Mark the date! On Saturday 21st July 2018 the PGR-led Exeter University Optics & Photonics Society (EUOPS) will be hosting a day of light-based activities in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, called Lighting Up RAMM, sponsored by the CDT in Metamaterials. The PGRs will take over the museum with craft activities and experiments […]
Author: Anja Roeding
PGR cohort visit at Gooch & Housego (Photonics Technology, Torbay)
In June, our second year PhD students (2016 cohort) went for ca company visit to Gooch and Housego, a global leader in photonics technology in Torquay. G&H are experts across a uniquely broad range of photonic technologies – crystal growth, optical materials processing, acousto-optics and electro-optics, fiber optics, DFB laser modules, precision optics (thin-film coating, […]
New Publication: Manipulating type-I and type-II Dirac polaritons in cavity-embedded honeycomb metasurfaces
In recent years, condensed-matter systems have become a fertile playground for the discovery of new, emergent quasiparticles for which there exists no analogue in the standard model. The archetypal example is graphene whose low-energy electronic quasiparticles behave as so-called massless Dirac fermions – pseudorelativistic particles that exhibit remarkable transport properties, such the suppression of backscattering […]
Riddle time!
OH NOOOOO! No riddle!!!!! No time for fun! Anja is running late to go on holiday – so many things to do and so little time to find a new riddle! Booh! Maybe next month again! Send one through if you have one on file: *protected email* 😉 But here’s the solution of last month’s […]
Training and other events in June 2018
Please see below a schedule of the CDT training events and other activities in June 2018. Date Training/Event Cohort Time Venue 01.06.18 Beyond a PhD: “Secondary School Teaching – Challenges and Rewards” Dr Rob Kelly All (Open to CEMPS members) 12.30 – 13.30 Laver LT3 01.06.18 Beyond a PhD networking lunch All (Optional, RSVP to […]
Joseph Beadle – The new SAG representative for our 3rd years
Joseph Beadle is taking on the role as Student Advisory Group (SAG) representative for the 2015 cohort alongside Ben Hogan with immediate effect. Joe is taking over from Henry Fernández who contributed actively to the development of the programme on behalf of his cohort since 2016. Henry is stepping down from this role to prioritise […]
Our International Day of Light contribution at the University of Exeter – congratulations to the photo and poster prize winners and the fantastic organizer!
On 16 May 2018 the world saw the celebration of the first ever International Day of Light. The event was celebrated around the world with more than 500 events taking place in 87 countries to create awareness of the role of light plays in science, culture and art, education, and sustainable development, and in fields […]
Non-Gaussian Correlations between Reflected and Transmitted Intensity Patterns Emerging from Opaque Disordered Media
Congratulations to Illia Starshinov and our first XM² graduate Dr Alba Paniagua for their recent Physical Review X article on Non-Gaussian Correlations between Reflected and Transmitted Intensity Patterns Emerging from Opaque Disordered Media, collaborative work between the University of Exeter and The Institut Langevin, Paris. Summary When coherent light (like a laser) passes through […]
Poster prize for Liam Trimby at the 2nd International Symposium on Doped Amorphous Chalcogenides and Devices
Congratulations to Liam Trimby who won the poster prize for his work on “Tunable Band-Pass Filters using Phase-Change Metamaterials” at the 2nd International Symposium on Doped Amorphous Chalcogenides and Devices in the Lake District. The work demonstrates how phase-change materials can be used in conjunction with periodic hole arrays to manipulate the extraordinary optical transmission […]
Viva succesfully completed!
Very many congratulations to Tanveer Ahmad Tabish who successfully defended his PhD in May 2018. His thesis is titled “DEVELOPMENT OF GRAPHENE NANOSTRUCTURES FOR USE IN ANTI-CANCER NANOMEDICINE”, and has been supervised by Shaowei Zhang and Yongde Xia. Tanveer will soon be starting a 3-year post-doc position on the £5.7m EPSRC programme grant “Raman Nanotheranostics […]