Postgraduate research projects
In addition to the projects listed below we encourage interested applicants to browse our research pages for areas of our research they are interested in and to contact the members of academic staff concerned.
Specific fully-funded PhD projects can become available throughout the year. Current positions will be listed on our Funding for postgraduates page.
Quantum Systems and Nanomaterials projects
- Magnetisation studies of Dirac fermions in graphene
- Theoretical studies of optical properties of graphene-based nanostructures
- Zero-energy states and quantum confinement in graphene
- Aharonov-Bohm effect for excitons in non-simply-connected nanostructures
- The spin Hall effect in two-dimensional hole systems
- Combined scanning probe and transport measurements of graphene
- Fabrication and characterisation of large-area graphene films and combined graphene-carbon nanotubes nanostructures
- Mechanical, thermal and phonon properties of graphene
- Influences of substrate interactions on the properties of graphene and hot electrons in graphene structures
- Raman spectroscopy in graphene
- Optically induced magnetic polarisation in carbon nanostructures
