Dr Chris Ewels Publications

 
Publications by year | Publications by type | Posters
  PhD Thesis
  1. "Density Functional Modelling of point defects in semiconductors"
    (Exeter University, 1997). Available as pdf, html, postscript, and others (short abstract).
  Book Chapters
  1. 'Irradiation damage in graphite from first principles'
    M. Heggie, I. Suarez-Martinez, G. Savini, A. El-Barbary, C. Ewels, R. Telling
    in "Management of Ageing Processes in Graphite Reactor Cores", ISBN:978-0-85404-345-3, Ed. G. B. Neighbour (Royal Society of Chemistry) 83 (8) (2007).
  2. 'Doping of Carbon Nanotubes'
    M. Glerup, V. Krstic, C. P. Ewels, M. Holzinger, G. Van Lier
    To appear in "Doped Nanomaterials and Nanodevices", edited by Wei Chen (to be published, 2008).
  3. 'Nitrogen and boron doping in carbon nanotubes'
    C. P. Ewels, M. Glerup, V. Krstic,
    To appear in "Chemistry of Carbon Nanotubes", edited by V. A. Basiuk and E. V. Basiuk (to be published, 2007).
  4. 'Oxygen point defects in silicon'
    C. P. Ewels, R. Jones, in "Properties of Crystalline Silicon", Ed. Robert Hull, EMIS Datareview, INSPEC (1999).
  5. 'Oxygen-Carbon, Oxygen-nitrogen and oxygen-dimer defects in Si'
    C. P. EWELS, R. Jones, S. Öberg, in "Early Stages of Oxygen Precipitation in Silicon", ed. R. Jones, Kluwers Academic Press, Series 3, Vol. 17, p.141-163 (1996).
  Peer Reviewed Scientific Papers
  1. 'Carbon nanotube growth mechanism switches from tip- to base-growth with decreasing catalyst particle size'
    A. Gohier, C.P. Ewels, T.M. Minea, M.A. Djouadi
    Carbon, in press, DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2008.05.016 (2008).
  2. 'Influence of Fe/Cr on nitrogen doped carbon nanotube growth'
    C. P. Ewels, A. Gloter, T. Minea, B. Bouchet-Fabre, S. Point, C. Colliex
    Eur. Phys. J. Appl. Phys., DOI: 10.1051/epjap:2008060 (2008). (open access)
  3. 'Oxidation and reactivity of nitrogen and phosphorus doped heterofullerenes'
    C. P. Ewels, H. El Cheikh, I. Suarez Martinez, G. Van Lier
    Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 16, 2145-2148 (2008). (and the interior cover)
  4. 'Automated determination of chemical functionalisation addition routes based on magnetic susceptibility and nucleus independent chemical shifts'
    G. Van Lier, C. P. Ewels, P. Geerlings
    Comp. Phys. Commun., 179 165-170 (2008).
  5. 'Shaping single walled nanotubes with an electron beam'
    A. Zobelli, A. Gloter, C. P. Ewels, C. Colliex
    Physical Review B 77, 045410 (2008).
  6. 'Meta-Code for Systematic Analysis of Chemical Addition (SACHA): Application to Fluorination of C70 and Carbon Nanostructure Growth'
    C. P. Ewels, G. Van Lier, P. Geerlings, J. -C. Charlier
    J. Chem. Inf. Model., 47 (6), 2208-2215 (2007).
  7. 'Modelling the effect of doping metallic carbon nanotubes on their ability to transfer-dope diamond'
    S. Sque, C. P. Ewels, R. Jones, P. R. Briddon
    Phys. Status Solidi A, 204 (9), 2898-2902 (2007).
  8. 'Stability, thermal homolysis and intermediate phases of solid hydroazafullerene C59HN'
    D. Arcon, M. Pregelj, P. Cevc, G. Rotas, G. Pagona, N. Tagmatarchis and C. P. Ewels,
    Chem. Commun., 3386, DOI: 10.1039/b703766j (2007).
  9. 'Electron knock-on cross section of carbon and boron nitride nanotubes'
    A. Zobelli, A. Gloter, C. P. Ewels, G. Seifert, C. Colliex,
    Physical Review B, 75, 245402 (2007).
  10. 'Vacancy migration in hexagonal boron nitride'
    A. Zobelli, C. P. Ewels, A. Gloter, G. Seifert, C. Colliex,
    Physical Review B, 75, 094104 (2007).
