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Welcome to the home page of the Thin Films and Interfaces group
Thin Films and Interfaces is a new research group at the Cavendish. The group will also be part of the Cambridge Nanoscience Centre. Our laboratories will be located a the Nanoscience Centre Building.
We study micro- and nanoscale pattern formation processes that take place at surfaces and in thin films. The controlled creation of structures on small length scales is essential for many applications. Examples include the manufacture of semiconductor chips (current pattern size ~100 nm), displays, and bio-chips, but also surfaces with specials properties such as anti-reflective coatings, self-cleaning surfaces, etc.
In addition to the applied aspects listed above, the study of pattern formation processes are very sensitive to forces that act at surfaces and interfaces. From a fundamental point of view, we study phenomena that take place at liquid surfaces or in thin films to gain information about interactions that are relevant on molecular and mesoscopic length scales.
For more detailed information, please consult the project pages.
Click here for more information on our recent Nature Nanotechnology Paper "Mimicking the colourful wing scale structure of the Papilio blumei butterfly" (for access to the paper, click on the Nature Nanotechnology cover below).
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Group picture.
From top to bottom and left to right:
Sven, Silvia, Stefan, Peter, Alex, Gen, Stefano, Pedro, Ellie, Alexandre, Sarah, Nataliya, Ulli, Li, Maik, Frederic , Kai.
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Recent publications [More] [All BSS publications]
Pattern formation induced by an electric field in a polymer–air–polymer thin film system
G. Amarandei , P. Beltrame, I. Clancy, C. O'Dwyer, A. Arshak, U. Steiner, D. Corcoran, U. Thiele
Soft Matter DOI: 10.1039/C2SM25273B, (2012) 
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Triblock-Terpolymer-Directed Self-Assembly of Mesoporous TiO2: High-Performance Photoanodes for Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
P. Docampo, M. Stefik, S. Guldin, R. Gunning, N. A. Yufa, N. Cai, P. Wang, U. Steiner, U. Wiesner, H. J. Snaith
Adv. Energy Mater. DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201100699, (2012)
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Directional scattering from the glossy flower of Ranunculus: how the buttercup lights up your chin
S. Vignolini, M.M. Thomas, M. Kolle, T. Wenzel, A. Rowland, P.J. Rudall, J.J. Baumberg, B.J. Glover, U. Steiner
J. R. Soc. Interface 9, 1295-1301, (2012)
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A Nanostructured Electrochromic Supercapacitor
D. Wei, M. R. J. Scherer, C. Bower, P. Andrew, T. Ryhänen, U. Steiner
Nano Letters 12, 1857–1862, (2012)
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Multilayer mirrored bubbles with spatially-chirped and elastically-tuneable optical bandgaps
G. Kamita, M. Kolle, F. Huang, J. J. Baumberg, U. Steiner
Optics Express 20, 6421-6428, (2012)
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