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13 January 2021

University of Sheffield to lead multi-million pound project which could open up a new frontier in physics

Quantum Sensing for the Hidden Sector (QSHS), is the best supported and largest UK effort in hidden sector physics to date, and involves scientists from a range of disciplines within physics.

A researcher using an atomic force microscope

29 April 2020

New insight into bacterial surface architecture revealed

The study, published in Nature, will help scientists combat antibiotic resistance with findings that overturn previous theories about the structure of outer bacterial layers.

Artist's impression of a binary star. Credit: Mark Garlick

18 March 2020

Scientists discover the first pulsating remains of a star in an eclipsing double star system

Scientists from the University of Sheffield have discovered a pulsating ancient star in a double star system, which will allow them to access important information on the history of how stars like our Sun evolve and eventually die.

University of Sheffield a partner in world’s first quantum devices foundry

The University of Sheffield is part of a new consortium of academic and industrial partners that will bring quantum devices to 21st century applications.

18 December 2020

Ejected stars do not just wander off into space, suggest researchers

The research, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters, analysed five stars that had been ejected from the regions where they were formed.

16 December 2020

When two become one: multiexcitonic triplet-pair intermediates in triplet-triplet annihilation

We have directly measured time-resolved photoluminescence from multiexcitonic triplet-pairs and found that these intriguing states are directly formed during triplet-triplet annihilation in both exothermic and endothermic singlet fission systems.

11 December 2020 | Published by Nature Research Chemistry Community

Two researchers in the Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy Laboratory

Study sheds new light on energy conversion in organic semiconductors

The study helps to explain how high energy photons can be converted to pairs of low energy photons, and vice versa, through the processes of down-conversion and up-conversion.

11 December 2020

Two-dimensional magnets and semiconductors combine to reveal new technological possibilities

The nanostructure is made out of atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials, which are similar to graphene but with different properties.

3 December 2020