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Profile
| Academic position | Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader |
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| Research fields | Experimental Condensed Matter Physics |
| Keywords | Optical Spectroscopy, 2D materials, Nuclear Solid State Physics, Ternary nitrides, van der Waals heterostructures |
| Honours and awards | 2025: APS-Simons Travel & Professional Development Award 2024: NRF South Africa - Establised Researcher (C) Rating 2022: AvH Return Fellowship 2018: Georg Forster Research Fellowship 2018: NRF South Africa - Young Promising Researcher (Y) Rating |
Current contact address
| Country | South Africa |
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| City | Johannesburg |
| Institution | University of the Witwatersrand |
| Institute | Materials Physics Research Institute |
| Homepage | www.wits.ac.za/physics-mpri |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Martin Koch | Arbeitsgruppe Experimentelle Halbleiterphysik, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/06/2019 |
Programme(s)
| 2018 | Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2023 | Mohammed Adel Aly, Emmanuel Oghenevo Enakerakpor, Martin Koch and Hilary Masenda: Tuning Interlayer Exciton Emission with TMD Alloys in van der Waals Heterobilayers of Mo0.5W0.5Se2 and Its Binary Counterparts. In: Nanomaterials, 13, 2023, 1-14 |
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| 2022 | J. Schell, D. Zyabkin, I. Unzueta, J. N. Gonçalves, C. Díaz-Guerra H. P. Gunnlaugsson, A. T. Martín-Luengo P. Schaaf, A. Bonanni, H. Masenda, K. Bharuth-Ram, T. T. Dang, T. E. Mølholt, S. Ólafsson, R. Mantovan, K. Johnston, H. P. Gíslason, P. B. Krastev, D. Naidoo, B. Qi.: Anisotropy of the Electric Field Gradient in Two-Dimensional α-MoO3 Investigated by 57Mn(57Fe) Emission Mössbauer Spectroscopy. In: Crystals, 12, 2022, |
| 2022 | Iraultza Unzueta, Haraldur Pall Gunnlaugsson, Torben Esmann Mølholt, Hilary Masenda, Adeleh Mokhles Gerami, Petko Krastev, Dmitry V. Zyabkin, Krish Bharuth-Ram, Deena Naidoo, Sveinn Ólafsson, Fernando Plazaola, Juliana Schell, Bingcui Qi, Xupeng Zhao, Jiaxing Xiao, Jianhua Zhao, and Roberto Mantovan: Compositional Dependence of Epitaxial L10-MnxGa Magnetic Properties as Probed by 57Mn/Fe and 119In/Sn Emission Mössbauer Spectroscopy. In: physica status solidi (b) , 2022, |
| 2022 | Usman, Arslan and Adel Aly, M. and Masenda, Hilary and Thompson, Joshua J. P. and Gunasekera, Surani M. and Mucha-Kruczyński, Marcin and Brem, Samuel and Malic, Ermin and Koch, Martin: Enhanced excitonic features in an anisotropic ReS2/WSe2 heterostructure. In: Nanoscale, 14, 2022, 10851-10861 |
| 2022 | Hilary Masenda and Haraldur Páll Gunnlaugsson and Rajdeep Adhikari and Krish Bharuth-Ram and Deena Naidoo and Aitana Tarazaga Martín-Luengo and Iraultza Unzueta and Roberto Mantovan and Torben Esmann Mølholt and Karl Johnston and Juliana Schell and Adeleh Mokhles Gerami and Petko Krastev and Bingcui Qi and Sveinn Ólafsson and Haflidi Pétur Gíslason and Arthur Ernst and Alberta Bonanni: Unusual charge states and lattice sites of Fe in AlxGa1−xN:Mn. In: New Journal of Physics, 24, 2022, 103007 |
| 2021 | Masenda, Hilary and Schneider, Lorenz M. and Adel Aly, Mohammed and Machchhar, Shachi J. and Usman, Arslan and Meerholz, Klaus and Gebhard, Florian and Baranovskii, Sergei D. and Koch, Martin: Energy Scaling of Compositional Disorder in Ternary Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayers. In: Advanced Electronic Materials, 7, 2021, 2100196 |