Papers in refereed journals

2016

A. A. P. Trichet, P. R. Dolan, D. James, G. M. Hughes, C. Vallance, and J. M. Smith, Nanoparticle trapping and characterization using open microcavities, Nano Lett. 16, 1672 (2016).

A. W. Powell and J. M. Smith, Mediating Fano losses in plasmonic scatterers by tuning the dielectric environment, Appl. Phys. Lett. 109, 121107 (2016).

L. C. Flatten, Z. He, D. M. Coles, A. A. P. Trichet, A. W. Powell, R. A. Taylor, J. H. Warner and J. M. Smith, Room-temperature exciton-polaritons with two-dimensional WS₂, Scientific Reports 6, 33134 (2016).

C. Vallance, A. A. P. Trichet, D. James, P. R. Dolan, and J. M. Smith, Open-access microcavities for chemical sensing, Nanotechnology, 27, 74003 (2016).

Z. Y. He, W. S. Xu, Y. Q. Zhou, X. C. Wang, Y. W. Sheng, Y. M. Rong, S. Q. Guo, J. Y. Zhang, J. M. Smith, and J. M. Warner, Biexciton formation in bilayer tungsten disulfide, ACS Nano 10, 2176 (2016).

A. W. Powell, D. M. Coles, R. A. Taylor, A. A. R. Watt, H. E. Assender and J. M. Smith, Plasmonic Gas Sensing Using Nanocube Patch Antennas, Advanced Optical Materials 4, 634 (2016).(rear cover image)

L. C. Flatten, A. A. P. Trichet, and J. M. Smith, Spectral engineering of coupled open-access microcavities, Laser & Photonics Reviews, 10, 257 (2016). (front cover image)

R. K. Patel, A. A. P. Trichet, D. Coles, P. R. Dolan, S. M. Fairclough, M. A. Leontiadou, S. C. E. Tsang, D. Binks, E. Jang, H. K. Jang , R. A. Taylor and J. M. Smith, Gain spectroscopy of solution based semiconductor nanocrystals in tunable optical microcavities, Advanced Optical Materials 4, 285 (2016). (front cover feature image)

2015

S. Johnson, P. R. Dolan, T. Grange, A. A. P. Trichet, G. Hornecker, Y. C. Chen, L. Weng, G. M. Hughes, A. A. R. Watt, A. Auffèves, and J. M. Smith, Tunable cavity coupling of the zero phonon line of a nitrogen vacancy defect in diamond, New J. Phys. 17, 122003 (2015).

S. Dufferwiel, F. Li, E. Cancellieri, L. Giriunas, A.A.P. Trichet, D.M. Whittaker, P.M. Walker, F. Fras, E. Clarke, J.M. Smith, M.S. Skolnick, and D.N. Krizhanovskii, Spin Textures of Exciton-Polaritons in a Tunable Microcavity with Large TE-TM Splitting, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 246401 (2015).

S. Dufferwiel, F. Li, A. A. P. Trichet, L. Giriunas, P. M. Walker, I. Farrer, D. A. Ritchie, J. M. Smith, M. S. Skolnick, and D. N. Krizhanovskii, Tunable polaritonic molecules in an open microcavity system, Appl. Phys. Lett. 107, 201106 (2015).

B. F. Spencer, M. J. Cliffe, D. M. Graham, S. J.O. Hardman, E. A. Seddon, K. L. Syres, A. G. Thomas F. Sirotti, M. G. Silly, J. Akhtar, P. O'Brien, S. M. Fairclough, J. M. Smith, S. Chattopadhyay and W. R. Flavell, Chemically-specific time-resolved surface photovoltage spectroscopy: Carrier dynamics at the interface of quantum dots attached to a metal oxide, Surface Science 641, 320 (2015).