  11. 'Defective Structure of BN Nanotubes: From Single Vacancies to Dislocation Lines'
    A. Zobelli, C. P. Ewels, A. Gloter, G. Seifert, O. Stephan, S. Csillag, C. Colliex,
    Nano Letters 6 (9), 1955-1960 (2006).
  12. 'Pattern formation on carbon nanotubes'
    C. P. Ewels, G. Van Lier, J. -C. Charlier, M. I. Heggie, P. R. Briddon,
    Physical Review Letters, 96 216103 (2006). (download press release).
  13. 'Nitrogen Violation of the Isolated Pentagon Rule'
    C. P. Ewels
    Nano Letters 6 (5), 890-895 (2006).
    (writeup in Nature Blogs.)
  14. 'Kinetic Monte Carlo and Density Functional Study of Hydrogen Enhanced Dislocation Glide in Silicon'
    S. Scarle, C. P. Ewels
    European Physical Journal B, 51, 195-208 (2006).
  15. 'Electron spectroscopy of carbon materials: experiment and theory'
    A. A. El-Barbary, S. Trasobares, C. P. Ewels, O. Stephan, A. V. Okotrub, L. G. Bulusheva, C. J. Fall, M. I. Heggie
    J. Phys. Conf. Series 26 149-152 (2006).
  16. 'Impact of Structure and Morphology on Gas Adsorption of Titanate-Based Nanotubes and Nanoribbons'
    P. Umek, P. Cevc, A. Jesih, A. Gloter, C. P. Ewels, D. Arcon
    Chem. Mater. 17 (24), 5945-5950 (2005).
  17. 'Simulation of the delamination of thin films'
    S. Scarle, C. P. Ewels, M. I. Heggie
    European Physical Journal B - Cond. Mat. 46 4, 529-534 (2005).
  18. 'Review of Nitrogen doping in carbon nanotubes'
    C. P. Ewels, M. Glerup
    J. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 5 9, 1345 (2005).
  19. 'Theoretical Analysis of Fluorine addition to Carbon Nanotubes: Functionalisation Routes and Addition Patterns.'
    G. Van Lier, C. P. Ewels, F. Zuliani, A. De Vita, J. -C. Charlier,
    J. Phys. Chem. B, 109(13), 6153-6158 (2005).
  20. 'Theoretical Study of the Addition Patterns of C60 Fluorination: C60Fn (n = 1-60)'
    G. Van Lier, M. Cases, C. P. EWELS, R. Taylor, P. Geerlings,
    J. Org. Chem. 70, 1565-1579 (2005).
  21. 'Carbon Nanotubes with Graphitic Wings'
    S. Trasobares, C. P. Ewels, J. Birrell, O. Stephan, B. Q. Wei, J. A. Carlisle, D. Miller, P. Keblinski, P. M. Ajayan,
    Advanced Materials 16 (7), 610-613 (2004) (incl. interior cover art).
  22. 'Linewise kinetic Monte Carlo study of silicon dislocation dynamics',
    S. Scarle, C. P. Ewels, M. I. Heggie et al,
    Phys. Rev. B 69 (7) 075209 (2004).
  23. 'Metastable Frenkel Pair Defect in Graphite: Source of Wigner Energy?'
    C. P. EWELS, R. H. Telling, A. A. El-Barbary, M. I. Heggie, P. R. Briddon,
    Physical Review Letters 91, 025505 (2003).
  24. 'Wigner defects bridge the graphite gap'
    R. H. Telling, C. P. EWELS, A. A. El-Barbary, M. I. Heggie,
    Nature Materials 2, 333–337 (2003) (abstract, pdf)
  25. 'Structure and energetics of the vacancy in graphite',
    A. A. El-Barbary, R. H. Telling, C. P. Ewels, M. I. Heggie, P. R. Briddon,
    Phys. Rev. B 68 (14) 144107 (2003).
  26. 'Density functional theory calculations on H defects in Si',
    N. Martsinovich, A. I. Rosa, M. I. Heggie, C. P. Ewels, P. R. Briddon,
    Physica B 340 654 (2003).
