extended Defects in Wide Gap Semiconductors: Electrical and Optical Effects, San Pedro, Belize
Oral Presentation: Interpretation of EELS spectra of dislocations in GaN
November 2001 MRS Fall Conference, Boston, USA
Oral Presentation: Theory of Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy and its Application to Threading Edge Dislocations in GaN
July 2001 International Conference on Defects in Semiconductors (ICDS-21), Giessen, Germany
Poster Presentation: Modeling Electron Energy-Loss Spectra of Dislocations in Silicon and Diamond (Online)
June 2001 De Beers Diamond Conference, University of Bristol, UK
Oral Presentation: Modelling electron energy-loss spectra of dislocations in diamond
Poster Presentation: The Diamond Maker by H. G. Wells (Online)
March 2001 WideGap2001 Conference, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Secretary General: Web Site, Sponsorships, Advertising, Registrations, Proceedings Editor, Organisation
Aug. 2000 Psi-K 2000 Conference, Schwäbisch-Gmünd, Germany
Oral Presentation: Electronic and Vibrational Properties of Mg- and O-Related Complexes in GaN
July 2000 Fourth European GaN Workshop, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Poster Presentation
May 2000 European Materials Research Society 2000 Meeting, Strasbourg, France
Poster Presentation
March 2000 European cooperation in the field of scientific & technical research (COST) P3 meeting, working group 1, Heraklion, Greece
Oral Presentation: Work function anisotropy in noble metals
Sept. 1998 EPS Europhysics Conference on Computational Physics, Granada, Spain
Poster Presentation: Work Functions around Sharp Aluminum Facet Edges
Sept. 1997 VII Italian-Swiss Workshop on Computational Materials Science, Cagliari, Italy
Oral Presentation: Ab Initio Study of the Anisotropy of the Aluminium Work Function
Feb. 1997 Spring Meeting of the Swiss Physics Society, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Oral Presentation

Scientific Publications

Work Functions at Facet Edges
C. J. Fall, N. Binggeli, and A. Baldereschi
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 88, p. 156802 , April 2002 (Abstract)
Dislocations in Diamond: Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy
C. J. Fall, A. T. Blumenau, R. Jones, P. R. Briddon, T. Frauenheim, A. Gutiérrez-Sosa, U. Bangert, A. E. Mora, J. W. Steeds, and J. E. Butler
Physical Review B, 2002, in press
Dislocations in Diamond: Core Structures and Energies
A. T. Blumenau, M. I. Heggie, C. J. Fall, R. Jones, T. Frauenheim
Physical Review B, 2002, in press
Influence of Dislocations on Electron Energy-Loss Spectra in Gallium Nitride
C. J. Fall, R. Jones, P. R. Briddon, A. T. Blumenau, T. Frauenheim, M. I. Heggie
Physical Review B, 2002, in press
Low Electron Energy Loss Studies of GaN Films and Quantum Well Structures
A. Gutiérrez-Sosa, U. Bangert, A. J. Harvey, C. J. Fall, R. Jones, P. R. Briddon, M. I. Heggie
Physical Review B, 2002, in press
Theory of Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy and its Application to Threading Edge Dislocations in GaN
C. J. Fall, R. Jones, P. R. Briddon, A. T. Blumenau, T. Frauenheim, M. I. Heggie
Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., Vol. 693, I10.1, 2002 (Vol. Index)
Theoretical maps of work function anisotropies
C. J. Fall, N. Binggeli, and A. Baldereschi
Physical Review B, Vol. 65, No. 4, p. 045401, January 2002 (Abstract)
Modelling electron energy-loss spectra of dislocations in silicon and diamond
C. J. Fall, J. P. G. Goss, R. Jones, P. R. Briddon, A. T. Blumenau, and T. Frauenheim
Physica B, Vol. 308-310, No. 1-4, pp. 577-580, December 2001 (Abstract)
Deep Thoughts on Shallow Dopants: Widegap2001 Conference Report
C. J. Fall and R. Jones
Compound Semiconductor Magazine, June 2001, pp. 55-57 (PDF)
Electronic and vibrational properties of Mg- and O-related complexes in GaN
C. J. Fall, R. Jones, P. R. Briddon, and S. Oberg
Materials Science and Engineering B, Vol. 82/1-3, pp. 88-90, May 2001 (Vol. Index)
Low-frequency vibrational spectroscopy in SiC polytypes
B. Pajot, C. J. Fall, J. L. Cantin, H. J. von Bardeleben, R. Jones, P. R. Briddon, F. Gendron
Materials Science Forum, Vol. 353-3, pp. 349-352, 2000
Small aggregates of interstitials and models for platelets in diamond
J. P. Goss, B. J. Coomer, R. Jones, C. J. Fall, C. D. Latham, P. R. Briddon, and S. Oberg
Journal of Physics: Cond. Matter, Vol. 12, No. 49, pp. 10257-10261, Dec. 2000 (Abstract)
Work function anisotropy in noble metals: Contributions from d-states and effects of the surface atomic structure
C. J. Fall, N. Binggeli, A. Baldereschi, and A. Dal Corso
Physical Review B, Vol. 61, No. 12, pp. 8489-8495, March 2000 (Abstract)
Deriving Accurate Work Functions from Thin-Slab Calculations
C. J. Fall, N. Binggeli, and A. Baldereschi
Journal of Physics: Cond. Matt., Vol. 11, No. 13, pp. 2689-2696, April 1999 (Abstract)
Study of Electronic States in Hyperbolic Crescent-Shaped Quantum Wires
C. J. Fall, M.-A. Dupertuis, and E. Kapon
Optical and Quantum Electronics, Vol. 31, pp. 201-213, March 1999 (Abstract)
Anomaly in the Anisotropy of the Aluminum Work Function
C. J. Fall, N. Binggeli, and A. Baldereschi
Physical Review B, Vol. 58, No. 12, pp. R7544-R7548, September 1998 (Abstract)
General Solution Scheme for Second-Order Differential Equations: Application to Quantum Transport
M. Di Ventra and C. J. Fall
Computers in Physics, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 248-253, May-June 1998
Optical Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Quantum Wires
D. Y. Oberli, F. Vouilloz, M.-A. Dupertuis, C. J. Fall, and E. Kapon
Nuovo Cimento D, Vol. 17D, No. 11, pp. 1641-1650, November 1995