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Facility	Contact	Phone
Materials Characterisation (PPMS MPMS)	Dr Prabhakaran Damalingham	72270
X-ray Crystallography	Prof. Paolo G. Radaelli	70957
JEOL e-beam	Paul Pattison	73422
Nanofabrication	Dr Jason Brown	72392
High Magnetic Field Facility	Dr Paul Goddard	72370

People

Paolo Radaelli

Dr Lee`s Professor of Experimental Philosophy
Amalia Coldea

EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellow
Thorsten Hesjedal

Professor of Condensed Matter Physics
Arzhang Ardavan

Professor of Physics
Roger Johnson

Royal Society University Research Fellow
Moon-Sun Nam

EPSRC Fellow
Stephen Blundell

Professor of Physics
Andrew Boothroyd

Professor of Physics
Yulin Chen

Associate Professor
Radu Coldea

Professor of Physics
Franz Lang

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Pascal Reiss

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Shiv Jee Singh

Research Staff
Shilei Zhang

PDRA
Dharmalingam Prabhakaran

Researcher
Jiahao Chen

Graduate Student
Nathaniel Davies

Graduate Student
Liam Duffy

DPhil Student
Franziska Kirschner

Graduate Student
David Macdougal

Graduate Student
Jakub Mrozek

Graduate Student
Ding Pei

Graduate Student
Jian Rui Soh

Graduate Student
Anuradha Vibhakar

Graduate Student
John Wilkinson

DPhil Student
Zachary Zajicek

Graduate Student
Matthew Fay

MPhys Project Student
Edward Whittaker

MPhys Project Student
Kathryn Boast

Quantum Materials Outreach Officer
Benjamin Heathcote Williams

Long Term Visitor
Paul Goddard

Visiting Lecturer
Danielle Kaminski

Long Term Visitor
Andrew Princep

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Noah Waterfield Price

Graduate Student
Weijun Wu

Long Term Visitor

Publications

Antidamping torques from simultaneous resonances in ferromagnet-topological insulator-ferromagnet heteros...
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 473 (2019) 470-476
AA Baker, AI Figueroa, T Hesjedal et al.
Ultrahigh critical current densities, the vortex phase diagram, and the effect of granularity of the stoi...
PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS 2 (2018) ARTN 074802
SJ Singh, M Bristow, WR Meier et al.
Hyperfine interaction of individual atoms on a surface.
Science (New York, N.Y.) 362 (2018) 336-339
P Willke, Y Bae, K Yang et al.
Systematic Study of Ferromagnetism in CrxSb2-xTe3 Topological Insulator Thin Films using Electrical and...
Scientific Reports Nature Publishing Group (2018)
A Singh, V Kamboj, J Liu et al.
Measurement of the bulk and surface bands in Dirac line-node semimetal ZrSiS
CHINESE PHYSICS B 27 (2018) ARTN 017105
G-H Hong, C-W Wang, J Jiang et al.
Magnetic structures of the rare-earth quadruple perovskite manganites RMn7O12
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 98 (2018) ARTN 104423
RD Johnson, DD Khalyavin, P Manuel et al.
Multi-band magnetotransport in exfoliated thin films of Cu Bi 2 Se 3
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 30 (2018) 155302-155302
JA Alexander-Webber, J Huang, J Beilsten-Edmands et al.
Implications of bond disorder in a S=1 kagome lattice.
Scientific reports 8 (2018) 4745-4745
JL Manson, J Brambleby, PA Goddard et al.
Field-induced canting of magnetic moments in GdCo5 at finite temperature
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER 30 (2018) ARTN 32LT01
CE Patrick, S Kumar, K Gotze et al.
Extreme Sensitivity of a Topochemical Reaction to Cation Substitution
Inorganic chemistry 57 (2018) 2890-2898
M Amano Patino, D Zeng, SJ Blundell et al.
Magneto-orbital texture in the perovskite modification of Mn2O3
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 98 (2018) ARTN 014426
DD Khalyavin, RD Johnson, P Manuel et al.
Magnetic and electronic structure of the layered rare-earth pnictide EuCd2 Sb2
Physical Review B 98 (2018)
JR Soh, C Donnerer, KM Hughes et al.
