Dr. Ingo Loa

- Position:
-
Reader
- Research Theme:
- Condensed Matter and Photonics
- Research Group:
- Hard Condensed Matter
- Institution:
- Edinburgh
- Email address:
- i.loa@ed.ac.uk
- Telephone number:
- +44 (0)131 651 7212
- Address:
- School of Physics and Astronomy, James Clerk Maxwell Building, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
Research interests
My research concerns the effect of very high pressure in the kilo- to megabar range on the physical properties of solids.My work has covered a wide range of materials from elemental metals and intermetallic compounds, via bulk and nano-structured semiconductors, to transition metal oxides with strong electron correlations. I have studied crystal structures, electronic and lattice-dynamical properties of solids at high pressure using a variety of techniques, including synchrotron-based x-ray diffraction and inelastic x-ray scattering, optical spectroscopy (Raman and synchrotron-infrared) as well as first-principles electronic structure calculations.My current research interests include thermoelectric materials and the use of diffuse x-ray scattering from phonons for the determination of phonon dispersion relations.From 2007 to 2012, I have held an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh, and I have subsequently been appointed as a Chancellor's Fellow and Reader.
Teaching
- Introduction to Condensed Matter Physics (4th year)
- Solid State Physics (4/5th year)
- Senior Honours project supervision
- MPhys project supervsion
- Personal Tutor
Research outputs
- Critical mode and band-gap-controlled bipolar thermoelectric properties of SnSe DOI, Physical Review Materials, 2, 8 (2018)
- Structural and electronic properties of the alkali metal incommensurate phases DOI, Physical Review Materials, 2, 5 (2018)
- No experimental Fermi surface measurements have been reported or made on low-temperature martensitic lithium DOI, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114, 42 (2017)
- Quantum and isotope effects in lithium metal DOI, Science, 356, 6344 , p. 1254-1259 (2017)
- Atomic Ordering in Cubic Bismuth Telluride Alloy Phases at High Pressure DOI, Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 93 (2016)
- Structural transformations of Li2C2 at high pressures DOI, Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 92, 6 (2015)
- Structural changes in thermoelectric SnSe at high pressures DOI, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 27, 7 (2015)
- The crystal structure of methane B at 8 GPa-An alpha-Mn arrangement of molecules DOI, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 141, 23 (2014)
- Incommensurate-to-incommensurate phase transition in Eu metal at high pressures DOI, Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 90, 21 (2014)
- The distorted-fcc phase of samarium DOI, : Journal of Physics Conference Series, 500 (2014)