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Welcome to the PNG website! We are a research group in the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford. Our research focuses on the optical and electronic properties of solid state nanostructures for applications such as optoelectronics devices, quantum information processing and photovoltaics.

For more information about the group members, research projects, publications, and vacancies in the group, follow the links to the left.

2011 group punting trip

Latest News

(20/05/12) Funded positions available (DPhil and postdoc) in cavity QED/sensing. See the Vacancies page for more details.

(9/11/11) Article published in Diamond and Related Materials: B. R. Patton et al, "Optical properties of single crystal diamond microfilms fabricated by ion implantation and lift-off processing".[Link]

(24/10/11) Article published in Physical Review B: E. J. Tyrrell et al, "Effective mass modelling of excitons in type II nanocrystal heterostructures."[Link]

(17/10/11) New paper placed on ArXiv: F. Grazioso et al, "Full stress tensor measurement using colour centres in diamond". [Link]

(20/9/11) New paper accepted for publication in Diamond and Related Materials: B. R. Patton et al, "Optical properties of single crystal diamond microfilms fabricated by ion implantation and lift-off processing".

(8/6/11) Photos from the recent group punting trip can be found here.

(5/4/11) Paper published in the New Journal of Physics: J. M. Smith et al, "Optical properties of a single colour centre in diamond with a green zero phonon line." [Link]

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