Dr Sunil Taper is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the Department of Physics at King’s College London, working under the supervision of Dr Chiara Gattinoni.

Dr Taper studied for his PhD under Dr Giuliana Di Martino in the Department of Material Science and Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge. Previously, he received his MPhys from the Department of Physics at the University of Leicester.

Research

Dr Taper’s research involves engineering and understanding Ferroelectric materials from first-principles to help provide solutions towards reducing a growing societal demand for energy. His research interests also include:

• Computational Physics
• Material Science
• Ferroelectric thin films and surfaces.

Publications

• In Operando Optical Tracking of Oxygen Vacancy Migration and Phase Change in few Nanometers Ferroelectric HZO Memories

• Depth-Resolved X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Evidence of Intrinsic Polar States in HfO₂-Based Ferroelectrics