Author Archives

I am a Managing Editor at IOP Publishing responsible for a number of journals in materials and atomic, molecular and optical physics.

• Bienvenue à Montréal: JPhysD at ISPC23

  By Dean Williams on July 31, 2017

  

  We’re at the 23rd International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry – come say hi!

• Introducing the 2017 Plasma Roadmap: Low temperature plasma science and technology

  By Dean Williams on July 14, 2017

  

  JPhysD presents the 2017 Plasma Roadmap: the first of a planned series of periodic updates to the original Plasma Roadmap that was published in 2012.

• An interview with Emerging Leader Endre Szili

  By Dean Williams on July 7, 2017

  

  “I am hoping that there will be an even higher level of cooperation and collaboration amongst researchers and clinicians in this field, leading to larger, multi-centre clinical trials of plasma in wound decontamination/healing and cancer therapy.”

• Image of the Week: DNA-strand breaks within tissue model after treatment with neutral He gas jet

  By Dean Williams on June 26, 2017

  

  This week’s image is taken from the recent Emerging Leaders article by Endre J Szili, Nishtha Gaur, et al. It shows DNA-strand breaks within a gelatin tissue model after treatment with a neutral He gas jet. The figure is an overlay of phase-contrast… Read More ›

• Introducing the JPhysD Roadmap programme

  By Dean Williams on June 13, 2017

  

  Take a look at our JPhysD Roadmap programme. This collection aims to bring together some of the leading voices in the most exciting areas in the physical sciences. Unique to IOP Publishing, these articles are written collaboratively by leading researchers… Read More ›

• Advanced strategies for magnetic sensor integration with biomedical devices

  By Dean Williams on June 2, 2017

  

  Next generation biomedical smart systems will rely on creative integration of microfluidics and magnetic sensors for high-performance biosensors

• Introducing graphene and other 2D materials in magnetic tunnel junctions, a review

  By Dean Williams on May 10, 2017

  

  Could 2D materials open new avenues for magnetic tunnel junctions and spin electronics?

• Image of the week: The oscillatory magnetization dynamics of a vortex-containing nanodot

  By Dean Williams on May 3, 2017

  

  This week’s image of the week is a vector plot of the function (10) from the JPhysD article Spin-transfer-driven oscillations of the magnetic quasi-vortex in a dot with crystalline cubic anisotropy Andrzej Janutka and Przemysław Gawroński 2017 J. Phys. D:… Read More ›

• The cell membrane is more complex than we think

  By Dean Williams on April 19, 2017

  

  Can we understand the cell membrane structure using chemistry tricks?

• Image of the Week: An alkali-ion battery

  By Dean Williams on April 3, 2017

  

  This week’s Image of the Week is a schematic view of an alkali-ion battery on discharge mode. The cathode and anode are shown together with the alkali ions (yellow), the electrolyte (orange) and the separator. The image is taken from… Read More ›

• Cleaning Up Water Pollution Using Light

  By Dean Williams on March 23, 2017

  

  Hybrid nanostructures can be implemented as efficient and selective photocatalysts in water remediation technologies

• From experimental to natural granular flows

  By Dean Williams on March 9, 2017

  

  Can small scale experiments help to understand and quantify granular flows at the geophysical scale?

• Magnetic cooling: how cool is that!

  By Dean Williams on February 17, 2017

  

  More than 15 % of energy is spent worldwide on various forms of cooling. In addition to the energy bill, the compressor in cooling units can bring a rich palette of sounds to your home: think of all this clanking,… Read More ›

• Image of the Week: A spectral map for exchange spin waves

  By Dean Williams on February 6, 2017

  

  This week’s image of the week is a typical spectral map with a set of lines of spectra for exchange spin waves, both in coordinates kAa, kBa. The image is taken from the article “Formation of the band spectrum of… Read More ›

• Understanding Delinquent Domain Walls

  By Dean Williams on February 1, 2017

  

  Why do apparently simple nanomagnets exhibit such complicated behaviours?

• Image of the Week: Super-resolution Stimulated Emission Depletion (STED) image of F-actin structure

  By Dean Williams on January 16, 2017

  

  This week’s Image of the Week is a representative Stimulated Emission Depletion (STED) image of an F-actin structure, taken from a recent Topical Review in JPhysD: “Convergence of lateral dynamic measurements in the plasma membrane of live cells from single… Read More ›

• Molecular Movements in Biomembranes

  By Dean Williams on January 13, 2017

  

  A new JPhysD special issue explores the boundaries that play a key role in cell adhesion, signaling, and recognition.