Department of Physics, University of Warwick

Staff & Student News

Congratulations to Mark Newton, who has been shortlisted for a WATE this year, and also to Daniel Mayoh, shortlisted for a WATE PGR.

WATE and WATE PGR winners and commendees will be announced at the end of June.

Feature News

UK’s first 1GHz solid-state NMR spectrometer

Part of a new £20 million investment by EPSRC in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) equipment across UK institutions, the £8M, 1GHz NMR instrument at Warwick will provide new structural and dynamic information in chemistry, materials science and biology. It will add to our already significant NMR capabil…

Events

Mon 21 May '18

3pm: Robbie Scott (STFC, Central Laser Facility): Shock ignition laser inertial fusion

Mon 04 Jun '18

3pm: Michael Fitzgerald (Culham)

Mon 11 Jun '18

3pm: Jack Bradshaw & Katie Kosak (CFSA)

Research Updates

Allotropes of Phosphorus with Remarkable Stability and Intrinsic Piezoelectricity

We construct a class of two-dimensional (2D) phosphorus allotropes by assembling a previously proposed ultrathin metastable phosphorus nanotube into planar structures in different stacking orientations. Three of them are dynamically stable semiconductors with strain-tunable band gaps and intrinsic piezoelectricity. This may have potential applications in nanosized sensors, piezotronics, and energy harvesting in portable electronic nanodevices.

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