Dr Chris E Finlayson

Lecturer
M.Sci (Birmingham), Ph.D (Cambridge) Photograph of Dr Chris E Finlayson.

Contact

Email: cef2@aber.ac.uk
Office: Room 211, Physical Sciences Building, Penglais Campus
Phone: +44 (0)1970 622 818
Fax: +44 (0)1970 622 826
Personal Web Site:http://users.aber.ac.uk/cef2

Profile

Teaching Areas

Modules Taught

PH01010/PH10110 - Introduction to Physical Forces / Newtonian Mechanics

PH32710 - Probing Atoms & Molecules

PH33610 - Semiconductor Physics

PH34510 - Optronics

Research

  • Supramolecular Materials: Designing functional materials at the smallest scales; the molecular and supramolecular levels. Investigating fundamental characteristics, such as photophysics, charge and energy migration, chirality and surface wetting interactions. Feedback into advanced chemical synthesis strategies.   
  • Optoelectronics: Application of molecular semiconductors and conjugated polymers to photovoltaics/solar-cells, LEDs, transistors, optical gain media.
  • Soft Nanophotonics: Polymeric photonic materials (e.g. polymer opals), self-assembly of polymers and sub-micron particles, composite materials with novel electronic and/or mechanical properties
  • Low Dimensional Semiconductors: II-VI and III-V “nanocrystals” and quantum dots. Synthesis, optical and optoelectronic properties; device applications.

Biography

Chris graduated with a degree in Physics from the University of Birmingham in 1998. His Ph.D research at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge explored aspects of the synthesis, characterisation and applications of colloidal semiconductor nanoparticles. He then moved to the University of Southampton, where as a postdoctoral fellow, he researched in the areas of photonic crystals and optical fibre based metamaterials. In 2007, he was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship, working in the group of Prof Sir Richard Friend at the Cavendish Laboratory, in the area of supramolecular optoelectronics. Recently, Chris has also developed an interest in soft nanophotonics and polymeric photonic materials. He moved to Aberystwyth in April 2011, to take up his appointment as Lecturer in Physics.

Staff Publications

2012

Anisotropic Resonant Scattering from Polymer Photonic Crystals

A.I. Haines, C.E. Finlayson et al., Adv. Mater. DOI: 10.1002/adma.201202169

 

Electrically Conductive Polymeric Photonic Crystals

Y. Imai, C.E. Finlayson, P. Goldberg-Oppenheimer et al., Soft Matter 8, 6280

 

2011

Interplay of Index Contrast with Periodicity in Polymer Photonic Crystals

C.E. Finlayson, A.I. Haines, D.R.E. Snoswell et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 261913

 

Electrically Induced Colloidal Clusters for Generating Shear Mixing and Visualizing Flow in Microchannels

D.R.E. Snoswell, P. Creaton, C.E. Finlayson and B. Vincent, Langmuir 27, 12815

 

Stretching polymer opal fibers tunes structural color
Finlayson CE, Snoswell DRE, Spahn P et al., Laser Focus World 47, 43

 

The influence of the compounding process and testing conditions on the compressive mechanical properties of poly (D, L-lactide-co-glycolide)/a-tricalcium phosphate nanocomposites

S.I.J. Wilberforce, C.E. Finlayson, et al., Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials 4, 1081

 

Modification of the Refractive Index Contrast in Polymer Opal Films

P. Spahn, C.E. Finlayson, et al., J. Mater. Chem. 21, 8893

 

The influence of hydroxyapatite (HA) microparticles and nanoparticles on the thermal and dynamic mechanical properties of poly-l-lactide

S.I.J. Wilberforce, C.E. Finlayson, et al., Polymer 52, 2883

 

3D Bulk Ordering in Macroscopic Solid Opaline Films by Edge-Induced Rotational Shearing

C.E. Finlayson, P. Spahn, D.R.E. Snoswell, J.J. Baumberg et al., Adv. Mater. 23,1540

 

