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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
Seamus Davis

Professor of Physics
Amalia Coldea

Associate Professor
Thorsten Hesjedal

Professor of Condensed Matter Physics
Arzhang Ardavan

Professor of Physics
Stephen Blundell

Professor of Physics
Andrew Boothroyd

Professor of Physics
Yulin Chen

Professor of Physics
Radu Coldea

Professor of Physics
Barat Achinuq

PDRA
Jieyi Liu

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Keiron Murphy

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Shuqiu Wang

Postdoctoral researcher
Junjie Liu

Royal Society University Research Fellow
Dharmalingam Prabhakaran

Researcher
Moon-Sun Nam

Departmental Lecturer
Jiahao Chen

Graduate Student
Miska Elliot

Graduate Student
George Gill

Graduate Student
Chun-Chih Hsu

Graduate Student
Qizheng Li

DPhil student of Condensed Matter Physics
Kylie MacFarquharson

Graduate Student
Archie Morfoot

DPhil Condensed Matter
Jakub Mrozek

Graduate Student
Ding Pei

Graduate Student
Hiroto Takahashi

Graduate Student
Siobhan Tobin

Graduate Student
Anuradha Vibhakar

Graduate Student
Giulio Villani

Student
John Wilkinson

DPhil Student
Hank Wu

DPhil Condensed Matter Physics
Zachary Zajicek

Graduate Student
Gladys Lee

Undergraduate Student
Oliver Squire

Undergraduate Student
Kathryn Boast

Access Officer
Paul Goddard

Visiting Lecturer
Roger Johnson

Royal Society University Research Fellow
Pascal Reiss

Researcher

Publications

Reversible hydrogen control of antiferromagnetic anisotropy in α-Fe2O3.
Nat Commun 12 (2021) 1668-
H Jani, J Linghu, S Hooda et al.
Probing resonating valence bond states in artificial quantum magnets
Nature Communications Springer Nature 12 (2021) 993
K Yang, S-H Phark, Y Bae et al.
A vacuum ultraviolet laser with a submicrometer spot for spatially resolved photoemission spectroscopy.
Light, science & applications 10 (2021) 22-
Y Mao, D Zhao, S Yan et al.
Detailed crystallographic analysis of the ice V to ice XIII hydrogen-ordering phase transition.
J Chem Phys 154 (2021) 134504-
CG Salzmann, A Rosu-Finsen, Z Sharif et al.
Coherent electric field manipulation of Fe3+-spins in PbTiO3
Science Advances American Association for the Advancement of Science 7 (2021) eabf8103
J Liu, V Laguta, K Inzani et al.
Effect of sodium bicarbonate solution on methyltrimethoxysilane-derived silica aerogels dried at ambient ...
FRONTIERS OF CHEMICAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (2021)
Y Liu, X Han, B Kuerbanjiang et al.
Electron spin as fingerprint for charge generation and transport in doped organic semiconductors
Journal of Materials Chemistry C Royal Society of Chemistry (2021)
A Privitera, P Warren, G Londi et al.
Crystallographic, optical, and electronic properties of the Cs2AgBi1-xInxBr6 double perovskite
ACS Energy Letters American Chemical Society 6 (2021) 1073-1081
L Schade, S Mahesh, G Volonakis et al.
Halide segregation in mixed-halide perovskites: influence of a-site cations
ACS Energy Letters American Chemical Society 6 (2021) 799-808
A Knight, AJ Borchert, RDJ Oliver et al.
Canted standing spin-wave modes of Permalloy thin films observed by Ferromagnetic Resonance
New Journal of Physics IOP Publishing (2021)
M Dabrowski, RJ Hicken, A Frisk et al.
Magnetization dynamics in ordered spin structures revealed by diffractive and reflectometry ferromagnetic...
AIP Advances American Institute of Physics 11 (2021) 15327
D Burn, S Zhang, G van der Laan et al.
Creation of a Chiral Bobber Lattice in Helimagnet-Multilayer Heterostructures
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 126 (2021) ARTN 017204
K Ran, Y Liu, Y Guang et al.
Depth profiling of 3D skyrmion lattices in a chiral magnet: A story with a twist
AIP Advances AIP Publishing 11 (2021) 015108
G van der Laan, S Zhang, T Hesjedal
Effects of magnetic dilution in the ferrimagnetic columnar ordered Sm2MnMnMn4-xTixO12 perovskites
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 102 (2020) ARTN 214428
AM Vibhakar, DD Khalyavin, P Manuel et al.
Magnetically induced metal-insulator transition in Pb2CaOsO6
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 102 (2020) ARTN 214409
H Jacobsen, HL Feng, AJ Princep et al.
Controlling spin current polarization through non-collinear antiferromagnetism.
Nature communications 11 (2020) 4671-
T Nan, CX Quintela, J Irwin et al.
Suppression of superconductivity and enhanced critical field anisotropy in thin flakes of FeSe
npj Quantum Materials Nature Research (part of Springer Nature) (2020)
L Farrar, M Bristow, AA Haghighirad et al.
2D photocatalysts with tuneable supports for enhanced photocatalytic water splitting
Materials Today Elsevier (2020)
Y Li, S Wu, J Zheng et al.
Polarizing an antiferromagnet by optical engineering of the crystal field (June, 10.1038/s41567-020-0936-...
NATURE PHYSICS 16 (2020) 1238-1238
AS Disa, M Fechner, TF Nova et al.
Optically and microwave-induced magnetization precession in [Co/Pt]/NiFe exchange springs
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces American Chemical Society 12 (2020) 52116-52124
M Dabrowski,, A Frisk, D Burn et al.
Severe Dirac Mass Gap Suppression in Sb<sub>2</sub>Te<sub>3</sub>-Based Quantum Anomalous Hall Materials....
Nano letters 20 (2020) 8001-8007
YX Chong, X Liu, R Sharma et al.
