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Professor Robert Taylor

Emeritus Professor of Condensed Matter Physics

Research theme

  • Photovoltaics and nanoscience

Sub department

  • Condensed Matter Physics

Research groups

  • Quantum Optoelectronics
Robert.Taylor@physics.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: 01865 (2)72230
Clarendon Laboratory, room 246.1
orcid.org/0000-0003-2578-9645
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Lasing in perovskite nanocrystals

Image of transverse modes from lasing nanocrystals
Nano Research, 14, 108, 2021

I am currently Emeritus Professor of Condensed Matter Physics here in Oxford.

I work on quantum optoelectronics and the time-resolved properties of quantum matter. I was also a tutorial fellow at The Queen’s College, Oxford, where I was one of two tutors teaching approximately 22 physics students. I am now an Emeritus Fellow at Queen's.

As I am now retired I will  not be taking on any new post doctoral researchers or any new students.

I was  a permanent member of staff at Oxford from 1990 until 2025.

My main interests have been in making optical measurements on wide-bandgap semiconductors and low-dimensional systems such as quantum dots, wires and wells. Topics currently being investigated include the generation of single photons in the blue, coupling of quantum dot emission at telecom wavelengths to photonic crystals, coupling of various quantum emitters to discrete cavities. Past work focussed on coherent electron-hole dynamics, excitonic dynamics in wide band gap materials such as GaN and InGaN, and gain mechanisms in bulk and quantum well lasers. Please have a look at my publication list for references to relevant recent work.

Full details of my research activities can be found on my group website in the Quantum Optoelectronics research group tab under my photo above.

My final EPSRC grant entitled "Plasmon-enhanced light emission from hybrid nanowires: towards electrically driven nanowire lasers" ran out recently.

Research interests

Semiconductor Physics
Micro-photoluminescence
Quantum Dots
Nanowires
Photonic Crystals

Selected publications

Giant Nonlinear Optical Absorption of Freestanding Graphene Oxide Films for Femtosecond Pulse Compression

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces American Chemical Society 17:30 (2025) 43476-43487
Rowoon Park, Sang-Hyuk Park, Minwoo Kim, Minju Kim, Seungho Park, Young Woo Kwon, Songyi Lee, Kwangseuk Kyhm, Suck Won Hong, Robert A Taylor

Plasmon-Enhanced Photo-Luminescence Emission in Hybrid Metal–Perovskite Nanowires

Nanomaterials MDPI AG 15:8 (2025) 608-608
Tintu Kuriakose, Hao Sha, Qingyu Wang, Gokhan Topcu, Xavier Romain, Shengfu Yang, Robert A Taylor

Electrolyte-assisted polarization leading to enhanced charge separation and solar-to-hydrogen conversion efficiency of seawater splitting

Nature Catalysis Springer Nature 7:1 (2024) 77-88
Yiyang Li, Hui Zhou, Songhua Cai, Dharmalingam Prabhakaran, Wentian Niu, Alexander Large, Georg Held, Robert A Taylor, Xin-Ping Wu, Shik Chi Edman Tsang

Reducing nonradiative losses in perovskite LEDs through atomic layer deposition of Al2O3 on the hole-injection contact

ACS Nano American Chemical Society 17:4 (2023) 3289-3300
Emil Dyrvik, Jonathan Warby, Melissa McCarthy, Alexandra Ramadan, Karl-Augustin Zaininger, Andreas Lauritzen, Suhas Mahesh, Robert Taylor, Henry Snaith
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