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
⚛️ 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
🧮️ Semiconductor quantum electronics (SEQUEL):
- Semiconductor nanoscale systems
- Quantum computing and quantum electrical metrology
- Electrical initialisation and readout of spin qubits in SiC
- Empowering Practical Interfacing of Quantum Computing (EPIQC)
📰 Group news
- March 2025: Congratulations to Dr Fabien Massabuau who has won the Materials Young Investigator Award.
- October 2024: Welcome to Farnaz Hadizadeh who joins the GOOD group as a PhD student with Diamond Jubilee Research Scholarship.
- August 2024: Welcome to Mohammed Alessa who joins the GOOD group as a PhD student.
- June 2024: Welcome to Adam McMorris who won a Carnegie Vacation Scholarship for conducting a summer project in the GOOD group.
- April 2024: Welcome to Sean Douglas who joins the group as a post-doc working on project “Tuneable radiation-resilient (AlGa)2O3 UVC photodetectors” funded by the UK Space Agency.
🥼 Join us! Jobs / PhD studentships available
- Funded PhD studentships in UV-C semiconductor characterisation and experimental quantum nanoscience.
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Explore crystal structures, lattice planes and dislocations
📖 Latest publications
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Molecular beam epitaxy of boron arsenide layers - Strain-induced modifications of thin film silicon membranes by physical bending
- Hyperspectral alignment capability for direct writing systems enabled by structured illumination with a micro-LED array
- Role of the electron transport layer in dictating the nanoscale heterogeneity in all-inorganic perovskite absorbers – correlating the optoelectronic and crystallographic properties
- Strain and luminescence properties of hexagonal hillocks in N-polar GaN
- Investigation of (mis-)orientation in zincblende GaN grown on micro-patterned Si(001) using electron backscatter diffraction
- Comparative study of the optical properties of $\alpha$-, $\beta$-, and $\kappa}$-Ga₂O₃
- Splitting of the absorption edge in the topological insulator Bi1.1Sb0.9Te2S: mid-infrared magneto-optical study
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