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Driscoll Research Group

 

For a full list of MacManus-Driscoll publications, please see: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=-lYrze0AAAAJ&hl=en

Recent papers

2023

Wells MP, Lovett AJ, Zhang Y, Shang Z, Wang H, MacManus-Driscoll, Judith L, Wells MP, Lovett AJ, Zhang Y, Shang Z, Wang H, MacManus-Driscoll, Judith L, Pathway to high performance, low temperature thin-film solid oxide cells grown on porous anodised aluminium oxide, Nano Energy, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2023.109049; Jan. 2024, 119, 109049.

 

Akram W , de h-Óra M, Bansal M, Mukhopadhyay R, MacManus-Driscoll JL, and Maity T, Table-like magnetocaloric effect due to inter-cluster interactions in Eu0.5Sr0.5MnO3-EuMnO3 composites. J. Phys. D, Applied Physicshttps://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/ad030c; Nov. 23, 57, 055301.

 

Jeon J, Ha Y, MacManus-Driscoll JL and Lee SB, La-doped BaSnO3 for electromagnetic shielding transparent conductors,  Nanoconvergence, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40580-023-00397-z; Oct. 2023, 50.

 

Dou H, Lin Z, Hu Z Tsai B, Zheng D, Song Jm Lu J, Zhang, X; Jia, QX, MacManus-Driscoll JL, Ye P Wang H, Self-assembled Au Nanoelectrodes: Enabling Low-Threshold Voltage HfO2-based Artificial Neurons, Nano Letters, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02217; Oct. 2023, 23, 9711.

 

Biswas B,  Rudra S, Rawat RS, Pandey N, Acharya S, Joseph A, Pillai AIK, Bansal M, de h-Óra M, Dey AB, Bertram F, Narayana C, MacManus-Driscoll JL, Maity T, Garbrecht M, Saha B, Magnetic Stress-driven Metal-insulator Transition in Strongly Correlated Antiferromagnetic CrN, Physical Review Lettershttps://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.126302; Sept. 2023, 126302.

 

Jan A, Strkalj N, Nguyen T, MacManus-Driscoll JL, Di Martino G, Comprehensive Study of Raman Optical Response of Typical Substrates for Thin-Film Growth Under 633 nm and 785 nm Laser Excitation, Optics Express, https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.504002; Sept. 2023, 31, 33914.

 

Hellenbrand M, MacManus-Driscoll JL, Multi-level and Gradual Resistive Switching in Hafnium-oxide-based Devices, Nano Convergence,  https://doi.org/10.1186/s40580-023-00392-4; Sept. 2023, 10.

 

Lovett A, Daramalla V, Nayak D, Sayeed F, Mahadevegowda A, Ducati C, Spencer BF, Dutton S, Grey CP, MacManus-Driscoll JL, Three-Dimensional Nanocomposite Thin Film Cathodes for Micro-Batteries with Enhanced High-Rate Electrochemical Performance over Planar Films, Advanced Energy Materials, https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202302053; Sept. 2023, 13, 2302053.

 

Kim D, Sun X-G, Gao X, MacManus-Driscoll JL, Lee HN, Lee SB, Stable super-capacity all-solid-state nanobattery using binder-free single-crystalline TiO2(B) electrodes, Nano Letters, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c00596. Jul. 2023, 23, 6815.

 

Lal S, Righetto M, Ulatowski AM, Motti SG, Sun Z, MacManus-Driscoll JL, Hoye RLZ, Herz LM, Band-like transport and charge-carrier dynamics in BiOI films, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Lettershttps://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c01520, Jul. 2023, 14, 6620.

 

Lovett A, Daramalla V, Sayed F.N. h-Óra M, Grey CP, Dutton S E, MacManus-Driscoll, JL Low Temperature Epitaxial Growth of LiMn2O4 Utilizing A Novel NiCo2O4 Current Collector, ASC Energy Lettershttps://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.3c01094, Jul. 2023,  8, 3437.

 

Le D, Wang H, Li K, Zhu B, Jiang K, Backes D, Veiga LSI, Shi J, Roy P, Xiao M, Chen A, Jia Q, Lee TL, Dhesi SJ,  Scanlon DO, MacManus-Driscoll JL, van Aken PA, Zhang KHL, Li W, Emergent and Robust Ferromagnetic-Insulating State in Highly Strained LaCoO3 Thin Films, Nature Communications,  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39369-6; Jun. 2023, 14, 3638.

 

Kunwar S, Somodi CB, Lalk RA, Rutherford B, Corey Z, Paudel B, Roy P, Zhang Di, MacManus-Driscoll JL, Jia Q, Wang H, Nie W, Chen A, Protons: Critical Species for Resistive Switching in Interface-Type Memristors, Advanced Electronic Materials, https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.202200816; Oct. 2022, 2200816.

