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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

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
Pulsed laser deposition of crystalline garnet waveguides at a growth rate of 20 µm per hour
James A. Grant-Jacob, Stephen J. Beecher, Jake J. Prentice, David P. Shepherd, Jacob I. Mackenzie & Robert W. Eason, 2017, Surface and Coatings Technology
DOI: 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2017.12.008
Type: article
Compliance-free ZrO2/ZrO2−x/ZrO2 resistive memory with controllable interfacial multistate switching behaviour
Ruomeng Huang, Xingzhao Yan, Sheng Ye, Reza J. Kashtiban, Richard Beanland, Katrina A. Morgan, Martin D.B. Charlton & C.H. de Groot, 2017, Nanoscale Research Letters, 12
DOI: 10.1186/s11671-017-2155-0
Type: article
Titanate nanotubes and nanosheets as a mechanical reinforcement of water-soluble polyamic acid
Christian Harito, Dmitry V. Bavykin, Mark E. Light & Frank C. Walsh, 2017, Composites Part B: Engineering, 124, 54-63
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2017.05.051
Type: article
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