Dr Neil Fox

Dr Neil Fox
BSc(Lond), MSc(StAnd), PhD(Bristol)

Senior Lecturer

Area of research

Wide Band Gap Nanomaterials

Office M.11
Cantock's Close,
Clifton, Bristol BS8 1TS
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Tel. +44 (0) 117 928 8729
neil.fox@bristol.ac.uk

Research summary

I am a member of the CVD Diamond Lab based in the School of Chemistry at the University of Bristol, UK. In this lab we study the growth of films of diamond, diamondlike carbon (DLC) amorphous carbon (a-C), and other related materials such as zinc oxide, using various chemical vapour deposition techniques.

I undertake research into the use of nanodiamond and zinc oxide for applications in energy conversion, energy storage, and radiation detection. Within the diamond lab we have equipment for testing the electron emission properties of these materials, including Field emission, Thermionic emission and Secondary Electron Emission.

I also ...

Selected publications

Furkert, S, Wotherspoon, A, Cherns, D, Fox, N, Fuge, G, Heard, P & Lansley, S 2007, ‘Field emission observed from metal-diamond junctions revealed by atomic force microscopy’. Applied Physics Letters, vol 90 (24, 242109)., pp. 1 - 3
O'Donnell, K, Martin, T, Fox, N & Cherns, D 2010, ‘Ab-initio investigations of lithium on the C(100) surface’. Physical Review, vol 82., pp. 115303:1 - 9

Recent publications

Fox, NA 2012, ‘Enhanced broadband optical absorption from nanostructured nickel thin-films for solar energy applications’. ICTON 2012.
Sun, Y, Fox, N, Fuge, G & Ashfold, M 2010, ‘Toward a Single ZnO Nanowire Homojunction’. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol 114., pp. 21338 - 21341