
Dr Soumen Mandal
PhD
Research Associate
- mandals2@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2082 0197
- N/0.05, Adeiladau'r Frenhines - Adeilad y Gogledd, 5 The Parade, Heol Casnewydd, Caerdydd, CF24 3AA
Cyhoeddiadau
2022
- Pascoe, M. J., Mandal, S., Williams, O. A. and Maillard, J. -. 2022. Impact of material properties in determining quaternary ammonium compound adsorption and wipe product efficacy against biofilms. Journal of Hospital Infection 126, pp. 37-43. (10.1016/j.jhin.2022.03.013)
- Wood, B. D. et al. 2022. Long spin coherence times of nitrogen vacancy centers in milled nanodiamonds. Physical Review B 105(20), article number: 205401. (10.1103/PhysRevB.105.205401)
- Kuznetsov, S. et al. 2022. Cerium-doped gadolinium-scandium-aluminum garnet powders: synthesis and use in X-ray luminescent diamond composites. Ceramics International 48(9), pp. 12962-12970. (10.1016/j.ceramint.2022.01.169)
- Cuenca, J. A., Mandal, S., Thomas, E. L. and Williams, O. A. 2022. Microwave plasma modelling in clamshell chemical vapour deposition diamond reactors. Diamond and Related Materials 124, article number: 108917. (10.1016/j.diamond.2022.108917)
2021
- Mandal, S., Arts, K., Knoops, H. C., Cuenca, J. A., Klemencic, G. M. and Williams, O. A. 2021. Surface zeta potential and diamond growth on gallium oxide single crystal. Carbon 181, pp. 79-86. (10.1016/j.carbon.2021.04.100)
- Lynch, S. A. et al. 2021. Rydberg excitons in synthetic cuprous oxide (Cu2O). Physical Review Materials 5(8), article number: 86402. (10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.5.084602)
- Manifold, S. . A., Klemencic, G., Thomas, E. L., Mandal, S., Bland, H., Giblin, S. R. and Williams, O. A. 2021. Contact resistance of various metallisation schemes to superconducting boron doped diamond between 1.9 and 300 K. Carbon 179, pp. 13-19. (10.1016/j.carbon.2021.02.079)
- Guo, T. et al. 2021. Electrochemistry of nitrogen and boron bi-element incorporated diamond films. Carbon 178, pp. 19-25. (10.1016/j.carbon.2021.02.062)
- Klemencic, G. et al. 2021. Phase slips and metastability in granular boron-doped nanocrystalline diamond microbridges. Carbon 175, pp. 43-49. (10.1016/j.carbon.2020.12.042)
- Sedov, V. et al. 2021. CVD synthesis of multi-layered polycrystalline diamond films with reduced roughness using time-limited injections of N2 gas. Diamond and Related Materials 114, article number: 108333. (10.1016/j.diamond.2021.108333)
- Cuenca, J. A. et al. 2021. Thermal stress modelling of diamond on GaN/III-Nitride membranes. Carbon 174, pp. 647-661. (10.1016/j.carbon.2020.11.067)
- Bland, H. A., Centeleghe, I. A., Mandal, S., Thomas, E. L. H., Maillard, J. and Williams, O. A. 2021. Electropositive nanodiamond-coated quartz microfiber membranes for virus and dye filtration. ACS Applied Nano Materials 4(3), pp. 3252-3261. (10.1021/acsanm.1c00439)
- Mandal, S. 2021. Nucleation of diamond films on heterogeneous substrates: a review. RSC Advances 11(17), pp. 10159-10182. (10.1039/D1RA00397F)
2020
- Sow, M. et al. 2020. High-throughput nitrogen-vacancy center imaging for nanodiamond photophysical characterization and pH nanosensing. Nanoscale 12(42), pp. 21821-21821. (10.1039/D0NR05931E)
- Panduranga, P. et al. 2020. Hybrid diamond/silicon suspended integrated photonic platform using SF6 isotropic etching. Presented at: 2nd IEEE British and Irish Conference on Optics and Photonics (BICOP 2019), London, England, 11-13 December 20192019 IEEE 2nd British and Irish Conference on Optics and Photonics (BICOP). IEEE pp. 1-4., (10.1109/BICOP48819.2019.9059586)
- Smith, M. D. et al. 2020. GaN-on-diamond technology platform: bonding-free membrane manufacturing process. AIP Advances 10(3), article number: 35306. (10.1063/1.5129229)
- Cuenca, J. A., Mandal, S., Morgan, D. J., Snowball, M., Porch, A. and Williams, O. A. 2020. Dielectric spectroscopy of hydrogen treated hexagonal boron nitride ceramics. ACS Applied Electronic Materials 2(5), pp. 1193-1202. (10.1021/acsaelm.9b00767)
