sepnet atomic and condensed matter research theme, 27 june 2011
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Working together to promote excellence in PhysicsSEPnet-wide video-conference, 27/06/2011
Working together to promote excellence in Physics
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Atomic and Condensed Matter across SEPnet
Jorge QuintanillaACM steering committee
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Working together to promote excellence in PhysicsSEPnet-wide video-conference, 27/06/2011
Working together to promote excellence in PhysicsSEPnet-wide video-conference, 27/06/2011
Condensed Matter Physics Group
Functional Materials Group
Quantum, Light & Matter group
Soft Condensed Matter Physics
Group
Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Amorphous and Nanostructured Solids; Soft Functional Materials; Theory and Modelling of Materials
Biodiagnostics; Nanophysics and Nanotechnology; Quantum Devices; Quantum Fluids and Solids; Quantum Matter; Theory of Condensed Matter and Cold Atoms
Functional Optical Materials; Inorganic Colloidal Nanocrystals; Hybrid Optoelectronics; Magnetism & Superconductivity; Nanomaterials; Quantum Control; Quantum Nanophysics and Matter Wave Interferometry; Spintronics; Semiconductor lasers; THz spectroscopy; Theory of light-matter coupling in nanostructures; Ultrafast laser X-rays
Organic coatings; Solid/Liquid
interfaces; Colloidal theory;
Colloids and emulsions; Liquid
transport in polymers;
Cementitious systems
Theoretical quantum phsyics; Ion quantum technology; Physics of molecular ions; Single ion cavity QED; atom and ion chips
Functional materials; Local structure; Materials for nuclear energy; Nanoscale materials; Organic semiconductors
Working together to promote excellence in PhysicsSEPnet-wide video-conference, 27/06/2011
Working together to promote excellence in PhysicsSEPnet-wide video-conference, 27/06/2011
Plasmonic nanoantenna switching devicesNano Lett. ASAP (2011)Nano Lett. 10, 1741 (2010)
Integrated Nanophotonics Group - SouthamptonLaser treatment of endothelial cellsusing plasmonic nanoparticleswith A. Kanaras and School of MedicineNano Lett. 11, 1358 (2011)
Ultrafast control of light by semiconductor nanowires
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 143902 (2011)
Dr. Otto L. Muskens
Working together to promote excellence in PhysicsSEPnet-wide video-conference, 27/06/2011
Working together to promote excellence in PhysicsSEPnet-wide video-conference, 27/06/2011
Working together to promote excellence in PhysicsSEPnet-wide video-conference, 27/06/2011
Working together to promote excellence in PhysicsSEPnet-wide video-conference, 27/06/2011
Working together to promote excellence in PhysicsSEPnet-wide video-conference, 27/06/2011
Working together to promote excellence in PhysicsSEPnet-wide video-conference, 27/06/2011
Condensed Matter Physics Group
Functional Materials Group
Coleman(Rutgers/RHUL)
Eschrig (RHUL) Castelnovo (RHUL)
Quintanilla (Kent)
Schmalian (Karlsruhe)
Working together to promote excellence in PhysicsSEPnet-wide video-conference, 27/06/2011
Working together to promote excellence in PhysicsSEPnet-wide video-conference, 27/06/2011
Working together to promote excellence in PhysicsSEPnet-wide video-conference, 27/06/2011
Working together to promote excellence in PhysicsSEPnet-wide video-conference, 27/06/2011
Service to the UK community:– Summer programme:
(Funding: SEPnet)• Condensed Matter in the City I
July 2010 – London, Egham and RAL• Condensed Matter in the City II
June 2011 – London, Egham and RAL
– Advanced Working Groups: (Funding: EPSRC)
• “Advanced Working Group on Monopoles in Spin Ice”, RHUL, October 2010
• “Advanced Working Group on Experimental Probes for Topological Materials”, RHUL, February 201
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W. Hensinger (Sussex)M. Kraft (Southampton)
2-D Ion Trap Arrays
with
AMO Group
Quantum, Light & Matter group
Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
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Call for more SEPnet ACM activities
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SEPnet PhD studentships
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Dilute Magnetic Ferroelectrics: A New Route to Multiferroics?
PhD Student: Robert Lennox, Supervisors: Dr D. C. Arnold (Kent) and Dr N. Gidopoulos (RAL)Background
Aims Current Results
Multiferroic materials exhibit both magnetic and ferroelectric ordering with potential uses including sensors and memory devices which will be faster than current commercial memory. However, few single phase multiferroics are known since the two order parameters tend to be mutually exclusive.
Doping small amounts of Mn or Fe into the wide band gap semiconductor ZnO leads to RT ferromagnetic ordering. We aim to replicate this in wideband gap ferroelectrics to synthesis new multiferroic materials
Schematic representation of the spatially separated Mn ions (triangles) in ZnO lattice
T. Dietl Nature Materials 2, 646 (2003),
P. Sharma et al. Nature Materials 2, 673 (2003)
We have synthesised both Fe and Mn doped BaTiO3 with dopant levels 1–5 %. However in all cases we see the immergence of an undesirable hexagonal BaTiO3 phase.
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PND data indicating mixed phase material with 42 % tetragonal and 58 % hexagonal phases
We believe this is vacancy driven by the replacement of Ti4+ with M3+. Investigating co-doping i.e. Ba1-xLaxTi1-
xMxO3 materials and doping with Ru4+
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