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Representation of THz spectroscopy of a metamaterial with a Nanowire THz sensor

Representation of THz spectroscopy of a metamaterial with a Nanowire THz sensor

Credit: Rendering by Dimitars Jevtics

Prof Michael Johnston

Professor of Physics

Research theme

  • Photovoltaics and nanoscience

Sub department

  • Condensed Matter Physics

Research groups

  • Terahertz photonics
  • Advanced Device Concepts for Next-Generation Photovoltaics
michael.johnston@physics.ox.ac.uk
Johnston Group Website
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Michael Johnston received his BSc and PhD from the University of New South Wales (Australia), and after a postdoc at the University of Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory, joined the faculty at the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics in 2002. At Oxford he established and currently leads a research group specialising on semiconductor physics, photovoltaics and terahertz photonics. He has developed THz methods to study the electronic properties of nanomaterials, created new high efficiency vapour-deposited solar cells and invented novel THz emitters, modulators and receivers. His research has been recognised by a series of awards including an EPSRC Established Career Fellowship (2020), the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2019), the Harrie Massey Medal from the Australian Institute of Physics (2018), and  the IUMRS Somiya Award (2017). He has also been listed as a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher since 2018.  Professor Johnston was also instigator and editor of “The 2017 Terahertz Science and Technology Roadmap”.  Prof Johnston is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. 

For more information about Prof Johnston's research please visit his group's website.

Research interests

Terahertz photonics
Nanotechnology
Semiconductor Physics
Photovoltaics

Selected publications

Three-dimensional cross-nanowire networks recover full terahertz state

Science American Association for the Advancement of Science 368:6490 (2020) 510-513
Kun Peng, Dimitars Jevtics, Fanlu Zhang, Sabrina Sterzl, Djamshid Damry, Mathias Rothmann, Benoit Guilhabert, Michael J Strain, Hark H Tan, Laura M Herz, Lan Fu, Martin D Dawson, Antonio Hurtado, Chennupati Jagadish, Michael Johnston

Control over crystal size in vapor deposited metal-halide perovskite films

ACS Energy Letters American Chemical Society (ACS) 5 (2020) 0c00183
Kilian B Lohmann, Jay B Patel, Mathias Uller Rothmann, Chelsea Q Xia, Robert DJ Oliver, Laura M Herz, Henry J Snaith, Michael B Johnston

An ultrafast switchable terahertz polarization modulator based on III--V semiconductor nanowires

Nano Letters: a journal dedicated to nanoscience and nanotechnology American Chemical Society (2017)
MB Johnston, JL Boland, D Damry

Efficient planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells by vapour deposition

Nature Springer Science and Business Media LLC 501:7467 (2013) 395-398
Mingzhen Liu, Michael B Johnston, Henry J Snaith
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