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Ordered materials for organic electronics and photonics (2010)
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O’Neill, M., & Kelly, S. M. (2011). Ordered materials for organic electronics and photonics. Advanced materials, 23(5), 566-584. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201002884

We present a critical review of semiconducting/light emitting, liquid crystalline materials and their use in electronic and photonic devices such as transistors, photovoltaics, OLEDs and lasers. We report that annealing from the mesophase improves th... Read More about Ordered materials for organic electronics and photonics.

Controlling the micellar morphology of binary PEO-PCL block copolymers in water-THF through controlled blending (2010)
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Schuetz, P., Greenall, M. J., Bent, J., Furzeland, S., Atkins, D., Butler, M. F., McLeish, T. C. B., & Buzza, D. M. A. (2011). Controlling the micellar morphology of binary PEO-PCL block copolymers in water-THF through controlled blending. Soft matter, 7(2), 749-759. https://doi.org/10.1039/c0sm00938e

We study both experimentally and theoretically the self-assembly of binary polycaprolactone-polyethylene oxide (PCL-PEO) block copolymers in dilute solution, where self-assembly is triggered by changing the solvent from the common good solvent THF to... Read More about Controlling the micellar morphology of binary PEO-PCL block copolymers in water-THF through controlled blending.

Vibrations of a single adsorbed organic molecule: anharmonicity matters! (2010)
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Ulusoy, I. S., Scribano, Y., Benoit, D. M., Tschetschetkin, A., Maurer, N., Koslowski, B., & Ziemann, P. (2011). Vibrations of a single adsorbed organic molecule: anharmonicity matters!. Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP, 13(2), 612-618. https://doi.org/10.1039/c0cp01289k

Vibrational spectroscopy is a powerful tool to identify molecules and to characterise their chemical state. Inelastic electron tunnelling spectroscopy (IETS) combined with scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) allows the application of vibrational ana... Read More about Vibrations of a single adsorbed organic molecule: anharmonicity matters!.

Carbazole nematic liquid crystals (2010)
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Bao, W., Billa, M. R., Kassireddy, K., Haro, M., Kelly, M. J., Kitney, S. P., Al Kalifah, M. S., Wei, P., Dong, D., O'Neill, M., & Kelly, S. M. (2010). Carbazole nematic liquid crystals. Liquid crystals, 37(10), 1289-1303. https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2010.504862

A number of calamitic 2,7-diary-N-alkyl-substituted carbazoles with an enantiotropic nematic phase have been prepared. Branching of the aliphatic chain attached to the nitrogen atom in the carbazole ring leads to significantly lower liquid crystal tr... Read More about Carbazole nematic liquid crystals.

A one-dimensional photonic-crystal nanocavity incorporating a fluorescent molecular dye (2010)
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Murshidy, M. M., Adawi, A. M., Fry, P. W., & Lidzey, D. G. (2010). A one-dimensional photonic-crystal nanocavity incorporating a fluorescent molecular dye. Applied physics letters, 97(15), 153303. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3497647

We model the optical properties of a SiN based one-dimensional waveguide photonic crystal nanocavity with three tapered air holes as a function of the photonic crystal mirror fill factor using finite difference time domain calculations. We show that... Read More about A one-dimensional photonic-crystal nanocavity incorporating a fluorescent molecular dye.

Fast vibrational configuration interaction using generalized curvilinear coordinates and self-consistent basis (2010)
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Scribano, Y., Lauvergnat, D. M., & Benoit, D. M. (2010). Fast vibrational configuration interaction using generalized curvilinear coordinates and self-consistent basis. The Journal of chemical physics, 133(9), 094103 - 0. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3476468

In this paper, we couple a numerical kinetic-energy operator approach to the direct-vibrational self-consistent field (VSCF)/vibrational configuration interaction (VCI) method for the calculation of vibrational anharmonic frequencies. By combining th... Read More about Fast vibrational configuration interaction using generalized curvilinear coordinates and self-consistent basis.

Optical properties of light-emitting nematic liquid crystals: A joint experimental and theoretical study (2010)
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Liedtke, A., O'Neill, M., Kelly, S. M., Kitney, S. P., van Averbeke, B., Boudard, P., Beljonne, D., & Cornil, J. (2010). Optical properties of light-emitting nematic liquid crystals: A joint experimental and theoretical study. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 114(37), 11975-11982. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp104280w

Semiempirical quantum-chemical calculations are used to simulate the optical properties of a series of green light-emitting nematic liquid crystals containing fluorene, thiophene, or thienothiophene groups with solid-state photoluminescence quantum e... Read More about Optical properties of light-emitting nematic liquid crystals: A joint experimental and theoretical study.

Nanotrench for nano and microparticle electrical interconnects (2010)
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Dayen, J.-F., Faramarzi, V., Pauly, M., Kemp, N. T., Barbero, M., Pichon, B. P., Majjad, H., Begin-Colin, S., & Doudin, B. (2010). Nanotrench for nano and microparticle electrical interconnects. Nanotechnology, 21(33), Article 335303. https://doi.org/10.1088/0957-4484/21/33/335303

We present a simple and versatile patterning procedure for the reliable and reproducible fabrication of high aspect ratio (10 4 ) electrical interconnects that have separation distances down to 20 nm and lengths of several hundreds of microns. The pr... Read More about Nanotrench for nano and microparticle electrical interconnects.