S. Dufferwiel, S. Schwarz, F. Withers, A. A. P. Trichet, F. Li, M. Sich, O. D. P. Zamudio, C. Clark, A. Nalitov, D. Solnyshkov, G. Malpuech, K. Novoselov, J. M. Smith, M. Skolnick, D. Krizhanovskii, and A. I. Tartakovskii, Exciton-polaritons in van der Waals heterostructures embedded in tunable microcavities, Nature Commun. 6, 8579 (2015).

M. B. Wincott, H. E. Assender, A. A. R. Watt, and J. M. Smith, Optimized Rear-Electrode Grating Structures in Organic Solar Cells, IEEE J. Photovoltaics 5, 1113 (2015).

A. A. P. Trichet, P. R. Dolan, D. M. Coles, G. M. Hughes and J. M. Smith, Topographic control of open-access microcavities at the nanometre scale, Optics Express 23, 17205 (2015).

D. M. Coles, A. A. P. Trichet, P. R. Dolan, R. A. Taylor, C. Vallance and J. M. Smith, Diffusion-driven continuous-wave-pumped organic dye lasers, Laser & Photonics Reviews 9, 538 (2015).

S. Jones, S. M. Fairclough, M. Gordon-Brown, W. Zheng, A. Kolpin, B. Pang, W. C. H. Kuo, J. M. Smith, and S. C. E. Tsang, Dual doping effects (site blockage and electronic promotion) imposed by adatoms on Pd nanocrystals for catalytic hydrogen production, Chem. Commun. 51, 46 (2015).

2014

D. M. Coles, Y. Yang, Y. Wang, R. T. Grant, R. A. Taylor, S. K. Saikin, A. Aspuru-Guzik, D. G. Lidzey, J. K.-H. Tang & J. M. Smith, Strong coupling between chlorosomes of photosynthetic bacteria and a confined optical cavity mode, Nature Comms. 5, #5561 (2014).

S. Schwarz, S. Dufferwiel, P. M. Walker, F. Withers, A. A. P. Trichet, M. Sich, F. Li, E. A. Chekhovich, D. N. Borisenko, N. N. Kolesnikov, K. S. Novoselov, M. S. Skolnick, J. M. Smith, D. N. Krizhanovskii, and A. I. Tartakovskii, Two-dimensional metal-chalcogenide films in tunable optical microcavities, Nano Lett. DOI: 10.1021/nl503312x (2014).

S. Jones, S. M. Fairclough, M. Gordon-Brown, W. Zheng, A. Kolpin, B. Pang, W. C. H. Kuo, J. M. Smith and S. C. E. Tsang, Dual doping effects (site blockage and electronic promotion) imposed by adatoms on Pd nanocrystals for catalytic hydrogen production, Chem. Commun. DOI: 10.1039/C4CC06195K (2014).

A. A. P. Trichet, J. Foster, N. E. Omori, D. James, P. R. Dolan, G. M. Hughes, C. Vallance, and J. M. Smith, Open-access optical microcavities for lab-on-a-chip refractive index sensing, Lab on a Chip 14, 4244 (2014).

C. Eley, T. Li, F. L. Liao, S. M. Fairclough, J. M. Smith, G. Smith, and S. C. E Tsang, Nanojunction-Mediated Photocatalytic Enhancement in Heterostructured CdS/ZnO, CdSe/ZnO, and CdTe/ZnO Nanocrystals, Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed. 53, 7838 (2014).

D. C. J. Neo, C. Cheng, S. D. Stranks, S. M. Fairclough, J. S. Kim, A. I. Kirkland, J. M. Smith, H. J. Snaith, H. E. Assender, and A. A. R. Watt, Influence of Shell Thickness and Surface Passivation on PbS/CdS Core/Shell Colloidal Quantum Dot Solar Cells, Chem. Materials 26, 4004 (2014).

