Team Member
Dr. Richard Rowan-Robinson
PDRA
Richard is a PDRA working with Prof. Nicola Morley as part of the Leverhulme grant “High Entropy alloy thin films: The next big thing in soft magnetic materials”. He joined the Department of Material Science and Engineering in 2019. His research is themed around the design of functional magnetic materials, where his current position focuses on the fabrication and design of magnetic high entropy alloys.
Richard gained his PhD from Durham University in 2016, and worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Nottingham (2016) and Uppsala University, Sweden (2017- 2019).
His specialisms are in sputtering, thin film magnetism and magneto-optics, where he is using these skills to design high-throughput experiments and machine learning to rapidly explore the large composition space available when designing high entropy alloys.
Related Projects
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High entropy / muliti-component alloys
High Entropy Alloys (HEAs) are a new class of material, concocted to have no single base element, instead having many elemental components mixed in near equal atomic proportions. Competing thermodynamic contributions, including a high entropy of mixing, can favour solid solutions with… -
Functional magnetic thin films
Functional magnetic films are used in a wide range of applications, from computer hard drives to micro-magnetic sensors. By controlling the film growth and composition, the functional properties can be tuned for the application. The majority of the films investigated are fabricated using DC/RF…