Philip A. Parilla - Senior Scientist
Philip Parilla, a Senior Scientist II at NREL, has research interests in a number of materials, including carbon nanotubes, inorganic fullerenes, metal oxides for battery and electronic applications, and high-temperature superconductors. Areas of expertise include adsorption measurements and techniques and pulsed-laser ablation and vaporization, where he has worked on the synthesis techniques for carbon nanotubes and inorganic fullerenes (as reported in Nature, see below). He also has extensive experience in X-ray diffraction using theta-2theta, pole figure, phi scan, glancing angle diffraction, and rocking curve methodologies to characterize samples. In addition, he has a comprehensive background in the measurement and analysis of electronic transport properties such as ac and dc conductivity, Hall and Seebeck effects, magnetoresistivity, and thermal conductivity.
Measurement of magnetic properties is another area of expertise for Dr. Parilla, using a SQUID magnetometer to ascertain the electronic state in high-temperature superconductors and transition metal materials. He has broad knowledge of furnaces and thermal processing of samples. He has extensive experience with cryogenic apparatus and with both superconducting magnet systems and conventional electromagnets. Finally, he has a thorough working knowledge of using computers, especially with developing models for data analysis and programming for data acquisition. He was jointly responsible for developing the hardware and software for the volumetric adsorption apparatus for small samples.
Education
| 1989 | Ph.D., Solid State Physics, University of California, Berkeley. Prof. Alex Zettl, Research Advisor. Thesis title: "Probes on the Lower Charge Density Wave State of NbSe3: Magnetic Field, Temperature. Gradient, and Pulsed Electric Field Effects." |
| 1979 | A.B. Honors Degree, Physics (minor in Mathematics), University of Chicago. |
Selected Publications
- P.A. Parilla, A.C. Dillon, B.A. Parkinson, K.M. Jones, J. Alleman, G. Riker, D.S. Ginley, and M.J. Heben, "Formation of Nanooctahedra in Molybdenum Disulfide and Molybdenum Diselenide Using Pulsed Laser Vaporization," Journal of Physical Chemistry B 108(20), 6197–6207 (2004).
- A.C. Dillon, P.A. Parilla, T. Gennett, K.M. Jones and M.J. Heben, “Systematic Inclusion of Defects in Pure Carbon Single-wall Nanotubes and Their Effect on the Raman D-band” Chem. Phys, Lett. 401 (2005) 522.
- A. H. Mahan, P.A. Parilla, K.M. Jones and A.C. Dillon, “HWCVD Production of High Density Crystalline WO3 Nanorods,” Chem. Phys, Lett. 413, 88 (2005).
- P. A. Parilla, A. C. Dillon, T. Gennett, J. L. Alleman, K. M. Jones, And M. J. Heben, "Adsorption of hydrogen on carbon single-walled nanotubes as measured by the volumetric technique" Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings (Nanotubes and Related Materials) 633, A14.36.1–A14.36.6 (2001).
- P.A. Parilla, A.C. Dillon, K.M. Jones, G. Riker, D.L. Schulz, D.S. Ginley, and M.J. Heben, "The first true inorganic fullerenes?" Nature 397(6715), 114–114 (1999).
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