Dr Stephen Dugdale

Research summary

It is the electrons in materials which govern many interesting and useful properties, from how metals conduct electricity and heat to more exotic phenomena such as magnetism and superconductivity.

I study the behaviour of electrons in materials by annihilating them with positrons (which are the anti-matter partners of electrons) and measuring the radiation that is produced. It is then possible to compare experimental reality with the predictions of quantum mechanics.

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Recent publications

• Mansart, B, Cottet, M, Penfold, T, Dugdale, S, Tediosi, R, Chergui, M & Carbone, F 2012, ‘Evidence for a Peierls phase-transition in a three-dimensional multiple charge-density waves solid’. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol 109 (15)., pp. 5603 - 5608
• Giblin, SR, Taylor, JW, Duffy, JA, Butchers, MW, Utfeld, C, Dugdale, SB, Nakamura, T, Visani, C & Santamaria, J 2012, ‘Measurement of Magnetic Exchange in Ferromagnet-Superconductor La2/3Ca1/3MnO3/YBa2Cu3O7 Bilayers’. Physical Review Letters, vol 109., pp. -

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