LaSr3 NiRuO4 H4 : A 4d Transition-Metal Oxide-Hydride Containing Metal Hydride Sheets.
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) (2018)
L Jin, M Lane, D Zeng et al.
Comparative study of the magnetic properties of La3Ni2B ' O-9 for B ' = Nb, Ta or Sb
JOURNAL OF SOLID STATE CHEMISTRY 258 (2018) 825-834
C-M Chin, PD Battle, SJ Blundell et al.
Real-Space Observation of Skyrmionium in a Ferromagnet-Magnetic Topological Insulator Heterostructure.
Nano letters ACS 18 (2018) 1057-1063
S Zhang, F Kronast, G van der Laan et al.
Observation of a crossover from nodal to gapped superconductivity in LuxZr1-xB12
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 98 (2018) ARTN 094505
FKK Kirschner, NE Sluchanko, VB Filipov et al.
Publisher Correction: Magnetic edge states and coherent manipulation of graphene nanoribbons.
Nature 561 (2018) E31-
M Slota, A Keerthi, WK Myers et al.
Direct Observation of Twisted Surface skyrmions in Bulk Crystals.
Physical review letters 120 (2018) 227202-
SL Zhang, G van der Laan, WW Wang et al.
Proposal for a micromagnetic standard problem for materials with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction
New Journal of Physics Institute of Physics (IoP) and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft 20 (2018) 113015
D Cortes-Ortuno, M Beg, V Nehruji et al.
THz carrier dynamics and magnetotransport study of topological surface states in thin film Bi<inf>2</inf>...
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 10531 (2018)
VS Kamboj, A Singh, T Ferrus et al.
Observation of topological surface states and strong electron/hole imbalance in extreme magnetoresistance...
PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS 2 (2018) ARTN 024201
J Jiang, NBM Schroter, S-C Wu et al.
Investigation of a Spin Transition in a LaCoO3 Single Crystal by the Method of X-Ray Magnetic Circular Di...
PHYSICS OF THE SOLID STATE 60 (2018) 288-291
VV Sikolenko, IO Troyanchuk, DV Karpinsky et al.
Breaking Symmetry with Light: Ultra-Fast Ferroelectricity and Magnetism from Three-Phonon Coupling
Physical review B: Condensed matter and materials physics American Physical Society (2018)
PG Radaelli
Author Correction: How to probe the spin contribution to momentum relaxation in topological insulators.
Nature communications 9 (2018) 729-
M-S Nam, BH Williams, Y Chen et al.
Ab initio calculation of spin fluctuation spectra using time dependent density functional perturbation th...
Physical review B: Condensed matter and materials physics American Physical Society (2018)
F Giustino, K Cao, P Radaelli
How to probe the spin contribution to momentum relaxation in topological insulators (vol 8, 2017)
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 9 (2018) ARTN 729
M-S Nam, BH Willams, Y Chen et al.
Author Correction: How to probe the spin contribution to momentum relaxation in topological insulators.
Nat Commun 9 (2018) 729-
M-S Nam, BH Williams, Y Chen et al.
Electronic Structure and Enhanced Charge-Density Wave Order of Monolayer VSe2.
Nano letters 18 (2018) 4493-4499
J Feng, D Biswas, A Rajan et al.
Microscopic effects of Dy doping in the topological insulator Bi2Te3
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 97 (2018) ARTN 174427
LB Duffy, N-J Steinke, JA Krieger et al.
Magnetic edge states and coherent manipulation of graphene nanoribbons.
Nature 557 (2018) 691-695
M Slota, A Keerthi, WK Myers et al.
Reciprocal space tomography of 3D skyrmion lattice order in a chiral magnet.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115 (2018) 6386-6391
S Zhang, G van der Laan, J Müller et al.
Doped Sr2FeIrO6-Phase Separation and a Jeff ≠ 0 State for Ir5.
Inorganic chemistry 57 (2018) 10303-10311
JE Page, CV Topping, A Scrimshire et al.
Preparation and characterization of manganese, cobalt and zinc DNA nanoflowers with tuneable morphology, ...
Nucleic acids research 46 (2018) 7495-7505
YR Baker, J Chen, J Brown et al.
