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Materials & Advanced Matter

Several materials programmes at once, and the provenance discipline applied across them.

Scale 10^-10 m to 10^0 m

Can relate a crystal structure to at least one measurable property and explain the mechanism. · Reads a phase diagram and can say what happens on cooling through a boundary. · Has analysed real characterisation data — diffraction, microscopy or mechanical testing — and stated its uncertainty. · Python for data analysis over a materials dataset. + 4 more

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

Several nanoscale programmes at once, and the maturity claims made about all of them.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Materials & Advanced Matter

Films: deposition conditions, film-substrate interfaces, and whether the properties survive the process.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can relate a crystal structure to at least one measurable property and explain the mechanism. · Reads a phase diagram and can say what happens on cooling through a boundary. · Has analysed real characterisation data — diffraction, microscopy or mechanical testing — and stated its uncertainty. · Python for data analysis over a materials dataset. + 5 more

Semiconductors, Electronics & Micro/Nano Systems

A small digital block written in RTL, simulated, and verified against a testbench you wrote.

Scale 10^-6 m to 10^-3 m

Can derive or explain the current-voltage characteristic of a diode or a MOSFET from device physics. · Has simulated a circuit in SPICE and compared the result against a hand calculation. · Semiconductor physics: carriers, doping, band structure, junctions. · Can read a datasheet and identify the conditions a specification was measured under. + 5 more

Ultra-Fundamental & Mathematical Physics

The theoretical thread that runs across the department's whole declared span, and keeping its claims honest at both ends.

Scale 10^-100 m to 10^100 m

Can derive the Euler-Lagrange equations for a field theory from its action and state the symmetries that follow. · Fluent with tensor calculus in index and index-free notation, including covariant differentiation and curvature. · Has taken a graduate course in general relativity or quantum field theory and can reproduce its central derivations. · Can implement a numerical calculation in Python, Julia or C++ and state its convergence behaviour. + 5 more

Particle, High-Energy & Nuclear Systems

How radiation damages a material over time, modelled at the level where the damage is created.

Scale 10^-12 m to 10^-6 m

Can state what a cross-section is, in what units, and how it relates to an event rate. · Has written a Monte Carlo simulation and can explain its variance and how it was reduced. · Competent in statistics: likelihood, confidence intervals, and why a p-value is not a probability that a hypothesis is true. · Can write analysis code in Python or C++ that another person can run on the same data and reproduce. + 6 more

Ultra-Fundamental & Mathematical Physics

The regime where quantum theory and cosmology have to be written in the same equations, and what that costs.

Scale 10^-100 m to 10^26 m

Can derive the Euler-Lagrange equations for a field theory from its action and state the symmetries that follow. · Fluent with tensor calculus in index and index-free notation, including covariant differentiation and curvature. · Has taken a graduate course in general relativity or quantum field theory and can reproduce its central derivations. · Can implement a numerical calculation in Python, Julia or C++ and state its convergence behaviour. + 5 more