  27. 'First-principles calculations on the structure of hydrogen aggregates in silicon and diamond'
    N. Martsinovich, M. I. Heggie, C. P. EWELS,
    J. Phys. Condens. Mater. 15 S2815 (2003) (abstract, pdf).
  28. 'Glide dislocations in diamond : First-principles calculations of similarities with and differences from silicon and the effects of hydrogen',
    M. I. Heggie, C. P. Ewels, N. Martsinovich, S.Scarle, R. Jones, J. P. Goss, B. Hourahine, P. R. Briddon
    J. Phys. Cond. Matt. 14 (48), 12689 (2002).
  29. 'Adatoms and nanoengineering of carbon'
    C. P. EWELS, M. I. Heggie, P. R. Briddon,
    Chem. Phys. Lett. 351 (3-4), 178-182 (2002)
  30. 'Theory of hydrogen in diamond',
    J. P. Goss, R. Jones, M. I. Heggie, C. P. Ewels, P. R. Briddon, S. Oberg,
    Phys. Rev. B 65 (11) 115207 (2002).
  31. 'Kinetic Monte Carlo study of dislocation motion in silicon: soliton model and hydrogen enhanced glide'
    S. Scarle, N. Martsinovich, C. P. EWELS, M. I. Heggie,
    Physica B: Cond. Mat., 308-310, 493-496 (2001)
  32. 'Graphitisation at diamond dislocation cores'
    C. P. EWELS, N. T. Wilson, M. I. Heggie, R. Jones, P. R. Briddon,
    J. Phys. Cond. Matt 13 (40), 8965 (2001) (full text).
  33. 'First principles studies of H in diamond'
    J. P. Goss, R. Jones, M. I. Heggie, C. P. EWELS, P. R. Briddon, S. Öberg,
    Phys. Stat. Sol. (a) 186 2, 263-268 (2001). (abstract, full text)
  34. 'Hydrogen Interaction with dislocations in Si'
    C. P. EWELS, S. Leoni, M. I. Heggie, P. Jemmer, E. Hernández,
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 84 (4) 690 (2000). (abstract, full text)
  35. 'Modelling Carbon for Industry : Radiolytic Oxidation'
    P. Leary, C. P. EWELS, M. I. Heggie, R. Jones, P. R. Briddon,
    Phys. Stat. Sol. (b) 217 1, 429-447 (2000). (abstract, full text)
  36. 'A molecular radical model for hydrogen and muonium in graphite'
    S. F. J. Cox, S. P. Cottrell, M. Charlton, P. A. Donnelly, C. EWELS, M. I. Heggie, B. Hourahine,
    J. Phys. Cond. Matt. 13 (10), 2169-2175 (2001). (abstract, full text)
  37. 'Theory of dislocations in diamond and silicon and their interaction with hydrogen'
    M. I. Heggie, S. Jenkins, C. P. EWELS, P. Jemmer, R. Jones, P. Briddon,
    J. Phys. Cond. Matt. 12 (49), 10263-10270 (2000). (abstract, full text)
  38. 'Molecular rectification with M|D-sigma-A LB Film|M junctions'
    A. C. Brady, B. Hodder, A. S. Martin, J. Roy Sambles, C. P. EWELS, R. Jones, P. R. Briddon, A. M. Musa, C. A. Panetta, D. L. Mattern,
    J. Mat. Chem. 9 9, 2271 (1999). (full text)
  39. 'LDF Calculations of point defects in graphites and fullerenes'
    M. Heggie, B. R. Eggen, C. P. EWELS, P. Leary, S. Ali, G. Jungnickel, R. Jones, P. R. Briddon,
    Electrochem. Soc. Proc. Vol. 98-8, 60-67 (1998). (full text)
  40. 'First stage of oxygen aggregation in silicon: the oxygen dimer'
    S. Öberg, C. P. EWELS, R. Jones, T. Hallberg, J. L. Lindström, L. Murin, P. Briddon,
    Physical Review Letters 81, 2930-33 (1998). (abstract, full text)
  41. 'Shallow Thermal Donor defects in silicon'
    C. P. EWELS, R. Jones, S. Öberg, J. Miro, P. Deák
    Physical Review Letters, 77 (5), 865-868 (1996). (abstract, full text)
  42. 'Theoretical Studies on nitrogen-oxygen complexes in silicon'
    P. Deák, J. Miro, R. Jones, C. P. EWELS,
    J. Phys. C. : Cond. Matter 8 (41), 7711-7722 (1996). (abstract, full text)
  43. 'Vacancy- and Acceptor- H complexes in InP'
    C. P. EWELS, S. Öberg, R. Jones, B. Pajot, P. R. Briddon
    Semiconductor Science and Technology, 11 1-6 (1996). (abstract, full text)
  44. 'The nitrogen-pair oxygen defect in silicon'
    F. Berg Rasmussen, S. Öberg, R. Jones, C. EWELS, J. Goss, J. Miro, P. Deák,
    Materials Science and Engineering B, 36, 91-95 (1996).
