Research project

EPSRC Equipment Account - Dr A Hector Enabling Microfocus

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

Amorphous SiC resistive memory with embedded Cu nanoparticles

Junqing Fan, Liudi Jiang, Shuncai Wang, Ruomeng Huang, Katrina Morgan, Le Zhong & Kees de Groot, 2017, Microelectronic Engineering, 174, 1-5

DOI: 10.1016/j.mee.2016.12.005

Type: article

Effect of oxidative surface treatments on charge storage at titanium nitride surfaces for supercapacitor applications

Benjamin Gray, Andrew Hector, Marek Jura, John Owen & Joshua Whittam, 2017, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 5(9), 4550-4559

DOI: 10.1039/C6TA08308K

Type: article

A novel route to nanostructured bismuth telluride films by electrodeposition

M.R. Burton, S.J. Richardson, P.A. Staniec, N.J. Terrill, J.M. Elliott, A.M. Squires, N.M. White & Iris S. Nandhakumar, 2017, Electrochemistry Communications, 76, 71-74

DOI: 10.1016/j.elecom.2017.02.004

Type: article

Optical quality ZnSe films and low loss waveguides on Si substrates for mid-infrared applications

Vinita Mittal, Neil Sessions, James Wilkinson & Ganapathy Senthil Murugan, 2017, Optical Materials Express, 7(3), 712-725

DOI: 10.1364/OME.7.000712

Type: article

Combined size and texture-dependent deformation and strengthening mechanisms in Zr/Nb nano-multilayers

Mauro Callisti & Tomas Polcar, 2017, Acta Materialia, 124, 247-260

DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2016.11.007

Type: article

Observation of an order of magnitude increase in the rate photocatalysis for hierarchically porous anatase films synthesized from zinc titanate coatings

Nathanya J. Platt, Karl M. Kaye, Gregory J. Limburn, Samuel D. Cosham, Alexander N. Kulak, Robert G. Palgrave & Geoffrey Hyett, 2017, Dalton Transactions, 46(2), 1975-1985

DOI: 10.1039/C6DT04431J

Type: article

Selective oxidation-induced strengthening of Zr/Nb nanoscale multilayers

M.A. Monclus, M. Callisti, T. Polcar, L.W. Yang, J. Llorca & J.M. Molina-Aldareguia, 2017, Acta Materialia, 1-10

DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2016.09.021

Type: article