Ryan Wicks

Research

I am working on my Ph.D in Physics in the Quantum Materials Group at UBC. My supervisor is Andrea Damascelli. I am interested in the epitaxial growth of transition metal and rare earth oxides, and in studying their properties using a variety of techniques, including a variety of photoelectron spectroscopies.

Teaching

• TA for PHYS309 (Fall Terms 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011).
• Former TA for PHYS253 (Summer Term 2008, 2011)
• Let's Talk Science volunteer.
• Former TA for PHYS102 (Winter Term 2007, 2008).
• Former lab TA for PHYS153 (Spring Term 2008)
• Former lab and tutorial TA for PHYS101 (Spring and Summer Terms, 2006).
• Former tutorial TA for PHYS100 (Fall Term 2005).
• Former marker at Queen's University (2003-2005).

Publications

• Ingle NJC., Yuskauskas A., Wicks R., Paul M., Leung S., Determining the Epitaxial Influence on the Structure of Thin Films by in situ Diffraction Techniques, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. , 43, 13, 133001 (2010).
• Wicks R., Ingle N., Characterizing The Detection System Non-Linearity, Internal Inelastic Background and Transmission Function of an Electron Spectrometer For Use in X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Rev. Sci. Inst., 80, 053108 (2009). - Local PDF
• Wicks R., The Growth of Novel Thin Film Oxides: Calibrations, Preliminary Growths and Quantitative Characterizations, Master's Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. - Local PDF
• Wicks R., The Acoustic Laser, Bachelor's Honours Thesis, Queens University, 2005 - Local PDF
• Ren W., Han L., Wicks R., Yang G., Mukherjee B.K., Electric Field Induced Phase Transitions of <001>-Oriented Pb(Mg_1/3Nb_2/3)O₃-PbTiO₃ Single Crystals, Proc. SPIE., 5761, 272-278 (2005) - Local PDF