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G Reid - Nanostructured Bismuth Telluride Thin Films

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Gill Reid

PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY

Research interests

  • Synthetic inorganic chemistry
  • Design and synthesis of new macrocyclic and multidentate ligands involving donor atoms from Groups 15 (P, As, Sb, Bi) and 16 (S, Se, Te)
  • Coordination chemistry with s-, p-, d- and f-block metal ions
Connect with Gill

Email: G.Reid@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

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

Professor Kees De Groot

Professor

Research interests

  • Radio-Frequency and Microwave Devices
  • 2 dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides  Transistors
  • Smart Radiative Cooling and RF control of smart glass using metal oxides such as Al-doped ZnO and W-doped VO2
Connect with Kees

Email: chdg@southampton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Sustainable Electronic Technologies

We explore how to improve renewable energy sources and create more efficient electronic device technology to benefit the environment.

Research outputs

Improved thermoelectric performance of Bi2Se3 alloyed Bi2Te3 thin films via low pressure chemical vapour deposition
Daniel W Newbrook , Stephen P Richards, Victoria Greenacre, Andrew L. Hector, William Levason, Gillian Reid, C.H. De Groot & Ruomeng Huang, 2020, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 848
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2020.156523
Type: article
Selective chemical vapor deposition approach for Sb2Te3 thin film micro-thermoelectric generators
Daniel W Newbrook , Stephen P. Richards, Victoria Greenacre, Andrew L. Hector, William Levason, Gillian Reid, Cornelis De Groot & Ruomeng Huang, 2020, ACS Applied Energy Materials, 3(6), 5840-5846
DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.0c00766
Type: article
Compositionally tunable ternary Bi2(Se1-xTex)3 and (Bi1-ySby)2Te3 thin films via low pressure chemical vapour deposition
Sophie Benjamin, Cornelis De Groot, Chitra Gurnani, Samantha, Louise Hawken, Andrew L. Hector, Ruomeng Huang, Marek Jura, William Levason, Eleanor Reid, Gillian Reid, Stephen Richards & Gavin B.G. Stenning, 2018, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 6(29), 7734-7739
DOI: 10.1039/C8TC01285G
Type: article
Nanoscale arrays of antimony telluride single crystals by selective chemical vapor deposition
Ruomeng Huang, Sophie Benjamin, Chitra Gurnani, Yudong Wang, Andrew Hector, William Levason, Gill Reid & C.H. (Kees) de Groot, 2016, Scientific Reports, 6, 1-10
DOI: 10.1038/srep27593
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