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François Ducastelle

François Ducastelle

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Materials Science

D-Index
44
Citations
7323
World Ranking
12066
National Ranking
374

Overview

François Ducastelle was affiliated with the University of Paris-Saclay in France. Their research was primarily situated within the fields of Materials Science and Physics and Astronomy, with a total of 19 publications in the former and 6 in the latter. The scientist focused especially on subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Biomedical Engineering, and Condensed Matter Physics.

Their main research topics included:

  • Graphene research and applications
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Ga2O3 and related materials
  • Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Laser-Ablation Synthesis of Nanoparticles
  • Surface and Thin Film Phenomena

François Ducastelle contributed to numerous peer-reviewed journals, with frequent publications in these venues:

  • Physical review. B./Physical review. B (3 publications)
  • Physical Review Letters (2 publications)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (2 publications)
  • ACS Nano (1 publication)
  • Physical Review X (1 publication)

Their recent papers included:

  • "Distinguishing Different Stackings in Layered Materials via Luminescence Spectroscopy," 2023, Physical Review Letters
  • "Sublattice Dependence and Gate Tunability of Midgap and Resonant States Induced by Native Dopants in Bernal-Stacked Bilayer Graphene," 2021, Physical Review Letters
  • "Structural Size Effect in Capped Metallic Nanoparticles," 2023, ACS Nano
  • "Simulation of thermodynamic properties of magnetic transition metals from an efficient tight-binding model: The case of cobalt and beyond," 2022, Physical review. B./Physical review. B
  • "Strain and electronic properties at the van der Waals interface of phosphorus/boron nitride heterobilayers," 2020, Physical review. B./Physical review. B

Throughout their career, François Ducastelle worked with various frequent co-authors, including:

  • Lorenzo Sponza
  • Annick Loiseau
  • Frédéric Fossard
  • Fulvio Paleari
  • Julien Barjon

Best Publications

  • Order and Phase Stability in Alloys

    F. Ducastelle

  • Modules élastiques des métaux de transition

    F. Ducastelle

  • Root-growth mechanism for single-wall carbon nanotubes

    J Gavillet;Anne-Françoise Loiseau;C Journet;F Willaime

  • Moments developments: II. Application to the crystalline structures and the stacking fault energies of transition metals

    F. Ducastelle;F. Cyrot-Lackmann

  • Moments developments and their application to the electronic charge distribution of d bands

    F. Ducastelle;F. Cyrot-Lackmann

  • Optical Transitions in Single-Wall Boron Nitride Nanotubes

    J. S. Lauret;R. Arenal;F. Ducastelle;A. Loiseau

  • Understanding the nucleation mechanisms of carbon nanotubes in catalytic chemical vapor deposition.

    Hakim Amara;Hakim Amara;Christophe Bichara;François Ducastelle

  • Segregation and ordering at surfaces of transition metal alloys: the tight-binding Ising model

    G. Tréglia;B. Legrand;F. Ducastelle

  • Microscopic mechanisms for the catalyst assisted growth of single-wall carbon nanotubes

    J Gavillet;Anne-Françoise Loiseau;F. Ducastelle;S Thair

  • Luminescence properties of hexagonal boron nitride: Cathodoluminescence and photoluminescence spectroscopy measurements

    M. G. Silly;P. Jaffrennou;P. Jaffrennou;J. Barjon;J.-S. Lauret

  • Effect of coulomb correlations on energy bands in ferromagnetic transition metals : Ni, Co and Fe

    G. Tréglia;F. Ducastelle;D. Spanjaard

  • Tight-binding potential for atomistic simulations of carbon interacting with transition metals: Application to the Ni-C system

    Hakim Amara;Jean-Marc Roussel;Christophe Bichara;Jean-Pierre Gaspard

  • Alloy surfaces: segregation, reconstruction and phase transitions

    G. Tréglia;B. Legrand;F. Ducastelle;A. Saúl

  • Long period structures in Ti1+xAl3−x alloys: experimental evidence of a devil's staircase?

    A. Loiseau;G. Van Tendeloo;R. Portier;F. Ducastelle

  • Electronic structure, pairwise interactions and ordering energies in binary f.c.c. transition metal alloys

    A. Bieber;F. Gautier;G. Treglia;F. Ducastelle

  • Binding Energies of Transition-Metal Atoms Adsorbed on a Transition Metal

    F. Cyrot-Lackmann;F. Ducastelle

  • Bright Luminescence from Indirect and Strongly Bound Excitons in h-BN.

    Léonard Schué;Lorenzo Sponza;Alexandre Plaud;Hakima Bensalah

  • Interdependency of subsurface carbon distribution and graphene-catalyst interaction.

    Robert S. Weatherup;Hakim Amara;Raoul Blume;Bruno Dlubak

  • Long-range interactions between substitutional nitrogen dopants in graphene: electronic properties calculations

    Philippe Lambin;Hakim Amara;François Ducastelle;Luc Henrard

  • Nucleation and growth of single-walled nanotubes: the role of metallic catalysts.

    J Gavillet;J Thibault;O Stéphan;H Amara

  • Phase transitions in surface segregation of PtcNi1-c alloys from tight-binding Ising-model calculations.

    Bernard Legrand;Guy Tréglia;François Ducastelle

  • Comments on the electronic structure of nickel

    G. Treglia;F. Ducastelle;D. Spanjaard

Frequent Co-Authors

Annick Loiseau
Annick Loiseau University of Paris-Saclay
Kenji Watanabe
Kenji Watanabe National Institute for Materials Science
Takashi Taniguchi
Takashi Taniguchi National Institute for Materials Science
Ludger Wirtz
Ludger Wirtz University of Luxembourg
Dmitri Golberg
Dmitri Golberg Queensland University of Technology
Odile Stéphan
Odile Stéphan University of Paris-Saclay
Jean-Christophe Charlier
Jean-Christophe Charlier Université Catholique de Louvain
Chunyi Zhi
Chunyi Zhi University of Hong Kong
Talal Mallah
Talal Mallah University of Paris-Saclay
G. Van Tendeloo
G. Van Tendeloo University of Antwerp

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