Student Theses

Cohort 1 (2014 intake)

Name

Theses

Supervisor(s)

Lewis Hart

 Novel transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors and heterostructures Prof. Daniel Wolverson

David Hooper 

 Second harmonic generation in metallic nanostructured arrays Prof. Ventsislav Valev

Rebecca Purkiss 

 Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy of Si(111)-7×7: Local Atomic Manipulation and Light Emission Dr. Peter Sloan

Joshua Robbins

 Anomalous Phenomena in Chiral Superconductors Prof. James Annett

Dr. Martin Gradhand

Joe Wilcox 

 Investigation of Energy Gap Structure of Strongly Correlated Superconductors Using Linear and Nonlinear Magnetic Penetration Depth Measurements Prof. Anthony Carrington

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Cohort 2 (2015 intake)

Name

Theses

Supervisor(s)

Jake Ayres

Correlated Electron Systems Under Extreme Conditions: High Fields, High Pressures, Low Temperatures

  Dr. Sven Friedemann

Prof. Antony Carrington

Nicola Bannister

 Vibrations and Phase Stabilities of Crystalline Coronene: (Alternative Format Thesis) Dr. Simon Crampin

Dr. Enrico Da Como

Dewan Chowdhury 

 Title TBC Dr. Simon Crampin

Aitor Garcia-Ruiz

 Signatures of electronic excitations in the Raman spectra of graphene materials Dr. Marcin Mucha-Kruczynski

Emma Gilroy

 Uranium-based Spintronics Dr. Chris Bell

Dr. Ross Springell

Torsten Jensen

 The Crystallisation and Excitonic Luminescence of Molecular Crystals Prof. Simon Hall

Daniel Lagos

 Electronic Structure and Magnetic Properties of Transition Metal High Entropy Alloys Prof. Stephen Dugdale

Elisha Mercado

 Optimisation of low-dimensional materials for thermal management applications and novel passivation layers in devices Dr. James W Pomeroy

Prof. Martin H H Kuball

Lauren Cane

 Title TBC Prof. Stephen Hayden

Hannah Robarts

 Spin and charge fluctuations in cuprate superconductors studied with resonant inelastic x-ray scattering Prof. Stephen Dugdale

Prof. Stephen Hayden

Charles Sayers 

 Charge density wave phenomena in trigonal transition metal dichalcogenides Dr. Enrico Da Como

Richard Waite

 Neutron Scattering Studies of Spin-Density Waves in Itinerant Systems  Prof. Stephen Hayden

 

Cohort 3 (2016 intake)

Name

Theses

Supervisor(s)

Paolo Abrami

 Magnetic Torque and Transport Investigation of the Pseudogap and CDW in YBa2Cu3O6+x Prof. Antony Carrington

Liam Farrar

 Title TBC Prof. Simon Bending

Lawrence Gammond

 Hot Science Under Pressure Prof. Phil Salmon

Surani Gunasekera

 Electronic properties of layered rhenium dichalcogenides Dr. Marcin Mucha-Kruczynski

Prof. Daniel Wolverson

Charlie Hall 

 Novel Approaches to the formation of metastable polymorphs of organic molecules Prof. Simon R Hall

Dr. Sean A Davis

Alyn James 

 The effect of local correlations on the wave functions and experiment-theory comparisons within strongly and weakly correlated materials Prof. Stephen B Dugdale

Nathan Missault 

 Title TBC Prof. Walther Schwarzacher

Owen Moulding

 Electrical Transport Studies In Superconductors At Extreme Pressures Dr. Sven Friedemann

Prof. Antony Carrington

Tom Saunderson

 The effect of impurities on the superconducting state Dr. Martin Gradhand

Prof. James F Annett

 

Cohort 4 (2017 intake)

Name

Theses

Supervisor(s)
Chloe Clear

Optical properties of solid state emitters in structured environments

 Dr. Dara McCutcheon and Prof. Ruth Oulton