Solid State Physics

Dr Rair Macêdo is a theoretical physicist by training—but every so often dabbles in the world of experimental physics. He started pursuing research at the age of 16, as a part of his BSc studies, in the area of novel optical effects in natural hyperbolic media; and received a PhD in physics from the University of Glasgow in a similar area, but at an advanced theoretical level, modelling electromagnetic properties of magnetic structures. He has held a Leverhulme Trust Early Research Fellowship to develop novel metamaterials to control and manipulate electromagnetic waves and is currently a Lecturer in Electrodynamics and Spin Electronics at the Electronic & Nanoscale Engineering Division of the James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow. Dr. Robert Stamps works at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manitoba, Canada.

Preface Rair Macedo and Robert L. Stamps 1. Application of machine learning in solid state physics Vitalii Kapitan, Yuriy Shevchenko, Konstantin Soldatov, Pavel Ovchinniko, Alexey Rybin, Eliza Lobanova, Alena Korol, Egor Vasiliev and Dmitrii Kapitan 2. Excitons in two-dimensional semiconductors and van der Waals heterostructures Andrey Chave