Dr Evan Thomas

Articles

• Thomas, E. L. H., Stritt, J., Mandal, S., Imboden, M. and Williams, O. A. 2023. Polycrystalline diamond micro‐hotplates. Small 19(48), article number: 2303976. (10.1002/smll.202303976)
• Leigh, W. et al. 2023. Monitoring of the initial stages of diamond growth on aluminum nitride using in situ spectroscopic ellipsometry. ACS Omega 8(33), pp. 30442-30449. (10.1021/acsomega.3c03609)
• Leigh, W. G., Cuenca, J. A., Thomas, E. L., Mandal, S. and Williams, O. A. 2023. Mapping the effect of substrate temperature inhomogeneity during microwave plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposition nanocrystalline diamond growth. Carbon 201, pp. 228-337. (10.1016/j.carbon.2022.09.036)
• Leigh, W. G., Thomas, E. L., Cuenca, J. A., Mandal, S. and Williams, O. A. 2022. In-situ monitoring of microwave plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposition diamond growth on silicon using spectroscopic ellipsometry. Carbon 202, pp. 204-212. (10.1016/j.carbon.2022.10.049)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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. 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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.)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Pope, I. et al. 2014. Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy of single nanodiamonds. Nature Nanotechnology 9(11), pp. 940-946. (10.1038/nnano.2014.210)
• 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)

Book sections

• 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)

Conferences

• Cuenca, J. A. et al. 2023. Microwave conductivity of boron-doped nanodiamond particles. Presented at: 2022 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC), Yokohama, Japan, 29 November - 02 December 20222022 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC). IEEE, (10.23919/APMC55665.2022.9999762)
• Cuenca, J. A., Leigh, W., Thomas, E. L., Mandal, S. and Williams, O. A. 2023. Modelling deposition uniformity in microwave plasma cvd diamond over 2" Si wafers. Presented at: 2022 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC), Yokohama, Japan, 29 November - 02 December 20222022 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC). IEEE, (10.23919/APMC55665.2022.9999754)
• Panduranga, P. et al. 2019. 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)
• 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.

Thesis

• Thomas, E. L. H. 2017. Nanocrystalline diamond for nano-electro-mechanical systems. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.