The Semiconductor Spectroscopy and Devices research group is part of the Nanoscience division of the Department of Physics at the University of Strathclyde. The Department is a member of the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA).
Research interests
💎 Semiconductor materials and device issues:
- Group III nitrides: AlN, GaN, InN and their alloys
- Materials doped with rare earth ions such as Eu3+
- Chalcopyrites and kesterites for solar cells, such as Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2 and CZTS
- Gallium oxide optoelectronic devices
🎇 Spatially and spectrally resolved luminescence:
- Low-temperature photoluminescence spectroscopy
- Cathodoluminescence spectroscopy and hyperspectral imaging
- Electroluminescence hyperspectral imaging
🔬 Advanced scanning electron microscopy techniques:
- Electron backscatter diffraction
- Electron channelling contrast imaging
- Electron beam induced current
- Wavelength and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy
🖥️ Theoretical studies:
- Optical properties of plasmonic nanostructures
- Modelling electron microscopy of defects in materials
- Modelling of condensed matter
⚛️ Experimental quantum nanoscience:
- Physics and applications of polariton condensates in microcavities
- Solid-state quantum systems for quantum information and nanophotonics
- Hybrid polariton-quantum dot platforms for scalable quantum hardware
📰 Group news
- May 2021: Congratulations to Dr Alessandro Rossi on his promotion to Senior Lecturer!
- May 2021: Well done to Aeshah Alasmari on the successful defence of her PhD thesis, “Characterisation of III-nitrides in the scanning electron microscope”!
- May 2021: We are joined by colleagues from Cambridge as Dr Jonas Lähnemann from PDI in Berlin gives a seminar on Revisiting the determination of the carrier diffusion length in GaN from cathodoluminescence spectroscopy. The next seminar will be on 9th June, when Dr Masaya Kataoka from NPL will talk on Electron quantum optics for electrical metrology
- March 2021: Dr Budhika Mendis from Durham University gives a group seminar on Towards accurate simulation of EBSD and ECCI signals
- October 2020: Congratulations to Dr Alessandro Rossi on the award of a prestigious UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship! Alessandro’s project is entitled “Quantum Electronics in Silicon Carbide (QELTIC)” and aims to develop the first generation of electronic devices to address quantum states in silicon carbide (SiC). Read the announcement here.
October 2020: Sretno, Lucia! We held a virtual goodbye party for Lucia, who is off to work for work for Quorum Technologies in Lewes. Ruth won the cake competition with her lemon cheesecake cupcakes. (Sorry, no saltire in my Eurovision bunting.)
August 2020: Fabien, Rob and Paul are co-editing a special issue of Micromachines on Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Based Solar-Blind Photodetectors, together with Prof. Weihua Tang and Prof. Chong-Xin Shan.
🥼 Join us! Jobs / PhD studentships available
- Funded PhD studentships in III-nitride research and experimental quantum nanoscience.
💎 New - Interactive crystal models
Explore crystal structures, lattice planes and dislocations
📖 Latest publications
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Origin of red emission in β-Ga₂O₃ analysed by cathodoluminescence and photoluminescence spectroscopy - A systematic comparison of polar and semipolar Si-doped AlGaN alloys with high AlN content
- Two beam toy model for dislocation contrast in ECCI
- Nanomechanical behaviour of individual phases in WC-Co cemented carbides, from ambient to high temperature
- Influence of an InGaN superlattice pre-layer on the performance of semi-polar (11-22) green LEDs grown on silicon
- Effects of irradiation of ZnO/CdS/Cu₂ZnSnSe₄/Mo/glass solar cells by 10 MeV electrons on photoluminescence spectra,
- A real-time time-dependent density functional tight-binding implementation for semiclassical excited state electron-nuclear dynamics and pump-probe spectroscopy simulations
- Reprint of : Electron channelling contrast imaging for III-nitride thin film structures
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