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Qualification
PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
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Location
Loughborough University
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Study mode
Full time
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Start date
APR
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Duration
3 years
Course summary
The Department of Physics provides an academically stimulating and supportive environment for doctoral researchers. We are an international community of academic staff and students, active in cutting-edge research and industry engagement.
We are a research intensive Physics department, best known for our leading contribution to diverse fields of condensed matter physics.
Building on our traditional strengths in fundamental physics we address the UK Grand Challenges. Our most significant contributions and innovations are in the areas of 2D and van der Waals materials, novel devices for energy harvesting, spintronics, high-frequency electronics, novel computing approaches and artificial intelligence.
Our research strengths lie particularly within the areas of condensed matter and materials, with a good balance between theory and experiment.
Research School of Materials
The Department of Physics is also part of the research infrastructure of the Research School of Materials, which covers several departments. All of these departments have access to an extensive range of research equipment.
Research specialisation
The department specialises in theoretical and experimental condensed matter physics and nanoscience. Areas of applied physics include cardiovascular dynamics, neural networks, drug delivery physics, population dynamics and psychoacoustics. Work is also ongoing to investigate Terahertz radiation.
The recent growing interest in terahertz science and technology is due to its many important applications in physics, astronomy, chemistry, biology, and medicine, including THz imaging, spectroscopy, tomography, medical diagnosis, health monitoring, environmental control, as well as chemical and biological identification. The department is also conducting ground breaking work in quantum computing and spintronics.
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University information

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University League Table
6th
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Campus address
Loughborough University, Epinal Way, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, United Kingdom
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Subject ranking
27th out of 48
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Entry standards
/ Max 228155 68%27th
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Graduate prospects
/ Max 10078.0 78%37th
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Student satisfaction
/ Max 43.27 82%10th
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