Prof Maurice Skolnick
Professor of Condensed Matter Physics
Head Semiconductor Physics Group
Co-Director EPSRC National Centre for III-V Technologies
EPSRC Senior Fellow (2001-2006)
Contact details
- Room : E20
- Phone : +44 (0)114 22 24277
- Fax : +44 (0)114 22 23554
email : m.skolnick@sheffield.ac.uk
Research interests
- Quantum dots
- Polariton physics
- Photonic structures
Teaching
- PHY227
Departmental administration
- Executive committee
- Research committee
Professional activities
- Chair IOP Semiconductor Group (2006-2009)
- Vice President and Chair Semiconductor Commission International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (2002-2005)
- Member of 15 international conference Programme/Advisory Committees in last 5 years
Recent key publications
- Nuclear spin switch in semiconductor quantum dots, A I Tartakovskii, T Wright, A Russell, V I Fal'ko, A B Van'kov, J Skiba-Szymanska, I Drouzas, R S Kolodka, M S Skolnick, P W Fry, A Tahraoui, H -Y Liu, M Hopkinson, Phys Rev Lett 98, 026806, 2007
- Dominant effect of polariton-polariton interactions on the coherence of the microcavity optical parametric oscillator, D N Krizhanovskii, D Sanvitto, A P D Love, M S Skolnick, D M Whittaker and J S Roberts, Phys Rev Lett 97, 097402, 2006
- Continuum transitions and phonon coupling in single self-assembled Stranski-Krastanow quantum dots, R Oulton, J J Finley, A I Tartakovskii, D J Mowbray, M S Skolnick, M Hopkinson, A Vasanelli, R Ferreira and G Bastard. Phys Rev B68, 235301, 2003
- Continuous wave observation of massive polariton redistribution by stimulated scattering in semiconductor microcavities, R M Stevenson, V N Astratov, M S Skolnick, M Emam-Ismail, A I Tartakovskii, P G Savvidis, J J Baumberg and J S Roberts, Phys Rev Lett 85, 3680, 2000