Research Activities

The research in the group falls into four broad strategic themes.

Renewable Energy and Materials for Energy Efficient use

Renewable Energy

• Solar Cell Research - The ability to capture and store solar energy is a key requirement for a sustainable economy. Research in the group concerns the application of nanostructured materials to acheive efficient gains in photovoltaic devices. See also http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/solar/research
• Quantum Photovoltaics
• Organic and Dye Sensitized Solar Cells
• Solar Cell concentrators
• Ultra-efficient Quantum Photovoltaics

Materials for Energy Efficient Use

• Energy efficient materials (webpage)
• Magnetocalorics for energy efficient refrigeration
• Superconducting Materials for Efficient Transmission of Power
• Solid Oxide Fuel Call Materials

·   Security, Sensors and Nanomagnetism

•      Nanophotonics, Plasmonics and Metamaterials 
•      Nanomagnetism- Magnetic Monopole Defects in artificial Spin Ice
•       Narrow gap Semiconductor sensors for imaging 

Research at the Interface with Biomedical Sciences

• Mid-infrared imaging for cancer detection
• Plasmonics for biological sensing
• Organic Photoconductors for X-ray imaging

Plastic and Optoelectronics for ICT

• Plastic electronics
• Polymer gain media for optical amplifiers and lasers
• Strong coupling in conjugated polymer microactivity structures
• InAs/GaAs Quantum Dots: fundamental and telecoms applications
• Photonic Crystal Technology for guided wave optoelectronics
• Quantum Optics in the Solid State
• Quantum Metamaterials for Active Plasmonics
• Thin film epitaxy of Si/Si1-xGex/Si1-x-yGexCy for microelectronics
• Active plasmonics for optoelectronics