Research Fellow in Defect-Mediated Charge Transport

Research Fellow in Defect-Mediated Charge Transport The post holder will be required to carry out research on charge transport in energy materials – specifically iron oxide (a candidate photocatalyst, battery electrode and supercapacitor material) and nickel oxide (an emerging supercapacitor electrode material and hole transport layer for photovoltaics) – with the goal to elucidate the effects of dopants on their antiferromagnetic structure and electron small polaron hopping. In particular, they will apply advanced neutron and X-ray scattering techniques at national facilities to reveal short-range correlated disorder, invisible to long-range structure probes. This project will use a state-of-the-art, laser-heated, high-pressure image furnace to synthesise metal oxide single crystals of extremely high purity.