 

Ashoka A, Nagane S, Strkalj N, Roose B, Sung Jooyoung, MacManus-Driscoll Judith L., Stranks SD, Feldmann S, Rao A, Local Symmetry Breaking Drives Picosecond Spin Domain Formation in Polycrystalline Semiconducting Films, Nature Materials, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-023-01550-z; Jun 2023, 22, 977–984.

 

Ye L, Wu F, Xu R, Zhang D, Lu J, Wang C, Dong A, Xu S, Xue L, Fan Z, Xu L, Li K, Li D, Kursumovic A, Zhao R, Tang R, Qiu L, Wang H, MacManus-Driscoll JL, Jing Q, Li W, Yang H, Face Mask Integrated Flexible and Wearable Manganite Oxide Respiration Sensor, Nano Energy, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2023.108460; Jul. 2023, 112, 108460.

 

Pan H, Zhang Y, MacManus-Driscoll JL, Interplay of polarization, strength, and loss in dielectric films for capacitive energy storage: current status and future directions, Journal of Materiomics, 10.1016/j.jmat.2022.11.010; May 2023, 9, 516.

 

Hellenbrand M, Bakhit B, Dou H, Xiao M, Hill MO, Sun Z,  Mehonic A, Chen, A Jia QX, Wang H, MacManus-Driscoll JL, Thin-film design of amorphous hafnium oxide nanocomposites enabling strong interfacial resistive switching uniformity, Science Advances, https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adg1946; Jun. 2023, 9, eadg1946.

 

Ye L, Wu F, Xu R, Zhang D, Lu J, Wang C, Dong A, Xu S, Xue L, Fan Z, Xu L, Li K, Li D, Kursumovic A, Zhao R, Tang R, Qiu L, Wang H, MacManus-Driscoll JL, Jing Q, Li W, Yang H, Face Mask Integrated Flexible and Wearable Manganite Oxide Respiration Sensor, Nano Energy

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2023.108460; Jul. 2023, 112, 108460.

 

De H-Ora M, Nicolenco A, Peda M, Sun Z, Lee SB, Maity T, Sort J, MacManus-Driscoll JL, Voltage Control of Magnetism in Cobalt Ferrite Nanopillars, APL Materials, https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0147665; May 2023, 11, 051105.

 

Kim D, Jeon Y, MacManus-Driscoll JL and Lee S, Solid-state catalytic hydrogen sponge effects in grain-boundary-free BaInO2.5 films, Advanced Functional Materials, https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202300819; May 2023, 2300819.

 

Becker MT, Oldroyd P, Strkalj N, Muller M L, Malliaris GG, MacManus-Driscoll JL, Impedance switching for neural recording with ferroelectric microelectrodes, Applied Physics Letters, https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0143391; Apr. 2023, 122, 173701.

 

Jagt RA, Bravić I,  Eyre L, Gałkowski K, Borowiec J, Baranowski M, Dyksik M, van de Goor TWJ, Kreouzis T, Bevan A, Płochocka P, Stranks SD, Deschler F, Monserrat B, MacManus-Driscoll JL, Hoye RL, Layered BiOI single crystals capable of detecting low dose rates of X-rays, Nature Communications,  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38008-4; Apr. 2023, 14, 2452.

 

Gomersall D, Niang KM, Parish JD, Z Sun, Johnson AL, MacManus-Driscoll JL, Flewitt AJ, Multi-pulse atomic layer deposition of p-type SnO thin films: growth processes and the effect on TFT performance, J. Mater. Chem. C, https://doi.org/10.1039/D3TC00255A; Apr. 2023, 11, 5740.

 

Kunwar S, Jernigan Z, Hughes Z, Somodi C, Caravelli F, Roy P, Zhang D, Wang H, Jia Q, MacManus-Driscoll  JL, Kenyon G, Sornborger A, Nie W, Chen A, An interface type memristor for artificial synapses and neuromorphic computing, Advanced Intelligent Systems, http://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202300035; Apr. 2023, 2300035.

 

Crema APS, Istrate MC, Silva A,  Lenzia AV,  Domingues L, Hill MO, Teodorescu VS, Ghicad C, Gomes MJM, Marques PL, MacManus-Driscoll JL*, Silva JPB*, Ferroelectric orthorhombic ZrO2 thin films achieved through nanosecond laser annealing, Advance Science, http://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202207390; Mar. 2023, 2207390.

 

Jain A, Rembert T, Taper S, Symonowicz J, MacManus-Driscoll JL, Monserrat B, Di Martino G, Operando optical tracking of oxygen vacancy migration and phase change in few-nm ferroelectric HZO films, Advanced Functional Materials, https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202214970, Mar. 2023, 2214970.

