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Dr Alan Bowman

Postdoctoral researcher

Research theme

  • Photovoltaics and nanoscience

Sub department

  • Condensed Matter Physics

Research groups

  • Semiconductors group
alan.bowman@physics.ox.ac.uk
Clarendon Laboratory, room 247, 147.30.08
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About

My research focuses on developing the next generation of materials and devices for a sustainable future, including solar cells and photocatalytic systems. I have a PhD from the University of Cambridge, that focused on the characterisation of semiconductors for solar energy applications. My work won the Institute of Physics' Woodruff Thesis Prize and helped enable cheap, high efficiency solar cells. I recently finished a Swiss National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship at EPFL, where I developed methods to probe plasmonic catalysis - a process that could hugely reduce emissions in chemical industries. Since joining Oxford I have focused on emerging semicondcutors and methods to understand the fundamental stability of materials for solar energy applications. 

Research interests

Optoelectronics
Solar cells
Spectroscopy
Density functional theory
Sustainability
Plasmonic catalysis

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