Physics Department News
Surface Band-Gap Narrowing in Quantized Electron Accumulation Layers
Research led by Philip King, Chris McConville and Tim Veal at Warwick in collaboration with European colleagues has found that many body interactions play an unexpectedly large role in the surface electronic properties of several compound semiconductors. The work, which used angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, will be published today in Physical Review Letters. For more details see:http://prl.aps.org/toc/PRL/v104/i25#letters-condensed-matter-electronic-properties-etchttp://www.compoundsemiconductor.net/csc/features-details.php?cat=news&id=19732030&name=Bandgaps:%20Think%20they%92re%20constant?%20Think%20again!
Congratulations to Louise Bailey
Congratulations to Louise Bailey who won an EMRS prize for the best talk by a PhD student entitled “Can indium nitride surfaces be passivated?” at the Spring EMRS meeting in Strasbourg earlier this month
One Million Pounds of Grant Awards in June
We have again broken the £1m barrier with five awards in June.£850k for a project led by Gavin Bell EPSRC A soft approach to room temperature spin valves£100k for Dirk Gericke (CI Jan Vorberger) Temperature Relaxation in Dense, Reacting Plasmas£40k Steven Brown Travel fund from Bruker.£20k Pam Thomas Science City, USA Roadshow, Boston£6k Dirk Gericke Royal Society travel grant Staggering as this may be, £1m a month actually is a comfortable level to maintain the status quo in our finances!
Finham School Visit
Ally Caldecote's recent visit to a local school has been featured in the Evening Telegraph: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/events/news/images/finham_school