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Heriot Watt University
Department of Physics
Riccarton
Edinburgh
EH14 4AS
Phone: 0131 451 3020
Fax: 0131 449 5542/3136
Email: d.p.hand@hw.ac.uk
Website: http://www.phy.hw.ac.uk
| Contact | Phone | Fax | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary | Professor Duncan Hand | 0131 451 3020 | 0131 451 3473 | d.p.hand@hw.ac.uk |
| Sales/2nd | Gerald Buller | 0131 451 3069 | 0131 451 3473 | g.s.buller@hw.ac.uk |
Product/Research Description
Physics at Heriot-Watt has approximately 25 academic staff, 30 Postdoctoral Research Associates and 40 PhD students, with research interests ranging from semiconductor physics to optoelectronics, optics, materials science and nolinear physics.
The following research areas exist within the department:
(www.phy.hw.ac.uk/resrev/general.html)
1) The Physics of Optoelectronic and Other Functional materials Nonlinear Optics Theory of Semiconductors and High-temperature Superconductivity Nano-optics Spectroscopy of Low Dimensional Structures Room Temperature Photodiodes for the Mid-infrared Picosecond Photon-Counting Studies The Free Electron Laser
2) Materials II-VI Semiconductor Growth Plasma CVD Thin-Films (amorphous silicon, diamond and polymers)
3) Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaos and Complexity
4) Optoelectronic Devices, Interconnects and Computing Centre for Integrated Optoelectronic Systems (CIOS) Diffractive Optics System for Transparent Avionics (STAR) Quantum Cryptography (EQUIS and QUICK) Optically Interconncected Computing
5) Optical Fibre Physics and Technology
6) Laser Device Physics and Applications Laser Resonator Physics Laser Device Physics & Technology Industrial Application of Lasers High Power Laser Technology and Applications Ultrafast Optics Group
7) Optical Techniques Wavefront sensing Adaptive Optics Optical metrology Biophotonics Molecular optics Optical tweezers
