Solid State Physics

The Division of Solid State Physics is part of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
Welcome to the Division of Solid State Physics
At the Division of Solid State Physics, we conduct both fundamental and application-oriented research related to energy and environmental aspects and life sciences through our different research areas.
Our research is related to energy and environmental aspects and life sciences through our different research areas. Mostly we investigate physical and chemical properties of nanomaterials and compounds whether they will be used as coatings in chromogenic devices, electro/photocatalysis, gas sensors, transparent conducting oxides, spintronics and biomagnetic applications or to create new magnetic materials for green energy technologies.
Research areas

Research groups
Much of our research is organised in research groups. Read more about the research in each group.
Utbildning inom fasta tillståndets fysik
We teach at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Information about programmes at the department can be found in the student entrance
Education
Energy Flows and Materials in the Built Environment
Kod: 1TM117
Kontakt: Kunli Xiong
Solid State Physics I - 5hp
Kod: 1TE300
Kontakt: Tapati Sarkar
Solid State Physics II - 5hp
Kod: 1TG310
Kontakt: Roland Mathieu
Fasta tillståndets fysik F
Kod: 1TM013
Kontakt: Zhaojun Li
Modern Physics
Kod: 1TE078
Kontakt: José Montero Amenedo
Magnetic Materials
Kod: 1TM002
Kontakt: Tapati Sarkar
Physics and Chemistry of Nanomaterials
Kod: 1TM142
Kontakt: Germán Salazar Alvarez
Optical Materials
Kod: 1TM003
Kontakt: Lars Österlund
Project Course in Solid State Physics
Kod: 1TM004
Kontakt: Roland Mathieu
Independent Project in Materials Engineering/Chemistry
Kod: 1TM000/1TM001
Kontakt: German Salazar Alvare
Doctoral Studies
We educate at doctoral level and if you are interested in becoming a doctoral student with us, keep an eye out for available positions.
You can also read more about being a doctoral student at the Department of Materials Science.
We welcome you to contact us if you are interested in doing your degree project with us. Sometimes we have project proposals to give but there is usually something to do.
You can read about our research areas and projects and see what may interest you. Contact any of our researchers if you are interested.

Publications
Part of Journal of Physics, 2025
Part of ADVANCED SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS, 2025
- DOI for Apple Tree Root-Derived Biochar/Iron Oxide Triphasic Nanocomposite for Wastewater Treatment and Microwave Absorption
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Part of Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2025
- DOI for Biphasic lithium iron oxide nanocomposites for enhancement in electromagnetic interference shielding properties
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Part of Ceramics International, p. 23865-23880, 2025
Coherent Phonons, Localization, and Slow Polaron Formation in Lead-Free Gold Perovskite
Part of Advanced Optical Materials, 2025
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Design of thermal hysteresis in nonstoichiometric Fe2P-type alloys with giant magnetocaloric effect
Part of Physical Review B, 2025
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Dynamical electronic correlations and chiral magnetism in the van der Waals magnet Fe4GeTe2
Part of Physical Review B, 2025
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Part of Journal of Physics, 2025
Part of Journal of Energy Chemistry, p. 254-267, 2025
Electromagnetic interference shielding properties of biphasic lithium iron oxides
2025
Electromagnetic properties of in-situ synthesized CoFe2O4/CoFe/Ti3C2 composite powders
Part of Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2025
Part of Acta Materialia, 2025
- DOI for Engineering Hard Ferrite Composites by Combining Nanostructuring and Al3+ Substitution: from Nano to Dense Bulk Magnets
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Part of Materials Today Communications, 2025
Part of Journal of Energy Storage, 2025
Part of Journal of Physics, 2025
Part of Journal of Physics D, 2025
Giant Bandgap Reduction of Co3TeO6 via Pressure Engineering
Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, p. 3509-3517, 2025
Highly Stable Electronics Based on β-Ga2O3 for Advanced Memory Applications
Part of Advanced Science, 2025
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High-order harmonic generation from laser-induced plasmas of Cu2±xSe nanocrystals
Part of Optics and Laser Technology, 2025
Infrared Spectroscopic Electronic Noses: An Innovative Approach for Exhaled Breath Sensing
Part of ACS Sensors, p. 427-438, 2025
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Magnetic Lyddane-Sachs-Teller Relation
Part of Physical Review Letters, 2025
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Part of Journal of Physics, 2025
Oxophilic Sn to Promote Glucose Oxidation to Formic Acid in Ni Nanoparticles
Part of ChemSusChem, 2025
Part of Physical Review Materials, 2025
Polaron hopping induced dual-band absorption in all amorphous cathodic electrochromic oxides
Part of Applied Physics Reviews, 2025
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Part of Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 2025
Reversible phase transitions of Fe0.8Ni1.8Sb0.4O4 spinel up to 50 GPa
Part of Ceramics International, p. 1654-1660, 2025
Self-assembled bilayer for perovskite solar cells with improved tolerance against thermal stresses
Part of Nature Energy, p. 342-353, 2025
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Part of Chemical Engineering Journal, 2025
