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EPSRC Equipment Account - Dr A Hector Enabling Microfocus

Staff

Lead 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: [email protected]

Other researchers

Dr Mark Light

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Single crystal X-ray diffraction
  • Powder and materials X-ray diffraction
  • Total scattering and pair distribution function analysis
Connect with Mark

Email: [email protected]

Research outputs

Role and optimization of the active oxide layer in TiO2-based RRAM
A. Regoutz, I. Gupta, A. Serb, A. Khiat, F Borgatti, T.L. Lee, C. Schlueter, P. Torelli, B. Gobaut, M. Light, D. Carta, S. Pearce, G. Panaccione & T. Prodromakis, 2016, Advanced Functional Materials, 26(4), 507-513
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201503522
Type: article
An amorphous titanium dioxide metal insulator metal selector device for resistive random access memory crossbar arrays with tunable voltage margin
Simone Cortese, Ali Khiat, Daniela Carta, Mark E. Light & Themistoklis Prodromakis, 2016, Applied Physics Letters, 108(3), 1-4
DOI: 10.1063/1.4940361
Type: article
Structural and mechanical properties of ?-irradiated Zr/Nb multilayer nanocomposites
Mauro Callisti, T. Polcar & Lozano-Perez Sergio, 2016, Materials Letters, 163, 138-141
DOI: 10.1016/j.matlet.2015.10.057
Type: article
A versatile precursor system for supercritical fluid electrodeposition of main-group materials
Philip N. Bartlett, Jennifer Burt, David A. Cook, Charles Y. Cummings, Michael W. George, Andrew Hector, Mahboba Hasan, Jie Ke, William Levason, David Pugh, Gillian Reid, Peter W. Richardson, David C. Smith, Joe Spencer, Norhidayah Suleiman & Wenjian Zhang, 2016, Chemistry - A European Journal, 22(1), 302-309
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201503301
Type: article
Phase-change memory properties of electrodeposited Ge-Sb-Te thin film
Ruomeng Huang, Gabriela Kissling, Andrew Jolleys, Philip Bartlett, Andrew Hector, William Levason, Gillian Reid & Cornelis de Groot, 2015, Nanoscale Research Letters, 10, 1-7
DOI: 10.1186/s11671-015-1136-4
Type: article