Dr Ursel Bangert

Ursel Bangert has graduated and obtained a PhD in Physics from the University of Cologne, Germany. Prior to her appointment to Lecturer at Physics, UMIST in 1993, she was a PDRA at Cologne and at Surrey University, where she later became Advanced SERC fellow, and lecturer. She moved to the Manchester Materials Science Centre, School of Materials in the University of Manchester in 2004. As a member of the electron optics group she takes an active part in the running and development of the electron optical facilities, and is also strongly involved with the UK STEM facilities at Liverpool and Daresbury. She has worked in the general area of electron microscopy for over 20 years. Her particular interest is the advancement and exploration of electron microscopies/ spectroscopies with ultra-high spatial resolution. Her research has centred around functional materials, and, more recently, nanostructured materials, the underlying theme being the relationship between micro- and electronic structure.

• Electron Optics
• Electron microscopy and spectroscopy of graphene (Watch Video)
• Highly spatially resolved plasmon spectroscopy of nanostructures
• Ion-beam modification of Carbon nanotubes for Plasmonics and Photovoltaics
• Taking analytical microscopy to the limit: single atom spectroscopy
• Atomic/chemical structure of semiconductor quantum dots and nanocrystals
• Defect/coloration relationship in natural diamonds
• Electronic structure of defects in semiconductors and diamond

• M H Gass, U Bangert, A L Bleloch, P Wang, R R Nair & A K Geim, 'Free-standing graphene at atomic resolution', Nature Nanotech. doi: 10.1038/nnano.2008.280. (2008)
• T Eberlein, U Bangert, R R Nair, R Jones, M Gass, A L Bleloch, K S Novoselov, A Geim, P R Briddon,, 'Plasmon spectroscopy of free standing graphene films', Phys Rev B (2008)
• Y Chao, L Siller, S Krishnamurthy, P R Coxon, U Bangert, M Gass, L Kjeldgaard, S N Patole, L H Lie, N O'Farrell, T A Alsop, A Houlton, B R Horrocks 'Evaporation and Deposition of Alkyl-capped Si Nanocrystals in Ultra-high Vacuum' Nature Nanomaterials, vol 224 July (2007)
• U Bangert, R Barnes, L S Hounsome, R Jones, A T Blumenau, P R Briddon, M J Shaw, S Öberg, 'Electron energy loss spectroscopic studies of brown diamond', Phil Mag 86 (29-30), 4757 (2006)
• Seepujak, U Bangert, A Gutierrez-Sosa, A J Harvey, V D Blank, B A Kulnitskiy, D V Batov, '3D resonance-filtered spectral imaging of multi-wall carbon nanotube -collective modes utilising electron energy loss spectra acquired in a STEM/Enfina system', Ultramicroscopy 104, 75 (2005)
• U Bangert, A J Harvey, A Papworth, M Schreck, F Hoermann, 'Extended defect related energy loss in CVD diamond revealed by spectrum imaging in a dedicated STEM', Ultramicroscopy 104, 46 (2005)
• U Bangert, A Gutierrez-Sosa, A J Harvey, R Jones, C J Fall, 'Electron energy loss studies of dislocations in GaN thin films', J Appl Phys 93 (5) 2728-2735 (2003)