Summary
My research interests include the study of magnetic materials (for solid state magnetic cooling using magnetocalorics) and highly spin polarised magnetic materials (for spintronics and long range spin triplet superconductivity) as well as an interest in transport properties of high mobility materials such as narrow gap semiconductors and graphene, superconductors (in particular gap structure and vortex pinning), and Raman spectroscopy (surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy as a tool to understand Fuel Cell materials). I have published over 400 journal publications in related topics and my h index is currently 47.
I work closely with a number of other academics at Imperial College as well as strong links to a number of other UK Universities namely Cambridge, Glasgow, Manchester, Lancaster, Surrey and Cardiff. The group is also well connected to international groups in Europe, the USA, Brazil and India.
I co-supervise a number of PhD students including Matthew Hamer (CASE award with the National Physical Laboratory on non contact graphene sensors),Freya Johnson (Antiperovskite Mn Nitrides for Barocaloric application and Spintronics CASE award with Hitachi Cambridge), Kevin Chan (Superconducting spintronics - CDT ACM) and Kilian Stenning (Artificial Spin Ice).
External Appointments
2019- Editor-in-Chief Applied Physics Letters
2016- Chair, SAB, SB Quantum Matter Institute, UBC Vancouver
2016-2021 Institute of Physics, Trustee and Council member
Publications
Journals
Bennett TLR, Alshammari M, Au-Yong S, et al. , 2022, Multi-component self-assembled molecular-electronic films: towards new high-performance thermoelectric systems, Chemical Science, ISSN:2041-6520
Bader SD, Lake RK, Cohen LF, 2022, Applied Physics Letters 2022 60th Anniversary Editorial, Applied Physics Letters, Vol:120, ISSN:0003-6951, Pages:110401-110401
Bower R, Wells MP, Johnson F, et al. , 2021, Tunable double epsilon-near-zero behavior in niobium oxynitride thin films, Applied Surface Science, Vol:569, ISSN:0169-4332, Pages:150912-150912
Johnson F, Boldrin D, Zemen J, et al. , 2021, Strain dependence of Berry-phase-induced anomalous Hall effect in the non-collinear antiferro-magnet Mn3NiN, Applied Physics Letters, Vol:119, ISSN:0003-6951
Boldrin D, Cohen L, Mendive-Tapia E, et al. , 2021, Barocaloric properties of quaternary Mn3(Zn,In)N for room temperature refrigeration applications, Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Vol:104, ISSN:1098-0121, Pages:1-7