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Correspondence Name Dr Stephen Dugdale
Telephone Number +44 (0)117 954 6878         internal   46878
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Email Address S.B.Dugdale@bristol.ac.uk
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Office Location 4.35

Probing matter with positrons

It is the electrons in materials which govern many interesting and useful properties, from how metals conduct electricity and heat to more exotic phenomena such as magnetism and superconductivity. I study the behaviour of electrons in materials by annihilating them with positrons (which are the anti-matter partners of electrons) and measuring the radiation that is produced. It is then possible to compare experimental reality with the predictions of quantum mechanics.

Collaborators

Some of my research interests are shared by Ashraf Alam.