Two new Dr.s in the house!

Big congratulations to two of our DPhil students, Xiaoyu and Kavya, who passed their vivas! Xiaoyu's work is on developing novel inorganic compounds for indoor photovoltaics. Highlights include evaluating the potential of BiSBr for indoor energy harvesting, as well as understanding the role of sulfur vacancies in BiSBr in causing carrier localisation. She also developed H:In2Oby spatial atomic layer deposition as transparent conducting oxides for photovoltaics. Xiaoyu had her DPhil completion officially confirmed at the end of March.

Kavya's DPhil was focussed on developing BiOI for X-ray detection, focussing on the growth and scale-up of this material. Her work was in collaboration with the Science & Technology Facilities Council, as well as the University of Cambridge and University at Buffalo. She had her DPhil completion officially confirmed at the end of April.

Well done to both, and a big thank you to their examiners!

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Kavya Reddy Dudipala
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