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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · 24d

Welcome to Ferran Aliagas Puigdomènech, who joins us from Universiteit van Amsterdam as a new PhD student in the group, working jointly with us and @wahlgroup.bsky.social

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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · Sep 3

Many congratulations to Dan on successfully defending his PhD thesis: using LEED-IV to track minute structural distortions at ruthenate surfaces, and understanding their implications on electronic structure. Dan worked jointly with us, @wahlgroup.bsky.social and @diamondlightsource.bsky.social

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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · Aug 27

Our recent work showing how a simple substrate pre-sputtering can facilitate layer-by-layer film growth of van der Waals materials published as an Editor's Pick in APL Materials: doi.org/10.1063/5.02...

Substrate pre-sputtering for layer-by-layer van der Waals epitaxy of 2D materials

Two-dimensional transition metal chalcogenides, with their atomically layered structure, favorable electronic and mechanical properties, and often strong spin–o

doi.org

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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · Aug 25

Find us at ECOSS38 this week. Phil will be talking about some of our recent work on CrTe2 and Cr2Te3 in the mini-symposium on "MBE growth of new 2D magnetic materials: beyond bulk constraints" on Wednesday.

King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · Aug 21

New postdoc position available to work on one or more of ARPES, STM, and oxide MBE, in a collaborative position between @wahlgroup.bsky.social, Andreas Rost's and our group in St Andrews. Closing date for applications: 18/9/2025. See www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Research Fellow - AR3185

Research Fellow - AR3185, School of Physics and Astronomy Salary: £38,784 - £43,842 per annum Start Date: 1 October 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter Fixed Term: 24 months, <p style="text-align:...

www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk

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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · Aug 8

Our recent micro-ARPES studies, demonstrating strong and distinct forms of electron-phonon coupling at different surface terminations of PdCoO2, with @maxplanck.de (CPFS) and @diamondlightsource.bsky.social, selected as an Editor's Suggestion in Phys. Rev. B: journals.aps.org/prb/abstract...

Spatial map from micro-ARPES data showing different surface terminations of PdCoO2

Time-dependent ARPES measurements at the Pd-terminated surface

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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · Aug 8

Our new ARPES analysis package `peaks` is now released:
📦 pip install peaks-arpes
💻 Code: github.com/phrgab/peaks
📚 Docs: research.st-andrews.ac.uk/kinggroup/pe...
📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.04803

GitHub - phrgab/peaks: Python electron spectroscopy (particularly ARPES) analysis toolkit developed by King group at St Andrews

Python electron spectroscopy (particularly ARPES) analysis toolkit developed by King group at St Andrews - phrgab/peaks

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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · Jul 21

Hear about some of our latest work on TiSe2 this week: Sebastian will be presenting a poster at "2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides" in Cambridge on Tuesday, and Phil will be talking on Thursday at ICESS-16 in Berkeley.

King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · Jul 1

Congratulations to James and Liam who graduated with their PhD degrees.

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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · Jun 24

Find us at the CMQM conference this week: Phil will be talking about some of our 2D materials research at 0900 on Wednesday in B.H05, and Bruno will be talking specifically about TiSe2 at 1445 on Wednesday in LT2

King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · Jun 6

New preprint on developing strategies for uniform layer growth of 2D materials by MBE: arxiv.org/abs/2506.04388

Substrate pre-sputtering for layer-by-layer van der Waals epitaxy of 2D materials

Two-dimensional transition metal chalcogenides, with their atomically layered structure, favourable electronic and mechanical properties, and often strong spin-orbit coupling, are ideal systems for fu...

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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · Jun 5

Congratulations to Sebastian for successfully defending his thesis on "Probing and controlling charge order in van der Waals heterostructures of TiSe2"

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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · Jun 3

Two new preprints from our work on epitaxial van der Waals heterostructures: arxiv.org/abs/2506.01470 shows excitons aren't required to drive the charge-density wave phase transition in TiSe2, and arxiv.org/abs/2506.00449 reveals signatures of moiré lattice formation in NbSe2-based heterostructures.