Hyperspectral imaging with scanning near-field optical microscopy: applications in plasmonics (2010)
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Bouillard, J. S., Vilain, S., Dickson, W., & Zayats, A. V. (2010). Hyperspectral imaging with scanning near-field optical microscopy: applications in plasmonics. Optics express, 18(16), 16513-16519. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.18.016513

We present the realisation of near-field spectroscopic measurements with fibre-tip-based scanning near-field microscopy. It allows the simultaneous acquisition of near-field images in a broad spectral range (400 nm to 1000 nm), thus recovering local... Read More about Hyperspectral imaging with scanning near-field optical microscopy: applications in plasmonics.

Transmission properties of plasmonic metamaterial quantum cascade lasers (2010)
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Austin, D., Mullin, N., Bismuto, A., Luxmoore, I., Adawi, A. M., Revin, D. G., Soulby, M., Cockburn, J. W., Jiang, Q., Krysa, A. B., Cullis, A. G., Faist, J., Hobbs, J. K., & Wilson, L. R. (2010). Transmission properties of plasmonic metamaterial quantum cascade lasers. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 22(16), 1217-1219. https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2010.2052595

We report the results of transmission experiments performed on hybridized plasmonic metamaterial quantum cascade lasers. This device was formed by etching an array of split ring resonators (SRRs) onto the gold coated facet of a laser. Broadband midin... Read More about Transmission properties of plasmonic metamaterial quantum cascade lasers.

VUV 157 nm laser ablation of composite structures (2010)
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Cockcroft, S., Walton, C. D., & Zakaria, R. (2010). VUV 157 nm laser ablation of composite structures. Applied physics. A, Materials science & processing, 101(2), 379-383. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-010-5831-9

We report on the laser ablation of composite prismatic structures using a vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) 157 nm F 2 laser. Polycarbonate and CR-39 substrates have been intentionally seeded with silver wires and silicon carbide whiskers respectively. The s... Read More about VUV 157 nm laser ablation of composite structures.

An optical nanocavity incorporating a fluorescent organic dye having a high quality factor (2010)
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Adawi, A. M., Fry, P. W., Lidzey, D. G., & Murshidy, M. M. (2010). An optical nanocavity incorporating a fluorescent organic dye having a high quality factor. ACS Nano, 4(6), 3039-3044. https://doi.org/10.1021/nn1001479

We have fabricated an L3 optical nanocavity operating at visible wavelengths that is coated with a thin-film of a fluorescent molecular-dye. The cavity was directly fabricated into a pre-etched, free-standing silicon-nitride (SIN) membrane and had a... Read More about An optical nanocavity incorporating a fluorescent organic dye having a high quality factor.

Optical transmission of periodic annular apertures in metal film on high-refractive index substrate: The role of the nanopillar shape (2010)
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Bouillard, J. S., Einsle, J., Dickson, W., Rodrigo, S. G., Carretero-Palacios, S., Martin-Moreno, L., Garcia-Vidal, F. J., & Zayats, A. V. (2010). Optical transmission of periodic annular apertures in metal film on high-refractive index substrate: The role of the nanopillar shape. Applied physics letters, 96(20), Article 201101. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3427390

The influence of annular aperture parameters on the optical transmission through arrays of coaxial apertures in a metal film on high refractive index substrates has been investigated experimentally and numerically. It is shown that the transmission r... Read More about Optical transmission of periodic annular apertures in metal film on high-refractive index substrate: The role of the nanopillar shape.

One-step photoembossing for submicrometer surface relief structures in liquid crystal semiconductors (2010)
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Liedtke, A., Lei, C., O’Neill, M., Dyer, P. E., Kitney, S. P., & Kelly, S. M. (2010). One-step photoembossing for submicrometer surface relief structures in liquid crystal semiconductors. ACS Nano, 4(6), 3248-3253. https://doi.org/10.1021/nn100012g

We report a new single-step method to directly imprint nanometer-scale structures on photoreactive organic semiconductors. A surface relief grating is spontaneously formed when a light-emitting, liquid crystalline, and semiconducting thin film is irr... Read More about One-step photoembossing for submicrometer surface relief structures in liquid crystal semiconductors.

Obtaining Effective Pair Potentials in Colloidal Monolayers Using a Thermodynamically Consistent Inversion Scheme (2010)
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Law, A. D., & Buzza, D. M. A. (2010). Obtaining Effective Pair Potentials in Colloidal Monolayers Using a Thermodynamically Consistent Inversion Scheme. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids, 26(10), 7107-7116. https://doi.org/10.1021/la9037233

The structure and stability of colloidal monolayers depends crucially on the effective pair interaction potential u(r) between colloidal particles. In this study, we construct a novel method for extracting u(r) from the two-dimensional (2D) radial di... Read More about Obtaining Effective Pair Potentials in Colloidal Monolayers Using a Thermodynamically Consistent Inversion Scheme.

The optical properties of hybrid organic-inorganic L3 nanocavities (2010)
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Murshidy, M. M., Adawi, A. M., Fry, P. W., Whittaker, D. M., & Lidzey, D. G. (2010). The optical properties of hybrid organic-inorganic L3 nanocavities. Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 27(2), 215-221. https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.27.000215

We report the fabrication of L3 nanocavities defined into a free-standing silicon nitride (SiN) membrane coated with a thin (10 nm) film of fluorescent red-emitting conjugated polymer. We find that structures both with and without the conjugated poly... Read More about The optical properties of hybrid organic-inorganic L3 nanocavities.