Thin Films Research Group

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Franken, Möhrke, Kläui, Rhensius, Heyderman, Thiele, Swagton, Rudiger & Gibson “Modification of Permalloy nanowire properties due to current injection and laser irradiation probed by real-time magneto optics” () submitted to J. of Physics D
S. R. Bowden and U. J. Gibson“Optical Characterization of all-Magnetic NOT Gate Operation in Vortex Rings” , accepted by IEEE Transactions on Magnetics(2009)
S. R. Bowden and U. J. Gibson “Logic operations and data storage using vortex magnetization states in mesoscopic permalloy rings, and optical readout” JCPS, accepted (2009)
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D. A. Allwood, P. Seem, S. Basu, P. J. Fry, U. J. Gibson, and R. P. Cowburn "Over 40% transverse Kerr effect from Ni¬80Fe20" (Appl. Phys. Lett., 92 no. 8, 2008)
J. Cui, Y. Soo, and U. J. Gibson "Low temperature growth and characterization of Cl-doped ZnO nanowire arrays" (J. Phys. Chem. C, 112 (12), 4475 -4479, 2008.)
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S. R. Bowden, K. K. L. Ahmed, and U. J. Gibson Longitudinal magneto-optic Kerr effect detection of latching vortex magnetization chirality in individual mesoscale rings Applied Physics Letters 91, 232505, 2007
Hoopes, P. J.; Strawbridge, R. R.; Gibson, U. J.; Zeng, Q.; Pierce, Z. E.; Savellano, M.; Tate, J. A.; Ogden, J. A.; Baker, I.; Ivkov, R.; Foreman, A. R. "Intratumoral iron oxide nanoparticle hyperthermia and radiation cancer treatment" in Thermal Treatment of Tissue: Energy Delivery and Assessment IV. Edited by Ryan, Thomas P.. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 6440, pp. 64400K (2007)
J. B. Cui and U. J. Gibson, "Two-dimensional organization of single crystal ZnO nanopillars", in Zinc Oxide and Related Materials, edited by J. Christen, C. Jagadish, D.C. Look, T. Yao, F. Bertram (Mater. Res. Soc. Proc. 957, Warrendale, PA, 2007), 0957-K07-15.
J. Cui and U. J. Gibson "Low Temperature Fabrication of Single Crystal ZnO Nanopillar Photonic Bandgap Structures" Nanotechnology 18 155302 (6pp) (2007)
Ursula. J. Gibson, Lindsay. F. Holiday, Dan A. Allwood, Swaraj Basu, Paul W. Fry "Enhanced Longitudinal Magneto-optic Kerr Effect Contrast in Nanomagnetic Structures" IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 43, 2740, (2007)
Joseph J. BelBruno, Asta Richter, Sara E. Campbell and Ursula J. Gibson "Detection of functional states of molecularly imprinted thin films with multi-cycling nanoindentation" Polymer 48, Issue 6, pp 1679-1687 (2007)
J. J. BelBruno, Asta Richter and U.J. Gibson "Amazing Pores: processing, morphology and functional states of molecularly imprinted polymers as sensor materials", Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals 483, 179-190 (2008)

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L. F. Holiday and U. J. Gibson "Improved longitudinal magneto-optic Kerr effect signal contrast from nanomagnets with dielectric coatings" Opt. Express 14, 13007-13013 (2006)
P. R. Cantwell, D. A. Allwood, H. A. M. Macleod and U. J. Gibson, "Optical coatings for improved contrast in longitudinal magneto-optic Kerr effect measurements" J. Appl. Phys. 100, 093910 (2006)
J.Cui and U. Gibson "Thermal modification of magnetism in cobalt-doped ZnO nanowires grown at low temperatures", Phys Rev B 74 (4): Art. No. 045416, 2006
A. Richter,1 U. J. Gibson, M. Nowicki, J.J. BelBruno "Processing and Morphology of Molecularly Imprinted Nylon Thin Films" J. Appl. Polymer Sci. 101 (5): 2919-2926 2006
Richter, A. Gruner, M., BelBruno, J. J., Gibson U. J. , Nowicki, M. "Nanomechanical measurements on glutamine molecularly imprinted nylon films" Coll. and Surf. A284: 401-408 Sp. Iss. SI 2006