2019
- Mandal, S. et al. 2019. Thick, adherent diamond films on AlN with low thermal barrier resistance. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 11(43), pp. 40826-40834. (10.1021/acsami.9b13869)
- Ahmed, A., Gines, L., Mandal, S., Song, C., Williams, O. A., Sarmiento, M. N. and Cheng, C. 2019. Facile amine termination of nanodiamond particles and their surface reaction dynamics. ACS Omega 4(16), pp. 16715-16723. (10.1021/acsomega.9b00776)
- Bland, H. A. et al. 2019. Author correction: superconducting diamond on silicon nitride for device applications. Scientific Reports 9(1), pp. -., article number: 11012. (10.1038/s41598-019-46256-y)
- Salman, M., Klemencic, G. M., Mandal, S., Manifold, S., Mustafa, L., Williams, O. A. and Giblin, S. R. 2019. Quantitative analysis of the interaction between a dc SQUID and an integrated micromechanical doubly clamped cantilever. Journal of Applied Physics 125(22), article number: 224503. (10.1063/1.5090958)
- Mandal, S., Bland, H. A., Cuenca, J. A., Snowball, M. and Williams, O. A. 2019. Superconducting boron doped nanocrystalline diamond on boron nitride ceramics. Nanoscale 11(21), pp. 10266-10272. (10.1039/C9NR02729G)
- Mandal, S., Thomas, E. L. H., Werrell, J. M., Klemencic, G. M., Ash, J., Brousseau, E. B. and Williams, O. A. 2019. Chemical mechanical polishing of nanocrystalline diamond. In: Yang, N. ed. Novel Aspects of Diamond: From Growth to Applications., Vol. 121. Topics in Applied Physics Chem: Springer, pp. 53-89., (10.1007/978-3-030-12469-4_3)
- Klemencic, G. M., Fellows, J. M., Werrell, J. M., Mandal, S., Giblin, S. R., Smith, R. A. and Williams, O. A. 2019. Observation of a superconducting glass state in granular superconducting diamond. Scientific Reports 9, article number: 4578. (10.1038/s41598-019-40306-1)
- Bland, H. A. et al. 2019. Superconducting diamond on silicon nitride for device applications. Scientific Reports 9, article number: 2911. (10.1038/s41598-019-39707-z)
2018
- Gines, L. et al. 2018. Production of metal-free diamond nanoparticles. ACS Omega 3(11), pp. 16099-16104. (10.1021/acsomega.8b02067)
- Lindner, S. et al. 2018. Strongly inhomogeneous distribution of spectral properties of silicon-vacancy color centers in nanodiamonds. New Journal of Physics 20(11), article number: 115002. (10.1088/1367-2630/aae93f)
- Abdou, A. et al. 2018. Air-clad suspended nanocrystalline diamond ridge waveguides. Optics Express 26(11), article number: 13883. (10.1364/OE.26.013883)
- Mandal, S., Thomas, E. L. H., Gines, L., Morgan, D., Green, J., Brousseau, E. B. and Williams, O. A. 2018. Redox agent enhanced chemical mechanical polishing of thin film diamond. Carbon 130, pp. 25-30. (10.1016/j.carbon.2017.12.077)
- Yu, S. et al. 2018. Battery-like supercapacitors from vertically aligned carbon nanofiber coated diamond: design and demonstrator. Advanced Energy Materials 8(12), article number: 1702947. (10.1002/aenm.201702947)
- Frangeskou, A. C., Rahman, A. A. T. M., Gines, L., Mandal, S., Williams, O. A., Barker, P. F. and Morley, G. 2018. Pure nanodiamonds for levitated optomechanics in vacuum. New Journal of Physics 20, article number: 43016. (10.1088/1367-2630/aab700)
- Thomas, E., Gines, L., Mandal, S., Klemencic, G. and Williams, O. A. 2018. A simple, space constrained NIRIM type reactor for chemical vapour deposition of diamond. AIP Advances 8, article number: 35325. (10.1063/1.5009182)
- Braunbeck, G., Mandal, S., Touge, M., Williams, O. A. and Reinhard, F. 2018. Effect of ultraprecision polishing techniques on coherence times of shallow nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond. Diamond and Related Materials 85, pp. 18-22. (10.1016/j.diamond.2018.03.026)
- Cuenca, J. A. et al. 2018. Microwave permittivity of trace sp2 carbon impurities in sub-micron diamond powders. ACS Omega 3(2), pp. 2183-2192. (10.1021/acsomega.7b02000)
2017
