Dr Chris E Finlayson

Lecturer
M.Sci (Birmingham), Ph.D (Cambridge)

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

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

2011

Modification of the Refractive Index Contrast in Polymer Opal Films
P. Spahn, C. E. Finlayson, et al., J. Mater. Chem. DOI: 10.1039/c1jm00063b

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