Dept News
Heavy metal planet fragment survives destruction from dead star
A fragment of a planet that has survived the death of its star has been discovered by astronomers in a disc of debris formed from destroyed planets, which the star ultimately consumes.
The discovery, reported in the journal Science, is the first time that scientists have used spectroscopy to discover a solid body in orbit around a white dwarf, using subtle variations in the emitted light to identify additional gas that the planetesimal is generating.
"Pint of Science" returns to Coventry for 2019
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.
Experimental Demonstration of Room-Temperature Spin Transport in n-Type Germanium Epilayers
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.
Spinless composite fermions in an ultrahigh-quality strained Ge quantum well
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.