- Klemencic, G. M., Mandal, S., Werrell, J. M., Giblin, S. R. and Williams, O. A. 2017. Superconductivity in planarised nanocrystalline diamond films. Science and Technology of Advanced Materials 18(1) (10.1080/14686996.2017.1286223)
- Mandal, S. et al. 2017. Surface zeta potential and diamond seeding on gallium nitride films. ACS Omega 2(10), pp. 7275-7280. (10.1021/acsomega.7b01069)
- Thomas, E. et al. 2017. Spectroscopic ellipsometry of nanocrystalline diamond film growth. ACS Omega 2(10), pp. 6715-6727. (10.1021/acsomega.7b00866)
- Klemencic, G. M., Fellows, J. M., Werrell, J. M., Mandal, S., Giblin, S. R., Smith, R. A. and Williams, O. A. 2017. Fluctuation spectroscopy as a probe of granular superconducting diamond films. Physical Review Materials 1(4), article number: 44801. (10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.1.044801)
- Gines, L., Mandal, S., Ahmed, A., Cheng, C., Sow, M. and Williams, O. A. 2017. Positive zeta potential of nanodiamonds. Nanoscale 9(34), pp. 12549-12555. (10.1039/C7NR03200E)
- Ayres, Z. J., Newland, J. C., Newton, M. E., Mandal, S., Williams, O. A. and Macpherson, J. V. 2017. Impact of chemical vapour deposition plasma inhomogeneity on the spatial variation of sp 2 carbon in boron doped diamond electrodes. Carbon 121, pp. 434-442. (10.1016/j.carbon.2017.06.008)
- Titova, N. et al. 2017. Slow electron-phonon cooling in superconducting diamond films. IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity 27(4), article number: 7501104. (10.1109/TASC.2016.2638199)
- Yu, S. et al. 2017. Battery-like supercapacitors from diamond networks and water-soluble redox electrolytes. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 5(4), pp. 1778-1785. (10.1039/C6TA08607A)
- Werrell, J. et al. 2017. Effect of slurry composition on the chemical mechanical polishing of thin diamond films. Science and Technology of Advanced Materials 18(1), pp. 654-663. (10.1080/14686996.2017.1366815.)
2016
- Ahmed, A. -., Mandal, S., Gines, L., Williams, O. A. and Cheng, C. 2016. Low temperature catalytic reactivity of nanodiamond in molecular hydrogen. Carbon 110, pp. 438-442. (10.1016/j.carbon.2016.09.019)
- Mandal, S., Thomas, E. L. H., Jenny, T. A. and Williams, O. A. 2016. Chemical nucleation of diamond films. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 8(39), pp. 26220-26225. (10.1021/acsami.6b08286)
2015
- Cuenca, J. A., Thomas, E. L. H., Mandal, S., Williams, O. A. and Porch, A. 2015. Investigating the broadband microwave absorption of nanodiamond impurities. IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques 63(12), pp. 4110-4118. (10.1109/TMTT.2015.2495156)
- Yu, S. et al. 2015. Electrochemical supercapacitors from diamond. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 119(33), pp. 18918-18926. (10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b04719)
- Cuenca, J. A., Thomas, E. L. H., Mandal, S., Williams, O. A. and Porch, A. 2015. Microwave determination of sp2 carbon fraction in nanodiamond powders. Carbon 81, pp. 174-178. (10.1016/j.carbon.2014.09.046)
2014
- Bautze, T., Mandal, S., Williams, O. A., Rodière, P., Meunier, T. and Bäuerle, C. 2014. Superconducting nano-mechanical diamond resonators. Carbon 72, pp. 100-105. (10.1016/j.carbon.2014.01.060)
- Thomas, E. L. H., Mandal, S., Brousseau, E. B. J. P. and Williams, O. A. 2014. Silica based polishing of {100} and {111} single crystal diamond. Science and Technology of Advanced Materials 15(3), pp. 1-7., article number: 35013. (10.1088/1468-6996/15/3/035013)
- Thomas, E. L. H., Nelson, G. W., Mandal, S., Foord, J. S. and Williams, O. A. 2014. Chemical mechanical polishing of thin film diamond. Carbon 68, pp. 473-479. (10.1016/j.carbon.2013.11.023)
- Cuenca, J., Thomas, E., Williams, O. A., Mandal, S. and Porch, A. 2014. Broadband microwave measurements of nanodiamond. Presented at: Microwave Conference (APMC), 2014 Asia-Pacific, Sendai, Japan, 4-7 Nov 2014Microwave Conference (APMC), 2014 Asia-Pacific. pp. 1-3.