Thomas Werne, Markus Testorf, and Ursula Gibson, "Local field enhancement in metal-dielectric nano cylinders with complex cross-sections", To be published in Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Accepted: 21 March 2006
Jingbiao Cui, Qi Zeng, and Ursula J. Gibson, "Synthesis and magnetic properties of Co-doped ZnO nanowires" J. Appl. Phys. 99, 08M113 (2006)
B. Haji-Saeed, R. Kolluru, D. Pyburn, R. Leon, S. Sengupta, M. Testorf, W. Goodhue, J. Khoury, A. Drehman, C. Woods and J. Kiersead, "Photoconductive optically driven deformable membrane under high frequency bias: fabrication, characterization and modeling", Appl. Opt. (20 April 2006 / Vol. 45, No. 12)
M. Testorf, "Designing Talbot array illuminators with phase-space optics", J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 23, 187-192 (2006)
Singer W, Nieminen TA, Gibson UJ, et al., Orientation of optically trapped nonspherical birefringent particles Phys Rev E 73 (2): Art. No. 021911 Part 1 FEB 2006
M. Testorf, "Design of diffractive optical elements for the fractional Fourier transform domain: phase-space approach", Appl. Opt. 45, 76-82 (2006).
W. Singer, H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop, and U. J. Gibson, "Manipulation and growth of birefringent protein crystals in optical tweezers", Proc. SPIE San Jose, 22-27 Jan 2005.
Wolfgang Singer, Ursula J. Gibson, Timo A. Nieminen, Norman R. Heckenberg, Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop "Towards crystallization using optical tweezers", Publication: Proc. SPIE Vol. 6038, p. 62-69, Photonics: Design, Technology, and Packaging II; Derek Abbott, Yuri S. Kivshar, Halina H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Shanhui Fan; Eds. Publication Date: Jan 2006

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J. Cui and U. J. Gibson, Electrodeposition and room temperature ferromagnetic anisotropy of Co and Ni-doped ZnO nanowire arrays, Applied Physics Letters, 26 September 2005
Ursula Gibson, Wolfgang Singer, Timo Nieminen, Norman Heckenberg, Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, "Growth of crystals in optical tweezers", Publication: Proc. SPIE Vol. 5930, p. 294-302, Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation II; Kishan Dholakia, Gabriel C. Spalding; Eds. Publication Date: Aug 2005
Jingbiao Cui, Charles P. Daghlian, and Ursula J. Gibson, "Gold Nanoparticle Mediated Formation of Aligned Nanotube Composite Films", J. Phys. Chem. B, 109 (23)
J. Cui and U.J. Gibson, "Enhanced Nucleation, Growth Rate, and Dopant Incorporation in ZnO Nanowires", J. Phys. Chem. B, 109 (46)
J. Cui and U.J. Gibson, "Solubility and Electrical Response of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Thiolate Mediated Gold Nanoparticle Attachment", Proc. MRS (accepted 2005).
J. Cui, C. P. Daghlian, R. Püsche, P. Geithner, L. Ley, and U. J. Gibson, "Low temperature growth and field emission of ZnO nanowire arrays", J. Appl. Phys, 97:044315 (2005).
U. J. Gibson and U. L Osterberg, "Optical precursors and Beer's Law violations; non-exponential propagation losses in water", Optics Express, 13:2105 (2005).
U. J. Gibson and Y. Kou, "Determination of crystal orientation from micrographs using a MATLAB program", Appl. Crystall., 38(3):559 (2005).
U. J. Gibson and U.L. Osterberg, "Comment on: Microstructured polymer fiber laser", Optics Letters, 30:14 (2005).
M. Testorf, "Comment on the redundancy of phase-space distribution functions in complex field recovery problems", Appl. Opt. 44, 55 – 57 (2005).
H.-M. Shieh, C. Byrne, M. Testorf, M. Fiddy "Iterative image reconstruction using prior knowledge", J. Opt. Soc. Am. A (in press).
