Staff and students from the Physics department will again contribute to Coventry's "Pint of Science" festival this year, to be held from 20-22 May in venues around the city. Departmental representatives include Jessica Marshall, Matthew Hoskin, Sam Seddon, Tishtrya Mehta, and Alun Rees.

Room-temperature spin transport has now been shown in both pivotal semiconductor materials, Ge and Si, providing new opportunities for the future of semiconductor spintronics.

Discovery of Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in a strained Germanium semiconductor indicates superior quality of epitaxial material and offers the simplest system to research quantum physics.