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A short review article, Probing surface motion above ambient temperature with helium spin-echo spectroscopy, has just been published in Nature Reviews Physics by Dr Nadav Avidor.

We are pleased to announce the start of a Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Ionoptika Ltd. to commercialise our scanning helium microscope (SHeM) technology.  For more information, contact the project lead, David Ward.

Welcome to the 46 students who will be joining us for our undergraduate summer school and 8-10 week research projects in surface nano-physics and atom-surface scattering.

Undergraduate Summer School and Research Projects in Surface nanoPhysics and Atom-Surface Scattering 2021The Cavendish Surface Physics Group and Atom Scattering Facility invite undergraduate applications to a program of a remote/online summer school and collaborative summer research projects, which will be conducted remotely, given current and like…

The Cavendish Surface Physics Group and Atom Scattering Facility invite undergraduate applications to a programme of collaborative summer research projects, which will be conducted remotely, given current and likely restrictions on travel.The Cavendish Surface Physics Group and Atom Scattering Facility invite undergraduate applications to a program…

A fully funded PhD project to study the properties of Polycrystalline Diamond has recently become available through the CDT for Diamond Science and Technology. For more information contact Andrew Jardine .

New SMF group projects for PhD and MPhil research are now online.This year's SMF group projects for PhD and MPhil research entry in 2017 are now online.  See the graduate opportunities page for more information.

Congratulations to Matt Bergin on winning the ISSC-20 (Birmingham) best student poster prize!Matthew presented an excellent poster at the Interdisciplinary Conference on Surface Science in Birmingham University, and beating off stiff competition has been awarded the best student poster prize by the Thin Films and Surfaces group of the IoP for his w…

Applications are sought for several fully-funded PhD studentships, to start in October 2015.Applications are sought for several fully-funded PhD studentships.  The positions will be held in the SMF Fracture group at the Cavendish Laboratory (Dept. of Physics), University of Cambridge, to start in October 2015.1. Effects of Nanostructure on Dynamic …

New MPhil (by research) opportunity for October 2014 entry, to study the dynamic response of nano-modified industrial diamondApplications are sought for a fully-funded 1 year MPhil (by research) studentship focussing on the dynamic response of nano-modified industrial diamond. The position will be held in the SMF Fracture and Shock Physics group at…

Congratulations to Eliza MacIntosh on the acceptance of her paper “Probing liquid behaviour by helium atom scattering: surface structure and phase transitions of an ionic liquid on Au(111)” as an Edge article in Chemical Science.Congratulations to Eliza MacIntosh on the acceptance of her paper “Probing liquid behaviour by helium atom scattering: su…

A contingent from the group flew out to Seattle to attend the APS Shock Compression of Condensed Matter conference. This is a bi-annual event which the group has supported over a number of years. The research presented at the conference was of a very high standard and provided food for thought and a number of potential collaborative projects.

Congratulations to Eliza who has passed her PhD. She will be undertaking a brief role in the department as part of the Rutherford Project before joining the Perse School as a physics teacher.

Recent work from the SMF Fracture group on the shock and release of sand has been published in Applied Physics LettersThe paper describes research into the shock response of sand during loading at very high rates, and provides the first data describing the release of the material from the shocked state.  The work originated in programme supported b…