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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. 
Connect with Andrew

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

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
Connect with Mark

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

Research outputs

Supercritical fluid electrodeposition of elemental germanium onto titanium nitride substrates
Charlie Cummings, Philip N. Bartlett, David Pugh, Gillian Reid, William Levason, Mahboba M. Hasan, Andrew L. Hector, Joe Spencer & David C. Smith, 2015, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 162(14), D619-D624
DOI: 10.1149/2.0771514jes
Type: article
Ge-on-Si plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition for low cost photodetectors
C.G. Littlejohns, A.Z. Khokhar, D.J. Thomson, Y. Hu, L. Basset, Scott Reynolds, G.Z. Mashanovich, G.T. Reed & F.Y. Gardes, 2015, IEEE Photonics Journal, 7(4), 1-8
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2015.2456069
Type: article
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