Ordering in Stretch-tunable Polymeric Opal Fibres

C.E. Finlayson, P.Spahn, J.J. Baumberg, et al., Optics Express 19, 3144

 

A comparative study of the thermal and dynamic mechanical behaviour of quenched and annealed bioresorbable poly-l-lactide/α-tricalcium phosphate nanocomposites

S.I.J. Wilberforce, C.E. Finlayson, et al., Acta Biomaterialia 7, 2176

 

Sequential Energy and Electron Transfer in Polyisocyanopeptide-Based Multichromophoric Arrays

Huang YS, Yang XD, Schwartz E, Finlayson CE et al., J. Phys. Chem. B 115, 1590

 

2010

Inducing Symmetry Breaking in Nanostructures: Anisotropic Stretch-Tuning Photonic Crystals

Kontogeorgos A, Snoswell DRE, Finlayson CE, et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 233909

 

Multichromophoric Phthalocyanine-(Perylenediimide)(8) Molecules: A Photophysical Study

Albert-Seifried S, Finlayson CE, Laquai F, et al. Chem. Eur. J 16, 10021

 

Macromolecular Scaffolding: The Relationship Between Nanoscale Architecture and Function in Multichromophoric Arrays for Organic Electronics

Palermo V, Schwartz E, Finlayson CE, et al., Adv. Mater. 22, E81

 

Photophysical studies of poly-isocyanopeptide based photovoltaic blends

Finlayson CE and Whitney AD, J. Phys. D; Applied Physics 43, 095501

 

2009

The Relationship between Nanoscale Architecture and Charge Transport in Conjugated Nanocrystals Bridged by Multichromophoric Polymers

Dabirian R, Palermo V, Liscio A, Finlayson CE et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc.131, 7055

 

Improved Performance of Perylene-Based Photovoltaic Cells Using Polyisocyanopeptide Arrays

Foster S, Finlayson CE, Keivanidis PE, et al., Macromolecules 42, 2023

 

"Helter-Skelter-Like" Perylene Polyisocyanopeptides

Schwartz E, Palermo V, Finlayson CE, et al., Chem. Eur. J 15, 2536

 

2008

Electronic Transport Properties or Ensembles of Perylene-Substituted Poly-isocyanopeptide Arrays

Finlayson CE, Friend RH, Otten MBJ, et al., Adv. Funct. Mater. 18, 3947

 

An Investigation into the Phosphorescence of a Series of Regioisomeric Ir(III) Complexes H.A. Bronstein, C.E. Finlayson, K. Kirov, R.H. Friend and C.K. Williams, Organometallics 27, 2980

 

Modification of Fluorophore Photophysics through Peptide-driven Self-assembly

K.J. Channon, G.L. Devlin, C.E. Finlayson, S. Magennis, A.K. Tickler, C. Silva and C.E. MacPhee,

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130, 5487

 

Exciplex Emission from Electroluminescent Ladder-type Pentaphenylene Oligomers bearing both Electron- and Hole-Accepting Substituents

C.E. Finlayson, J-S. Kim, M.J. Liddell, R.H Friend, S-H. Jung, A.C. Grimsdale and K. Müllen,

J. Chem. Phys. 128, 044703

 

2007

Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Using Microstructured Optical Fiber Substrates

A. Amezcua, J. Yang, C.E. Finlayson, A.C. Peacock, J.R. Hayes, P.J.A. Sazio, J.J. Baumberg and

S.M. Howdle, Adv. Funct. Mater. 17, 2024

 

Electrical and Raman Characterization of Silicon and Germanium-filled Microstructured Optical Fibers

C.E. Finlayson, A. Amezcua, P.J.A. Sazio, N. Baril and J.V. Badding, Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 132110

 

2006

Highly Efficient Blue Photoluminescence from Colloidal Lead Iodide Nanoparticles

C.E. Finlayson and P.J.A. Sazio, J. Phys. D: Applied Physics 39, 1477

 

Microstructured Optical Fibers as High-pressure Microfluidic Reactors

P.J.A. Sazio, A. Amezcua-Correa, C.E. Finlayson, J.R. Hayes, T.J. Scheidemantel, N.F.Baril, B.R.

