Research project

EPSRC Equipment Account - Dr A Hector Enabling Microfocus

Lead researcher:

Professor Andrew Hector
Other researchers:

Dr Mark Light
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

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

Total dose hardness of TiN/HfOx/TiN resistive random access memory

Katrina Morgan, Ruomeng Huang, Kenneth Potter, Chris Shaw, William Redman-White & Kees de Groot, 2014, IEEE Transactions Nuclear Science, 61(6), 1-6

DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2014.2365058

Type: article

Niobium(v) and tantalum(v) halide chalcogenoether complexes – towards single source CVD precursors for ME2thin films

Sophie L. Benjamin, Y. Chang, Chitra Gurnani, Andrew Lee Hector, M. Huggon, William Levason & Gillian Reid, 2014, Dalton Transactions, 43(44), 16640-16648

DOI: 10.1039/c4dt02694b

Type: article

The role of Ni–Ti–(Cu) interlayers on the mechanical properties and nano-scratch behaviour of solid lubricant W–S–C coatings

MAURO CALLISTI & T. Polcar, 2014, Surface and Coatings Technology, 254, 260-269

DOI: 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2014.06.028

Type: article

Diode-end-pumped 1.2W Yb:Y₂O₃ planar waveguide laser

Stephen J. Beecher, Tina L. Parsonage, Jacob I. Mackenzie, Katherine A. Sloyan, James A. Grant-Jacob & Robert W. Eason, 2014, Optics Express, 22(18), 22056-22061

DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.022056

Type: article

Controlling the nanostructure of bismuth telluride by selective chemical vapour deposition from a single source precursor

Sophie L. Benjamin, C.H. de Groot, Chitra Gurnani, Andrew L. Hector, Ruomeng Huang, Elena Koukharenko, William Levason & Gillian Reid, 2014, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2(14), 4865-4869

DOI: 10.1039/c4ta00341a

Type: article