Spin gapped metals: A novel class of materials for multifunctional spintronic devices
Part of Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 2025
Structural and magnetic properties of the 1/1 Sm-Au-Al and Ho-Au-Al quasicrystal approximants
Part of Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 2025
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Part of Journal of Materials Chemistry A, p. 4413-4428, 2025
Part of Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, 2025
- DOI for The More the Merrier: Multi‐Frequency Magnetic Susceptibility of Loess and Palaeosols as a Sensitive Climate Proxy
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The Radio & Plasma Wave Investigation (RPWI) for the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE)
Part of Space Science Reviews, 2025
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Theoretical Treatment of Nuclear Dynamics in Low-dimensional Systems
2025
Part of Physical Review B, 2025
- DOI for Topological invariants of vortices, merons, skyrmions, and their combinations in continuous and discrete systems
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Absorption, excitonic emission, and vibration modes in quantum confined lead halide 2D nanoplatelets
2024
Part of Physical Review Applied, 2024
Part of Chemical Society Reviews, p. 7392-7425, 2024
Boundary-induced phase in epitaxial iron layers
Part of Physical Review Materials, 2024
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Part of Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics - PCCP, p. 6325-6334, 2024
- DOI for Chemical engineering of cationic distribution in spinel ferrite nanoparticles: the effect on the magnetic properties
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Part of Nanoscale, p. 9728-9741, 2024
- DOI for Chemical passivation of 2D transition metal dichalcogenides: strategies, mechanisms, and prospects for optoelectronic applications
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Clearing Up Discrepancies in 2D and 3D Nickel Molybdate Hydrate Structures
Part of Inorganic Chemistry, 2024
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CoTeO4: a wide-bandgap material adopting the dirutile structure type
Part of Materials Advances, p. 3001-3013, 2024
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2024
Part of Journal of Modern Optics, p. 640-664, 2024
- DOI for Determination of intrinsic scattering and absorption coefficients of light diffusing materials: application of a spectral projected gradient method
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Dynamic Nature of Electrodes for Solar Cells and Catalysis
2024
Effect of strontium phosphate coating on NCM811 powders for high-performance Li-ion battery cathode
Part of Journal of Energy Storage, 2024
Part of ACS Applied Energy Materials, p. 4445-4453, 2024
- DOI for Electrochemical Seawater Oxidation by (Ni,Co)3O4-RuO2 Catalysts at Neutral pH in a Forward Osmosis Cell
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Part of Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2024
- DOI for Electrochromic nickel-oxide-based thin films in KOH electrolyte: Ionic and electronic effects elucidated by impedance spectroscopy
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Electromagnetic wave absorption performance of Fe3O4/activated carbon-natural resin nanocomposite
Part of New Carbon Materials, p. 1157-1177, 2024
Electronic and magnetic structures of a mixed triple perovskite: Ba3NiRuIrO9
Part of Physical Review B, 2024
Electronic and Vibrational Quantum Confinement Effects in ZnO Quantum Dots and 2D Perovskites
2024
Part of ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, p. 14799-14808, 2024
- DOI for Elucidating the Lithiation Process in Fe3−δO4 Nanoparticles by Correlating Magnetic and Structural Properties
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Enhanced visible light-activated gas sensing properties of nanoporous copper oxide thin films
Part of Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2024
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Part of Materials Chemistry and Physics, 2024
Epitaxy enhancement in oxide/tungsten heterostructures by harnessing the interface adhesion
Part of Applied Physics A, 2024
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Eu Doping in the GdCd7.88 Quasicrystal and Its Approximant Crystal GdCd6
Part of Inorganic Chemistry, p. 5040-5051, 2024
- DOI for Eu Doping in the GdCd7.88 Quasicrystal and Its Approximant Crystal GdCd6
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Part of Applied Surface Science, 2024
- DOI for Facile fabrication of AgBr/HCCN hybrids with Z-scheme heterojunction for efficient photocatalytic hydrogen evolution
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Field and laboratory perspectives on fentanyl and carfentanil decontamination
Part of Scientific Reports, 2024
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2024
Giant magnetocaloric effect in the (Mn,Fe)NiSi-system
Part of Physical Review Materials, 2024
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Heater power supply fluctuations in metal oxide gas sensors: impact on gas sensing performance
Part of Engineering Research Express, 2024
2024
Part of Journal of Physics, 2024
- DOI for Interplay of lattice-spin-orbital coupling and Jahn-Teller effect in noncollinear spinel Ti x Mn1-x (Fe y Co1-y )2O4: a neutron diffraction study
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Part of ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, p. 38711-38722, 2024
- DOI for Large-Scale Direct Growth of Monolayer MoS2 on Patterned Graphene for van der Waals Ultrafast Photoactive Circuits
