In addition to the projects listed below we encourage interested applicants to browse our research pages for areas of our research they are interested in and to contact the members of academic staff concerned.

The School also has a number of specifically-funded PhD projects.

Potential projects

• Magnetisation studies of Dirac fermions in graphene
• Theoretical studies of optical properties of graphene-based nanostructures
• Zero-energy states and quantum confinement in graphene
• Aharonov-Bohm effect for excitons in non-simply-connected nanostructures
• The spin Hall effect in two-dimensional hole systems
• Combined scanning probe and transport measurements of graphene
• Fabrication and characterisation of large-area graphene films and combined graphene-carbon nanotubes nanostructures
• Mechanical, thermal and phonon properties of graphene
• Influences of substrate interactions on the properties of graphene and hot electrons in graphene structures
• Raman spectroscopy in graphene
• Optically induced magnetic polarisation in carbon nanostructures
• Quantum Hall effect measurements in strained graphene membranes
• Theory of the quantum Hall Effects in graphene membranes

Joint Biomedical and Quantum Systems and Nanomaterials projects

• A novel imaging technique for quality control of graphene fabrication
• Chemical and biological graphene sensors