  45. 'Cyclic cluster model for calculating defects in solids using the local density approximation'
    J. Miro, P. Deak, C. P. EWELS, R. Jones,
    J. Phys. - Cond. Matt, 9 (44), 9555-9562 (1997). (abstract, full text)
  46. 'Photoinduced changes of hydrogen-bonding in semi-insulating iron-doped InP'
    B. Pajot, C. Y. Song, R. Darwich, F. Gendron, C. EWELS
    Solid State Communications, 95 (12), 851-854 (1995).
  47. 'Theoretical and Isotopic Infrared Absorption Investigations of Nitrogen-Oxygen Defects in Silicon'
    R. Jones, C. EWELS, J. Goss, J. Miro, P. Deák, S. Öberg, F. Berg Rasmussen,
    Semiconductor Science and Technology 9, 2145-48, (1994). (abstract, full text)
  48. 'Ab Initio Calculations of Anharmonicity of the C-H stretch mode in HCN and GaAs'
    R. Jones, J. Goss, C. EWELS, S. Öberg
    Physical Review B, 50, 8378-88, (1994). (abstract, full text)
  Other Scientific Papers
  1. 'NO2 gas adsorption on titania-based nanotubes.'
    D. Arcon, P. Umek, P. Cevc, A. Jesih, C. P. Ewels, A. Gloter,
    AIP Conf. Proc. Vol. 786 (1) 335-339 (2005). (abstract, pdf)
  2. 'Structure and Energy of the 90 degree Partial Dislocations in Wurtzite-GaN'
    G. Savini, M. I. Heggie, C. P. Ewels, N. Martsinovich, R. Jones, A. T. Blumenau
    Mat. Sci. Forum (2004)
  3. 'Nanotube alignment and dispersion in epoxy resin'
    C. P. Ewels, G. Desarmot, A. Foutel-Richard, F. Martin,
    AIP Conf. Proc. Vol. 685 (1) 99-102 (2003). (abstract or pdf)
  4. 'Shallow Thermal Donor Defects in Silicon'
    C. P. EWELS, R. Jones, S. Öberg, J. Miro, P. Deák, Shallow Level Centers in Semiconductors, ed. C. A. J. Ammerlaan, B. Pajot, World Scientific, Singapore, p.239-244 (1997).
  5. 'Is H passivating Mg Acceptors Bond-centred in InP:Mg and Anti-bonded in GaAs:Mg'
    R. Bouanani-Rabi, B. Pajot, C. P. EWELS, S. Öberg, J. Goss, R. Jones, Y. Nissim, B. Theys, C. Blaauw, Shallow Level Centers in Semiconductors, ed. C. A. J. Ammerlaan, B. Pajot, World Scientific, Singapore, p. (1997).
  6. 'The nitrogen-pair oxygen defect in silicon'
    F. Berg Rasmussen, S. Öberg, R. Jones, C. EWELS, J. Goss, J. Miro, and P. Deák, NATO ARW 'Early Stages of Oxygen Precipitation in Silicon', ed. R. Jones, Kluwer Academic Press, Series 3 (17) 319-327 (1996).
  7. 'A First Principles investigation of vacancy oxygen defects in Si'
    C. EWELS, R. Jones, S. Öberg Mat. Sci. Forum Vol. 196-201, 1297-1301 (1995).
  8. 'The NNO defect in Silicon'
    F. Berg Rasmussen, S. Öberg, R. Jones, C. EWELS, J. Goss, J. Miro, P. Deák, Mat. Sci. Forum Vol. 196-201, 791-795 (1995).
