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Thin Ga2O3 Layers by Thermal Oxidation of van der Waals GaSe Nanostructures for Ultraviolet Photon Sensing (2024)
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Cottam, N. D., Dewes, B. T., Shiffa, M., Cheng, T. S., Novikov, S. V., Mellor, C. J., Makarovsky, O., Gonzalez, D., Ben, T., & Patanè, A. (online). Thin Ga2O3 Layers by Thermal Oxidation of van der Waals GaSe Nanostructures for Ultraviolet Photon Sensing. ACS Applied Nano Materials, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.4c02685

Two-dimensional semiconductors (2DSEM) based on van der Waals crystals offer important avenues for nanotechnologies beyond the constraints of Moore's law and traditional semiconductors, such as silicon (Si). However, their application necessitates pr... Read More about Thin Ga2O3 Layers by Thermal Oxidation of van der Waals GaSe Nanostructures for Ultraviolet Photon Sensing.

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.

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.

Transfering ultra-Thin metallic metasurfaces to fibre endoscope probes for advanced imaging (2022)
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Fuentes-Dominguez, R., He, F., Cousins, R., Mellor, C. J., & Gordon, G. S. D. (2022). Transfering ultra-Thin metallic metasurfaces to fibre endoscope probes for advanced imaging. In Proceedings SPIE 11953, Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics, Treatment and Environmental Applications XXII. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2608774

In this paper we present a method to transfer ultra-Thin polymer-encapsulated metallic metasurfaces onto optical fibers to enable ultra-Thin imaging devices. The metasurface is first produced by conventional e-beam lithography on a silicon substrate... Read More about Transfering ultra-Thin metallic metasurfaces to fibre endoscope probes for advanced imaging.

Band gap measurements of monolayer h-BN and insights into carbon-related point defects (2021)
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Román, R. J. P., Costa, F. J. R., Zobelli, A., Elias, C., Valvin, P., Cassabois, G., …Zagonel, L. F. (2021). Band gap measurements of monolayer h-BN and insights into carbon-related point defects. 2D Materials, 8(4), Article 044001. https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/ac0d9c

Being a flexible wide band gap semiconductor, hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) has great potential for technological applications like efficient deep ultraviolet light sources, building block for two-dimensional heterostructures and room temperature si... Read More about Band gap measurements of monolayer h-BN and insights into carbon-related point defects.

Epitaxy of boron nitride monolayers for graphene-based lateral heterostructures (2021)
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Wrigley, J., Bradford, J., James, T., Cheng, T. S., Thomas, J., Mellor, C. J., …Beton, P. H. (2021). Epitaxy of boron nitride monolayers for graphene-based lateral heterostructures. 2D Materials, 8(3), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/abea66

Monolayers of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are grown on graphite substrates using high-temperature molecular beam epitaxy (HT-MBE). The hBN monolayers are observed to grow predominantly from step edges on the graphite surface and exhibit a strong de... Read More about Epitaxy of boron nitride monolayers for graphene-based lateral heterostructures.

Identifying carbon as the source of visible single-photon emission from hexagonal boron nitride (2020)
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Mendelson, N., Chugh, D., Reimers, J. R., Cheng, T. S., Gottscholl, A., Long, H., …Aharonovich, I. (2021). Identifying carbon as the source of visible single-photon emission from hexagonal boron nitride. Nature Materials, 20(3), 321-328. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-020-00850-y

Single-photon emitters (SPEs) in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have garnered increasing attention over the last few years due to their superior optical properties. However, despite the vast range of experimental results and theoretical calculations,... Read More about Identifying carbon as the source of visible single-photon emission from hexagonal boron nitride.

Magnetic flux quantum periodicity of the frequency of the on-chip detectable electromagnetic radiation from superconducting flux-flow-oscillators (2020)
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Chesca, B., John, D., Gaifullin, M., Cox, J., Murphy, A., Savel'ev, S., & Mellor, C. J. (2020). Magnetic flux quantum periodicity of the frequency of the on-chip detectable electromagnetic radiation from superconducting flux-flow-oscillators. Applied Physics Letters, 117(14), Article 142601. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0021970

Superconducting flux-flow-oscillators (FFOs) based on unidirectional flow of magnetic vortices in a single-long Josephson junction (JJ) and operating at 4.2 K are key elements of sub-terahertz integrated-receivers used in radio-astronomy and atmosphe... Read More about Magnetic flux quantum periodicity of the frequency of the on-chip detectable electromagnetic radiation from superconducting flux-flow-oscillators.

Photo-quantum Hall effect and light-induced charge transfer at the interface of graphene/InSe heterostructures (2018)
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Bhuiyan, M. A., Kudrynskyi, Z. R., Mazumder, D., Greener, J. D., Makarovsky, O., Mellor, C. J., …Patanè, A. (2019). Photo-quantum Hall effect and light-induced charge transfer at the interface of graphene/InSe heterostructures. Advanced Functional Materials, 29(3), Article 1805491. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201805491

The transfer of electronic charge across the interface of two van der Waals crystals can underpin the operation of a new class of functional devices. Amongst van der Waals semiconductors, an exciting and rapidly growing development involves the “post... Read More about Photo-quantum Hall effect and light-induced charge transfer at the interface of graphene/InSe heterostructures.

Photoelastic properties of zinc-blende (AlGa)N in the UV: picosecond ultrasonic studies (2018)
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Whale, J., Akimov, A. V., Novikov, S. V., Mellor, C. J., & Kent, A. J. (2018). Photoelastic properties of zinc-blende (AlGa)N in the UV: picosecond ultrasonic studies. Physical Review Materials, 2(3), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.2.034606

Picosecond ultrasonics was used to study the photoelastic properties of zinc-blende (cubic) c-AlₓGa₁₋ₓN with x around 0.5 The velocities for longitudinal sound in the alloys were measured using ultrafast UV pump-probe experiments with (Al... Read More about Photoelastic properties of zinc-blende (AlGa)N in the UV: picosecond ultrasonic studies.

Magnetic field tunable vortex diode made of YBa2Cu3O7−δ Josephson junction asymmetrical arrays (2017)
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Chesca, B., John, D., Pollett, R., Gaifullin, M., Cox, J., Mellor, C., & Savelev, S. (in press). Magnetic field tunable vortex diode made of YBa2Cu3O7−δ Josephson junction asymmetrical arrays. Applied Physics Letters, 111(6), https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4997741

Several Josephson ratchets designed as asymmetrically structured parallel-series arrays of Josephson junctions made of YBa2Cu3O7−δ have been fabricated. From the current-voltage characteristics measured for various values of applied magnetic field, B... Read More about Magnetic field tunable vortex diode made of YBa2Cu3O7−δ Josephson junction asymmetrical arrays.