Staff Profile

Toby Hallam is part of a group of experimental physicists at Newcastle University who are developing a focus for materials and applied physics. His interests emphasise experimental research in 2D materials including synthesis and the integration of graphene and other 2D materials into devices such as gas, strain and microfluidic sensors. His research collaborates across academic sectors working diversely with Chemistry, Engineering and Medicine. Toby's group collaborates with diverse industrial partners such as P&G and AMD.

Toby was previously an Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin. Previous work at Trinity College and the Tyndall Institute involved new 2D material synthesis and doping using CVD and Thermally Assisted Conversion in collaboration with Intel corporation. He has been associated with the development of the Liquid Phase Exfoliation (LPE) process, recently demonstrating ink-jet printed capacitors and transistors using nanoflake inks.

Areas of expertise: Graphene and 2D material synthesis, Devices, Sensors, Microfluidics, Scanning Probe Microscopy.

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Teaching and Curriculum Coordinator for Physics

Module Leader for -

PHY3023 : Advanced Materials and Solid-State Physics

PHY3025 : Group Project

PHY2028 : Laboratory and Professional Skills in Physics

Teacher for -

PHY3049 : Advanced Characterisation Methods

PHY3027-PHY3034 : Project

• Articles

  • Pacheco-Peña V, Hallam T, Healy N. MXene supported surface plasmons on telecommunications optical fibers. Light: Science and Applications 2022, 11(1), 22.
  • Gausden J, Siris T, Stimpel-Lindner T, McEvoy N, Duesberg GS, Hallam T. Nitrogen as a Suitable Replacement for Argon within Methane‐Based Hot‐Wall Graphene Chemical Vapor Deposition. physica status solidi (b) 2019, 256(12), 1900240.
  • McManus JB, Cunningham G, McEvoy N, Cullen CP, Gity F, Schmidt M, McAteer D, Mullarkey D, Shvets IV, Hurley PK, Hallam T, Duesberg GS. Growth of 1T′ MoTe 2 by thermally assisted conversion of electrodeposited tellurium films. ACS Applied Energy Materials 2019, 2(1), 521-530.
  • Papari G, Koral C, Hallam T, Duesberg GS, Andreone A. Terahertz spectroscopy of amorphous WSe₂ and MoSe₂ thin films. Materials 2018, 11(9), 1613.
  • Kim W, Kim H, Hallam T, McEvoy N, Gatensby R, Nerl HC, O'Neill K, Siris R, Kim G-T, Duesberg GS. Field-Dependent Electrical and Thermal Transport in Polycrystalline WSe₂. Advanced Materials Interfaces 2018, 5(11), 1701161.
  • Kelly AG, Murphy C, Vega-Mayoral V, Harvey A, Esmaeily AS, Hallam T, McCloskey D, Coleman JN. Tuneable photoconductivity and mobility enhancement in printed MoS₂/graphene composites. 2D Materials 2017, 4(4), 041006.
  • Hallam T, Monaghan S, Gity F, Ansari L, Schmidt M, Downing C, Cullen CP, Nicolosi V, Hurley PK, Duesberg GS. Rhenium-doped MoS₂ films. Applied Physics Letters 2017, 111(20), 203101.
  • McManus JB, Hennessy A, Cullen CP, Hallam T, McEvoy N, Duesberg GS. Controlling defect and dopant concentrations in graphene by remote plasma treatments. physica status solidi (b) 2017, 254(11), 1700214.
  • Kelly AG, Hallam T, Backes C, Harvey A, Esmaeily AS, Godwin G, Coelho J, Nicolosi V, Lauth J, Kulkarni A, Kinge S, Siebbeles LDA, Duesberg GS, Coleman JN. All-printed thin-film transistors from networks of liquid-exfoliated nanosheets. Science 2017, 356(6333), 69-73.
  • OBrien M, McEvoy N, Motta C, Zheng J, Berner NC, Kotakoski J, Elibol K, Pennycook TJ, Meyer JC, Yim C, Abid M, Hallam T, Donegan JF, Sanvito S, Duesberg GS. Raman characterization of platinum diselenide thin films. 2D Materials 2016, 3, 021004.
  • Kelly AG, Finn D, Harvey A, Hallam T, Coleman JN. All-printed capacitors from graphene-BN-graphene nanosheet heterostructures. Applied Physics Letters 2016, 109, 023107.
  • Naz M, Hallam T, Berner NC, McEvoy N, Gatensby R, McManus JB, Akhter Z, Duesberg GS. A New 2H-2H′/1T Cophase in Polycrystalline MoS₂ and MoSe₂ Thin Films. Advanced Materials & Interfaces 2016, 8(45), 31442-31448.
  • Hallam T, Shakouri A, Poliani E, Rooney AP, Ivanov I, Potie A, Taylor HK, Bonn M, Turchinovich D, Haigh SJ, Maultzsch J, Duesberg GS. Controlled Folding of Graphene: GraFold Printing. Nano Letters 2015, 15(2), 857-863.
  • Hallam T, Berner NC, Yim C, Duesberg GS. Strain, Bubbles, Dirt, and Folds: A Study of Graphene Polymer-Assisted Transfer. Advanced Materials Interfaces 2014, 1, 1400115.
  • Hallam T, Cole MT, Milne WI, Duesberg GS. Field emission characteristics of contact printed graphene fins. Small 2014, 10(1), 95-99.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)

  • Gity F, Ansari L, Monaghan S, Mirabelli G, Torchia P, Hydes A, Schmidt M, Sheehan B, McEvoy N, Hallam T, Cherkaoui K, Nagle R, Duffy R, Duesberg GS, Hurley PK. Ex-situ plasma doping of MoS2 thin films synthesised by thermally assisted conversion process: Simulations and experiment. In: 12th Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (NMDC 2017). 2017, Singapore: IEEE.

• Note

  • Papari GP, Koral C, Hallam T, Duesberg GS, Andreone A. Correction: G. Papari et al. Terahertz spectroscopy of amorphous wse₂ and mose₂ thin films. Materials 2018, 11, 1613. Materials 2020, 13(4), 1017.