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Professor Henry Snaith, Professor Moritz Riede, Vice-Chancellor Professor Dame Louise Richardson and Professor Ian Shipsey in the National Thin-Film Cluster Facility for Advanced Functional Materials in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford

Building the future: developing next-gen materials at Oxford

World-class vacuum deposition capabilities to develop next-gen advanced functional materials

23 November 2022

Professor Michael Johnston, centre, with his group at Oxford

Professor Michael Johnston recognised by APS

Professor Michael Johnston has been made a 2022 Fellow of the American Physical Society for the development of a new platform for terahertz photonics based on semiconductor nanowires.

19 October 2022

Slide showing Dr Hariom Jani and his citation

Dr Jani recognised by Institute of Physics Singapore

Dr Hariom Jani has been awarded the Emerging Investigator Medal and Prize 2021 by the Institute of Physics Singapore.

18 October 2022

Professor JC Séamus Davis

Professor Séamus Davis awarded the Buckley Prize

Professor J C Séamus Davis has been awarded 2023 Oliver E Buckley Prize by the American Physical Society, one of the most prestigious awards in world science.

11 October 2022

Atomic-scale visualisation of superconductivity

‘Holy Grail’ physics discovery could open the way to super-efficient quantum electronics

An international team of researchers led by Professor JC Séamus Davis, has announced results that support one of the leading theories explaining the atomic-scale mechanism behind high-temperature superconductivity

7 September 2022

Professor Henry Snaith

Professor Snaith awarded Louisville’s renewable energy prize

Professor Henry Snaith has been awarded the University of Louisville’s 2021 Leigh Ann Conn Prize for Renewable Energy.

Two people with scientific instrument

Physics spin-out gets investment injection

Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), a spin-out company from Oxford’s Department of Physics has announced investment of £38 million (US $46.45 million) in the first close of an ongoing Series A funding round.

Solar cells

New Rudolf Peierls Scholarship to help advance photovoltaic research

A new graduate scholarship has been established in the Department of Physics following a gift of £86,000 from alumnus Nick Greenwood.

Professor Amalia Coldea

Commentary: Professor Coldea on the quantum world of iron-based superconductors

Professor Amalia Coldea takes a look at the basics of superconductivity research, advances made in understanding iron-based superconductors and the challenge of room temperature superconductivity.

Professor Laura Herz

Professor Herz recognised by Royal Society of Chemistry

Professor Laura Herz from Oxford’s Department of Physics has won the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Environment, Sustainability and Energy Division Mid-Career Award.

Professor Robert Taylor

Meet...Robert Taylor

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.

Professor Stephen Blundell

Commentary: Professor Stephen Blundell on muons

Professor Stephen Blundell has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant; here he writes about the science behind the award