Persistence of charge ordering instability to Coulomb engineering in the excitonic insulator candidate TiSe$_2$

TiSe$_2$ has long been considered one of the best candidate materials to host the elusive excitonic insulator (EI) phase. However, a finite coupling to the lattice can generically be expected, while a...

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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · Jun 2

Find us at CORPES 2025 - Shu will be presenting a poster about moiré signatures in epitaxial NbSe2/graphite heterostructures, Marieke on ARPES studies of RuO2 from FIB-prepared cleaving planes, and Andela on micro-ARPES studies of polar domains in Ca3Ru2O7. www.pks.mpg.de/corpes25

Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems Strong correlations and angle-resolved photoemission

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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · May 26

Find us at the EMRS conference in Strasbourg - Phil will be talking about van der Waals monolayers and heterostructures in session B13 on Thursday.

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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · May 24

Paper on phase-selective growth control and magnetic properties of monolayer CrTe2 and Cr2Te3, together with @wahlgroup.bsky.social and @diamondlightsource.bsky.social, out now in npj Quantum Materials: rdcu.be/enrwg

From ferromagnetic semiconductor to antiferromagnetic metal in epitaxial CrxTey monolayers

npj Quantum Materials - From ferromagnetic semiconductor to antiferromagnetic metal in epitaxial CrxTey monolayers

rdcu.be

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St Andrews School of Physics and Astronomy @physastrostand.bsky.social · May 20

We are taking applications for the URF call (royalsociety.org/grants/unive...). Candidates should submit their application documents (draft for the 4 page proposal (royalsociety.org/-/media/gran...) and an up to date CV) by 1 July to [email protected]. Candidates will be informed by 4th July.

University Research Fellowship | Royal Society

This scheme is for outstanding scientists who are in the early stages of their research career and have the potential to become leaders in their field. These long-term fellowships provide the opportun...

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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · May 14

New preprint with @wahlgroup.bsky.social on the electronic structure of antiferromagnetic monolayer CrTe2: arxiv.org/abs/2505.07942

Electronic structure of monolayer-CrTe$_2$: an antiferromagnetic 2D van der Waals material

Magnetic van der Waals materials are an important building block to realize spintronic functionalities in heterostructures of two-dimensional (2D) materials. Yet, establishing their magnetic and elect...

arxiv.org

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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · Apr 8

Meet us at the @materials-mrs.bsky.social conference in Seattle this week. Phil will be talking about our recent work on 2D magnets in QT02.06 on Wednesday.

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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · Mar 30

We're pleased to be back on beamtime again - this time at the excellent I05 beam line at @diamondlightsource.bsky.social

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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · Mar 14

Find us at the DPG spring conference in Regensburg next week: Naina will be talking about magnetism in monolayer CrTe2 and Cr2Te3 (Monday 0930 in H3), and Marieke will be speaking about measurements on RuO2 from structured cleave planes (Friday 1045 in H31)

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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · Mar 12

Great to be back at the Burn in Brechin for the CDQM Workshop on Designer Quantum Materials

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Wahl group account @wahlgroup.bsky.social · Mar 3

Looking forward to the retreat of the Centre for Designer Quantum Materials at the Burn and a programme (theburn2025.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk) full of exciting talks and discussions.

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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · Feb 21

Pleased to be back on beamtime at Bloch @maxivlaboratory.bsky.social

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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · Feb 10

Multiple fully-funded PhD studentships available within the Centre for Designer Quantum Materials@St Andrews. See our website www.quantummatter.co.uk/king for more on our research interests, and www.st-andrews.ac.uk/physics-astr... for more info on the application. Get in touch with any questions!

King research group

Research group at the University of St Andrews, UK, studying quantum materials using angle-resolved photoemission

www.quantummatter.co.uk

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