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Overview

Daniel W. Hewak is affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. They focus primarily on research within the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with significant contributions to Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry among their subfields of study.

The scientist's work spans a number of specialized areas, with main topics including:

  • Phase-change materials and chalcogenides
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • Nonlinear Optical Materials Studies
  • Glass properties and applications

Notable recent papers by Daniel W. Hewak include:

  • "A New Family of Ultralow Loss Reversible Phase-Change Materials for Photonic Integrated Circuits: Sb2S3 and Sb2Se3", 2020, Advanced Functional Materials
  • "Nonvolatile programmable silicon photonics using an ultralow-loss Sb 2 Se 3 phase change material", 2021, Science Advances
  • "On-chip sub-wavelength Bragg grating design based on novel low loss phase-change materials", 2020, Optics Express
  • "Large-area synthesis of high electrical performance MoS2 by a commercially scalable atomic layer deposition process", 2023, npj 2D Materials and Applications
  • "Solution-Based Synthesis of Few-Layer WS2 Large Area Continuous Films for Electronic Applications", 2020, Scientific Reports

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Daniel W. Hewak are:

  • Ioannis Zeimpekis
  • Chung-Che Huang
  • Otto L. Muskens
  • Katrina Morgan
  • Matthew Delaney

The scientist has published multiple works in a range of venues, with repeated contributions in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Scientific Reports
  • ePrints Soton (University of Southampton)
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Advanced Functional Materials

Best Publications

  • A new family of ultralow loss reversible phase‐change materials for photonic integrated circuits: Sb 2 S 3 and Sb 2 Se 3

    Matthew Delaney;Ioannis Zeimpekis;Daniel Lawson;Daniel W. Hewak

  • An All‐Optical, Non‐volatile, Bidirectional, Phase‐Change Meta‐Switch

    Behrad Gholipour;Jianfa Zhang;Kevin F. MacDonald;Daniel W. Hewak

  • Characterization of supercooled liquid Ge2Sb2Te5 and its crystallization by ultrafast-heating calorimetry

    J. Orava;J. Orava;A. L. Greer;B. Gholipour;D. W. Hewak

  • Metamaterial electro-optic switch of nanoscale thickness

    Z.L. Sámson;K.F. MacDonald;F. De Angelis;Behrad Gholipour

  • Phase-change chalcogenide glass metamaterial

    Z. L. Samson;K. F. MacDonald;K. Knight;C. C. Huang

  • Chalcogenide holey fibres

    T.M. Monro;Y.D. West;Daniel Hewak;N.G.R. Broderick

  • Chalcogenide glass-on-graphene photonics

    Hongtao Lin;Yi Song;Yizhong Huang;Yizhong Huang;Derek Kita

  • Ultrafast carrier thermalization and cooling dynamics in few-layer MoS2

    Zhaogang Nie;Run Long;Run Long;Linfeng Sun;Chung-Che Huang

  • Spectroscopic data of the 1.8, 2.9 and 4.3µm transitions in dysprosium-doped Ga:La:S glass

    T. Schweizer;D.W. Hewak;B.N. Samson;D.N. Payne

  • Erbium-doped chalcogenide glass thin film on silicon using femtosecond pulsed laser with different deposition temperatures

    K. S. Albarkaty;E. Kumi-Barimah;C. Craig;D. Hewak

  • Chalcogenide Glass-on-Graphene Photonics

    Hongtao Lin;Yi Song;Yizhong Huang;Derek Kita

  • Extruded singlemode non-silica glass holey optical fibres

    K.M. Kiang;K. Frampton;T.M. Monro;R. Moore

  • Nonvolatile programmable silicon photonics using an ultralow-loss Sb2Se3 phase change material

    Matthew Delaney;Ioannis Zeimpekis;Han Du;Xingzhao Yan

  • Nonsilica glasses for holey fibers

    Xian Feng;A.K. Mairaj;D.W. Hewak;T.M. Monro

  • Experimental and DFT insights of the Zn-doping effects on the visible-light photocatalytic water splitting and dye decomposition over Zn-doped BiOBr photocatalysts

    Junqiu Guo;Xin Liao;Ming-Hsien Lee;Geoff Hyett

  • Spin-Orbit Splitting in Single-Layer MoS2 Revealed by Triply Resonant Raman Scattering

    Linfeng Sun;Jiaxu Yan;Da Zhan;Lei Liu

  • Rare-earth doped chalcogenide glass fibre laser

    T. Schweizer;B.N. Samson;R.C. Moore;D.W. Hewak

  • Fabrication and characterization of femtosecond laser written waveguides in chalcogenide glass

    MA Hughes;W Yang;D Hewak

  • Solid microstructured optical fiber

    Xian Feng;Tanya M. Monro;Periklis Petropoulos;Vittoria Finazzi

  • Spectral properties of Er3+-doped gallium lanthanum sulphide glass

    C.C. Ye;D.W. Hewak;M. Hempstead;B.N. Samson

  • Low phonon-energy glasses for efficient 1.3 mu m optical fibre amplifiers

    D.W. Hewak;R.S. Deol;J. Wang;G. Wylangowski

  • Chalcogenide glass-on-graphene photonics

    Hongtao Lin;Yi Song;Yizhong Huang;Derek Kita

Frequent Co-Authors

David N. Payne
David N. Payne University of Southampton
Nikolay I. Zheludev
Nikolay I. Zheludev University of Southampton
Cesare Soci
Cesare Soci Nanyang Technological University
Richard Ian Laming
Richard Ian Laming Optoscribe Ltd.
Brian E. Hayden
Brian E. Hayden University of Southampton
Tanya M. Monro
Tanya M. Monro University of South Australia
John Rarity
John Rarity University of Bristol
Robert W. Eason
Robert W. Eason University of Southampton
David J. Richardson
David J. Richardson Microsoft (United States)
Animesh Jha
Animesh Jha University of Leeds

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