Join us Thursday (22/01/2025) evening at 17:30 in the Martin Wood Lecture Theatre for a talk by Prof. Ian Robinson from the condesnsed matter group.
Ian Robinson is a professor at the London Centre for Nanotechnology, UCL. He uses X-ray diffraction to study the structure of materials. His research is currently focussed on the development of coherent X-ray diffraction methods for imaging the structure of nanoparticles and domain structures in larger crystals. The X-ray coherence leads to interference effects in the diffraction patterns which can be inverted, using phase retrieval methods, to 3D images. His research makes extensive use of synchrotron radiation facilities and Free-Electron Lasers with a big activity at the Diamond Light Source. Historically, the earliest beamlines were used to discover Crystal Truncation Rods, opening the field of surface structure determination, for which Robinson was awarded the Surface Structure Prize in 2011 and the Gregori Aminoff Prize in 2015.
Oxford University Physics Society 