Newcastle University

Roles and Responsibilities

PG Academic Selector in the School of CEAM
Research Committee in School of CEAM
University Research Committee in Chemical Nanoscience

Qualifications

BSc (Zagreb)
PhD (Cambridge)

Previous Positions

01/1996 – 9/1999 The Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow at the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, UK
12/1994 – 12/1995 EC Postdoctoral Fellow at the, Physics department, University of Modena, Italy.

Memberships

Institute of Physics (IOP)

Honours and Awards

EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship, UK (1999-2004)

Associate Western Universities Fellowship, Washington State, USA (1999)

The Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellowship, UK (1996-1999)

EC Postdoctoral Fellowship in Condensed Matter, Italy (1995)

Bryce Tebb Graduate Scholarship, Girton College, Cambridge. Awarded twice, in two consecutive years 1991/1992 and 1992/1993.

ORS Award

Languages

English,Croatian

Informal Interests

Reading, music, geography, travel and painting

Research Interests

Nanoscale science and nanotechnology
Physics and Chemistry at Solid Surfaces
Optical, electronic and structural properties of nanoscale materials Electron and Photon stimulated desorption in ices

Research themes:

Other Expertise

High resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy (HREELS), photoemission, X-ray emission and X-ray absorption (NEXAFS),
AFM, STM

Postgraduate Supervision

Currently I am supervisor of 2 PhD students
1. Mr. Luis Alves, Luis.Alves@ncl.ac.uk
2. Mr. Paul Coxon, P.R.Coxon@ncl.ac.uk

Currently in the research group are two very capable Post Docotorate Researchers
1. Marrie Currie Incoming Fellow
Dr. Yuriy Butenko, Yuriy.Butenko@ncl.ac.uk

2. Dr. Abel Brieva, Abel.Brieva@ncl.ac.uk

I have supervised sucessfully three PhD students: Dr. Y. Chao, Dr. M. Montalti, Dr. S. Krishnamurthy.

I am always very keen to start a new PhD or MPhil project especially with bright and enthusiastic students who would like to join us!

Esteem Indicators

Discovery of gold nitride has been the subject of significant media attention. I was interviewed by BBC Radio Newcastle, The Journal newspaper, and by ITV news. The discovery was also published on the BBC News web pages23, Physics World web pages, in Process Engineering, November 2003 issue (Centaur Publishing Ltd) and articles have appeared in other international newspapers and journals such as Physicist (Australia), Advanced Packaging (USA), and The Hindu (India).
The gold nitride work has been also featured in Sunday Times, 28th January 2007.

Invited presentations on work of gold nitride at Chalmers University, Sweden; Institute for Physics, Zagreb, Croatia; NCESS, Daresbury, U.K.

Referee for EPSRC College (since 2000)

Referee and Panel Member for DTI

Referee for Panel meetings (Material Science, Physics, Large National facilities)

Member of the Steering committee for the Portfolio partnership award in Nanophotonics - funded by EPSRC

Hon. Secretary of North-East Institute of Physics (IOP) branch, 2001-2003.

Referee for the following International research journals:
Physical Review B
Applied Physics Letters
Surface Science
Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena
Nuclear Instruments and Methods B
Surfaces and Coatings
Materials Characterisation
Thin Solid Films

External and internal PhD thesis examiner

I am member of the newly formed EPSRC funded ‘AstroSurf’ Network (Surface Science applications in Laboratory Astrophysics)

Industrial Relevance

Consultancy

Specialist Equipment
Kratos XPS machine.

Patents

1.Contaminat Removal Method, international patent No. PCT/GB99/03409

2.L. Šiller, S. Krishnamurthy and Y. Chao, Method of making gold nitride, UK patent, GB 0413036.5, 10th June 2004

Projects

• Nanostructured Gold nitride films under various extreme conditions
  Project Leader(s): Dr Lidija Siller

Undergraduate Teaching

CME4005 Nanoscale science I (Module leader and teaching 100%)
CME4006 Nanotechnology I (Module leader and teaching 100%)
CME1002 Chemistry for Engineeres
CME3007 Processing for purpose