S. Dufferwiel, F. Fras, A. Trichet, P. M. Walker, F. Li, L. Giriunas, M. N. Makhonin, L. R. Wilson, J. M. Smith, E. Clarke, M. S. Skolnick and D. N. Krizhanovskii, Strong exciton-photon coupling in open semiconductor microcavities, Appl. Phys. Lett. 104, 192107 (2014).

A. W. Powell, N. Hjerrild, A. A. R. Watt, H. E. Assender and J. M. Smith, Directional plasmonic scattering from metal nanoparticles in thin-film environments, Appl. Phys. Lett. 104, 081110 (2014).

2013

F. Grazioso, B. R. Patton, P. Delaney, M. L. Markham, D. J. Twitchen, and J. M. Smith, Measurement of the full stress tensor in a crystal using photoluminescence from point defects: The example of nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond, Appl. Phys. Lett. 103, 101905 (2013).

A. W. Powell, M. B. Wincott, A. A. R. Watt, H. E. Assender, and J. M. Smith, Controlling the optical scattering of plasmonic nanoparticles using a thin dielectric layer, J. Appl. Phys. 113, 184311 (2013).

K. D. Wegner, P. T. Lanh, T. Jennings, E. Oh, V. Jain, S. M. Fairclough, J. M. Smith, E. Giovanelli, N. Lequeux, T. Pons, and N. Hildebrandt, Influence of luminescence quantum yield, surface coating, and functionalisation of quantum dots on the sensitivity of time-resolved FRET bioassays, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 5, 2881 (2013)

C. A. Cattley, C. Cheng, S. M. Fairclough, L. M. Droessler, N. P. Young, J. H. Warner, J. M. Smith, H. E. Assender, and A. A. R. Watt, Low temperature phase selective synthesis of Cu2ZnSSnS4 quantum dots, Chem. Comm. 49, 3745 (2013)

2012

S. M. Fairclough, E. J. Tyrrell, D. M. Graham, P. J. B. Lunt, S. J. O. Hardman, A. Pietzsch, F. Hennies, J. Moghal, W. R. Flavell, A. A. R. Watt, and J. M. Smith, Growth and characterization of strained and alloyed type-II ZnTe/ZnSe coreshell nanocrystals, J. Phys. Chem. C 116, 26898 (2012).

C. M. Rushworth, J. Davies, J. T. Cabral, P. R. Dolan, J. M. Smith, and C. Vallance, Cavity-enhanced optical methods for online microfluidic analysis, Chem. Phys. Lett. 554, 1 (2012)

D. Wildanger, B. R. Patton, H. Schill, L. Marseglia, J. P. Hadden, S. Knauer, A. Schönle, J. G. Rarity, J. L. O'Brien, S. W. Hell, and J. M. Smith, Solid Immersion facilitates fluorescence microscopy with nanometre resolution and sub-Angstrom emitter localization, Advanced Materials 24, OP309 (2012).

Z. Y. Di, H. V. Jones, P. R. Dolan, S. M. Fairclough, M. B. Wincott, J. Fill, G. M. Hughes, and J. M. Smith, Controlling the emission from semiconductor quantum dots using ultra-small tunable optical microcavities, New J. Phys. 14, 103048 (2012).

P. G. McDonald, E. J. Tyrrell, J. Shumway, J. M. Smith, and I. Galbraith, Tuning biexciton binding and antibinding in core/shell quantum dots, Phys. Rev. B 86, 125310 (2012).

M. Cadirci, S. K. Stubbs, S. M. Fairclough, E. J. Tyrrell, A. A. R. Watt, J. M. Smith, and D. J. Binks, Ultrafast dynamics in type II ZnTe-ZnSe colloidal quantum dots, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 14 13638 (2012).

B. R. Patton, P. R. Dolan, F. Grazioso, M. B. Wincott, J. M. Smith, M. L. Markham, D. J. Twitchen, Y. Zhang, E. Gu, M. D. Dawson, B. A. Fairchild, A. D. Greentree and S. Prawer, Optical properties of single crystal diamond microfilms fabricated by ion implantation and lift-off processing, Diamond and Rel. Mat. 21, 16 (2012).