Imposing long-range ferromagnetic order in rare-earth-doped magnetic topological-insulator heterostructur...
PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS 2 (2018) UNSP 054201
LB Duffy, A Frisk, DM Burn et al.
Proposal for the detection of magnetic monopoles in spin ice via nanoscale magnetometry
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 97 (2018) ARTN 140402
FKK Kirschner, F Flicker, A Yacoby et al.
Endohedral Metallofullerene as Molecular High Spin Qubit: Diverse Rabi Cycles in Gd2@C79N.
Journal of the American Chemical Society 140 (2018) 1123-1130
Z Hu, B-W Dong, Z Liu et al.
Discrete and 1D Polymeric Copper(II) Complexes of Tetranuclear Cubane-like Units
CHEMISTRYSELECT 3 (2018) 9885-9891
SC Manna, S Manna, S Mistri et al.
Observation of magnetic vortex pairs at room temperature in a planar α-Fe2O3/Co heterostructure.
Nature materials 17 (2018) 581-585
FP Chmiel, N Waterfield Price, RD Johnson et al.
Persistence of antiferromagnetic order upon La substitution in the 4d(4) Mott insulator Ca2RuO4
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 98 (2018) ARTN 014429
D Pincini, S Boseggia, R Perry et al.
Tracking a hysteretic and disorder-broadened phase transition via the electromagnon response in improper ...
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS 51 (2018) ARTN 084002
CDW Mosley, D Prabhakaran, J Lloyd-Hughes
Intrinsic Triple Order in A-site Columnar-Ordered Quadruple Perovskites: Proof of Concept.
Chemphyschem : a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry (2018)
AA Belik, DD Khalyavin, L Zhang et al.
The key ingredients of the electronic structure of FeSe
Annual Reviews of Condensed Matter Physics, Vol. 9, 125-146, 2018 (2018)
AI Coldea, MD Watson
Quantum magnetism in molecular spin ladders probed with muonspin spectroscopy
NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS 20 (2018) ARTN 103002
T Lancaster, F Xiao, BM Huddart et al.
Manipulation of skyrmion motion by magnetic field gradients.
Nature communications 9 (2018) 2115-
SL Zhang, WW Wang, DM Burn et al.
How to probe the spin contribution to momentum relaxation in topological insulators.
Nature communications 9 (2018) 56-
M-S Nam, BH Williams, Y Chen et al.
Folded superstructure and degeneracy-enhanced band gap in the weak-coupling charge density wave system 2H...
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 97 (2018) ARTN 115118
YW Li, J Jiang, HF Yang et al.
Comparative study of the magnetic properties of La<inf>3</inf>Ni<inf>2</inf>B′O<inf>9</inf>for B′ = Nb, T...
Journal of Solid State Chemistry 258 (2018) 825-834
CM Chin, PD Battle, SJ Blundell et al.
Topological surface state of α-Sn on InSb(001) as studied by photoemission
Physical review B: Condensed matter and materials physics American Physical Society 97 (2018) 075101
MR Scholz, L Dudy, F Reis et al.
Crossover from lattice to plasmonic polarons of a spin-polarised electron gas in ferromagnetic EuO.
Nature communications 9 (2018) 2305-
JM Riley, F Caruso, C Verdi et al.
Magnetic phases of skyrmion-hosting GaV4S8-ySey (y=0, 2, 4, 8) probed with muon spectroscopy
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 98 (2018) ARTN 054428
KJA Franke, BM Huddart, TJ Hicken et al.
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News

14 November 2018

Congratulations Prof. Michael Johnston
2 November 2018

Institute of Physics Award for Spin-out
19 September 2018

New £50m physics building opened by Sir Tim Berners-Lee
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Record-breaking critical current densities in a stoichiometric superconductor
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Whirlwinds in rust: antiferromagnetic vortices spotted for the first time
12 June 2018

A surprising twist on skyrmions
29 May 2018

Controlling magnetic skyrmion motion without an electric current
14 May 2018

Humboldt Research Award
11 May 2018

Humboldt Research Award