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Magnetic frustration and glassiness in an icosahedral i-Tb-Cd quasicrystal
Part of Physical Review B, 2024
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Magnetic nanocomposite for lead (II) removal from water
Part of Scientific Reports, 2024
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Magnetic properties of quenched binary and ternary quasicrystal approximants
Part of Scientific Reports, 2024
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Magnetic property changes of NdGa upon hydrogen absorption
Part of Physical Review B, 2024
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Part of Nanoscale, p. 4105-4113, 2024
Part of Solar Energy, 2024
- DOI for Modelling iodine diffusion in 2D-Perovskites as a function of the length of the organic spacer molecules
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Molecular Mechanisms in Metal Oxide Nanoparticle-Tryptophan Interactions
Part of Inorganic Chemistry, p. 8556-8566, 2024
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Part of Nature Communications, 2024
- DOI for Nanotransistor-based gas sensing with record-high sensitivity enabled by electron trapping effect in nanoparticles
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Part of Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials, 2024
- DOI for Non-exchange bias hysteresis loop shifts in dense composites of soft-hard magnetic nanoparticles: New possibilities for simple reference layers in magnetic devices
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Pathway to utilize IR photons for efficient solar fuel generation
2024
Part of ACS Nano, p. 15284-15302, 2024
- DOI for Pharmaceutical Quality by Design Approach to Develop High-Performance Nanoparticles for Magnetic Hyperthermia
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Phase Stability and Magnetic Properties of Compositionally Complex n=2 Ruddlesden-Popper Perovskites
Part of Inorganic Chemistry, p. 6616-6625, 2024
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Part of APPLIED CATALYSIS O: OPEN, 2024
- DOI for Phase-dependent photo-assisted electrocatalytic conversion of nitrate to ammonia using TiO2: Insights into amorphous and rutile activity
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Photochromism in rare earth oxyhydrides for large-area transmittance control
Part of Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2024
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Part of Solid State Communications, 2024
- DOI for Photo-induced reversible modification of the Curie-Weiss temperature in paramagnetic gadolinium compounds
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Photoluminescence and size dependent electron-phonon coupling effects in ZnO quantum dots
2024
Preparation of WO3-Mica Hybrid Coatings with Electrochromic Properties and Pearl Luster
Part of ChemPlusChem, 2024
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Pressure-induced metallization in Pb3Mn7O15
Part of Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2024
Probing spin waves in Co3O4 nanoparticles for magnonics applications
Part of Nanoscale, p. 1291-1303, 2024
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Part of Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024
- DOI for Raman activities of nitrogen reduction and ammonia oxidation intermediates on the high-entropy alloy CoCuFeMoNi catalytic surface
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Part of Journal of Physics, 2024
Robust, Switchable and Printable Underwater Adhesives Based on a Temperature‐Deactivated Design
Part of Advanced Functional Materials, 2024
Role of pressure-induced stacking faults on the magnetic properties of gadolinium
Part of Physical Review B, 2024
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Single-crystal neutron diffraction study on the Ho 13.6 Au 61.1 Al 25.3 quasicrystal approximant
Part of Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2024
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Spin glass states in multicomponent layered perovskites
Part of Scientific Reports, 2024
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Part of Small, 2024
Part of ACS Nano, p. 5240-5248, 2024
- DOI for Strong In-Plane Magnetization and Spin Polarization in (Co0.15Fe0.85)5GeTe2/Graphen e van der Waals Heterostructure Spin-Valve at Room Temperature
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Structural and Magnetic Properties of CoFe2O4 Nanoparticles in an α-Fe2O3 Matrix
Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, p. 591-599, 2024
Part of Ceramics International, p. 13993-14001, 2024
Part of ACS Catalysis, p. 3742-3755, 2024
- DOI for Supervised AI and Deep Neural Networks to Evaluate High-Entropy Alloys as Reduction Catalysts in Aqueous Environments
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Part of Journal of the American Chemical Society, p. 35146-35154, 2024
- DOI for Synchronized Photoluminescence and Electrical Mobility Enhancement in 2D WS2 through Sequence-Specific Chemical Passivation
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The Crystal Structure of Al4SiC4 Revisited
Part of Inorganic Chemistry, p. 10490-10499, 2024
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Part of Vacuum, 2024
- DOI for Thermochromic properties and surface chemical states of reactive magnetron sputtered vanadium oxide thin films at various deposition pressures
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Unraveling Exchange Coupling in Ferrites Nano-heterostructures
Part of Small, 2024
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