About us

Vopson research is a blog associated with Dr Vopson's Physics research activities at the University of Portsmouth, School of Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Technology.

Research

Information theory and its applications to physics, cosmology and bio-informatics
 

M. Vopson, A possible information entropic law of genetic mutations, Applied Sciences Vol. 12, Issue 14, 6912 (2022)

M. Vopson, Experimental protocol for testing the mass–energy–information equivalence principle, AIP Advances Vol. 12, issue 3, 035311 (2022)

M. Vopson, S. Lepadatu, Second law of information dynamics, AIP Advances Vol. 12, issue 7, 075310 (2022)

M. Vopson, The mass-energy-information equivalence principle, AIP Advances (9) 095206 (2019) 

M. Vopson, Samuel C. Robson, A new method to study genome mutations using the information entropy, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Volume 584, 126383 (2021) 

M. Vopson, Estimation of the information contained in the visible matter of the universe, AIP Advances 11 (10), 105317 (2021)

M. Vopson, The Information Catastrophe, AIP Advances Vol. 10, issue 8, 085014 (2020)

M.Vopson, The information content of the Universe and the implications for the missing Dark Matter, June 2019 DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.19933.46560.

 

 Ferroelectric and Anti-ferroelectric Materials Research

Sub-lattice polarization states in anti-ferroelectrics and their relaxation process, M. Vopson, X. Tan, E. Namvar, M. Belusky, S.P. Thompson, V. Kuncser, F. Plazaola, I. Unzueta, C.C. Tang, Current Applied Physics, Volume 19, Issue 5, 651-656 (2019)

A new method to study ferroelectrics using the remanent Henkel plots, M. Vopson,J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 51 (20), 205304 (2018)

Non-equilibrium polarization dynamics in anti-ferroelectrics, M. Vopson, X Tan, Phys. Rev. B,  96, 014104 (2017)

Polarization reversal and memory effect in anti-ferroelectric materials, M. Vopson, G. Caruntu, Xiaoli Tan, Scripta Materialia, Vol. 128, 61-64 (2017)

Electric field and temperature scaling of polarization reversal in silicon doped hafnium oxide ferroelectric thin films,D. Zhou, Y. Guan, M. Vopson, J. Xu, H. Liang, F. Cao, X. Dong, T. Schenk, U. Schroeder, Acta Materialia, vol. 99, 240-246 (2015)

 

4-state anti-ferroelectric random access memory M. Vopson, X Tan, IEEE Electron Device Letters (2016)




Solid State Cooling Research - Multicaloric Effect

 Multicaloric Effect: an outlook, M. Vopson, Physica B: Condensed Matter. 513, p. 103-105 (2017)

The induced magnetic and electric fields’ paradox leading to multicaloric effects in multiferroics, M. Vopson, Solid State Communications. 231-232, p. 14-16 (2016)

Multicaloric effect in bi-layer multiferroic composites, M. Vopson, D. Zhou, G. Caruntu, Applied Physics Letters. 107, 18, 182905 (2015)

Theory of giant-caloric effects in multiferroic materials, M. Vopson, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. 46, 34, 345304 (2013)

The multicaloric effect in multiferroic materials, M. Vopson, Solid State Communications 152, 23, p. 2067-2070 (2012)

 



 
Materials Testing and Metrologies Development

Development of a method to identify in-plane anisotropy axes in soft magnetic materials using a standard vibrating sample magnetometer, S. Bourn, T. Mercer, P. Bissell, M. Vopson, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. 51, 11, 6000604 (2015)


High frequency magnetization dynamics metrology using a pulsed field inductive microwave magnetometer, M. Vopson, K. Lees, M. Hall, M. G. Cain, M. Stewart, Y. Tran, Measurement Science and Technology. 25, 1, 015601 (2014)

Mossbauer spectroscopy, V. Kuncser, M. Vopson, AWE International, vol. 34 (2013)




Multiferroic Materials Research

Measurement techniques of the magneto-electric coupling in multiferroics, M. Vopson, Y. Fetisov, G. Caruntu, G. Srinivasan, Materials 10, 8, p. 963 (2017)


Fundamentals of multiferroic materials and their possible applications, M. Vopson, Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences. 40, 4, p. 223-250 (2015)


Solving the electrical control of magnetic coercive field paradox, M. Vopson, S. Lepadatu, Applied Physics Letters. 105, 12, 122901 (2014)



Nano-Thin Films Research

Evidence of substrate roughness surfaceinduced magnetic anisotropy in NiFe flexible thin films, M. Belusky, S. Lepadatu, J. Naylor, M. Vopson, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 478, 77-83 (2019)


Development of flexible Ni80Fe20 magnetic nano-thin films, M. Vopson, J. Naylor, T. Saengow, E.G. Rogers, S. Lepadatu, Physica B: Condensed Matter, 525, 12-15 (2017)


Advanced Materials Research for Magnetic Data Storage

Trapping electron-assisted magnetic recording enhancement via dielectric underlayer media, S. Aksornniem, R. Silapunt,M. Vopson, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. 50, 10, 3101005 (2014)

Multiferroic composites for magnetic data storage beyond the super-paramagnetic limit, M. Vopson, E. Zemaityte, M. Spreitzer, E. Namvar, Journal of Applied Physics. 116, 11, 1139 (2014)

The total energy of exchange bias systems with biaxial anisotropy, M. Vopson, G. McMullin, Solid State Communications. 167, p. 46-48 (2013)