U. Shahid, M. Testorf, M. A. Fiddy,"Minimum-phase-based inverse scattering algorithm applied to Institute Frensel data", Inverse Problems 21, S153-S164 (2005).
M. Testorf, "Phase recovery and the ambiguity function," in OSA Topical Meeting on Signal Recovery and Synthesis, Charlotte, NC, June 6 - 9, 2005, Technical Digest (CD edition), SMC5
M. Testorf, "Iterative phase retrieval in phase-space," in OSA Topical Meeting on Signal Recovery and Synthesis, Charlotte, NC, June 6 - 9, 2005, Technical Digest (CD edition), SMC6
M. Testorf, "Meta-structured diffractive optics: concepts and applications," (invited paper), OSA conference Frontiers in Optics, Tucson, AZ Oct. 2005, Technical Digest (CD edition), FWS1.
M. Testorf, T. J. Suleski, and Y.-Ch. Chunag, "Diffractive elements for 3D wavefields and the fractional Talbot effect," OSA conference Frontiers in Optics, Tucson, Oct. 2005, Technical Digest (CD edition), FWS3
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W. Singer, H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop, and U. J. Gibson, "Manipulation and growth of birefringent protein crystals in optical tweezers", 27 December 2004 / Vol. 12, No. 26 / OPTICS EXPRESS 6440
P. Maier, J. Werner-Allen, U. J. Gibson, A. Richter and J. J. BelBruno, "Scanning Force Microscopy study of the morphology of spin-cast molecular-imprinted nylon thin films", Surface and Interface Analysis, 36:1340-1343 (2004).
M. Testorf and U. Gibson, "Design of thin film coated diffractive optical elements with frequency variant transmission functions," Proc. SPIE, 5515:158-169 (2004).
W. Singer, H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop, and U. J. Gibson, "Manipulation and growth of birefringent protein crystals in optical tweezers", Optics Express, 12:6440 (2004).
A. W. Lohmann, M. Testorf, J. Ojeda-Castañeda, "Holography and the Wigner Function," in The Art and Science of Holography: A Tribute to Emmett Leith and Yuri Denisyuk, H. John Caulfield (ed.), (SPIE Press, January 2004), pp. 129-144
A. Semichaevsky, M. Testorf, R. V. McGahan, M. A. Fiddy "Unsupervised constrained radar imaging of low resolution targets," Waves in Random Media 14, 415-434 (2004).
B. Haji-Saeed, D. Pyburn, R. Leon, S. K. Sengupta, W. Goodhue, M. Testorf, J. Kiersead, J. Khoury, and C. L. Woods, "Real-time holographic deconvolution for one-way image transmisson through distorting media," Opt. Eng. 43, 1862-1866 (2004).
A. Semichaevsky, M. Testorf, "Phase-Space Interpretation of Deterministic Phase Retrieval", J. Opt. Soc. Am. 21, 2173 – 2179 (2004).
N. Al-Ababneh, M. Testorf "Analysis of free space optical interconnects based on non-diffracting beams," Opt. Comm. 242, 393 – 400 (2004).
Michael A. Fiddy, U. Shahid, M, Testorf, "Minimum-phase-based inverse scattering method applied to IPS008," Proc. SPIE Vol. 5562, pp. 188 – 195 (2004)
M. Testorf, A. Semichaevsky, "Phase retrieval and phase-space tomography from incomplete data sets," Proc. SPIE Vol. 5562, 38 – 49 (2004).
M. Testorf, "Phase-space optics applied to the design of Talbot array illuminators," in OSA Topical Meeting on Diffractive Optics and Micro-Optics, Rochester, New York, October 10 - 13, 2004, Technical Digest (CD edition), DMC1.
M. Testorf, U. Gibson, "Implementation and analysis of binary optics for angular and wavelength multiplexing," in OSA Topical Meeting on Diffractive Optics and Micro-Optics, Rochester, New York, October 10 - 13, 2004, Technical Digest (CD edition), DMB2.
M. Testorf, "Wigner optics for design," (invited paper), OSA meeting Frontiers in Optics, Rochester, NY, Oct. 11-14, 2004, Technical Digest (CD edition), FWK2.

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