Available student project - Positron interactions with structured surfaces

Research fields

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics
  • Materials Science and Engineering
  • Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
  • Photonics, Lasers and Nonlinear Optics

Project details

Structured surfaces allow the engineering of locally enhance fields. These enchanced fields can be use to control the excitation of atoms in novel geometries. This can be used modulate the state of the antimatter-matter bound state of a positron and an electron known as positronium. In this work, we are investigating to what extent structured surfaces can be used to manipulate the formation and quantum state of positronium.

Required background

This project can be adapted to suite the student's year level.

Project suitability

This research project can be tailored to suit students of the following type(s)
  • 3rd year special project
  • PhB (1st year)
  • PhB (2nd or 3rd year)
  • Honours project
  • Vacation scholar

Contact supervisor

Machacek, Joshua profile

Other supervisor(s)

Kruk, Sergey profile

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