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Cathodoluminescence spectroscopy of monolayer hexagonal boron nitride (2024)
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Shima, K., Cheng, T. S., Mellor, C. J., Beton, P. H., Elias, C., Valvin, P., …Chichibu, S. F. (2024). Cathodoluminescence spectroscopy of monolayer hexagonal boron nitride. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 169. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-50502-9

Cathodoluminescence (CL) spectroscopy is a suitable technique for studying the luminescent properties of optoelectronic materials because CL has no limitation on the excitable bandgap energy and eliminates ambiguous signals due to simple light scatte... Read More about Cathodoluminescence spectroscopy of monolayer hexagonal boron nitride.

Wafer-Scale Two-Dimensional Semiconductors for Deep UV Sensing (2023)
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Shiffa, M., Dewes, B. T., Bradford, J., Cottam, N. D., Cheng, T. S., Mellor, C. J., …Patanè, A. (2024). Wafer-Scale Two-Dimensional Semiconductors for Deep UV Sensing. Small, 20(7), Article 2305865. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202305865

2D semiconductors (2SEM) can transform many sectors, from information and communication technology to healthcare. To date, top‐down approaches to their fabrication, such as exfoliation of bulk crystals by “scotch‐tape,” are widely used, but have limi... Read More about Wafer-Scale Two-Dimensional Semiconductors for Deep UV Sensing.

Graphene nanoribbons with hBN passivated edges grown by high-temperature molecular beam epitaxy (2023)
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Bradford, J., Cheng, T. S., James, T. S., Khlobystov, A. N., Mellor, C. J., Watanabe, K., …Beton, P. H. (2023). Graphene nanoribbons with hBN passivated edges grown by high-temperature molecular beam epitaxy. 2D Materials, 10(3), Article 035035. https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/acdefc

Integration of graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) in lateral heterostructures has provided a route to broadly engineer the material properties by quantum confinement of electrons or introduction of novel electronic and magnetic states at the... Read More about Graphene nanoribbons with hBN passivated edges grown by high-temperature molecular beam epitaxy.

Optical Monitoring of In Situ Iron Loading into Single, Native Ferritin Proteins (2023)
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Yousefi, A., Ying, C., Parmenter, C. D. J., Assadipapari, M., Sanderson, G., Zheng, Z., …Rahmani, M. (2023). Optical Monitoring of In Situ Iron Loading into Single, Native Ferritin Proteins. Nano Letters, 23(8), 3251-3258. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c00042

Ferritin is a protein that stores and releases iron to prevent diseases associated with iron dysregulation in plants, animals, and bacteria. The conversion between iron-loaded holo-ferritin and empty apo-ferritin is an important process for iron regu... Read More about Optical Monitoring of In Situ Iron Loading into Single, Native Ferritin Proteins.

Diffractive metasurface light-shaping from fiber endoscope probes for increased depth of field (2023)
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He, F., Gordon, G., Fuentes-Dominguez, R., Cousins, R., Mellor, C. J., Barton, J. . K., & Gordon, G. S. . D. (2023). Diffractive metasurface light-shaping from fiber endoscope probes for increased depth of field. Proceedings of SPIE, 12356, Article 1235606. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2648860

In applications such as optical coherence tomography, there is a need both to achieve large depth of field by light shaping and to maintain ultracompact form factors. Flat metasurfaces on optical fibers can achieve such requirements, with designs suc... Read More about Diffractive metasurface light-shaping from fiber endoscope probes for increased depth of field.

The influence of magnetic vortices motion on the inverse ac Josephson effect in asymmetric arrays (2022)
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Chesca, B., Gaifullin, M., John, D., Cox, J., Savel'ev, S., & Mellor, C. (2022). The influence of magnetic vortices motion on the inverse ac Josephson effect in asymmetric arrays. Applied Physics Letters, 121(16), Article 162601. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0121779

We report on the influence a preferential magnetic vortices motion has on the magnitude of the inverse ac Josephson effect (the appearance of dc current Shapiro steps) and the coherent operation of asymmetrical parallel arrays of YBa2Cu3O7−δ Josephso... Read More about The influence of magnetic vortices motion on the inverse ac Josephson effect in asymmetric arrays.

Reactive laser annealing of indium tin oxide: implications to crystal structure, defect composition, and plasma energy (2022)
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Hillier, J., Patsalas, P., Karfardis, D., Cranton, W., Nabok, A., Mellor, C. J., …Kalfagiannis, N. (2022). Reactive laser annealing of indium tin oxide: implications to crystal structure, defect composition, and plasma energy. Optical Materials Express, 12(11), 4310-4327. https://doi.org/10.1364/ome.464918

The mechanisms governing the modification of the optoelectronic properties of low carrier concentration indium tin oxide (ITO) during reactive laser annealing (ReLaA) are investigated. ReLA combines the advantages of reactive ambient thermal annealin... Read More about Reactive laser annealing of indium tin oxide: implications to crystal structure, defect composition, and plasma energy.

Photo-engineered optoelectronic properties of indium tin oxide via reactive laser annealing (2022)
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Hillier, J. A., Patsalas, P., Karfaridis, D., Camelio, S., Cranton, W., Nabok, A. V., …Kalfagiannis, N. (2022). Photo-engineered optoelectronic properties of indium tin oxide via reactive laser annealing. Scientific Reports, 12, Article 14986. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18883-5

Transparent conductive oxides are appealing materials for optoelectronic and plasmonic applications as, amongst other advantages, their properties can be modulated by engineering their defects. Optimisation of this adjustment is, however, a complex d... Read More about Photo-engineered optoelectronic properties of indium tin oxide via reactive laser annealing.

Exciton and Phonon Radiative Linewidths in Monolayer Boron Nitride (2022)
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Cassabois, G., Fugallo, G., Elias, C., Valvin, P., Rousseau, A., Gil, B., …Novikov, S. (2022). Exciton and Phonon Radiative Linewidths in Monolayer Boron Nitride. Physical Review X, 12(1), Article 011057. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevx.12.011057

The light-matter interaction in bulk semiconductors is in the strong coupling regime with hybrid eigenstates, the so-called exciton-polaritons and phonon-polaritons. In two-dimensional (2D) systems, the translational invariance is broken in the direc... Read More about Exciton and Phonon Radiative Linewidths in Monolayer Boron Nitride.

Spectrally tailored hyperpixel filter arrays for efficient imaging of chemical compositions (2022)
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Taylor-Williams, M., Cousins, R., Williams, C., Bohndiek, S. E., Mellor, C. J., & Gordon, G. S. D. (2022). Spectrally tailored hyperpixel filter arrays for efficient imaging of chemical compositions. Proceedings of SPIE, 11954, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2606917

We present a method for designing and fabricating 'HyperPixels': pixel filter arrays with custom spectral transmission properties that enable efficient imaging of specific chromophores or fluorophores. Multispectral imaging typically targets particul... Read More about Spectrally tailored hyperpixel filter arrays for efficient imaging of chemical compositions.