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Research group studying the electronic structure and thin film synthesis of quantum and 2D materials at the University of St Andrews, UK; www.quantummatter.co.uk/king

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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Out now as an Editor's Suggestion in PRB, work with @maxplanck.de and @maxivlaboratory.bsky.social using focussed ion beam structuring to enable high-resolution ARPES of RuO₂. doi.org/10.1103/sjrs...
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Disentangling bulk and surface electronic structure using targeted cleave planes in ${\mathrm{RuO}}_{2}$
Using focused ion beam designed cleaving planes, the authors prepare different surface orientations of RuO${}_{2}$ for study by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. The high-resolution measureme...
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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Many congratulations to Martin, who wins the Research Support Prize at the University of St Andrews' inaugural Watson-Arnott research awards.
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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Welcome to John, who is starting his PhD with us, and welcome (back) to Gesa who is starting an @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Fellowship
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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Out now in PRL: combined structural and electronic characterisation with @wahlgroup.bsky.social @diamondlightsource.bsky.social @maxplanck.de @maxivlaboratory.bsky.social shows that the surface of Ca3Ru2O7 is a correlated insulator while its bulk is metallic. journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
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Correlated Insulator at the Surface of the Polar Metal ${\mathrm{Ca}}_{3}{\text{Ru}}_{2}{\mathrm{O}}_{7}$
We investigate the electronic structure at the surface of the correlated oxide ${\mathrm{Ca}}_{3}{\mathrm{Ru}}_{2}{\mathrm{O}}_{7}$, a low-symmetry ruthenate oxide which hosts an unconventional polar-...
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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Congratulations to Dan at his PhD graduation!
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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Great to be back for this year's retreat of the Centre for Designer Quantum Materials
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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
New preprint: Disentangling bulk and surface electronic structure using targeted cleave planes in RuO2, with @maxplanck.de and @maxivlaboratory.bsky.social, out on arXiv today - arxiv.org/abs/2605.06798
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Disentangling bulk and surface electronic structure using targeted cleave planes in RuO$_2$
Rutile RuO$_2$ has attracted significant interest due to its putative unconventional electronic and magnetic properties and its proximity to superconductivity. However, the measurement and interpretat...
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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Out now in Advanced Materials, read about the impact of moiré lattice formation in epitaxial NbSe2-graphite heterostructures, with @manchester.ac.uk and @diamondlightsource.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/adma...
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Resonant Interlayer Coupling in NbSe2‐Graphite Epitaxial Moiré Superlattices
Combining angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and density functional theory derived calculations, this work reveals strong interlayer coupling and moiré replicas of the graphite π states in mol...
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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
We have a new group website! research.st-andrews.ac.uk/kinggroup/pu...
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King Research Group
Research group studying electronic structure of designer quantum materials.
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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
New preprint showing how long-wavelength moiré potentials and flat electronic bands can be generated from the interplay of a large lattice mismatch and an additional periodic modulation from a charge-density wave; with @wahlgroup.bsky.social & @maxivlaboratory.bsky.social. arxiv.org/abs/2511.05648
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Flat electronic bands from cooperative moiré and charge order
The formation of flat electronic bands from long-wavelength superperiodic moiré potentials in van der Waals heterostructures underpins the creation and control of a host of highly-tuneable correlated ...
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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Our recent work showing that excitons are not required to drive the charge density wave phase transition in TiSe2 is now published in PRX - a very nice collaboration including @uni-hamburg.de and @maxivlaboratory.bsky.social. Read more at: doi.org/10.1103/9trc...
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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Very many congratulations to Martin on being awarded the 2025 IoP Business, Higher Education and National Research Facility Technician Award for his extraordinary work within the Centre for Designer Quantum Materials: www.iop.org/about/awards...
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2025 Business, Higher Education and National Research Facility Technician Award: Martin McLaren
For spearheading the design and creation of multi-million-pound research infrastructure at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.
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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
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 · 03/09/2025
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 · 27/08/2025
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...
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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
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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
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.
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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
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/...
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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:...
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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
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 PdCoO2Time-dependent ARPES measurements at the Pd-terminated surface
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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
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
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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 · 21/07/2025
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.
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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Congratulations to James and Liam who graduated with their PhD degrees.
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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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
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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
New preprint on developing strategies for uniform layer growth of 2D materials by MBE: arxiv.org/abs/2506.04388
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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 · 05/06/2025
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 · 03/06/2025
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.
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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 · 02/06/2025
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
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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 · 26/05/2025
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 · 24/05/2025
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
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From ferromagnetic semiconductor to antiferromagnetic metal in epitaxial CrxTey monolayers
npj Quantum Materials - From ferromagnetic semiconductor to antiferromagnetic metal in epitaxial CrxTey monolayers
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St Andrews School of Physics and Astronomy @physastrostand.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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 physdor@st-andrews.ac.uk. Candidates will be informed by 4th July.
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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 · 14/05/2025
New preprint with @wahlgroup.bsky.social on the electronic structure of antiferromagnetic monolayer CrTe2: arxiv.org/abs/2505.07942
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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...
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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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 · 30/03/2025
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 · 14/03/2025
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 · 12/03/2025
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 · 03/03/2025
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 · 21/02/2025
Pleased to be back on beamtime at Bloch @maxivlaboratory.bsky.social
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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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!
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King research group
Research group at the University of St Andrews, UK, studying quantum materials using angle-resolved photoemission
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King group @ St Andrews @kinggroup.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
We are a research group at the University of St Andrews, studying electronic structure of quantum materials using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, and creating new designer quantum materials via atomic layer-by-layer growth. We are pleased to now be posting on Bluesky!
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