Materials development and ultrafast spectroscopy for sustainable devices
Our research studies how new, functional materials interact with light, with the goal of designing and optimising these materials for sustainable technologies like photovoltaics.
On a fundamental level, we seek to know what happens when a photon hits a semiconductor or molecule. Upon photoexcitation, a menagerie of excited states is formed. Excitons, electrons and holes are created with different energies, travel through a material, and then relax back to the ground state on timescales ranging from femtoseconds to milliseconds. Understanding these processes and timescales allows us to rationally design better solar panels, LEDs, lasers and other useful devices.
Our work sits at the intersection of physics, chemistry, materials science and device engineering. We are looking for Masters and PhD students with backgrounds in any of these areas, who are interested in working on any of the topics described below (or any other topics that may be of interest!). Please get in touch if you are interested, or want to hear more about different projects you could get involved in.
