Professor Paul May

Research summary

Research
CVD Diamond Films

The WWW and its Use in Teaching

Animated molecular vibrations

The Molecule of the Month webpage

Previous research interests:

Dry Etching of Semiconductors

Sputtering of Interstellar Grains

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Links

• Molecule of the Month
• Teaching
• CVD diamond group home page

Selected publications

• May, P, 2008, ‘The New Diamond Age’. Science, vol 319., pp. 1490 - 1491
• Mankelevich, Y & May, P, 2008, ‘New insights into the mechanism of CVD diamond growth: Single crystal diamond in MW PECVD reactors’. Diamond and Related Materials, vol 17., pp. 1021 - 1028

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Recent publications

• Dunseath, O, Smith, E, Al-Jeda, T, Smith, J, King, S, May, P, Nobbs, A, Hazell, G, Welch, C & Su, B, 2019, ‘Studies of Black Diamond as an antibacterial surface for Gram Negative bacteria: the interplay between chemical and mechanical bactericidal activity’. Scientific Reports, vol 9.
• May, P, Allan, N & James, M, 2019, ‘Ab initio study of negative electron affinity from light metals on the oxygen-terminated diamond (1 1 1) surface’. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, vol 31.

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