News

December 2022: Dr. Ivana Savic has moved to King's College London, UK, where she will be working as a Senior Lecturer in Physics.

October 2022: We have a new paper published in Physical Review B on the nature of the structural phase transition in GeTe.

October 2022: We are co-organizing “Emerging Thermal Materials—From Nanoscale Heat Transport, Devices and Applications, to Theories” Symposium at the Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, taking place in San Francisco, USA on April 10-14, 2023.

October 2022: We are co-organizing “Electrons, Phonons, Electron Phonon Scattering and Phononics” Focus Session at the American Physical Society March Meeting, taking place in Las Vegas, USA on March 5-10, 2023.

May 2022: We have a new paper published in ACS Applied Energy Materials on the effect of high valley degeneracy on thermoelectric transport in p-type PbTe.

February 2022: We have a new paper published in Structural Dynamics on the observation of photo-induced plasmon-phonon coupling in PbTe. The work was carried out in collaboration with the team of Prof. David Reis, Stanford University.

October 2021: We are co-organizing “Electrons, Phonons, Electron Phonon Scattering and Phononics” Focus Session at the American Physical Society March Meeting, taking place in Chicago, USA on March 14-18, 2022.

October 2021: Dr. Djordje Dangić has been awarded a prestigious BOC Gases Postgraduate Bursary Award for his PhD thesis. Congratulations, Djordje!

September 2021: Dr. Aoife Lucid has been awarded a prestigious Irish Research Council postdoctoral fellowship to work on the thermoelectric transport properties of nanostructured Bi2Te3 materials. Congratulations, Aoife!

July 2021: We have a new paper published in Physical Review B on the prediction of the significant enhancement of the thermoelectric properties of n-type PbTe via lattice expansion.

April 2021: We have a new paper published in Nature Partner Journal Computational Materials on the new method to describe thermal transport in materials near structural phase transitions and its application to GeTe.

April 2021: Djordje Dangić successfully defended his PhD thesis on the thermal properties of GeTe near the ferroelectric phase transition. Congratulations, Djordje!

December 2020: We have a new paper published in Nature Partner Journal Computational Materials on the predition of the extraordinary thermoelectric properties of ferroelectric domains walls in GeTe.

October 2020: We are co-organizing “Electrons, Phonons, Electron Phonon Scattering and Phononics” Focus Session at the American Physical Society March Meeting, taking place online. Further information about the conference is given at:

APS March Meeting

September 2020: We have a new paper published in Physical Review B on thermoelectric transport in p-type PbTe.

June 2020: We have a new paper published in Physical Review B on the temperature dependence of the electronic band structure and electron-phonon self-energy in the topological crystalline insulator SnTe.

May 2020: We have a new paper published in Physical Review B on the structural and thermal transport properties of ferroelectric domain walls in GeTe.

January 2020: We have a new paper published in Materials Today Physics on the first principles calculations of thermoelectric transport in n-type PbTe.

November 2019: We are co-organizing “New developments in first-principles calculations of charge and heat transport” Symposium at the Psi-k Conference, taking place in Lausanne, Switzerland on September 14-17, 2020. Important note: Psi-k conference has been postponed for August 22-25, 2022! Further information about the conference is given at:

Psi-k Conference

October 2019: We are co-organizing “Electrons, Phonons, Electron Phonon Scattering and Phononics” Focus Session at the American Physical Society March Meeting, taking place in Denver, USA on March 2-6, 2020.

September 2019: Dr. Ransell D'Souza has been awarded a prestigious EDGE Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship to work on the thermoelectric transport properties of MoS2-based materials. Congratulations, Ransell!

August 2019: We have a new paper published in Physical Review Letters on the ultrafast relaxation of photo-induced atomic forces in group V materials.

May 2019: We have a new paper published in Physical Review Materials on the temperature dependence of the electronic band structure of PbTe.

May 2019: Two postdoctoral researchers, Dr. Ransell D'Souza and Dr. Aoife Lucid, and a PhD student, Shima Sharifi, joined the group recently. Welcome!

January 2019: Dr. Jiang Cao became an associate professor at Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China. Congratulations, Jiang!

November 2018: We have a new paper published in Physical Review B on the first principles calculations of electronic transport in n-type PbTe.

September 2018: We are organizing "Nanoscale Heat Transport: Fundamentals" Symposium at the Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, taking place in Phoenix, USA on April 22-26, 2019. Further information about the symposium is given at:

MRS Nanoscale Heat Transport

August 2018: We are co-organizing a conference to celebrate the 60th birthday of Prof. Stephen Fahy, which is taking place in Cork, Ireland on August 30-31, 2018. More information can be found at:

SFSB Conference

August 2018: We have a new paper published in Physical Review B on the first principles calculations of acoustic deformation potentials of PbTe.

June 2018: We have a new paper published in Physical Review B on the negative thermal expansion of GeTe near the ferroelectric phase transition.

May 2018: One PhD position on the thermoelectric properties of Bi2Te3 nanostructures is available in our group. Further description of the project and the application process are given at:

PhD position (now closed)

December 2017: Ronan Murphy successfully defended his PhD thesis on the thermoelectric properties of PbTe-based materials driven near the ferroelectric phase transition. Congratulations, Ronan!

November 2017: We are co-organizing "Nanophononics" and "Material Design for Energy Harvesting and Storage" tracks at the IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology, taking place in Cork, Ireland on July 23-26, 2018. More information about the tracks can be found at:

IEEE Nanophononics and Energy Materials

September 2017: We are co-organizing "Nanostructures for Phononic Applications" Symposium at the European Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, taking place in Strasbourg, France on June 18-22, 2018. Further information about the symposium is given at:

e-MRS Nanophononics

July 2017: International workshop "Thermoelectric Materials: From Theoretical Design to Industrial Application" took place at the Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland on July 3-6, 2017. The workshop showcased the latest developments in the thermoelectric field, spanning from basic research to practical applications, and gathered 60 participants from EU and USA.

April 2017: We have a new paper published in Physical Review B on the effects of increased proximity to the ferroelectric phase transition on the lattice thermal conductivity of Pb1-xGexTe alloys.

March 2017: Two postdoctoral researchers, Dr. Jiang Cao and Dr. José Querales-Flores, and a PhD student, Djordje Dangić, joined the group recently. Welcome!

February 2017: We are co-organizing an international workshop "Thermoelectric Materials: From Theoretical Design to Industrial Application", taking place at the Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland on July 3-6, 2017. The conference is supported by Science Foundation Ireland and the Psi-k network for computational materials science. Further information about the conference is given at:

TE-Workshop-Cork

August 2016: We are starting a collaboration with the Atomistic Simulations Centre, Queen's University Belfast on the simulation of thermoelectric materials, funded by Science Foundation Ireland (ROI) and Deparment of Education and Learning (DEL). The team will include 2 postdocs + 2 PhD students at Tyndall, and 2 postdocs + 1 PhD student at Queen's. Further details about the Tyndall positions are given at:

PhD positions (now closed)

Postdoctoral positions (now closed)

July 2016: We have a new paper published in Nature Communications on the origin of lattice instability in PbTe deduced from ultrafast X-ray experiments and first principles theory. The work was carried out in collaboration with the team of Prof. David Reis, Stanford University.