Jackson, D.J. Won, F. Zhang, E.R. Margine, V. Gopalan, V.H. Crespi and J.V. Badding, Science

311, 1583

 

Whispering Gallery Mode Emission at Telecoms-window Wavelengths using PbSe Nanocrystals

attached to Photonic Beads

C.E. Finlayson, P.J.A. Sazio, R. Sanchez-Martin, M. Bradley, T.A. Kelf and J.J. Baumberg,

Semicond. Sci. Tech. 21 L21-24

 

Slow Light and Chromatic Temporal Dispersion in Photonic Crystal Waveguides using Femtosecond

Time-of-Flight

C.E. Finlayson, F. Cattaneo, N.M.B. Perney, J.J. Baumberg, M.C. Netti, M.E. Zoorob, M.D.B.

Charlton and G.J. Parker, Phys. Rev. E 73, 016619

 

Comment on ”Optical Characterisation of Quantum Dots...Physica E (2005) 377-381”

C.E. Finlayson, Physica E 31, 107

 

2005

Infrared Emitting PbSe Nanocrystals for Telecommunications Window Applications

C.E. Finlayson, A. Amezcua, P.J.A. Sazio, P.S. Walker, M.C. Grossel, R.J. Curry, D.C. Smith and

J.J.Baumberg, J. Mod. Optics 52, 955

 

Strong Coupling in a Length Tunable Optical Microcavity with J-aggregate Heterostructures

C.E. Finlayson, G.V. Prakash and J.J. Baumberg, Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 041110

 

2004

Determination of Non-linear Refractive Index in a Ta2O5 Rib Waveguide

C-Y. Tai, J.S. Wilkinson, N.M.B. Perney, M.C. Netti, F. Cattaneo, C.E. Finlayson and J.J.Baumberg,

Opt. Express 12, 5110

 

Photonic Bandgaps in Patterned Waveguides of Silicon-Rich Silicon Dioxide

R.T.Neal, M.E. Zoorob, M.D. Charlton, G.J. Parker, C.E.Finlayson and J.J. Baumberg, Appl. Phys.

Lett. 84, 2415

 

2003

Ultra-broadband Spectroscopy of Waveguides of Silicon-Rich Silicon Dioxide

R.T. Neal, M.D. Charlton, G.J. Parker, C.E.Finlayson, M.C. Netti and J.J. Baumberg, Appl. Phys.Lett.

83, 4598

 

Electronic and Optical Properties of Semiconductor Nanocrystals

C.E.Finlayson, D.S. Ginger, N.C. Greenham and E. Marx, Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc. A 361, pp363

 

2002

Separation of Photonic Crystal Waveguide Modes using Femtosecond Time-of-Flight

M.C.Netti, C.E.Finlayson, J.J. Baumberg, M.D.B. Charlton, M.E. Zoorob, J.S. Wilkinson and

G.J.Parker, Appl. Phys. Lett. 81, 3927

 

ASE in Close-Packed Films of Semiconductor Nanocrystals using Picosecond Excitation

C.E. Finlayson, D.M. Russell, C.M. Ramsdale, D.S. Ginger, C. Silva and N.C. Greenham,

Adv. Funct. Mater. 12, 537

 

2001

Enhanced Förster Energy Transfer in Organic/Inorganic Bilayer Optical Microcavities

C.E. Finlayson, D.S Ginger and N.C. Greenham, Chem. Phys. Lett. 338, 83

 

2000

Long-lived Quantum Confined Infrared Transitions in CdSe Nanocrystals

D.S. Ginger, A.S. Dhoot, C.E. Finlayson and N.C. Greenham, Appl. Phys. Lett. 77, 2816

 

Optical Microcavities using Highly Luminescent Films of Semiconductor Nanocrystals

C.E. Finlayson, D.S Ginger and N.C. Greenham, Appl. Phys. Lett. 77, 2500