  9. 'Vacancy- and acceptor- H complexes in InP'
    C. P. EWELS, S. Öberg, R. Jones, B. Pajot, P. R. Briddon Mat. Sci. Forum Vol. 196-201, 969-973 (1995).
  10. 'The nitrogen-pair oxygen defect in silicon'
    F. Berg Rasmussen, S. Öberg, R. Jones, C. EWELS, J. Goss, J. Miro, P. Deák, E-MRS, Strasbourg, in press, (1995)GET REF.
  11. 'H passivated defects in InP'
    C. P. EWELS, S. Öberg, P. Briddon, J. Goss, R. Jones, S. Breuer, R. Darwich, B. Pajot, Solid State Communications 93 5, 459-460 (1995)
  12. 'The Hydrogen complexes in GaAs and InP doped with Magnesium'
    R. Rahbi, B. Pajot, C. EWELS, S. Öberg, J. Goss, R. Jones, Y. Nissim, B. Theys, C. Blaauw, Solid State Communications 93 5, 462 (1995).
  Other Writing
  1. 'Seeing the Future'
    C. P. Ewels
    Infocus, Royal Microscopical Society, 6, 4-21 (2007).
  2. 'Women in Carbon Science'
    C. P. Ewels, N. Grobert
    British Carbon Group Newsletter, 34 June (2007).
  3. 'Overcoming Defects' review of "Extended Defects in Semiconductors"
    C. P. Ewels,
    Chemistry World, 4 (9) 73-74 (2007).
  4. 'Tilting at Windmills'
    Chris Ewels, New Humanist Magazine, September 2003
  5. 'From pencils to nanotechnology - the art and design of new molecules'
    An article for the "Art of Prison Survival", a magazine for prisoner artists in the US. (page 10)
  6. 'A spoonful of Graphite : Carbon nanoscience and public health'
    British Carbon Group Newsletter, December 2005 (page 11)
  7. 'Profile : Harry Kroto'
    C. Ewels, Viewfinder, January 2004
  8. 'Surfing past terrestrial television'
    by Chris Ewels. Times Higher Education Supplement, September 17th, 1999.
  9. 'Dial P for Pizza'
    S. Jenkins, C. EWELS, `Lateral Thoughts', Physics World, 11 (5), 76 (1998).
  10. 'Vielkopfige Hydra - Neue Medien verandern die wissenschaftliche Kommunikation' - 'Many-headed Hydra - The new media and scientific communication'
    by Dr. Bernd Eggen and Chris Ewels. (Circulation 6000) Zeitschrift fur Kulturaustausch, p.550, ISSN 0044-2976, E7225F Teil II. (Dec 1995). Publisher: "Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen", Germany. A related link?.
  11. 'Darts' Computer Game, BBC Micro User, 1985.
  Television Work
  1. 'The Next Big Thing'
    Series of 10 programmes shown on BBC2 Science Night, a Vega / Open University collaboration. Background research and planning, sat on editorial advisory board, chose several of topics covered.
  2. 'Revolutionaries of Science'
    Archive series of eminent scientists. Sound recordist for Max Perutz, Fred Sanger recordings in Cambridge, John Cornforth recordings in Sussex. Basic editting and graphics. Organised, filmed and sound recording for Millie Dresselhaus recordings.
  3. 'Royal Society Lectures'
    Broadcast quality recordings of Paul Hoffman and Paul Davies public lectures.
  Web Sites
The following are a selection from the Web sites I have developed. (Note that these websites may have been modified by other webmasters since I have worked on them).
  1. The Vega Science Trust
    A large site detailing the work of the Trust, with many online science programmes streamed over the Web, as well as a press centre, science media calendar, etc. Currently being rewritten as an online science channel and science media gateway.
  2. STEM Group, LPS Orsay
    Site for the world leading electron microscopy and spectroscopy group in the LPS, Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France. Includes on-line textbook, meta-linked periodic table for spectroscopic and elemental data, and media image gallery.
  3. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at Sussex
    An introduction to nanoscience and nanotechnology, and the first stop for potential new N&N students at Sussex.
  4. High Performance Computing at Sussex
    Bold and simple site providing public front-end to the HPC initiative at Sussex as well as intranet pages for reserving facilities, etc.
  5. NanoteC'01
    Web site for international nanotechnology conference at Sussex featuring online registration.
  6. Chemistry GRC
    Simple site for easy updating, utilising university template style for chemistry graduate centre.
  7. Oxygen '96
    Early site for NATO ARW conference at Exeter University on oxygen in silicon.

 
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