 

Dou H, Hellenbrand M, Xiao M, Hu Z, Chen A, MacManus-Driscoll JL, Jia QX, Wang H, Design of grain boundary morphology in CeO2 with tailorable resistive switching properties, Advanced Electronic Materials, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aelm.202201186; Mar. 2023, 9, 2211086.

 

MacManus-Driscoll JL, Handbook of Superconductivity. Theory, Materials, Processing and Characterisation, CRC Press, Chapter on YBCO Wires and Tapes: Processing of High Tc Conductors: The Compound YBCO, Mar. 2023.

 

Silva JPB Istrate MC, Hellenbrand M, Jan A, Becker MT, Symonowicz J, Figueiras FG, Lenzi V, Ghica C, Romanyuk Konstantin N, Di Martino G, Marques L, MacManus-Driscoll JL, Ferroelectric orthorhombic ZrO2 thin films with negative piezoelectric coefficient, achieved through substrate orientation control, Applied Materials Today, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmat.2022.11.010, Feb. 2023; 30, 101708.

 

Wu R, Li W, and MacManus-Driscoll JL, Exemplary Tuning of Ferroics Using Large Area Interfaces Formed in Epitaxial Superlattices and Nanocomposite Films, Materials Horizons, http://doi.org/10.1039/d2mh01527g; Feb. 2023,10, 1060-1086.

 

Wan Q, Xiao Z, Kursumovic A, MacManus-Driscoll JL, Durkan C, Ferrotronics for the creation of band gaps in Graphene, Physical Review B, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.107.045428; Jan. 2023; 107, 045428.

 

Senanayak SP, Dey K , Shivanna R, Li W, Ghosh D, Roose B, Andaji-Garmaroudi Z, Zhang Y, Tiwale N , MacManus Driscoll JL, Friend R, Stranks SD, Sirringhaus H, Charge Transport in Mixed Metal Halide Perovskite Semiconductors, Nature Materials, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-022-01448-2, Jan. 2023; 22, 216.

 

 

Latest news

Judith visits Dr. Welland, Cambridge alumnus and contributer to the Driscoll group

22 April 2024

Judith was very happy to visit Dr. Bill Welland, and alumnus of the department, in Somerton, Somerset. Pictured here are Judith, Kelly, Bill and his wife Sarah. Bill is extremely kind to donate funds to the Driscoll group (over the past 5+ years). The funds have been used to part pay the stipends of PhD students. These...

Driscoll group and collaborators at Spring MRS 2024

22 April 2024

Here is a picture from Spring MRS 2024, Seattle, of the Driscoll group and her close collaborators. Pictured are (from front left, clockwise), Prof. Quanxi Jia (Judith’s long term collaborator, formerly Los Alamos and now SUNY Buffalo) who is coming on sabbatical as a Trinity visiting fellow in summer 2024, Prof. Robert...

Group welcomes visiting Postdoc Dr Ahn

18 April 2024

The group welcomes Heebeom as visiting Postdoc. He received his PhD from Seoul National University. He will focus on neuromorphic applications of functional oxides and halide perovskites.

Welcome to our visitor Yi-Xuan

16 April 2024

Dr Yi-Xuan, who received a PhD from Tsinghua University, has joined the Driscoll group as a visiting postdoc. He will work on development and discovery of novel ferroelectric memristor systems, with a focus on thin film by PLD fabrication and advanced characterizations.

Dr Wells presents the Power of Interfaces 2024 conference

5 April 2024

Dr Matthew Wells presented his work on Vertically Aligned Nanocomposite thin films as electrode materials for solid oxide cells at the Power of interfaces 2024 conference as part of the EPISTORE project framework. The conference was held at the Caixa Forum of Palma de Mallorca (Spain). Thank you to the organisers for such...

Dr Salonikidou attends Brain-on-a-chip workshop at Porto University

4 April 2024

Dr Barbara Salonikidou attended the 4th Workshop on Neuroengineering: brain-on-a-chip platforms at Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto. The 2-day workshop focused on bioengineering and artificial synapses for neuromorphic applications. The workshop stimulated interesting discussions on how...

Congratulations to Dr. Babak Bakhit on winning an award from the University of Cambridge Energy IRC Small Grants.

28 March 2024

Babak has been using our fancy oxide sputter chamber (from the RAENG Chair in Emerging Technologies project) to grow high performance resistive switching materials on TiN on Si. He is obtaining exciting results which are moving towards industry applicability. Well done Babak! For more info, visit the Dept of Engineering...

Paragraf visits the group

20 March 2024

We received Sebastian Dixon, Paragraf, to our group for a meeting and lab visit. From left to right is Sebastian Dixon (just completing an RAEng Industry Fellow in the Driscoll group), Ji Soo (our newly collaborating PhD student), and Moritz Muller (our PhD student, collaborated for 2 years with Paragraf).