Publications

PhD and MSc Theses

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  1. pdf Paul W May, PhD, "The Energies of Ions, Electrons and Neutrals in Reactive Ion Eching Plasmas", June 1991.

  2. thesisRoland S. Tsang, PhD, "Characterisation of the Gas-Phase Environment in a Hot Filament Diamond Chemical Vapour Deposition Chamber Using Molecular Beam Mass Spectrometry", August 1997.

  3. thesisStuart M. Leeds, PhD, "Characterisation of the Gas-Phase Environment in a Microwave Plasma Enhanced Diamond Chemical Vapour Deposition Reactor using Molecular Beam Mass Spectrometry", June 1999.

  4. Steve A. Redman, PhD, "Spectroscopic Studies of the Diamond Chemical Vapour Deposition Environment", July 1999.

  5. Robert J. Lade, PhD, "Pulsed Ultraviolet Laser Ablation of Carbon Containing Targets", November 1999.

  6. Marcus A. Elliott, MSc, "Microwave Chemical Vapour Deposition of Diamond using Methane-Carbon Dioxide gas Mixtures", January 2000.

  7. Ming-Tsun Kuo, PhD, "Field Emission and Annealing Studies of n-Type Doped Hydrogenated Amorphous Carbon Films", July 2001.

  8. thesisM.N. Latto, PhD, "The Electrochemistry of Diamond", September 2001.

  9. thesisFrederick Claeyssens, PhD, "Fundamental Studies of Pulsed Laser Ablation", December 2001.

  10. thesisJames A. Smith, PhD, "Laser Diagnostics of a Diamond depositing Chemical Vapour Deposition gas-phase environment", May 2002.

  11. thesisJames R. Petherbridge, PhD, "Diagnostics of Microwave Activated Novel Gas Mixtures for Diamond Chemical Vapour Deposition", July 2002.

  12. thesisGustavo Pastor-Moreno, PhD, "Electrochemical Applications of CVD Diamond", July 2002.

  13. pdf Sean R.J. Pearce, PhD, "The Synthesis and Characterisation of Carbon Phosphide", Sept 2003.

  14. pdf Andrew Cheesman, PhD, "Investigations into the fundamentals of gas-phase and gas-surface chemistry prevalent in growth of Chemical Vapour Deposited diamond films", July 2006.

  15. pdf Jacob Filik, PhD, "Fundamental Studies on the Deposition and Characterisation of Novel Diamond-like Materials", Sept 2006.

  16. pdf Edward Crichton, PhD, "Construction of a Molecular Beam Mass Spectrometer for In-Situ probing of a Diamond Chemical Vapour Deposition Environment", June 2007.

  17. pdf Li Yang, PhD, "Self-Assembly and Ordering Nanomaterials by Liquid-Phase Pulsed Laser Ablation", November 2007.

  18. pdf Jie Ma, PhD, "Exploration of the gas phase chemistry in microwave activated plasmas used for diamond chemical vapour deposition", June 2008.

  19. pdf Oliver Fox, PhD, "Deposition of nanocrystalline diamond films by MW plasma CVD and Gas-phase diagnostics using in-situ molecular-beam mass spectrometry and emission spectroscopy", August 2011.