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EPSRC Equipment Account - Dr A Hector Enabling Microfocus

Staff

Lead researcher

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. 
Other researchers

Dr Mark Light

X Ray Diffraction Manager

Research interests

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

Research outputs

Electrodeposition of tin nanowires from a dichloromethane based electrolyte
Andrew L. Hector,
Andrew Lodge,
Mahboba Hasan,
Philip N. Bartlett,
Richard Beanland,
Reza Jalili Kashtiban,
William Levason,
Gillian Reid,
Jeremy Sloan,
David C. Smith,
& Wenjian Zhang
, 2018 , RSC Advances , 8 (42) , 24013--24020
DOI: 10.1039/C8RA03183E
Type: article
Multichannel ZnO nanowire field effect transistors by lift-off process
Martin Ebert,
Nor Azlin, Binti Ghazali,
Kian Kiang,
Ioannis Zeimpekis,
B. Maerz,
Maurits De Planque,
& Harold Chong
, 2018 , Nanotechnology , 29 (41) , 1--11
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/aad4c5
Type: article
Yb-doped mixed sesquioxide thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition
Jake J. Prentice,
James A. Grant-Jacob,
David P. Shepherd,
Robert W. Eason,
& Jacob I. Mackenzie
, 2018 , Journal of Crystal Growth , 491 , 51--56
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2018.03.039
Type: article
Tin(IV) chalcogenoether complexes as single source precursors for the chemical vapour deposition of SnE2 and SnE (E = S, Se) thin films
Chitra Gurnani,
Samantha, Louise Hawken,
Andrew L. Hector,
Ruomeng Huang,
Marek Jura,
William Levason,
James Perkins,
Gillian Reid,
& Gavin Stenning
, 2018 , Dalton Transactions , 47 (8) , 2628--2637
DOI: 10.1039/C7DT03848H
Type: article
Synthesis and properties of MoCl4 complexes with thio- and seleno-ethers and their use for chemical vapour deposition of MoSe2 and MoS2 films
Yao-Pang Chang,
Andrew L. Hector,
William Levason,
Gillian Reid,
& Joshua Whittam
, 2018 , Dalton Transactions , 47 (7) , 2406--2414
DOI: 10.1039/C7DT04352J
Type: article