Physics Department News
Timothy Veal awarded Fellowship
Dr Tim Veal has been awarded a five-year EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship (£665k) to fund a project on developing nitride semiconductor materials for high-efficiency solar cells. Nitride-based solar cells with concentrator technologies promise to deliver significant advances in efficiency and reductions in cost over the current state-of-the-art. The project will be undertaken in collaboration with twelve nitride research groups from across Europe and nitride semiconductor growth groups at Cornell University, USA and Canterbury University, New Zealand. Knowledge transfer will be achieved via a partnership with Sharp Laboratories of Europe, Oxford - their parent company, Sharp, is the largest solar cell manufacturer in the world.
The Equality and Diversity website has been reviewed and updated in line with current legislation. Policies relating to equality and diversity have been reformatted so they are uniform. The E&D site also contains a forum for use by staff - this is currently under-utilised and the University wishes to encourage its use.
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Robert Pettifer
It is with great sadness that we report Robert's death. Robert came to the Department as Peter McMillan's research student in 1972 and remained here pursuing research in x-ray absorption spectroscopies thereafter. He became a lecturer in 1978 and a Reader in 2002, retiring from ill-health in 2007.
Many generations of students as well as staff will remember his great passion for physics and his determination only to do the very best physics, which he continued to do until very recently.
Our heartfelt condolences go to Robert's family.
Malcolm Cooper