- Mandal, S., Bautze, T. and Bäuerle, C. 2014. Superconductivity in nanostructured boron-doped diamond and its application to device fabrication. In: Williams, O. A. ed. Nanodiamond. Royal Society of Chemistry, pp. 385-410., (10.1039/9781849737616-00385)
2013
- Szirmai, P. et al. 2013. Observation of conduction electron spin resonance in boron-doped diamond. Physical Review B 87(19), article number: 195132. (10.1103/PhysRevB.87.195132)
2012
- Szirmai, P., Pichler, T., Williams, O. A., Mandal, S., Bäuerle, C. and Simon, F. 2012. A detailed analysis of the Raman spectra in superconducting boron doped nanocrystalline diamond. Physica Status Solidi B Basic Research 249(12), pp. 2656-2659. (10.1002/pssb.201200461)
2011
- Mandal, S. et al. 2011. The Diamond Superconducting Quantum Interference Device. ACS Nano 5(9), pp. 7144-7148. (10.1021/nn2018396)
- Mandal, S. 2011. A comparative study of angle dependent magnetoresistance in [001] and [110] La2/3Sr1/3MnO3. Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism 24(5), pp. 1501-1504. (10.1007/s10948-010-0882-x)
- Mandal, S., Bautze, T., Blinder, R., Meunier, T., Saminadayar, L. and Bauerle, C. 2011. Efficient radio frequency filters for space constrained cryogenic setups. Review of Scientific Instruments 82(2), article number: 24704. (10.1063/1.3543736)
2010
- Mandal, S. et al. 2010. Nanostructures made from superconducting boron-doped diamond. Nanotechnology 21(19), article number: 195303. (10.1088/0957-4484/21/19/195303)
- Mandal, S. et al. 2010. Detailed study of superconductivity in nanostructured nanocrystalline boron doped diamond thin films. Physica Status Solidi a Applications and Materials Science 207(9), pp. 2017-2022. (10.1002/pssa.201000008)
- Mandal, S. 2010. Magnetoresistance studies of La2/3Sr1/3MnO3-YBa2Cu3O7-La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 trilayers with ferromagnetic coupling along the nodal direction of YBa2Cu3O7. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 81(1), article number: 14515. (10.1103/PhysRevB.81.014515)
2008
- Mandal, S. and Budhani, R. C. 2008. Magnetization depinning transition, anisotropic magnetoresistance and inplane anisotropy in two polytypes of La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 epitaxial films. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 320(23), pp. 3323-3333. (10.1016/j.jmmm.2008.07.002)
- Mandal, S., Budhani, R., He, J. and Zhu, Y. 2008. Diverging giant magnetoresistance in ferromagnet-superconductor-ferromagnet trilayers. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 78(9), article number: 94502. (10.1103/PhysRevB.78.094502)
2007
- Li, P., Mandal, S., Budhani, R. and Greene, R. 2007. Correlation between incoherent phase fluctuations and disorder in Y1−xPrxBa2Cu3O7−δ epitaxial films from Nernst effect measurements. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 75(18), article number: 184509. (10.1103/PhysRevB.75.184509)
2006
- Mandal, S., Bose, S. K., Sharma, R., Budhani, R. C., Padhan, P. and Prellier, W. 2006. Growth of [110] La2/3Sr1/3MnO3–YBa2Cu3O7 heterostructures. Applied Physics Letters 89(18), article number: 182508. (10.1063/1.2374692)
2005
- Budhani, R. C., Pant, P., Rakshit, R. K., Senapati, K., Mandal, S., Pandey, N. K. and Kumar, J. 2005. Magnetotransport in epitaxial films of the degenerate semiconductor Zn1−xCoxO. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 17(1), article number: 75. (10.1088/0953-8984/17/1/008)