2011

E. J. Tyrrell and J. M. Smith, Effective mass modeling of excitons in type-II quantum dot heterostructures, Phys. Rev. B 84, 165328 (2011).

L. Marseglia, J. P. Hadden, A. C. Stanley-Clarke, J. P. Harrison, B. R. Patton, Y.-L. D. Ho, B. Naydenov, F. Jelezko, J. Meijer, P. R. Dolan, J. M. Smith, J. G. Rarity, and J. L. O'Brien, Nano-fabricated solid immersion lenses registered to single emitters in diamond, Appl. Phys. Lett. 98, 133107 (2011).

J. M Smith, F. Grazioso, B. R. Patton, P. R. Dolan, M. L. Markham and D. J. Twitchen, Optical properties of a single colour centre in diamond with a green zero phonon line, New J. Phys. 13, 045005 (2011).

2010

P. R. Dolan, G. M. Hughes, F. Grazioso, B. R. Patton, and J. M. Smith, Femtoliter tunable optical cavity arrays, Optics Lett. 35, 3556 (2010).

F. Grazioso, B. R. Patton, and J. M. Smith, A high stability beam-scanning confocal optical microscope for low temperature operation, Review of Scientific Instruments 81, 093705 (2010).

A. Stavrinadis, J. M. Smith, C. A. Cattley, A. G. Cook, P. S. Grant, and A. A. R. Watt, SnS/PbS nanocrystal heterojunction photovoltaics, Nanotechnology 21, 185202 (2010).

R. M. Beal, A. Stavrinadis, J. H. Warner, J. M. Smith, H. E. Assender, and A. A. R. Watt, The molecular structure of polymer-fullerene composite solar cells and its influence on device performance, Macromolecules 43, p.2343 (2010).

C. A. Cattley, A. Stavrinadis, R. Beal, J. Moghal, A. G. Cook, P. S. Grant, J. M. Smith, H. E. Assender, and A. A. R. Watt, Colloidal synthesis of lead oxide nanocrystals for photovoltaics, Chem. Comm. 46, p.2802 (2010).

2009

A. Stavrinadis, S. Xu, J. H. Warner, J. L. Hutchison, J. M. Smith and A. A. R. Watt, Superstructures of PbS nanocrystals in a conjugated polymer and the aligning role of oxidation, Nanotechnology 20, #445608 (2009).

D. J. Keeble, E. A. Thomsen, A. Stavrinadis, I. D.W. Samuel, J. M. Smith, and A. A. R. Watt, Paramagnetic point defects and charge carriers in PbS and CdS nanocrystal polymer composites, J. Phys. Chem. C 113, p.17306 (2009).

S. C. Benjamin, B. W. Lovett, and J. M. Smith, Prospects for measurement based quantum computing using solid state spins, Laser & Photonics Reviews 3, p.556 (2009). [download pdf].

P. K. Santra, R Viswanatha, S Daniels, N. L. Pickett, J. M Smith, P. O'Brien and D. D. Sarma, Investigation of the internal heterostructure of highly luminescent quantum dot - quantum well nanocrystals, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, p470 (2009).

2008

B. A. Fairchild, P. Olivero, A. D. Greentree, F. Waldermann, R. A. Taylor, J. M. Smith, S. Rubanov, S. Huntington, B. Gibson, D. N. Jamieson, and S. Prawer, Fabrication of ultra thin membranes from single crystal diamond for photonic and NEMS applications, Advanced Materials 20, p4793 (2008).

A. Stavrinadis, R. Beal, J. M. Smith, H. E. Assender, and A. A. R. Watt, Direct formation of PbS nanorods in a conjugated polymer, Advanced Materials 20, p3105 (2008).

S. H. Kim, P. H. Sher, Y. B. Hahn, and J. M. Smith, Luminescence from single CdSe nanocrystals embedded in ZnO thin films using atomic layer deposition, Nanotechnology 19, #365202 (2008).

