Richard Smith
Richard Smith
Electronic engineer, specialities: optics, microscopy, femtoseconds lasers, ps ultrasonics. I completed my PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 2006 at the UoN. My early work focused on optical metrology and signal processing techniques to enable precise measurements to be made below the optical diffraction limit. I have been developing several picosecond ultrasonic systems at UoN, and have successfully developed a parallel detection scheme that has increased the data acquisition rate by over an order of magnitude compared with the traditional detector approach. Current research themes are developing instrumentation to provide true orientation imaging of material microstructure in primarily aerospace materials, and developing high frequency ultrasonic transducers for biological applications
Location: Tower Building – Applied optics office Room 202 or Ultrafast lab room 304, Pharmacy Building – SIOS, ASOPS lab
Email: Richard.j.smith@nottingham.ac.uk
Phone: (0115) 84-67892 (office) or 95-15606 (lab)
Research Projects
SRAS for materials characterisation
Advanced Ultrasonics Platform
Exotic Ultrasonics for the real world
Awards
Winner of best contributed paper at the Rank Prize Funds mini symposia on 'optical aspects of NDT' 19-22nd May 2008, for my talk entitled ‘Parallel ultrafast ultrasonics’.
Peer Reviewed Publications
A Arca, T Stratoudaki, R Smith, M Clark, M G Somekh - Evanescent CHOTs for the optical generation and detection of ultrahigh frequency {SAWs}
- Journal of Physics: Conference Series 269:012012,2011
- http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/269/1/012012
Bibtex<div>Author : A Arca, T Stratoudaki, R Smith, M Clark, M G Somekh
Title : Evanescent CHOTs for the optical generation and detection of ultrahigh frequency {SAWs}
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R Smith, A Arca, X Chen, L Marques, M Clark, J Aylott, M Somekh - Design and fabrication of ultrasonic transducers with nanoscale dimensions
- Journal of Physics: Conference Series 278:012035,2011
- http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/278/1/012035
Bibtex<div>Author : R Smith, A Arca, X Chen, L Marques, M Clark, J Aylott, M Somekh
Title : Design and fabrication of ultrasonic transducers with nanoscale dimensions
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R J Smith, R A Light, N Johnston, S Sharples, M C Pitter, M G Somekh - Parallel detection in laser ultrasonics
- Journal of Physics: Conference Series 214:012006,2010
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/214/1/012006
Bibtex<div>Author : R J Smith, R A Light, N Johnston, S Sharples, M C Pitter, M G Somekh
Title : Parallel detection in laser ultrasonics
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Richard J. Smith, Roger A. Light, Steve D. Sharples, Nicholas S. Johnston, Mark C. Pitter, Mike G. Somekh - Multichannel, time-resolved picosecond laser ultrasound imaging and spectroscopy with custom complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor detector
- Review of Scientific Instruments 81(2):024901,2010
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3298606
Bibtex<div>Author : Richard J. Smith, Roger A. Light, Steve D. Sharples, Nicholas S. Johnston, Mark C. Pitter, Mike G. Somekh
Title : Multichannel, time-resolved picosecond laser ultrasound imaging and spectroscopy with custom complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor detector
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R J Smith, M G Somekh, S D Sharples, M C Pitter, I Harrison - Parallel detection of low modulation depth signals: application to picosecond ultrasonics
- Measurement Science and Technology 19(5):055301,2008
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0957-0233/19/5/055301
Bibtex<div>Author : R J Smith, M G Somekh, S D Sharples, M C Pitter, I Harrison
Title : Parallel detection of low modulation depth signals: application to picosecond ultrasonics
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RJ Smith, CW See, MG Somekh - Use of artificial neural networks on optical track width measurements
- APPLIED OPTICS 46(22):4857--4866,2007
- Bibtex<div>Author : RJ Smith, CW See, MG Somekh
Title : Use of artificial neural networks on optical track width measurements
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R J Smith, C W See, M G Somekh - Optical track width measurements below 100 nm using artificial neural networks
- Measurement Science and Technology 16(12):2397--2404,2005
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0957-0233/16/12/001
Bibtex<div>Author : R J Smith, C W See, M G Somekh
Title : Optical track width measurements below 100 nm using artificial neural networks
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Non Peer Review Papers
Roger A. Light, Richard J. Smith, Nicholas S. Johnston, Steve D. Sharples, Michael G. Somekh, Mark C. Pitter - Highly parallel CMOS lock-in optical sensor array for hyperspectral recording in scanned imaging systems
