EXSS

The research mission of Experimental Solid State Physics - EXSS - is to carry out exemplary basic science and technology development in the key thematic areas defined by Imperial College and the Research Council research strategy namely: Energy and Efficient Energy Use; Security, Sensors and Nanomagnetism; Research at the Interface with Biomedical Sciences; Plastic Electronics and Optoelectronics.

The group has 18 academic staff, over thirty post doctoral research fellows, and fifty PhD students. Our group office has 4 shared administrative staff and three technicians in the mechanical workshop. In total we have over 100 members of staff, researchers and PhD students and we are one of the largest and most diverse research groups in the department. We also like to think ourselves one of the most welcoming.  We had the EXSS 2010 Christmas Party, as you can see it was enjoyed by everyone.  State of the art science, up to the minute facilities and a friendly dynamic environment - this is what EXSS is all about.

Please read on.

Postgraduate recruitment 2012

We are currently recruiting students for October 2012 entry to the M.Phil/Ph.D. degree programme across all our areas of Research (see below). Please contact Prof. Stefan Maier s.maier@imperial.ac.uk.

You can find our application form and other general information from the college website http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/pgprospectus.  We usually interview students on Wednesday afternoons either in person or if you live abroad, then by phone. Interviews will begin in January 2012 after our Group Open Day which is on 11th January 2012. For any applications enquiries please contact Juraci Didone  j.didone@imperial.ac.uk.

We are looking forward to meeting you. 

PhD Project Descriptions for 2012

Further Postgraduate Opportunities are available in the Plastic Electronics DTC

Research

• Photovoltaics

• Energy Efficient Materials

• Plasmonics and Metamaterials

• Plastic Electronics

• Imaging and Spectroscopy

• Nanotechnology

• Magnetic Materials

• Optoelectronics

• Materials Growth and Processing

For further details please see research activities