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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

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
Evaluation of Cu3N and CuO as negative electrode materials for sodium batteries
Xianji Li, Andrew Lee Hector & John R. Owen, 2014, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 118(51), 29568-29573
DOI: 10.1021/jp509385w
Type: article