Unveiling the ultrafast optoelectronic properties of 3D Dirac semi-metal CdAs
International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, IRMMW-THz 2020-November (2020) 389-
JL Boland, CQ Xia, DA Damry et al.
Kerr effect anomaly in magnetic topological insulator superlattices
Nanotechnology IOP Publishing 31 (2020) 434001
J Liu, A Singh, B Kuerbanjiang et al.
Magnetic order in 3D topological insulators - wishful thinking or gateway to emergent quantum effects?
Applied Physics Letters AIP Publishing 117 (2020) 150502
AI Figueroa, T Hesjedal, N-J Steinke
Observation of a neutron spin resonance in the bilayered superconductor CsCa<sub>2</sub>Fe<sub>4</sub>As<...
Journal of physics. Condensed matter : an Institute of Physics journal 32 (2020) 435603-
DT Adroja, SJ Blundell, F Lang et al.
Glide symmetry breaking and Ising criticality in the quasi-1D magnet CoNb2O6
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences National Academy of Sciences 117 (2020) 25219-25224
M Fava, R Coldea, S Ashok Parameswaran
Magnetic skyrmions
MagNews UK Magnetics Society 2019 (2020) 19-21
G van der Laan, T Hesjedal
Skyrmions getting an X-ray
MagNews UK Magnetics Society 2019 (2020) 22-22
S Zhang, T Hesjedal, G van der Laan
Electron beam lithography of magnetic skyrmions
Advanced Materials Wiley (2020)
Y Guang, Y Peng, Z Yan et al.
Depth-resolved magnetization dynamics revealed by x-ray reflectometry ferromagnetic resonance
Physical Review Letters American Physical Society 125 (2020) 137201
D Burn, S Zhang, G Yu et al.
Magnetically driven loss of centrosymmetry in metallic Pb2CoOsO6
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 102 (2020) ARTN 104410
AJ Princep, HL Feng, YF Guo et al.
Polarizing an antiferromagnet by optical engineering of the crystal field
Nature Physics Nature Research 16 (2020) 937-941
AS Disa, M Fechner, T Nova et al.
Photo-molecular high temperature superconductivity
Physical Review X American Physical Society 10 (2020) 031028
M Buzzi, D Nicoletti, M Fechner et al.
Information and Decoherence in a Muon-Fluorine Coupled System
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 125 (2020) 87201
J Wilkinson, S Blundell
Strong in-plane anisotropy in the electronic structure of fixed-valence $β$-LuAlB$_4$
Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics American Physical Society (2020)
P Reiss, J Baglo, H Tan et al.
Origin of the large ferroelectric polarization enhancement under high pressure for multiferroic DyMnO3 st...
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 102 (2020) ARTN 085131
N Terada, N Qureshi, A Stunault et al.
Absolute crystal and magnetic chiralities in the langasite compound Ba3NbFe3Si2O14 determined by polarize...
Physical Review B American Physical Society 102 (2020) 54417
N Qureshi, A Bombardi, S Picozzi et al.
Emergent helical texture of electric dipoles
Science American Association for the Advancement of Science 369 (2020) 680-684
D Khalyavin, R Johnson, F Orlandi et al.
Ultraviolet Photodetector Based on Mg0.67Ni0.33O Thin Film on SrTiO3
PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI-RAPID RESEARCH LETTERS 14 (2020) ARTN 2000175
F Sarcan, S Orchard, B Kuerbanjiang et al.
Dynamic spin fluctuations in the frustrated A-site spinel CuAl2O4
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 102 (2020) ARTN 014439
H Cho, R Nirmala, J Jeong et al.
Low-temperature thermal transport measurements of oxygen-annealed Yb2Ti2O7
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 102 (2020) ARTN 014434
WH Toews, JA Reid, JD Thompson et al.
Proximity-induced odd-frequency superconductivity in a topological insulator
Physical Review Letters American Physical Society 125 (2020) 026802
J Krieger, A Pertsova, S Giblin et al.
Exchange bias in magnetic topological insulator superlattices
Nano Letters American Chemical Society (2020)
J Liu, A Singh, T Hesjedal et al.
Resonant x-ray scattering study of diffuse magnetic scattering from the topological semimetals EuCd2As2 a...
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 102 (2020) ARTN 014408
J-R Soh, E Schierle, Y Yan et al.
Atomic-scale electronic structure of the cuprate pair density wave state coexisting with superconductivit...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117 (2020) 14805-14811
P Choubey, SH Joo, K Fujita et al.
Phase-sensitive determination of nodal d-wave order parameter in single-band and multiband superconductor...
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 101 (2020) ARTN 214505
J Boeker, MA Sulangi, A Akbari et al.
Approaching the quantum critical point in a highly correlated all-in-all-out antiferromagnet
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 101 (2020) ARTN 220404
Y Wang, TF Rosenbaum, D Prabhakaran et al.
Coherent transfer of spin angular momentum by evanescent spin #Waves within Antiferromagnetic NiO
Physical Review Letters American Physical Society 124 (2020) 217201
M Dąbrowski, N Takafumi, D Burn et al.
Direct observation of the energy gain underpinning ferromagnetic superexchange in the electronic structur...
Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics American Physical Society 101 (2020) 205125
M Watson, I Markovic, F Mazzola et al.
Quantum coherent spin-electric control in molecular nanomagnets
arXiv (2020)
A Ardavan, J Liu, J Mrozek et al.
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