Job title:
Senior Analytical Officer / Electron Microscopy
Phone 0114 225 3474
E-mail v.patel@shu.ac.uk
BEng Forensic Engineering
Research interests
Vinay is employed within the Electron Microscopy Support Unit and his roles comprises of the following
- Conventional Scanning Electron Microscopy
- High resolution and low vacuum scanning electron microscopy
- Energy Dispersive X-Ray Analysis (EDX)
- Materials Preparation
- Fractography
- Metallography
His particular fields of expertise are
- The analysis of materials via SEM and EDX
- Providing training and support for analytical equipment within the Materials Engineering Research Institute
Some examples of work Vinay has carried out for industry are
- Particulate contamination identification by Scanning Electron Microscopy
- Material Characterisation
- Failure Analysis
- Fractography
- Macro, micro and nano hardness measurements
- Identification of stress corrosion failures in brasses (gas supply industry)
- Characterization of electrodeposited solar cells by Scanning electron Microscopy
- Characterization of Cold Metal Transfer (CMT) welded ferritic stainless steels
Referred papers
Growth of Cds layers to Develop All-Electrodeposited Cds/CdTe Thin-Film Solar CellsD.G Diso, G.E.A Muftah, V. Patel and I.M. Dharmadasa Journal of The Electrochemical Society 2010