P. H. Sher, J. M. Smith, P. A. Dalgarno, R. J. Warburton, X. Chen, P. J. Dobson, S. M. Daniels, N. L. Pickett, and P. O'Brien, Power law carrier dynamics in semiconductor nanocrystals at nanosecond time scales, Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, #101111 (2008).

Conference presentations

P. R. Dolan and J. M. Smith, Placing diamond colour centres into tunable optical microcavities, SBDD XVI, Hasselt, Belgium, February 21-23, 2011.

J. M. Smith, F. Grazioso, B. R. Patton, P. R. Dolan, M. L. Markham, and D. J. Twitchen, A single colour centre with a 532 nm zero phonon line, SBDD XVI, Hasselt, Belgium, February 21-23, 2011.

S. M. Fairclough, E. J. Tyrrell, J. Moghal, A. A. R. Watt and J. M. Smith, Excitonic transitions in type-II heterostructured ZnTe/ZnSe core-shell nanocrystals, Symposium on Quantum Dots, University of Bristol, January 10, 2011.

P. R. Dolan, B. R. Patton, and J M Smith Construction and analysis of arrayed, tuneable optical microcavities, Photon 10, Southampton, UK, August 24-27, 2010.

J. M. Smith, Physics and applications of the zero phonon line in NV-, SBDD2010 diamond workshop, Hasselt, Belgium, February 22-24, 2010 (invited).

B. R. Patton, F. Grazioso, P. R. Dolan, J. M. Smith, B. Fairchild, P. Olivero, A. Greentree, and S. Prawer, Optical properties of microstructured diamond, Diamond 2009, Athens, September 6-10, 2009.

B. R. Patton, P. R. Dolan, F. Grazioso, J. M. Smith, B. Fairchild, P. Olivero, A. Greentree, and S. Prawer, Diamond microstructures for optical cavity based devices, DeBeers Diamond Conference, Warwick University, June 30, 2009.

P. H. Sher, X. Chen, P. J. Dobson, S. M. Daniels, N. L. Pickett, P. O'Brien, and J. M. Smith, Measuring carrier trapping dynamics in single semiconductor nanocrystals over ten decades in time, 5^th International Symposium on Surface Science (ISSS-5), Tokyo, Japan, November 9-13, 2008.

F. Grazioso, B. R. Patton, J. M. Smith, and D. J .Twitchen, Luminsecnece characteristics of NV centres in ultrapure diamond, DeBeers diamond conference, St Catherine's College Oxford, July 5-8, 2008.

J. M. Smith, B. R. Patton, and F. Grazioso, Towards measurement-based quantum computation using solid state spins, SPIE Photonics West Conference Proceedings, ADVANCED CONCEPTS IN QUANTUM COMPUTING, MEMORY, AND COMMUNICATION 6903, p.9030, San Jose, January, 2008.

P. H. Sher, J. M. Smith, S. M. Daniels, N. L. Pickett, P. O'Brien, P. A. Dalgarno, and R. J. Warburton, Power law dynamics in the fluorescence from semiconductor nanocrystals, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, University of Leicester, April 11-13, 2007.

B. Patton, F. Grazioso, and J. M. Smith, Towards measurement-based entanglement of single NV centres in diamond, Measurement Based Quantum Computing, St John's College, Oxford, March 18-21, 2007.

R Beal, A. Stavrinadis, J. M .Smith, H. E. Assender and A. A. R. Watt, Inorganic-Organic Nanocomposites for Broadband Photovoltaics, 3rd Photovoltaic Science, Applications and Technology Conference (PVSAT-3), Grey College, University of Durham March 28-30, 2007.

J. M. Smith, Prospects for measurement-based quantum computing using nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond, QCV Quantum Diamond, Melbourne, Australia, July 16-19, 2007.