The Condensed Matter Physics group includes 10 academic staff engaged in a programme focussed on the behaviour of complex materials systems that find application in modern technologies and in biology. Experimental techniques are used together with modelling and theoretical methods to elucidate the relation between atomic configurations, electronic structure and function. Current projects include quantum dots, the assembly of mesoscopic magnetic particles and the atomic structure of interfaces.
Work continues on highly disordered structures such as thin amorphous films and complex fluids.
The developing area of biophysics is represented in studies of the structure of muscle and atomic ordering in thin lipid membranes. We have been major users of synchrotron radiation for many years and have been responsible for the design and commissioning of several stations on the SRS at Daresbury Laboratory. The planned 3.0GeV, New Synchrotron Source, that will be built in the UK as a replacement of the SRS will be central to the research activities of the CMP group in the next decade. The views expressed in this document are those of the document owner. If you are an authorised user you may edit this document through your Web browser.