- pp. 75700U--75700U-10, San Francisco, California, {USA},2010
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.842083
Bibtex<div>Author : Roger A. Light, Richard J. Smith, Nicholas S. Johnston, Steve D. Sharples, Michael G. Somekh, Mark C. Pitter
Title : Highly parallel CMOS lock-in optical sensor array for hyperspectral recording in scanned imaging systems
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Date : 2010
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Ahmet Arca, Theodosia Stratoudaki, Richard J Smith, Matt Clark, Mike Somekh - Evanescent CHOTs for the optical generation and detection of ultra-high frequency SAWs
- 2009 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium pp. 2213 - 2216,2009
- BibtexAuthor : Ahmet Arca, Theodosia Stratoudaki, Richard J Smith, Matt Clark, Mike Somekh
Title : Evanescent CHOTs for the optical generation and detection of ultra-high frequency SAWs
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Date : 2009
Richard Smith, Mike Somekh, Steve Sharples, Mark Pitter, Roger Light, Nicholas Johnston - Parallel detection in picosecond ultrasonics with both commercial and custom array detection
- 1st International Symposium on Laser Ultrasonics: Science, Technology and Applications ,2008
- http://www.ndt.net/article/laser-ut2008/toc.php
BibtexAuthor : Richard Smith, Mike Somekh, Steve Sharples, Mark Pitter, Roger Light, Nicholas Johnston
Title : Parallel detection in picosecond ultrasonics with both commercial and custom array detection
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Chung W. See, Richard J. Smith, Michael G. Somekh - Line width measurement below 60 nm using an optical interferometer and artificial neural network
- Proceedings of SPIE pp. 65181F--65181F-11, San Jose, {CA,} {USA},2007
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.712278
BibtexAuthor : Chung W. See, Richard J. Smith, Michael G. Somekh
Title : Line width measurement below 60 nm using an optical interferometer and artificial neural network
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Address : San Jose, {CA,} {USA}
Date : 2007
Richard J. Smith, Chung W. See, Michael G. Somekh - Sub-0.1 ?m optical track width measurement
- Proceedings of SPIE pp. 58580M--58580M-8, Munich, Germany,2005
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.611999
BibtexAuthor : Richard J. Smith, Chung W. See, Michael G. Somekh
Title : Sub-0.1 ?m optical track width measurement
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Address : Munich, Germany
Date : 2005
Posters
Richard Smith - Set for Britain 2011 London
- Technical Report - Poster, The University of Nottingham ,2011
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Title : Set for Britain 2011 London
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Richard Smith - LU2008 2008 Montreal
- Technical Report - Poster, The University of Nottingham ,2008
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Title : LU2008 2008 Montreal
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Richard Smith - Frontiers in interface Physics 2010
- Technical Report - Poster, The University of Nottingham ,2010
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Title : Frontiers in interface Physics 2010
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Talks
Richard Smith - AFPAC 2011 Frejus
- Technical Report - Talk, The University of Nottingham ,2011
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Title : AFPAC 2011 Frejus
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Richard Smith - LU2010 2010 Bordeaux
- Technical Report - Talk, The University of Nottingham ,2010
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Title : LU2010 2010 Bordeaux
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Richard Smith - IOP 2009 Coventry
- Technical Report - Talk, The University of Nottingham ,2009
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Title : IOP 2009 Coventry
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Richard Smith - RCNDE ESR 2009 Warwick
- Technical Report - Talk, The University of Nottingham ,2009
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Title : RCNDE ESR 2009 Warwick
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Richard Smith - Rank Prize Funds 2008 Grasmere
- Technical Report - Talk, The University of Nottingham ,2008
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Title : Rank Prize Funds 2008 Grasmere
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Richard Smith - Acoustics 08 2008 Paris
- Technical Report - Talk, The University of Nottingham ,2008
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Title : Acoustics 08 2008 Paris
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Richard Smith - SPIE Metrology 2005 Munich
- Technical Report - Talk, The University of Nottingham ,2005
- BibtexAuthor : Richard Smith
Title : SPIE Metrology 2005 Munich
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Date : 2005