Dr Manus Hayne
Senior Lecturer
Room: A36 Physics Building
Tel: +44 (0)1524 593279
Fax: +44 (0)1524 844037
Email: m.hayne@lancaster.ac.uk
Teaching and Administrative Duties
- PHYS121 Planets, Stars and Galaxies
- PHYS263 Astronomy
- PHYS388 Energy
- Projects and Dissertations Organiser
- Departmental Industry Co-ordinator
Research
My primary research interests are in the physics and applications of low-dimensional semiconductor nanostructures (two-dimensional electron gases, self-assembled quantum dots, quantum wires etc.). I collaborate with a number of European universities, research institutes and companies, and have benefited from substantial funding from the European Commission for many years.
Present research is focused on antimonide-based quantum dots with applications in memories funded by EPSRC in the framework of the NanoSci-ERA QD2D project and a Brian Mercer Feasibility Award of the Royal Society.
Press coverage of this research can be found on compoundsemiconductor.net (registration required) and The Engineer.
Recent paper on the origin of luminescence from Si nanocrystals in Nature Nanotechnology, see also Nature Highlights, Nature Nanotechnology ‘News and views’ and press release. Further coverage of this can be found in articles in optics.org, nanotechweb.org and Physics World News and in the April 2008 print issue of Physics World.
Curriculum Vitae
I studied at the University of Southampton and did a PhD and a postdoc at the University of Exeter, before moving to the European mainland. There I briefly worked in Paris, and then at the KU Leuven, Belgium for nearly 10 years, where I investigated semiconductor nanostructures in very high magnetic fields (up to 50 T). I returned to the UK to join the Physics Department in Lancaster in June 2006.