Research project

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Lead researchers:

Professor Andrew Hector
Other researchers:

Dr Mark Light
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Andrew Hector

Head of School

Research interests

Materials synthesis, including metal nitrides, thin film materials, sol-gel and solvothermal processes and porous structures.
Materials characterisation – powder and thin film diffraction, microscopy and spectroscopy techniques.
Electrochemistry, including charge storage in battery and supercapacitor type cells, and electrodeposition of various materials.?

Connect with Andrew

Email: A.L.Hector@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Dr Mark Light

Associate Professor

Research interests

Single crystal X-ray diffraction
Powder and materials X-ray diffraction
Total scattering and pair distribution function analysis

Connect with Mark

Email: M.E.Light@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Non-aqueous electrodeposition of functional semiconducting metal chalcogenides: Ge2Sb2Te5phase change memory

Philip N. Bartlett, Sophie L. Benjamin, C.H. (Kees) de Groot, Andrew L. Hector, Ruomeng Huang, Andrew Jolleys, Gabriela Kissling, William Levason, Stuart J. Pearce, Gillian Reid & Yudong Wang, 2015, Materials Horizons, 2(4), 420-426

DOI: 10.1039/C5MH00030K

Type: article

Microstructural evolution of nanometric Ti(NiCu)2 precipitates in annealed Ni–Ti–Cu thin films

M. Callisti & T. Polcar, 2015, Vacuum, 117, 1-3

DOI: 10.1016/j.vacuum.2015.03.028

Type: article

Fabrication and characterization of high-contrast mid-infrared GeTe₄ channel waveguides

Vinita Mittal, Armen Aghajani, Lewis Carpenter, James C. Gates, Jonathan Butement, Peter G.R. Smith, James S. Wilkinson & Ganapathy Senthil Murugan, 2015, Optics Letters, 40(9), 2016-2019

DOI: 10.1364/OL.40.002016

Type: article

Length-scale-dependent mechanical behaviour of Zr/Nb multilayers as a function of individual layer thickness

E. Frutos, M. Callisti, M. Karlik & T. Polcar, 2015, Materials Science and Engineering: A, 632, 137-146

DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2015.02.071

Type: article

Ordered mesoporous silica films with pores oriented perpendicular to a titanium nitride substrate

Calum Robertson, Richard Beanland, Stuart A. Boden, Andrew Lee Hector, Reza J. Kashtiban, Jeremy Sloan, David C. Smith & Alain Walcarius, 2015, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 17(6), 4763-4770

DOI: 10.1039/c4cp05730a

Type: article

Chemical vapour deposition of antimony chalcogenides with positional and orientational control: precursor design and substrate selectivity

Sophie L. Benjamin, C.H. de Groot, Andrew L. Hector, Ruomeng Huang, Elena Koukharenko, William Levason & Gillian Reid, 2015, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 3, 423-430

DOI: 10.1039/C4TC02327G

Type: article

Mid infrared GeTe₄ waveguides on silicon with a ZnSe isolation layer

Vinita Mittal, C. Craig, N.P. Sessions, Daniel W. Hewak, James S. Wilkinson & Ganapathy Senthil Murugan, 2015

DOI: 10.1117/12.2196663

Type: conference