Postgraduate Teaching

CME881 Nanomaterials

• Šiller L, Peltekis N, Krishnamurthy S, Chao Y, Bull SJ, Hunt MRC. Gold film with gold nitride — A conductor but harder than gold. Applied Physics Letters 2005, 86, 221912.
• Siller L, Sieger MT, Orlando TM. Electron-stimulated desorption of D₂O coadsorbed with CO₂ ice at VUV and EUV energies. Journal of Chemical Physics 2003,118 19 8898-8904.
• Krishnamurthy S, Montalti M, Wardle MG, Shaw MJ, Briddon PR, Svensson K, Hunt MRC, Siller L. Nitrogen ion irradiation of Au(110): Photoemission spectroscopy and possible crystal structures of gold nitride. Physical Review B 2004,70 4 045414.
• Montalti M, Krishnamurthy S, Chao Y, Butenko YV, Kuznetsov VL, Dhanak VR, Hunt MRC, Siller L. Photoemission spectroscopy of clean and potassium-intercalated carbon onions. Physical Review B 2003,67 11 article no. 113401.
• Yeganeh M, Coxon PR, Brieva AC, Dhanak VR, Siller L, Butenko YV. Atomic hydrogen treatment of nanodiamond powder studied with photoemission spectroscopy. Physical Review B 2007, 75(15), -.
• Chao Y, Siller L, Krishnamurthy S, Coxon PR, Bangert U, Gass M, Kjeldgaard L, Patole SN, Lie LH, O'Farrell N, Alsop TA, Houlton A, Horrocks BR. Evaporation and deposition of alkyl-capped silicon nanocrystals in ultrahigh vacuum. Nature Nanotechnology 2007. , 2(8), 486-489.
• Chao Y, Houlton A, Horrocks BR, Hunt MRC, Poolton NRJ, Yang J, Siller L. Optical luminescence from alkyl-passivated Si nanocrystals under vacuum ultraviolet excitation: Origin and temperature dependence of the blue and orange emissions. Applied Physics Letters 2006, 88(26), 263119.
• Butenko YuV, Alves L, Brieva AC, Yang J, Krishnamurthy S, Siller L. X-ray induced decomposition of gold nitride. Chemical Physics Letters 2006, 430(1-3), 89-92.
• Butenko YV, Krishnamurthy S, Chakraborty AK, Klznetsov VL, Dhanak VR, Hunt MRC, Siller L. Photoemission study of onionlike carbons produced by annealing nanodiamonds. Physical Review B 2005,71 7 075420.
• Chao Y, Krishnamurthy S, Montalti M, Lie LH, Houlton A, Horrocks BR, Kjeldgaard L, Dhanak VR, Hunt MRC, Šiller L. Reactions and luminescence in passivated Si nanocrystallites induced by vacuum ultraviolet and soft-x-ray photons. Journal of Applied Physics 2005, 98, 044316.
• Hassanien R, Al-Said SAF, Siller L, Little R, Wright NG, Houlton A, Horrocks BR. Smooth and conductive DNA-templated Cu2O nanowires: growth morphology, spectroscopic and electrical characterization. Nanotechnology 2012, 23(7), 075601.
• Zidek K, Pelant I, Trojanek F, Maly P, Gilliot P, Honerlage B, Oberle J, Siller L, Little R, Horrocks BR. Ultrafast stimulated emission due to quasidirect transitions in silicon nanocrystals. Physical Review B 2011, 84(8), 085321.
• Zidek K, Trojanek F, Maly P, Ondic L, Pelant I, Dohnalova K, Siller L, Little R, Horrocks BR. Femtosecond luminescence spectroscopy of core states in silicon nanocrystals. Optics Express 2010, 18(24), 25241-25249.
• Chakraborty AK, Woolley RAJ, Chao Y, Siller L, Hunt MRC. Spectroscopic X-ray photoelectron microscopy of single-wall carbon nanotube bundles. In: 205th Meeting of The Electrochemical Society. 2004, San Antonio, Texas, USA: Electrochemical Society, Inc..
• Montalti M, Krishnamurthy S, Chao Y, Butenko YuV, Kuznetsov VL, Dhanak VR, Hunt MRC, Siller L. Photoemission spectroscopy of clean and potassium-intercalated carbon onions. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 2003, 67(11), 1134011-1134014.
• Hunt MRC, Pichler T, Siller L, Bruhwiler PA, Golden MS, Tagmatarchis N, Prassides K, Rudolf P. Final-state interference effects in valence band photoemission of (C59N)(2). Physical Review B 2002, 66(19), 193404.
• Hunt MRC, Pichler T, Siller L, Bruhwiler PA, Golden MS, Tagmatarchis N, Prassides K, Rudolf P. Final-state interference effects in valence band photoemission of (C59N)2. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 2002, 66(19), 1934041-1934044.
• Siller L, Hunt MRC, Brown JW, Coquel JM, Rudolf P. Nitrogen ion irradiation of Au(110): formation of gold nitride. Surface Science 2002, 513(1), 78-82.
• Chao Y, Svensson K, Radosavkic D, Dhanak VR, Hunt MRC, Siller L. Photoemission spectroscopy of the evolution of In-terminated InP(100)-(2x4) as a function of temperature: Surface- and cluster-related In 4d lines. Physical Review B 2002, 66(7), 075323.
• Hunt MRC, Montalti M, Chao Y, Krishnamurthy S, Dhanak VR, Siller L. Thermally induced decomposition of single-wall carbon nanotubes adsorbed on H/Si(111). Applied Physics Letters 2002, 81(25), 4847-4849.
• Chao Y, Svensson K, Radosavkić D, Dhanak VR, Šiller L, Hunt MRC. Photoemission study of chemisorption of C60 on InP(100). Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 2001, 64(23), 2353311-2353316.
• Chao Y, Svensson K, Radosavkic D, Dhanak VR, Siller L, Hunt MRC. Photoemission study of chemisorption of C-60 on InP(100). Physical Review B 2001, 64(23), 235331.